Hey kids,
Check out your modern teacher!

Pretty cool, huh?

With Marianne the librarian as my witness I was doubtful about my scholarship in the program regarding Giselle. The choreographer for Giselle is Jules Perrot not Marius Petipa; though the introduction of the Peasant Pas into Giselle happened later. Further, the music is not Adam it’s Frédéric Bergmüller. It may be that Perrot indeed choreographed the pas, though I haven’t the time to fully get into it. I have to get the baby up and she’s going to be hungry. Maybe one of you enterprising students can figure this one out for me.
I’m still working on the program, but here it is so far. I still need a logo or something for the front.
On the DVD front. My big computer is still in the car. I’m on baby duty until five or six, but I do hope to have it set up and ready to go later this evening. I go to Atlanta to work Wednesday through Friday, and then to Asheville to pack up the house on the weekend. I may take the computer with me; but we’ll just have to see how far I get. I have NOT found the tape of Thursday 7:00. I really hate that for Shadeah and Kyndal (and Kyndal’s mom). If anybody has any info about that my address is:
243 Greene St.
Augusta, GA
30901-1616
and I don’t care about why I don’t have it, I just need it for the DVD. Spread the word.
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It’s taken me forever, but I’m almost done packing! Yay!

Will I ever make it to GHP?! I’ve been trying to leave here since 7:30am and it’s now 11:38pm. I’ve had all kinds of trouble today. The first was getting caught up with work. That took me until around noon. Then I tried to load the car. I couldn’t get my suitcase in as the trunk-latch is busted and Tam and I are down to the Valet key. So, I took it to the Volkswagon place across the street and the best they could do was make a new key, not a flip key($250.00), but a regular key that can open the trunk($150). I got the car back around 4:00pm and got an email from Dale. Yikes. While the car was getting ready, I got an email from Susan telling me to fix the site. I have fixed it, but there is more for me to add that I can’t do today. So, I’m going to spend the night here and leave in the am.

OK, so I really like my new job. I can admit it. It’s not glamorous and there are no scantily clad women-folk running around; but, I’m learing a lot and finding out stuff about myself that I could plausibly deny in the dance world. Of course, this job will be on standby while I’m at GHP doinig the Director of Dance thing. I am very much looking forward to it despite my being assigned to what is, perhaps, one of the worst configurations of a dance studio I’ve every seen. I won’t bitch about it too much. I’m happy to return and thankful that I have a couple of summer’s experience going in. I am not happy about having to jeopardize my position at IntenseTech. Still, I’m thinking that I can devote two hours a day to remote work while at GHP without sacrificing my responsibilities at both. It just means that I can’t spend too much time at the bar. That’s for the best too. Some sort of balance will have to be struck. At any rate, I haven’t blogged in a while and so for anyone reading this, and my visitor logs are most bizarre (who do I know in Washington State?), things are as normal here, I’m in a show, Tam’s just finished a show, and Tess’ latest is opening books and babbling as if she’s reading the text. Tess is a hoot. Oh boy. I love my little one! All right. I’m back to my “Old 33” and mentally preparing myself for another day of the same.

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth I have found what worked for me when setting up a developer environment for RoR:
http://mentalized.net/journal/2006/02/02/kill_the_rails_pluralization/
For some reason, the pluralization feature of Rails was gumming up the works. Once it’s dead I was up and running! Yay!
This is one of those gotchas that should be looked at for upcoming releases. It took me a while to find this solution after looking all over everywhere…

I’m working on a new project:
www.birdflumanual.com
Its kinda scary.

Two of the most beautiful people I know have a new addition to their family:

His name is William Jacob Cashin and he was born Friday April, 28th. Get this, he and I share the same birth-weight: eight pounds and fourteen ounces!
Yay!

Tam and I are at SERBA to see everybody. Tam went to the Gala and I stayed in the room to babysit Tess. The clock radio has big buttons on the top for different genres of music. She found the Rock and Roll button and I recorded the results on my RAZR.
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I am typing on my rejuvenated and much missed Lombard. I got it back this morning and am stealing a few moments at the Mall of GA Atlanta Bread Company.
It seems that when Tess unfolded the screen she must’ve stepped on the joint that contains the hinge and the AV in such a way that the AV card cracked. It could have been much worse. While they were at it, the good folks at Daystar replaced the missing keys, upgraded the RAM, replaced the rear door, and the top case! They also tweaked the MACh Speed Control settings in such a way that I’m able to take advantage of the L2 cache; every time I’ve tried to futz with its settings I’ve crashed the Mac. It’s right now, and I’m not going to touch it!