For those worried about Jake getting along with the baby:

 

I’ve finished the DVD. I will take it to Atlanta for duplication Monday. It looks pretty good.
There are a couple of problems I can do nothing about. There’s a skip in a bad spot during Yeah!
Sorry about that. Also, the camera was set to autofocus, so sometimes it looks like it was
shot underwater. I can’t wait for everyone to see it! I hope you’ll be pleased.*
In other news, www.coffeeshopofhorrors.com’s
online store is now live. Be brave and place the first order!
* Special thanks to Matt for comic relief.

If you have a Mac (of course you should), you may view a little screensaver of drawings
my Dance Majors and Minors made during the six weeks. Just open System Preferences–>Desktop&Screensaver and
click on .Mac. Click on options and type boomw in the .Mac membership box. Enjoy!

I’m just about done packing. It is very strange here without the kids. I’ve
added an area for my GHP’ers in the forum.
I have been able to get some of the DVD work done. I’m still adding video from the
summer. I will post something as soon as I’m done. In the meantime, I hope everyone had a safe trip home
and is enjoying their own beds and real food!! The RA’ are having a little wing ding at GA, so I’m off.
Good thing I don’t have to teach in the morning!

Tam is pregnant! We’re having a BABY!!!
Tam’s due sometime near Thanksgiving. I’m so excited and scared (earmuffs)
shitless!
In other news, Terpsicorps has a new, awesome, website, that has absolutely nothing to do with me. :-(. Though I’ve never
claimed to be a graphic designer, my ego is a little bruised. Still, it’s a great site, and I hope it does
better for Heather than my efforts.
Coffee Shop of Horror’s site is live. The shopping cart is still off until I can drag Brice to the bank to set up his
merchant account. BTW, Authorize.net answers the phone with hold music, in my case several U2 songs. Looks like Bono’s
‘kissing the corporate ass’ again.
I’ve just read on Drudge that our President has apologized to the King of Jordon for the behavior of our troops
Finally! I also watched “Bowling For Columbine” last night. Michael Moore is heavy handed, brazen, and indecorous;
but, I think he’s right about the idea that we Americans are afraid of one another. I’m even reminded of a conversation
I had with Susan Martin about the “deficit creating question”. It’s the idea in marketing that you create a vacuum for your
product to fill; create a need.
Being a consumate consumer, I have to ask myself if I’m supporting the kind of society that promotes fear and violence.
I guess I am. Heck, I think most of us are and that is really scary.

Looks like it’s been a long time since I’ve had anything to say. I have been very very busy this year. I’m working with
a new client Coffee Shop of Horrors. That’s the old site. I’m not quite done with
the new one. I have test pages on my site here not all of the links work, and you can’t buy anything yet
. I’m trying to get away from using tables
for layout. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry, that’s all I’m going to say about it.
I’m also teaching and rehearsing the Gainesville Ballet. I’m still doing the
ScubaDoRag™ site (a major revision is forthcoming) and I’m gigging around all over the place.
The big news is that I’m going to be the dance person at the Georgia Governor’s Honor’s Program in Valdosta, GA this summer.
I’m looking forward to it, and realize that it is going to be very challenging and rewarding. I’ll be adding stuff to my calendar for GHP soon and will hopefully
use this site to post stuff. I’m going to be busy making phone calls to everybody I know to try to get some guest teachers. If you have any interest in this,
please email me: benjie@westafer.com.

Looking at my server logs, I can see that people from Virginia, California, Massachusettes,
and Missouri have accessed my site. I wonder who those people could be? Well, HELLO everyone!

I’m posting the end of the video I edited for the memorial
service for my friend Jaime Burcham who drowned two months ago. It’s pretty big (over 10mb). It is
worth it. Anyone will tell you that it’s impossible to evoke Jaime without laughing.
Still, though it’s been a while, I have unpredictable bouts of sadness. It still seems so
inconcievable; although, I don’t think that word means what I think it does.
Tam’s leaving for Africa for 15 days soon. It’s going to be really weird. Every piece of furniture
in this house was loaded in by Jaime and me. We cleared out all of the stuff from storage in
one (well, almost one), mostly one big trip. Hmmm. I don’t think I’ve spent two full weeks here.

I’ve just returned from SERBA. It was a lot of fun. The shows went well. I’m completely tired and behind on
my schoolwork.
I’m eagerly awaiting whatever Apple has in store for us tomorrow. I’m
not sure I’m going to like it. First of all, I don’t have any money.
Secondly, it seems there will be some limits on how one may use the
new service…if that’s what they are going to announce – we all know
that’s what it is.