The Day Before Monday

The morning was calmly spent noodling with numbers and membership stuff for the afternoon's ASDC meeting, while Danny spent more time sorting his paperwork for his tax accountant. He has WAY too many financial things going on with international stocks, rental ownership in several states, and on and on...he makes my dealings look like a piggy bank!

I surprised Kris J this morning by reminding her that the seminar for the Caller's meeting this morning was to be led by HER, and that the seminar started at 11am...OMG. There were only 7 of us that showed for the seminar, but the discussion on Kris' first Square Dance ABC dance yesterday, as well as thoughts on how to present ABC to the public, was a lively and useful one. I suggested we start taping these caller seminars, for documenting them if for nothing else. Richard Lane gave one two months ago on "Everything Calling," and the one I did early last year for "Dynamic Presentation Techniques" would have been great to have as a streaming audio link on my website.

The business portion of that meeting started at 12:30, and we were still the only 7 that showed, but we did have lots of business to yak about which kept us till 1:30.

The first Sunday every other month is packed with meetings at the square dance center. The Central District meeting followed at 1:30, but I'm not in that, not being a club officer. I remember in the 80s when I used to poke my head in the door at those meetings, that there were often 20 plus couples in the room. There are only six member clubs in the district, so if 4 couples show, it's a miracle. The Wilde Bunch COULD be a member club, but we aren't.

After a leisurely run to Homo Depot to return a gallon of floor stain we didn't use last month, and an unsatisfying solo lunch at Arby's (odd service at the order counter, with not enough food for the $5.89 I spent), I wandered back to ASDC for the 2:30 ASDC board meeting.

I think this board is going to work VERY well together. There was nothing wrong with Tom Ehrhorn having been prez, but we don't seem to have the aura of political paranoia over us that I sensed before. I made several jokes early on that the meeting HAD to be extremely short and sweet...Kris had to get home to settle in for the StuporBowl. Kris seems to have lots of 'stuff' going on at home. She had to rush home between the two meetings to put the agenda together. The meeting was a good one, also an hour long, and heavy on discussion of promotion of square dancing. Kris is prez this year...yay!

Wandering home again, still keeping the I-25 corridor warm from my tires, I had good intentions of getting more chores done at home, specifically starting to clear out the dozen plus boxes from under the stairwell I've stuffed into the library and the end of the downstairs hallway. It SHOULDN'T be a daunting task; most of it is truly trash. I should do a poll like cjsmith to see how other people would perceive my 20+ years of detritus (I love that word) that I've been hanging on to. Three of the boxes are square dances Tshirts I've been saving for "whenever." Many boxes of every receipt I've had for probably 15 years. Tax records back to 1975, the first year I earned taxable money. Various square dance paperwork that didn't make it into binders, like old IAGSDC convention files that I consider memorabilia.

At one point in the afternoon, Danny handed back over the Alaska cruise portfolio that we received before the trip...it must have weighed 2 pounds. I considered putting it in a memorabilia file, but just tossed it in my newly emptied trash basket. Too much stuff!

But I didn't tackle that, in spite of Danny setting his paper shredder downstairs for me.

I frittered the day watching a bit of TV downstairs (trying to get used to surround sound for the Weather Channel) and browsing the internet. Trying to stay warm, since the 30mph winds all morning and afternoon, with the temps only squeezing up to 50, kept me feeling chilled, even in the house.

And here it is, 4am, and I've been wide wake since 1:30am. It should be a HELL of a Monday at work.

The Day Before Monday

The morning was calmly spent noodling with numbers and membership stuff for the afternoon's ASDC meeting, while Danny spent more time sorting his paperwork for his tax accountant. He has WAY too many financial things going on with international stocks, rental ownership in several states, and on and on...he makes my dealings look like a piggy bank!

I surprised Kris J this morning by reminding her that the seminar for the Caller's meeting this morning was to be led by HER, and that the seminar started at 11am...OMG. There were only 7 of us that showed for the seminar, but the discussion on Kris' first Square Dance ABC dance yesterday, as well as thoughts on how to present ABC to the public, was a lively and useful one. I suggested we start taping these caller seminars, for documenting them if for nothing else. Richard Lane gave one two months ago on "Everything Calling," and the one I did early last year for "Dynamic Presentation Techniques" would have been great to have as a streaming audio link on my website.

The business portion of that meeting started at 12:30, and we were still the only 7 that showed, but we did have lots of business to yak about which kept us till 1:30.

The first Sunday every other month is packed with meetings at the square dance center. The Central District meeting followed at 1:30, but I'm not in that, not being a club officer. I remember in the 80s when I used to poke my head in the door at those meetings, that there were often 20 plus couples in the room. There are only six member clubs in the district, so if 4 couples show, it's a miracle. The Wilde Bunch COULD be a member club, but we aren't.

After a leisurely run to Homo Depot to return a gallon of floor stain we didn't use last month, and an unsatisfying solo lunch at Arby's (odd service at the order counter, with not enough food for the $5.89 I spent), I wandered back to ASDC for the 2:30 ASDC board meeting.

I think this board is going to work VERY well together. There was nothing wrong with Tom Ehrhorn having been prez, but we don't seem to have the aura of political paranoia over us that I sensed before. I made several jokes early on that the meeting HAD to be extremely short and sweet...Kris had to get home to settle in for the StuporBowl. Kris seems to have lots of 'stuff' going on at home. She had to rush home between the two meetings to put the agenda together. The meeting was a good one, also an hour long, and heavy on discussion of promotion of square dancing. Kris is prez this year...yay!

Wandering home again, still keeping the I-25 corridor warm from my tires, I had good intentions of getting more chores done at home, specifically starting to clear out the dozen plus boxes from under the stairwell I've stuffed into the library and the end of the downstairs hallway. It SHOULDN'T be a daunting task; most of it is truly trash. I should do a poll like cjsmith to see how other people would perceive my 20+ years of detritus (I love that word) that I've been hanging on to. Three of the boxes are square dances Tshirts I've been saving for "whenever." Many boxes of every receipt I've had for probably 15 years. Tax records back to 1975, the first year I earned taxable money. Various square dance paperwork that didn't make it into binders, like old IAGSDC convention files that I consider memorabilia.

At one point in the afternoon, Danny handed back over the Alaska cruise portfolio that we received before the trip...it must have weighed 2 pounds. I considered putting it in a memorabilia file, but just tossed it in my newly emptied trash basket. Too much stuff!

But I didn't tackle that, in spite of Danny setting his paper shredder downstairs for me.

I frittered the day watching a bit of TV downstairs (trying to get used to surround sound for the Weather Channel) and browsing the internet. Trying to stay warm, since the 30mph winds all morning and afternoon, with the temps only squeezing up to 50, kept me feeling chilled, even in the house.

And here it is, 4am, and I've been wide wake since 1:30am. It should be a HELL of a Monday at work.