Our trip to Illinois

This is a notification intended for all concerning our travels these next two weeks :

without boring you with the driving details,

July 28- Springfield, Missouri, Lamberts for dinner, hotel unknown

July 29- Springfield, Illinois, hotel unknown

July 30- Naperville, Illinois, drive into Chicago to see Paige and the Reverent Few at Lincoln Tap Room, drive back to Naperville, hotel Candlewood Suites

July 31- Naperville, Illinois, stay, go see Paige and the Reverent Few at Potter's Place, hotel Candlewood Suites

August 1- Drive to Peoria, hotel Paradise, nap, eat, go see bands at the Tower Park Music Festival in Peoria Heights, including Headliner Paige and the Reverent Few at 9pm

August 2- Eat lunch at the Silver Dollar on Prospect at 2:30pm, watch bands at the Tower Park Music Festival, including Headliner DriveTrain at 9pm

August 3- Meet family at 3pm, go to Meadows Avenue Tap in East Peoria at 7pm for open jam

August 4- Rest

August 5- On road home, Lamberts in Sikeston, Missouri, hotel unknown in Memphis, Tennessee

August 6- drive home

Band members :

Paige and the Reverent Few -

Paige Dechausse - vox, percussion
Nick Boettcher - lead guitar, vox
Dina Simone - bass, vox
Rob Gould - drums

DriveTrain :

Nick Boettcher - lead guitar, vox
"Funky" Brian Quinn - bass, vox
Rob Gould - drums

Nick and Paige hail out of Austin, Texas, while Brian, Rob and Dina currently live in Chicago, Illinois

I'll be the guy with a hat.

A break

I'm planning a break from this blog while I focus on meditation and healing. I'll be back.

Program ho!

The battle to conquer is complicated by the need to cope. An enduring war requires the fortitude to maintain a semblance of self worth. Only a gratitude for what I have can propel me to what I want. My consistent betrayal of what I've been told by my diagnosers is evidenced by my condition. I continue to continue, continuously.

When I prevail, the community will automatically ask "where is the science? ". My reply will automatically be: " apparently outside of your comprehension".

My new health mentor has me on a program. Suffice it to say that the program is not easy. It is the Deana Protocol on steroids. Aggressive. As much spiritual as physical, as much nutritional as psychological. He has claimed that as long as I follow the program I will be out of this chair by February. I believe him. It is up to me. I already feel different.

Today we have been married for 37 years. If you wonder who "we" are, you don't read my blog much.

If all goes well, we will celebrate many more.

I'm counting on this because I only got her a lousy volleyball this year.

When I get well, regaining my ability to articulate, I will. Bet on it. You think I do now? Just you wait! I'll be back!