It's the weekend, and that means no work for the office and free time to work on other stuff (still at the same desk). In particular, I'm continuing on the “workbook” for the Easter workshop, and I'm happy to say it is coming along fine.

I'm now all done with the official lessons and have made a start on the “strategic reserve”. I've added a few cribs and some more diagrams to the database (so there is a fringe benefit for the community at large, after all – even though the material covered is apparently so obscure that it hasn't yet aroused the interest of either Keith Rose, the diagram king, or the e-cribs or MiniCribs teams). I've also managed to update some of the dance leaflets on my own web site – there's been a correction to Maggieknockater Revisited, and some of the dances, namely Chieftain o' the Puddin' Race, Maggieknockater Revisited, Rosalind's Fancy, and Rowan's Welcome have had sheet music added to their leaflets. In some cases the tunes have been lying around here for a while but some are new – I'm not saying which, in order to discourage speculation as to which of these dances might show up at Easter.

On the LaTeX side, all of the goodies from last Saturday's blog post have now been implemented and seem to be working fine, so the remaining effort will be on getting the dance notes just right.

Eva conjectures that this will be my best-prepared workshop ever and I'm inclined to believe that, but OTOH there's a lot riding on this, too – it is a wider audience than I usually have, and Easter workshop regulars, of whom there tend to be a lot, have a direct comparison to some of the best teachers in the business. If I do a good job then who knows what might develop from that. (“An invitation to Japan?” wonders Eva – but I'm not holding my breath! Although that would be way cool, if very unlikely.)