Swing, swing, swing

This past weekend was the Sacramento Lindy Exchange, Three days and four nights of great music and awesome dancing, with the whole world invited.

Thursday was a normal thursday night swing at the german cultural center, I invited everyone I knew who showed even the slightest interst in dancing. Jordan Devon Jana and I went with others providing excuses like, "I have to work", "I don't feel well" and "I live in Indiana and have school friday morning" pshh. We got there to late for brothers to catch much in the way of a lesson and Devon was not feeling 100% but Jordan still made an impressive effort. Jana of course is a girl so she only had to follow and seemed to have a really good time. After leaving I stuck with the theme and fell asleep watching Swing Kids.

Friday I went to school in the morning the went and finished Swing Kids and got caught up on sleep.

Friday Night Swing was at Temple of the Eastern Star across the street from Sutters Fort and just a few blocks from Suz' place. I stopped in to say hi to her then went dancing. Live Band nice place and most of the people I danced with were out of towners. I had work at 11:00 so I dance as late as I could then I zipped in to work.

Saturday there was FREE dancing in the afternoon. I had told Jana to call me around 1:00 if she wanted to go. She called but said she wasn't able to go dancing so I called Christie and invited her. (along time ago I asked Christie to teach me to dance, she told me that she liked to do it but couldn't teach me. That would wait for another young lady) She agreed to join me. By the time we got downtown it was 3:00 I had thought dancing went until six but it ended at 4:30 so we only got to dance a little. Christie used to dance fairly often maybe she will start again.

As I was leaving I saw Ron (the super awesome dude who was playing host for the Exchange) and told him it had been fun. He was somewhat taken aback that I was not going Saturday night to see the legendary Barbara Morisee, to which I explained I could not justify the cost of the ticket since I would have to leave for work about 10:30. Ron then did something very nice for me and gave me a great deal on a pass for that night.

The bummer is I still didn't get to dance to anything by Barbara. I came in as she was wrapping up a set and she came back on as I was leaving. I did however get to dance to her live band and they were amazing. Saturday night I only had time for about 5 dances and so I danced with the people I had had the most fun dancing with earlier. The last Dance was with a girl named Amy from OR and it was the best I had ever danced.

Other people danced all night long Friday Saturday and Sunday but what I got was enough, it was more than enough it was Awesome.

my body

Some days I feel like I am falling apart. I am only 25 and I already have arthritis. I have knees that often ache from standing at work, and I often wake up with a back that is stiff and sore. Ontop of all that with my lapse in cycling I am keanly aware that my endurance, strength and lung capacity are decreasing.

But when I demand something of my body it always delivers. canoe, walk, run, dance, pull all-nighters at work, I often end up sore and tired but I always make it to the otherside of the challenge, and that is pretty cool.

As beautiful as days get.

Saturday was gorgous!!! I started the day at partents house and took mom at the lillte people to the air show. Then I went to Folsom and helped get a canoe trailer ready for the season. This was the cost of me borrowing the canoe for a few days. When the trailer was ready I drove up to Camp Nauvoe. I loaded the canoes onto the trailer and then had to drive out. I was more than a little concerned at the prospect of driving the steep and winding one lane road with a trailer but it was not bad.

I then drove out to Slough House where david and the older brothers where doing a service project, on the way I crested a small knoll and I could see snow falling on the high seirra on one side Mt. Diablo on the other and snow dusted Sutter Buttes to the north. The sky was a perfect blue with just the right number of clouds scattered across it, and the grass was tall and green. It was absolutly pefect.

I took longer than I had hoped to assemble my family and our 2:00 trip to the lake didn't happen until 3:30 and Devon had to work, Dad was gone, and David was sick so he and 'Neicy stayed home. So it was Mom, Jordan, Dallas Me and four little people. When we got out to the lake everybody enjoyed the canoe trip over to the area I think of as florida. it was a great day to be out side.

B.I.Q.

Whether you pronounce it Bi Que, or Bic, The B.I.Q. is the Bad Idea Quotent. The last few weeks I have dedicated much time and mental energy into developing a set of calculation to analyticaly deterime if something is a bad idea.

Now I am not done yet but I have determined the catagories to be scored:

Harm, this is how it got started, I had the thought "a course of action that leads to the harm of oneself goes against the survival imperative and is therefore a worse idea then a course of action that would harm others." (Don't ask why I was thinking this) so harm has been made two distinc factors: risk of harm to self and risk of harm to others.

Punishment, this started out as jail, but I then realized that not all punishment is jail so I broadened the catagory.

Social Consequence, this catogory is complicated and is one of the major stumbling blocks to the equations, because not all relationships are equal.

the first draft used a number of 1-5 scales and some simple multiplication but it didn't allow for some important subtleties. The next draft still used the 1-5 scale and some binaries, that was better but more complicated than I wanted. I have also toyed with setting it up as a truth table but when reducing it to bianaries I figured flow chart would be better understood.

I should have a functioning prototype by the end of the week, but If you have any thought feel free to submit a comment.

yeah!! devon is home.

Devon got home from his mission in Tennesse about two weaks ago. I have not blogged since then, but this is a very big deal. The first night he was home the quarter inch army raided the bases of several hostiles.

We don't get to play as much as I'd like (he already has a job and is on jury duty this week) but we have gone on a group date and tonight we have an adveture scheduled. Also he will be attending my ward and that is exciting too.