Traveling's been picking up again for work.  I went to San Jose and back all in one day; I went to Colorado Springs and back all in 26 hours; I'll be going to DC for 4 days (2 travel days/2 for meetings); I'll be going to Ottawa for 5 days; and then I'll be heading back up to San Jose for a week toward the end of September.  Whew ( Read more... )

I just got invited to the party described below.  It promises to be interesting ( Read more... )

wow, I have apparently neglected LiveJournal and need to sit down tomorrow to catch up on entries.

Hi to everyone!  Sorry I never posted about Amsterdam.  Suffice to say, it was good times.

The Netherlands is a good place.  I highly recommend it.  More to follow when I'm less jet lagged...

Danny got me Lego Star Wars for the Wii way back at Christmas and I've been (exceedingly) slowly playing my way through since then.  It's a lot of fun.  I highly recommend it.  I'm enjoying it and I've never played through a video game in my life.  Danny's enjoying it and he's played every video game ever.  And... we enjoy playing together since ( Read more... )

Whoa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339ixMtHrVk&feature=related

Charleston like you've never heard it before... well, maybe you have, but still

Until I looked back at my last few posts, I didn't realize I'd been writing almost entirely about dancing.  Sorry, but that's still one of my favorite hobbies ( Read more... )

San Francisco for Down Home Blues Shout in June?  Or Austin for Austin Blues Party in early July? Or possibly Waterloo for the Waterloo Blues Junkie Exchange over my birthday weekend in July?

Transportation costs might play a big role in this decision.

I spent the last week in DC for a class for work.  This was a required class, but I was never given any details about when/where I had to take it, so as soon as I could, I opened up the swing/blues exchange page and found a class that would be held in a city with a pending exchange.  Of course, it was nice that it was in DC, so I could combine ( Read more... )

For anyone who's been wondering what this whole blues dancing thing is about, this is as good an example as any: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28WR4V2NUas