Same ol', Same ol'
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bjarvisNothing much to write about these days...
Last night's club night in Baltimore was fun... I had a chance to call a little more A2 material although the stuff I had written was harder than I had suspected. As usual, it's taking a little time & exercise to determine what calls flow nicely from which, and to determine which geometries are intrinsically harder for some dancers than others. Since I dance the boy roll 90% of the time, I'm not always aware of which calls or sequences which work well for the boys are painful for the girls. A little more work with the checkers with this focus should illuminate more before my next time on the mic.
Work has been rather heavy lately. Two of my major projects are coming to a peak in the next 14 days so the pace of meetings, e-mails, telephone calls and pages has vastly accelerated. Still, I'm on schedule and while there have been hiccups, nothing has occurred that couldn't be readily fixed. I'm still annoyed at some of the minor hiccups, largely because they were predictable and preventable if a few other folks were doing their jobs but I've been on that rant before so I'll refer you to prior LJ entries. :-)
A few people miscounted their inventories of parts last week and then only bothered to report their errors today, my last day of work for this week. Of course, we need the parts for this coming weekend. I've just returned from grabbing spare bits from some retired servers to make up the deficit, although I haven't yet figured out how to get the parts from our Urbana, MD, location to the Reston, VA, location where they will be required. Figures.
Tomorrow morning, we're flying to Cleveland for the 15th annual Load The Boat fly-in, with callers Saundra Bryant and Barry Clasper. This year's theme is "Noah's Ark:" I have nothing for a costume although Kent dug out his gorilla suit last night. Best of luck dancing in that thing.
This morning, I made 50 copies each of the fly-in registration forms for the Chesapeake Squares' fly-in and both of DC Lambda Squares's events fly-ins. Our boarding passes are printed for tomorrow's flight; I'm about half-done my packing and should have it wrapped up in an hour or so tonight.
I've finally finished listening to the full stack of 100 records I bought on eBay a couple of weeks ago. Most of them are too dated for my tastes. Indeed, a good many of them were printed before I was born. There are precisely two records out of the lot I might use in future. Kent still has to listen to the lot, then I'm passing them to Dayle Hodge to pick through for anything he likes. The rest will go up for sale, adding a few as needed from my own inventory to bring the lot back up to 100.
The USB hubs I ordered for my home boxes arrived on Monday. I can now attach all of the desired toys to the iMac instead of swapping out cables (the machine has only three USB ports), and I can attach the flash memory drive to my Windows XP workstation without having to reach around to the back of the beast every time. I still haven't configured the new printers to print from XP via the iMac but there's little rush to that: I'll tackle that next week.
I could really go for a chocolate sundae right now but I'm the only one at their desk around here at the moment. Someone has to be the adult around here, so it might as well be me. :-)
Last night's club night in Baltimore was fun... I had a chance to call a little more A2 material although the stuff I had written was harder than I had suspected. As usual, it's taking a little time & exercise to determine what calls flow nicely from which, and to determine which geometries are intrinsically harder for some dancers than others. Since I dance the boy roll 90% of the time, I'm not always aware of which calls or sequences which work well for the boys are painful for the girls. A little more work with the checkers with this focus should illuminate more before my next time on the mic.
Work has been rather heavy lately. Two of my major projects are coming to a peak in the next 14 days so the pace of meetings, e-mails, telephone calls and pages has vastly accelerated. Still, I'm on schedule and while there have been hiccups, nothing has occurred that couldn't be readily fixed. I'm still annoyed at some of the minor hiccups, largely because they were predictable and preventable if a few other folks were doing their jobs but I've been on that rant before so I'll refer you to prior LJ entries. :-)
A few people miscounted their inventories of parts last week and then only bothered to report their errors today, my last day of work for this week. Of course, we need the parts for this coming weekend. I've just returned from grabbing spare bits from some retired servers to make up the deficit, although I haven't yet figured out how to get the parts from our Urbana, MD, location to the Reston, VA, location where they will be required. Figures.
Tomorrow morning, we're flying to Cleveland for the 15th annual Load The Boat fly-in, with callers Saundra Bryant and Barry Clasper. This year's theme is "Noah's Ark:" I have nothing for a costume although Kent dug out his gorilla suit last night. Best of luck dancing in that thing.
This morning, I made 50 copies each of the fly-in registration forms for the Chesapeake Squares' fly-in and both of DC Lambda Squares's events fly-ins. Our boarding passes are printed for tomorrow's flight; I'm about half-done my packing and should have it wrapped up in an hour or so tonight.
I've finally finished listening to the full stack of 100 records I bought on eBay a couple of weeks ago. Most of them are too dated for my tastes. Indeed, a good many of them were printed before I was born. There are precisely two records out of the lot I might use in future. Kent still has to listen to the lot, then I'm passing them to Dayle Hodge to pick through for anything he likes. The rest will go up for sale, adding a few as needed from my own inventory to bring the lot back up to 100.
The USB hubs I ordered for my home boxes arrived on Monday. I can now attach all of the desired toys to the iMac instead of swapping out cables (the machine has only three USB ports), and I can attach the flash memory drive to my Windows XP workstation without having to reach around to the back of the beast every time. I still haven't configured the new printers to print from XP via the iMac but there's little rush to that: I'll tackle that next week.
I could really go for a chocolate sundae right now but I'm the only one at their desk around here at the moment. Someone has to be the adult around here, so it might as well be me. :-)
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Date: 2005-10-05 04:04 pm (UTC)You said that so casually.
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Date: 2005-10-05 04:34 pm (UTC)Need a disco mirror ball? We have one in inventory.
A fog machine? Got one.
Break-away theater bottles? Got three.
Enough lights to set someone on fire from 50 feet? Got 'em.
Sound system to blow out the windows of a mid-sized building? Just need a power source.
Costumes to dress a half-dozen ushers in medieval garb? Did that last year.
Props for a production of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas?" All we need is a replacement Pikachu pinata to paint & hot-glue face-down to a tray as the roast beast and we're ready to roll.
Thank god we have a lot of basement storage space.
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Date: 2005-10-05 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-05 07:06 pm (UTC)Or did those get tossed?
btw, I have a pic of Kent IN the satyr pants, sans shirt and with very shaggy hair and a goatee that I will auction copies of to the highest bidder (evil grin).
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Date: 2005-10-05 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-05 08:03 pm (UTC)Kent has added a black cloak to the ensemble in the photo(s) I have.
He is soo going to kill me.
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Date: 2005-10-05 09:05 pm (UTC)I think that's a really good start.