Off Center - By Dan Dauw

By Dan Dauw
Geneseo Current

Geneseo MCB and Concert Bands

The rest of the 2024 Geneseo Summer Concert Schedule are as follows:

July 4th – Maple City Band

July 9th – Maple City German Band

July 16th – Maple City Band

July 23rd - Big River Brass Band

July 30th - Geneseo Big Band

All concerts are in the band shell at the Geneseo Park. Make sure to support the organizations at the Ice Cream Social Pavilion.

Debate

Now this is just me, but having recently turned 82, I sure can see my mind is more “off center” then yesteryear. Ugh!!!

Thank You

To you friends for the Happy Birthday wishes. I have to say, for the most part, I’ve had a pretty good run for all the years. A big share of goodness and love is from Lorna and our two kids, DeeDee and Lance.

Books

Not long ago, friend “DC” gave me a 762 page book entitled, “Abraham Lincoln” by Carl Sandburg. I only read a few pages at night before “sawing logs.”
Lincoln was a really unusual person. He was very intelligent, subject to mood swings, a great story teller, served in the Black Hawk War although never fired a musket, and had numerous jobs growing up. He was an excellent lawyer, and a good husband and father to their boys. His 6’3” appearance was never the best as he cared little of his appearance. Many times he was laughed at by the press. So far in the book it tells of his many cases as a lawyer. Very interesting!

Unusual Knowledge

Our son, Lance, gave me a really neat book for my birthday entitled, “The Book of Unusual Knowledge.” I just started reading it, and it contains a lot of strange and interesting facts about this planet we live on.
Remember a few weeks ago two vandals spray painted on Stonehenge? On the cover of the book it shows a photo of Stonehenge with the words, “It took about 30 million hours for Stone Age workers to build Stonehenge.”

Catch A Better Life

Okay, one more new book to mention from friend, Lori Palmgren, and then I’ll shut up! This is an unusual book that combines fishing and religion. Each page, January 1 to December 31, gives a religious message plus a fishing tip. Wrongly, I’m sure I’ve used the word, “God” plus another word when I lost a big fish.
Anyway, Catch A Better Life, is by author, Jimmy Houston, and looks to be a good read.

Humor

  1. How are trumpet players, John Bean and Jim Cassens, like pirates? Answer: They’re both murder on the high Cs.

  2. How do you know if a Swedish car is sad? Answer: You’ll see it saab-ing.

  3. My face is wrinkled now, in fact, it’s rather ruddy, Revlon and Loreal won’t do, I need a can of puddy!

  4. I never wanted to believe my dad was stealing from his job as a highway worker, but when I got home, all the signs were there!

  5. I just did 15 minutes of strength training. I opened a bag of potato chips.

Quote of the week

“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct!” - Disraeli