Note from Steve Wozniak (Dancing with the Stars)

Oh boy...I had good control of my nerves and everything was enjoyable but they are bubbling up to some percentage in me now.
How incredible to see the incredible amount of work going into tonight's show.
I didn't sleep much last night. I was going through my chacha routine all night as far as I remember, trying to get my sights on tiny details of improvement.
I did email instead of breakfast in my apartment. At 8:30 am a limo arrived to take Julie and I to the studio. Joe showed up later but Janet is working on hair and will come later.
I had no idea what the order of things would be today. I had seen a schedule and it showed a morning rehearsal but I didn't know if I would get changed into my real costume or what. Part of the problem was that a newcomer to the show had been assigned to guide me around and even yesterday she had trouble finding or explaining things or knowing where I was going. I even had to show her that my Segways were at the stage after telling her about 10 times and having her direct me constantly to other places.
At some time a little after 9 AM we got a call to come to the stage right away. I was dressed in my street clothes in case they had TV interviews first. At the stage I found out from someone experienced, my dance partner, that in a few minutes we'd rehearse our dance. I'd been watching my left foot but we need these rehearsals to the real band, which does indeed sound different than the recording we have been dancing to.
Entering the studio building from my trailer (number 8, for the 8th season, and 8 is my luckiest number!) the guy at the door looked me in the eyes and blurted out that he was for me and I really think he was saying it directly to me. At the stage, the orchestra invited me up to meet them and they showed me their iPhones and gave me geat support too. And one of the producers has been trying for 8 seasons to get her father to come and see the show but this time he's coming just to see me.
I watched several of the dancers this morning and for a long time 4 of us, maybe the most countriest of us all, Chuck Hicks, Steve O., myself and Ty Murray, had a long chat. Ty told me all about his powered parachutes where you are in this thing like a car with a motor and a fan and you drive about 100-200 feet and the umbrella inflates and you are in the air. You go about 35 mph and it's quiet and fun and open to the air. I have to do this with him some day. He and Jewel live in a remote part of Texas.
I can't begin to explain the commaradery that we dancers and stars have established. Every one of the professional dancers is incredibly nice to us and sharing and smiling.
In my rehearsal I had trouble again with the spacing of the stage (judge's platform) so I corrected part of my routine to take very small steps.
After watching a number of rehearsals, many of which don't make it correctly to the end, we got instruction on how to line up for the stage entrance, down the staircases. You have to plan the order of the dancers to match the recorded announcements, which are actually recordings of the guy who does in London. Karina and I come down the staircase on stage left and you have to look at a particular camera and not the steps. But I saw people fall already today so I take quick glances down. Karina even stumbled but I held her up as we came down the second time today.
Then we dancers go to a place and stand together and wave to the audience. For the direction we are facing, my 8 family seats are actually behind me. Many of the seats have names of exact people on them, like Jesse Clark or Gary Wozniak.
We are on a lunch break now but I'm not eating so I have time to send this. After lunch I'll get my wardrobe and we'll do a dress rehearsal. I presume that the dress rehearsal is a bit of stop-start. Then we should have another break in this trailer and finally get called to the show. We sit in the "red room" and I guess one pair at a time gets the call to get ready to be next. Looking ahead I can see how nervous this could get some dancers but I'm going to pre-think it until I'm so ready that I just treat it as a fun trip.
They have wi-fi here and I got the password from them so all's well. Before that, I used my favorite VC (Verizon Card) to connect and shared it over wi-fi with Julie (even though she has a VC too). So all's very well today and I'm so lucky that so many are wishing me well and caring for me.
gotta run to makeup now, just got the call,
Woz
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