Saturday morning I got up at 6:30 a.m. to catch the 9:50 flight to Fort Myers. The dance starts at 2 p.m. and the Stricklands would pick me at the airport at 1 p.m., but I budgeted an extra hour just in case something happens.   Something did happen. When I printed my boarding pass at the airport, it showed that my departure time had been changed to 11:00 a.m.; “Changed”, which is different from...

ok November birthdays i forgot about you, life got busy, but in celebration of lbbuzz  's and annoyinghandle  's big day, Here are the december birthdays. As usual i have put the handles into google, and picked an image from the first screen of images for each person. Strangely ...Roy (of Casa De Roy) from Australia came up a good four or five times in this search. Golly jee he's...

I'm off to Vacaville and Sacramento for the weekend. Last weekend, I was in Massachusetts for one of my favorite square dances of the year. It was a blast. I got to dance with apparentparadox   and there were some other LJers in attendance, too (I think stormecho   covered that list). It was called by Vic and Clark, also two of my favorites. Nice weekend of hanging with friends and...

Last Thursday I flew down to SF to hang out with a couple of friends and then attend POGG 2008 starting Friday evening. The calling staff was incredibly good (both the featured callers as well as the spotlighted local callers). There was plenty of dancing at all levels and the attendance was much higher than usual. This was only the second time I've danced in a year, and the first time I've danced...

Got to do lots of dancing during the weekend. It all went by so quickly. We are at home now (a bit sleepy since we had an 8am flight out of SFO). All of the callers were great. I attended mostly all of the c3a dances that were offered. It was great fun and for the most part I did okay. I think all of those hours of dancing really helped solidify some of the calls that I was a bit shaky on. There were...

Lots of LJ'ers at Push Open the Golden Gate. Lemme know if I forgot any. I think I got to dance with/to most of 'em. allanh , apparentparadox , betsylt , bibliocub , bigjohnsf , cjsmith , cwalesa , davidlevine , double_ohsteven , dr_scott , ewe_bull_akr , excessor , fyellin , greyguy_sf ...

  Thursday stormecho  called and told me that he would be available to pick me up at the airport, and he also would be on school break during the whole time I’m in NYC. Whee!   Friday Knowing that I might be going to the beach with Geo, I stopped by at Walgreens on my way to the airport, bought a headband and stuffed it into my suitcase. It turned out to be very useful later.  ...

January 2004   I don’t remember when I started reading the Callerlab C2 definitions. It was probably right after Matrix South’s Christmas dinner and dance; because that was the first time I watched some C2 tips. But I remember during the C1 Intro session at our fly-in on MLK weekend, I asked  otterpop58 to walk through Rotary and [Anything] after he taught us Rotary Spin, and he said...

I don't volunteer to tell most people in my club what levels I dance.  They usually learn that information from someone else, and they find it odd that I don't want to talk about it.   I don't like to talk about it, because I don't want to be simply labeled by a letter and a number.  I don't want any empty praises from people who are only interested in the "highest level" but could care less about what...

Last Monday was our first summer reunion dance after the convention. J.R. was on vacation. Mike called for the whole evening, alternating MS and Plus, and it was quite successful.   I made up a list of calls and concepts that I’ve had more problems with in the past (or present):   Plus: While I was trying to catch up with our Plus class by studying animations online, I had trouble distinguishing...