Tune-in to the Showstopper Live Webcast
July 10, 2008
The Showstopper National Dance finals have a live web-cast of the dance competition so friends and family from across the world can view our dance routines online. We’ll be out in Anaheim next week for the competition. The competition schedule was released this week.
The process of viewing the dances on the web is pretty easy. First, you go to the Showstopper Website. Then click on the big pink “Live Web Cast” at the top center of the page. Then click on the room in which we are dancing (listed in the schedule below) and if all goes well, you’ll be able to see our dances.
Remember, all the times are Pacific time, so you may have to adjust for where you live. You can add one hour for Mountain (but not AZ), two hours for Central and three hours for Eastern. The schedule for our dances is detailed below.
Wednesday July 17th – Room 2
- 2:14 pm Sean and Savannah Small Recreational Folklorico #1353 Norteno
- 2:18 pm Savannah Small Recreational Folkloric #1351 Moua
- 2:56 pm Sean and Savannah Recreational Clogging #1364 Auction
- 6:24 pm Savannah 8 year Duet/Trio Recreational Lyrical Jazz # 1358 I Call Your Name
- 7:04 pm Savannah 8 year Duet/Trio Recreational Jazz # 1364 Mama I’m a Big Girl Now
Thurdsay July 18th – Room 1
- 7:42 pm Suzanne 20-29 years Small Competitive #1360 Tololoche
Friday July 18th – Room 3
- 10:53 am Savannah Recreational Song Song and Dance # 1342 Walkin on Sunshine
- 10:59 am Sean Recreational Clogging # 1341 The Big One
- 1:11 pm Savannah Recreational Hip Hop # 1343 Me and My Girls
- 3:57 Suzanne Competitive Song and Dance # 1340 New York, New York
Sometimes numbers are delayed to costume changes or music issues, so the order may change a bit. if you don’t see us come up right at the scheduled time, hang loose for a few songs and we should be up soon. They always show the next three or four songs coming up between dances, so you should get some advanced notice.
It is pretty easy to tune in if you have high speed internet. Feel free to give us all a call in Anaheim on our cells and let us know what you think. Unfortunately, Mr Papa will not be going this year and will remain home to watch on the internet.
Qwest DSL
February 3, 2008
Qwest finally decided to turn on DSL out here in my neck of the woods. They had run fiber out for a central office several years ago but had resisted actually activating any kind of service. I guess they think Sonoita is backwoods and wouldn’t support turning on the service.
Anyways, I have used a wireless provider out here for the last year with mixed results. When it works, it works great. When it doesn’t, its very frustrating. The last couple of months haven’t been very good. I think the wireless is getting interference from somewhere. It just cuts out at different times and becomes very latent. The provider has been very good about talking with me about the problem and working to solve it, but unfortunately has not been able to fix it.
I decided to give the Qwest system a run. I got the service turned on Friday and did a self install. It went pretty smoothly until I noticed that the DSL cut out whenever the phone system was in use. I had done everything properly with filters and such, but just couldn’t figure it out. I called Qwest technical support yesterday and they took me through several steps, all of which I had already done, that didn’t work. They said they would send out a tech the next day, Super Bowl Sunday.
Sure enough, he arrived on schedule this morning and pretty quickly determined that the issue was my whole house wired system was degrading the DSL quality. Since I had several outside drops put in when the house was built and sent them to a central box for my home runs, he was able to split the signal outside the house and use a dedicated line for the DSL to my central box. He put a filter on the splitter for the rest of my phones so I won’t need the filters at each place I use a regular phone line.
Everything is working perfectly now. The system is pretty quick, but they have limited me to 1.5M because of my distance from the central office. The tech said my signal was good enough to get me 6M and that he would tell the office this and see if they would give me more bandwidth. I will have to see what happens there.
Thus far, the system is working great and a definite improvement over my wireless provider, who was a huge step up from my satellite provider. Things keep getting better in the country. I will continue with both providers for a bit to make sure things continue to be good. I won’t look forward to canceling my wireless provider because I really liked using a local guy and he really was trying to make the system work. However, I think I have been patient enough and I just simply use the internet for too much to be constantly frustrated with my connection to it.
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