Friday, September 15, 2017

Good morning crew,

A couple months ago the wife started taking dance classes and boy is she hooked. She's been going three times a week and refuses to tell me what the classes cost. I take that as a bad sign.

Now they've roped her into participating in something they call a 'Showcase'. It's not a competition, and it's not exactly a show. What they do is rent out a ballroom and invite a hundred or so students to come and get evaluated by some professional dance 'experts' that they recruit for the event.

There is a base fee, which covers lunch and the room, and then the students pay by the number of styles they want to be evaluated in. For example; you only pay so much if you just want to do the cha-cha, but you pay twice as much if you want to do the cha-cha AND the foxtrot.

So far the wife has signed up for six dances, and there is an option to add more.

This dance thing is quite a racket.

The Showcase is this Sunday and I have been recruited to go along and act as videographer and arm candy when she needs someone to walk around the floor with in between evaluations.

I have been promised that there is a cash bar.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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Finishing up our work at a trade show in San Diego, my co-worker Maureen and I decided to go sightseeing across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. While there, we went shopping and bought a few pieces of clay kitchenware.

As we crossed back into the United States, a customs official asked if we had anything of value to report.

"Not really," Maureen replied, digging in her bag for the bean crock she had purchased. Everyone around us froze as she continued, "I only bought a little pot."