And with that comes a trip to Charleston! And not a trip that will involve training for work, either. This trip will allow me to partake in one of my favorite things: contra dancing.
The second and fourth Friday of each month, the Charleston Folk dance group holds a contra dance at the Ballroom Dance Club, which is located on Ashley Hall Road, off of Sam Rittenberg.
For a while back in the early spring and part of the summer of 2007, I was not able to get to Charleston. I closed the North Myrtle Beach store on Friday nights, and I was not happy about that. Then at the tail end of July, I started opening the store Friday mornings!
So I was looking forward to getting to dance on Friday, August 10th. August began, and I went to PLUS (PlanetChristmas Lights Up Symposium). I rode the coasters at Dollywood on August 1st, talked Christmas lights the 2nd-4th, and came back home on the 5th. Worked like I always do on Mondays on the 6th. Then it was time for my "weekend." Tuesday, August 7th, two things happened. First, I went to Winston-Salem, my weekly trip up there to dance. Second, when I got home and checked my E-mail, I had, in the mid-afternoon hours (after I had left for the dance of course--a 4 hour one way trip) received my usual "Tuesday before the dance panic E-mail" from the booking person, asking if I could come down and call the dance that Friday. So I immediately started to plan for the dance.
Needless to say, the next time I danced in Charleston was not the 10th, but the 24th. I then danced on September 14th, and played in the band on September 28th. October's dance history, other than LEAF, seems to have escaped me altogether. November was sparse. I called the dance in Winston-Salem on the 13th, and the one in Wilmington on the 24th. I then found myself once again calling the Charleston dance on December 14th, and I was desperately hoping to make the dance on the 28th.
So as late December rolled around, I found myself in a play. And I made plans with the director to hang lights. The only problem was the only night he could work it in at that time was December 28th, so I stayed home and helped him hang lights. And wouldn't you know it? I found out in Mid-January that there was someone from the play who WAS at the dance that night, and it wasn't me (but it was someone who I wouldn't mind dancing with if she wanted to...but I'll stop there in case the Saylors happen upon this blog...I'd never hear the end of it from them).
So, now the play is over, and the second Friday of February is coming up. February 8th. The Hungry Monks are playing, and Joyce and Bob from Savannah are calling. I WILL be there! And I'm contemplating a trip to Columbia on the 9th, too.
I'll post videos of a dance that I called in Beaufort on January 19th in another blog. Actually, I need to get up there again, too. But I'll be in Columbia this Saturday. Maybe for the March dance?
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
When The Target's Too Far Away
You travel on the Internet! To whatever destination you want.
Like today, February 5, 2008. I'm stuck here in Conway, SC. Got all my lights in out of the yard before the sun went down since I knew we had a chance for some great (or not-so-great, depending on how you look at it) weather tomorrow.
After getting that done, and seeing Bodhi off with his dad, I hit the web. I first opened two of my favorite sites for weather information, Stormtrack.org which concentrates on storm chasing and chasers, and Storm2K.org, which has a strong tropical following, but has an all-around weather function to it also.
By the time 3:00 AM on the 6th rolled around, I had no less than 10 different sites/windows open on the screen tracking storms. This is also about the time I gave up and did my usual rounds on Facebook and Myspace before typing this up and going to bed.
While I would have loved to have been in the field (still have yet to actually chase), I was pretty darn successful with my cyber chase! Tracked many tornadoes across the south through Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. Tracked a deadly tornado up through north central Arkansas. Caught a tornado on a live webcam out of Memphis as it tracked across the southern part of town. I'm still kicking myself about not getting to the Union University webcam before it got hit (had I hit the "go" button 30 seconds earlier I would have seen it hit the campus, and destroy the camera...but alas, I got a "the site could not be found" screen). Tracked a tornadic storm from Mississippi, all the way through downtown Nashville, and up past Tompkinsville, KY. Later tracked another storm from west of Nashville, through it's northern suburbs, and out through Monroe County, KY again. Then tracked yet ANOTHER tornadic storm through Franklin, and the southern suburbs of Nashville before just giving up.
After all, anyone in their right mind knows it's dangerous to chase after dark, anyway!
My thoughts and prayers go out to all who were affected tonight, and to those still being affected, and those to be affected tomorrow. Many fatalities occurred during this early season outbreak, and it's somewhat unsettling to know that as I was watching these storms track across the land on radar, people were dying in them (3 passed away in an Arkansas storm, 3 in Muhlenburg County in KY, 2 just west of Jackson, TN, I believe 1 in Memphis, and at least 2 in Sumner County, TN northeast of Nashville). And those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. There were MANY injuries all throughout the region, and classes have been canceled until at least the 15th (I believe) at Union University in Jackson, TN, where 3 dorms were destroyed, and several students were trapped (thank goodness none were seriously injured).
Round 2 tomorrow, though it shouldn't be as bad. And it should be right here! Hmm...maybe we should take that off the net and onto the road?!?!?!
Like today, February 5, 2008. I'm stuck here in Conway, SC. Got all my lights in out of the yard before the sun went down since I knew we had a chance for some great (or not-so-great, depending on how you look at it) weather tomorrow.
After getting that done, and seeing Bodhi off with his dad, I hit the web. I first opened two of my favorite sites for weather information, Stormtrack.org which concentrates on storm chasing and chasers, and Storm2K.org, which has a strong tropical following, but has an all-around weather function to it also.
By the time 3:00 AM on the 6th rolled around, I had no less than 10 different sites/windows open on the screen tracking storms. This is also about the time I gave up and did my usual rounds on Facebook and Myspace before typing this up and going to bed.
While I would have loved to have been in the field (still have yet to actually chase), I was pretty darn successful with my cyber chase! Tracked many tornadoes across the south through Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. Tracked a deadly tornado up through north central Arkansas. Caught a tornado on a live webcam out of Memphis as it tracked across the southern part of town. I'm still kicking myself about not getting to the Union University webcam before it got hit (had I hit the "go" button 30 seconds earlier I would have seen it hit the campus, and destroy the camera...but alas, I got a "the site could not be found" screen). Tracked a tornadic storm from Mississippi, all the way through downtown Nashville, and up past Tompkinsville, KY. Later tracked another storm from west of Nashville, through it's northern suburbs, and out through Monroe County, KY again. Then tracked yet ANOTHER tornadic storm through Franklin, and the southern suburbs of Nashville before just giving up.
After all, anyone in their right mind knows it's dangerous to chase after dark, anyway!
My thoughts and prayers go out to all who were affected tonight, and to those still being affected, and those to be affected tomorrow. Many fatalities occurred during this early season outbreak, and it's somewhat unsettling to know that as I was watching these storms track across the land on radar, people were dying in them (3 passed away in an Arkansas storm, 3 in Muhlenburg County in KY, 2 just west of Jackson, TN, I believe 1 in Memphis, and at least 2 in Sumner County, TN northeast of Nashville). And those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. There were MANY injuries all throughout the region, and classes have been canceled until at least the 15th (I believe) at Union University in Jackson, TN, where 3 dorms were destroyed, and several students were trapped (thank goodness none were seriously injured).
Round 2 tomorrow, though it shouldn't be as bad. And it should be right here! Hmm...maybe we should take that off the net and onto the road?!?!?!
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