Thanks. Made the offer and hit the road to play with a bunch of my law partners at the NYC office party. Thought the Sermonator was going to give up on me because I was not able to communicate while we crammed in our rehearsal time. Last night, the gig was a wild success (something about a bunch of 50+ year old lawyers playing rock and roll seems to work with our colleagues). And, when I came to this morning, I found the confirm from the seller. All good.
Probably should start a new thread on this one, but was amazed and amused by the number of people who saw the bass I was playing and came up to me to comment on how cool it was, but then had to ask what kind of bass is that? Deep breath and speak it slowly--A-LEM-BIC.