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Dominic Vautier 1/2012

    We are such stuff as dreams are made on
    And our little life is rounded with a sleep.

             Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Here are some of my newest things

My ideas on why popular Music is Disappearing

I finally managed to get my book up in web format.  see Early American Popular Music

Here is a just completed page that has some of my Old Song Sheets.

And of course I got around to talking about my long and devious work life at My career

I also atemped an article on The History of Computing.

Cynthia and I had a wonderful time in Ireland.  I put up a few web pages about our mis-adventures.

For more on this see Dublin Trip. 

There is a new and continuing section below called My Rants so I can confine my more extreme venting to one place. 

One really ambitious ongoing effort to date is re-digitizing of a bunch of old records. Comcast gave me a lot more space to use, so I managed to re-digitize some of those old scratchy records with a better filter and at higher quality.  see Old Record Collection.  I also added a page on Fire Alarms because I got tired of replacing batteries.   

I try to collect things about our family and put them in a meaningful and presentable way.  You can check out any and all of the sections below for your mutual enjoyment, amazement, astonishment, grief, fear, dread, embarrassment, or any other animal response you may feel.  I plan  to do bigger things as time goes on and as my mind continues to deteriorate. But as I do get older things seem to get better.  After all I'm officially retired and have nothing else to do except the kitchen, laundry, cars, three kids still at home, each with cars, some with associated boyfriends, with each kid struggling mightily to get a degree and stay out of debt (with my help of course).  I also have an almost retired wife that also has demands, and dogs too--what a peaceful and pleasant retirement this is.

Cyn is the only women in Bellevue with her own jackhammer.  She wanted a jackhammer last Christmas--so what was I to do but get one.  it has turned out to be immensely practical.  When I redid Val's shower I was able to make one big hole in the bathroom floor for the drain. 

We plan a vacation to Tuscany one of these years so I need to get up on my Italian.  I have been there three times but Cyn has not.

I do have some GREAT NEW STUFF that I'm now working on   I set up two sections on this site, one entitled MY LIFE -- SORT OF which has to do with my early days, growing up, seminary, education, army, girls, love life, (before the wife and kids and dogs and house and credit cards and teenagers and cars and jet skis).  The second section goes into MY ROOTS.  This is a hugely difficult section and it will eventually be done (person by person) when I can ever get it done that is.  My brother Frank, the unofficial caretaker of the Vautier archives has graciously sent me a whole bunch of info about where I came from and who were all those guys that gave me such weird and disorganized genes. 

Get a load of the ears on that Dog.                                               Fiona is up to some artwork.

BUSINESS            Resume (even though I'm retired)   Skills (mostly for making trouble)     Setting up your very own Home Network  This is really old stuff and I have to revise this one--but whatever.	PUBLICATIONS      Early American Popular Music      Early American Popular Music Web Version      Old Record Collection      My all time favorite Gregorian Chants      The History of Computers      Old song sheets      Why is popular music disappearing?      Poems        Popular Music - Some stories      Home Video to DVD - Some great ideas        How to digitize LP's - Hints       Everything you wanted to know about LPs       What to do about Record Mold.      Some more ideas on Digitizing Records.      Some thoughts on popular music      My Beatles collection will be soon featured.
VACATIONS      Moses Lake   Ocean Shores   Hamilton   Montreal (2004)     Ocean Shores II (not yet developed)	PROJECTS     The Mound   House Painting   Apple Tree   The Floor   French Doors   Central Vacuum Systems   The Roof   A Brand New Tree   Cyn's Roses   The Ranger Canapé   The Great Snake   Bed frames and wrestling
PETS The Basset    Phoebus Pumpkin   Black dog	STORIES AND FUN THINGS     Val's Big Airplane Trip   The Crash   The Tub   Our Poor old Douglas Fir     My Ford Ranger Radio    Val's motor scooter   Luci's new do    Val goes out for Football
MY LIFE -- SORT OF     Bellingham   Everett - Grand Street   St. Edwards   Richmond   Richmond 2   Novitiate   Newton      My Army Experiences   My Career	ROOTS        Where I came from   Genealogy   My Mother   My Dad   The Vautier side of the family   The O'Rouark side of the family   My little sister   The Jessops/Jessups   The Old Farm and other interesting places
ANYTHING ELSE THAT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT   My Dream   Memories       And much more as I get older	MY RANTS                         Here is a collection of my latest complaints   against  the world, the flesh, the devil, God, the   Government, and anything else I can think of.   Tensioner Replacement   Fire Alarms   Motor Oil   How to test a CO alarm    Changing Transmission Oil   Making a really safe oven hood   My sweet Maytag
A LITTLE MORE ACTION HERE IF YOU PLEASE         Gabriel decides to kick the football:   Opps -- right into the phone line. Val doing a trick of two with his skateboard on his new rail -- well sort of anyway. And here comes Sparky the Basset wagging  her way through life. See Pumpkin run -- the fastest thing around on four feet. Cyn is handy with a brush.  She now will attempt some faux painting in the bedroom. And Val goes out for a pass -- and he's going... going... going... Here is Gabe, our star chef cooking up a fine Denver omelet.
Two Vizlas	Fiona

Gabriel pretending to fall off a cliff on Bandera Mountain.  The I 90 Freeway can be seen far below.  Not for the faint of heart.  

Here is Val in front of Franklin Falls near Rattlesnake Ridge in Snoqualmie.

Val warming up one of his jet skis on lake Samammish.