Emotionally drained (but in a good way) and moving a million miles an hour. Since there is NO quiet place in Portsmouth for conversation over food (at least that I can afford), an old friend from the Whittier (Reg. Voc Tech -- where Tom taught) Class of '84 joined me at the house after I picked up a pizza. I hoped that several hours of conversation and reminiscences would slow me down enough to sleep. But then after she left, I Facebooked for another hour or so catching up on friends' photos and comments on the memorial. I didn't have any trouble falling asleep, but I awoke at 4:30 this morning unable to get back to sleep.

I'm tired...but THIS Sunday (unlike last week) I AM going to the event at Nottingham's Blaisdell Library -- local historian Dennis Robinson's talk on "Treasures From the Isles of Shoals".

I've posted Dave Hallowell's WONDERFUL short video (shown at yesterday's memorial) "Tom Hall - A Musical Life" on the Curmudgeon Memorial thread. There should be a video of the entire proceedings (some pretty amazing music as well as tributes, stories, photographs) posted by Stephan Smith at YouTube within the next few days. I'm looking forward to watching it as I "missed" a lot of it because I was talking to people in the back, being hugged, etcet etcet.

My vocabulary is failing me (I sincerely hope my vocabulary and my badly chewed up brain are somewhere safe...where I can retrieve them someday), but it was an amazing afternoon.

Linn