Miscellaneous Little Things

After work, I dropped by a local watch shop for a little work on two watches. The watch given to me by my Dear Employer needed six links taken out of the watch band; it now fits perfectly. A watch kent4str gave me some years ago needed a new battery; it now works. :-)

Last night, cuyahogarvr and I danced Advanced with John Marshall and the Phantom 8s. As expected, we had a fun time dancing and I tried very hard to remember as many little choreographic tricks as I could. Chatting with John & Mary is always a hoot and I'm sure he'll do well as incoming Callerlab chair beginning next Wednesday.

Comcast has pissed off kent4str once too often. Now that they're switching Cartoon Network to their digital line-up, we either had to upgrade our Comcast service (already $65/month) or toss them overboard to go with a satellite service. The satellites won: we're going with Dish Network. We have an installation appointment for next Thursday.

Our Harper's Ferry Hoedown venue nightmare may soon be over. We have a candidate site selected in the general area of the last venue, has wood dance floors and reasonable rental charges. The search committee seems to be in agreement so now it's a matter of getting a contract. More news when it happens.

Miscellaneous Little Things

After work, I dropped by a local watch shop for a little work on two watches. The watch given to me by my Dear Employer needed six links taken out of the watch band; it now fits perfectly. A watch kent4str gave me some years ago needed a new battery; it now works. :-)

Last night, cuyahogarvr and I danced Advanced with John Marshall and the Phantom 8s. As expected, we had a fun time dancing and I tried very hard to remember as many little choreographic tricks as I could. Chatting with John & Mary is always a hoot and I'm sure he'll do well as incoming Callerlab chair beginning next Wednesday.

Comcast has pissed off kent4str once too often. Now that they're switching Cartoon Network to their digital line-up, we either had to upgrade our Comcast service (already $65/month) or toss them overboard to go with a satellite service. The satellites won: we're going with Dish Network. We have an installation appointment for next Thursday.

Our Harper's Ferry Hoedown venue nightmare may soon be over. We have a candidate site selected in the general area of the last venue, has wood dance floors and reasonable rental charges. The search committee seems to be in agreement so now it's a matter of getting a contract. More news when it happens.

Administrivia

It's been a quiet evening at home. So far tonight, I've:

• caught up on e-mail;
  
• caught up on data entry for the 2009 IAGSDC convention;
  
• obtained signatures and mailed off misc papers to our financial advisor;
  
• finished two work-related documentation projects;
  
• caught upon my podcast news listening;
  
• talked to cuyahogarvr's kid #3, confirming we got the wrong video interface cable for her particular MacBook (kent4str ordered a replacement to be delivered directly to her);
  
• cycled some large files off one hard drive of my XP workstation to free some space for more timely stuff;
  
• ate dinner;
  
• looked over some potential square dance music at various sources & vendors --and opted to buy nothing;
  
• put our mail delivery on hold for a week while we're in LA;
  
• sent e-mail to misc LA-area friends & exes to see if anyone is available for lunch and/or dinner this weekend.
  

Just another fun evening at home.

Administrivia

It's been a quiet evening at home. So far tonight, I've:

• caught up on e-mail;
  
• caught up on data entry for the 2009 IAGSDC convention;
  
• obtained signatures and mailed off misc papers to our financial advisor;
  
• finished two work-related documentation projects;
  
• caught upon my podcast news listening;
  
• talked to cuyahogarvr's kid #3, confirming we got the wrong video interface cable for her particular MacBook (kent4str ordered a replacement to be delivered directly to her);
  
• cycled some large files off one hard drive of my XP workstation to free some space for more timely stuff;
  
• ate dinner;
  
• looked over some potential square dance music at various sources & vendors --and opted to buy nothing;
  
• put our mail delivery on hold for a week while we're in LA;
  
• sent e-mail to misc LA-area friends & exes to see if anyone is available for lunch and/or dinner this weekend.
  

Just another fun evening at home.