This is a link to my first YouTube video. Hopefully it will be the actual video embedded in this post. The video was taken at Pinewoods American week on August 15th. Some of the people that were swimming decided to try a Contra Dance on the raft and this is the last one and a half minutes of that effort.
Pictures of the Pinewoods week should be appearing soon. Depends on how busy I am the next few weekends.
Another great Dance Flurry last weekend. I got sick right after getting back so it was probably acquired there. I actually took 3 whole days off work which I almost never do. This weekend I have one of my dances. I am feeling well enough to do the work required for the dance but I don’t think I will be dancing much. 
I still need a few days of rest and some more chicken soup to get to 100%.
The Flurry was as usual a great dance. I basically stayed in the Paul Rosenberg dance hall all weekend. The contra dancing went until 1:00 both Friday and Saturday nights (or is that Sat and Sun morning) and I stayed to the end both nights. Saturday and Sunday morning I was back dancing for the first contra of the day. My feet survived quite nicely on the concrete floor of the dance hall because of the leather clad running shoes I now use on that type of floor. My feet were sore but still usable.
A friend of mine (bjb) posted this on her blog. I thought it was good enough to borrow.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Pledge:
The Boulder Pledge is a personal promise, first coined by Roger Ebert, not to purchase anything offered through email spam. The pledge is worded as follows:
“Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.” –Roger Ebert
I would like to modify the pledge after the experience of the last post to the following:
“Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message or phone call. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.”
I had to leave out the part about the mass mailings because I still need to send messages to the Contra Dance mailing list. This is an Opt-In mailing list and I limit it to just dance related messages.
OK, At the urging of bjb I have re-re-modified the pledge back to something closer to the original. I failed to fully grasp the significance of the word “forward” originally so I think I can safely add the mass mailings back in. So here goes; I, John Argus do solemnly swear the following statement:
“Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message or phone call. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailing, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.”
I drove down to Saratoga Springs on the weekend. Took a couple of people with me and came back with three. Dances all weekend at the Dance Flurry and got sore feet. The floor we get to dance on is a tiles concrete floor that is hard on the feet. I wear old walking shoes that help but the soles of my feet still hurt after the Friday night. Some people there dance in their bare feet, I have no idea how they do it.
Hopefully this weekend I will get back to looking at setting up the virtual domains and get two domains running
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