Attention K-Mart Shoppers!

We're having a three-for-one sale on birthdays!

Congrats to double_ohsteven and fuzzygruf/squaredancing!

Clean up in aisle 3...

Attention K-Mart Shoppers!

We're having a three-for-one sale on birthdays!

Congrats to double_ohsteven and fuzzygruf/squaredancing!

Clean up in aisle 3...

Back from the weekend

We spent all of the Memorial Day weekend at the trailer in West Virginia.

( Details after the cut... )

Back from the weekend

We spent all of the Memorial Day weekend at the trailer in West Virginia.

( Details after the cut... )

News from the cult

One of my little catch-up tasks of this past weekend was reading my way through a backlog of magazines, newsletters and other such material. Alas, I discovered I left one stack at home by mistake, but there was lots of square dancing material to sort through.

( Callerlab list commentary> )

( GCA elections update )

News from the cult

One of my little catch-up tasks of this past weekend was reading my way through a backlog of magazines, newsletters and other such material. Alas, I discovered I left one stack at home by mistake, but there was lots of square dancing material to sort through.

( Callerlab list commentary> )

( GCA elections update )

A Friend's Passing

Ellen was my director earlier this decade. At the time, we were both board members of unrelated not-for-profits which dealt with dead & mourning and we chatted frequently about our volunteer work, musical theater and her cats.

She moved into the international relations division of our company, and I was sent out of the downtown offices into the Virginia and Maryland data centers so our paths rarely crossed in the past couple of years. Still, I will miss her.

From http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/28/skydiving.death.ap/index.html

( Skydiver Dies After Slipping From Harness )

It's a tremendous comfort to know that when she was having the time of her life right up to the end: it's so like her. In fact, I suspect her last thought would have been something goofy like, "Geez, I wish I had a martini right now."

A Friend's Passing

Ellen was my director earlier this decade. At the time, we were both board members of unrelated not-for-profits which dealt with dead & mourning and we chatted frequently about our volunteer work, musical theater and her cats.

She moved into the international relations division of our company, and I was sent out of the downtown offices into the Virginia and Maryland data centers so our paths rarely crossed in the past couple of years. Still, I will miss her.

From http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/28/skydiving.death.ap/index.html

( Skydiver Dies After Slipping From Harness )

It's a tremendous comfort to know that when she was having the time of her life right up to the end: it's so like her. In fact, I suspect her last thought would have been something goofy like, "Geez, I wish I had a martini right now."