by CJ | Jan 21, 2010 | Journal
Home. Got to the arena and discovered I had a half-flat tire. I had had a reader call me yesterday and ask me to sign some books before the evening program tonight. I’d gone home not feeling well—I think it’s the Zamboni fumes in the underventilated...
by CJ | Jan 21, 2010 | Journal
Home. Got to the arena and discovered I had a half-flat tire. I had had a reader call me yesterday and ask me to sign some books before the evening program tonight. I’d gone home not feeling well—I think it’s the Zamboni fumes in the underventilated...
by CJ | Jan 21, 2010 | Journal
We went to the first couple of sessions yesterday, but laid out of the novice ladies finals, and went in again for the junior dance short program: we slept most of the afternoon, which was a good thing. Better to miss a competition and end up with enough stamina to...
by CJ | Jan 19, 2010 | Journal
Jane and I are lazing today during the compulsory novice bits: the mandatory repetition of the same dance for every couple. A very good exposure of strengths and weaknesses of the couples, but not for the faint-hearted…or people getting sore knees from sitting...
by CJ | Jan 18, 2010 | Journal
Yesterday, the men’s finals…quite a battle. When you have 5 serious contenders it’s a battle; and both Jane and I favor the men’s events because the athletics are spectacular, and, well, the scenery is always good. The standing ovation of the...
by CJ | Jan 18, 2010 | Journal
Yesterday, the men’s finals…quite a battle. When you have 5 serious contenders it’s a battle; and both Jane and I favor the men’s events because the athletics are spectacular, and, well, the scenery is always good. The standing ovation of the...
by CJ | Jan 17, 2010 | Journal
They’ve got an innovation on this year’s Nationals, which is a sound track I wish they’d put as an alternate to the commentary on every network: they handed out 4000 little radios with a low, near monotone ‘call’ of the moves, level, and...
by CJ | Jan 16, 2010 | Journal
…we watched the pairs short and the men’s short. We are strongly suspicious on the pairs judging…that the judges were going through mathematical gymnastics to keep one pair in the running. At one point there was an audience mutiny, on which I wish I...
by CJ | Jan 16, 2010 | Journal
…we watched the pairs short and the men’s short. We are strongly suspicious on the pairs judging…that the judges were going through mathematical gymnastics to keep one pair in the running. At one point there was an audience mutiny, on which I wish I...
by CJ | Jan 15, 2010 | Journal
Yesterday was very hard. I’ve had too many funerals this last year. But today I’m up early, got the recyclables to the curb, got the tax reports done, and we’re ready to go to Nationals. We’re taking our notepads to do design work during the...
by CJ | Jan 15, 2010 | Journal
Yesterday was very hard. I’ve had too many funerals this last year. But today I’m up early, got the recyclables to the curb, got the tax reports done, and we’re ready to go to Nationals. We’re taking our notepads to do design work during the...
by CJ | Jan 14, 2010 | Journal
remarkable: there were over a thousand people there. Tomorrow Nationals start. Posting will keep up, but may be a shade sporadic.
