Thanks for posting the picture from the competition, JRand. And thanks, Jeanne and George for the nice comments.
The dancing does seem to agree with me, Jeanne. My partner, Joy, and I won both of our championships yesterday and received first place ratings for each of the dances we did. That's fairly amazing to me since we screwed up a few steps here and there, but Joy's insistence on my learning the most basic steps as perfectly as possible seems to be the secret. So, I still have my work cut out for me. But I'm enjoying it.