What’s been happening with me lately
I don’t have an extensive update to post, but it’s been so long since my last entry that I wanted to write something to show I’m still alive. So here I am. What’s new? Well, a couple of weekends ago I went to Meriden, NH to meet up with some high school friends I hadn’t seen in a while. For various reasons, I wasn’t as social as I wanted to be, but it was good...
Lee Dennis Dawley, 3 Aug 1937 – 2 Nov 2004
Gardener, beekeeper, liberal, letter writer, Cranky Yankee, reader, thinker, singer, friend, husband, dad.
We miss you.
I left work early yesterday to pick up the car at Heritage Toyota. Orson had called and requested that their customer shuttle fetch me, and as I emerged into the sauna-like heat, I saw that the van was already waiting. When I arrived at the service desk I was told that the car had just come back from the collision center, and that the invoice wasn’t ready yet. Someone in the shop had to...
The other day I was inspired to dig out my old tape of They Might Be Giants‘ Lincoln. I recorded it way back in 1988 at the Hamilton College radio station, WHCL. From vinyl. (Music piracy was a lot harder and less rewarding back in those days.) Despite the occasional pop and hiss, the album is great, in my opinion better than their follow-up album, the far more popular Flood. The music is...