C-2 and C-1

That's not code: it's a description of our dancing today. We picked Jan and Steve up to go to La Hacienda for our Darryl C-2 lesson that was rescheduled from last Saturday. That lesson went from 10 to 12, and as usual required a lot of thought.

We got home in time to eat lunch, and before we knew it, Jan and Steve were picking us up for Darryl's C-1 dance. We had even squares (once Marty came over to dance with Jean), so everyone danced every tip after the first two. At the end of that dance, Darryl called a class level C-2 star tip. That adds up to a lot of dancing in a short time period. When we got back to Green Gate Grove, Steve and Jan were heading to the hot tub to soak. Steve was hoping that would calm his knee down.

I biked over to John and Sandy's to give them some of the oranges and tangelos we picked up this morning while we were out walking. Folks in GGG were sharing their bounty, so we scooped some up, since our orange tree and Spauldings' tangelo tree have been stripped.

John showed me some of the work he's doing on buildings for his model railroad layout at home. He has an HO narrow gauge setup that includes DCC controls. Each of his engines has an "address" and can be controlled independently while on the same track and by the same control unit. The technology has clearly moved forward since my old N gauge days. It has been a very long time since I was a model railroad enthusiast.

This evening we watched the rest of a Beatles special we recorded and watched part of yesterday: "The Beatles: The Night That Changed America — A GRAMMY Salute." It aired on the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. We're saving it to watch again. I wasn't very happy with some of the covers of Beatles songs by various current artists, but a few were really good. The best part was performances by Ringo and Paul, separately and together, that capped the evening.