Robert A. West's Home Page

This page is a quick list of my hobbies and interests, and URLs that are relevant to those interests. I shall avoid boring anyone with a standard Personal Home Page biography, since I doubt you are really interested in where I was born and how many cats I have.

Gaming

I have an FRP campaign, using PrinceCon rules, that I run at the Princeton Simulation Games Union. The campaign world is known as Rachlem, and has a page of its own. The campaign is currently on hiatus, but I hope to re-invigorate it, soon.

I currently run a Champions campaign most weekends at the Princeton Simulation Games Union. Check out the campaign web page for details and the schedule.

I also attend various Live Action Role Playing events throughout the year. I will add links to them as I find them.

Homebrewing

About two years ago, I joined the growing ranks of amateur beer brewers and mead makers. For anyone who is interested in joining us, I recommend the Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian, patron saint of homebrewers. Granted, it is not a URL, but if you spill five gallons of wort all over it, you haven't lost an expensive laptop!

For those who are already somewhat into the hobby, I suggest the Homebrewer's Digest, a list to which you can subscribe by sending a message with "subscribe" in the body to "homebrew-digest-request@aob.org". Some useful links follow

• The American Homebrewer's Association has a list of connections and homebrew supply sources. It is a not-for-profit organization that runs competitions, publishes beer style guidelines (so that we all know an India Pale Ale from a Stout) and so on.
• The Association of Brewers publishes Zymurgy magazine and provides the computer space for the Homebrew Digest.
• The Brewery is a set of links useful to homebrewers.

Singing

I have re-joined the Princeton Pro Musica, after a nine-year hiatus. This is one of the finest choral groups on the East Coast, with eighteen seasons of fine music to its credit. We will be performing Haydn's Creation in Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, on November 2 and we have two Holiday Concerts scheduled for December: one with Judy Collins at the State Theater in New Brunswick on the 7th, and one in Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, on the 14th.

Ballroom Dancing

I am a member of the United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association (USABDA), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and improvement of recreational and competitive ballroom dancing in the U.S. At present, I am not actively dancing, but I am interested in any information or pages for ballroom dance in the Philadelphia area.