So today I recieved an Email asking If I was available to ref at a tournament, not that shocking I get them several times a month. So what made this particular email worth dusting off the update button on my LJ you ask? It was for an INTERNATIONAL event!!! At JOs Wes Glon went to the international assigner for sabre and asked why I wasnt being used ( Read more... )

Stolen from arichi
We’ve all heard the “official conspiracy theory” of the Death Star attack. We all know about Luke Skywalker and his ragtag bunch of rebels, how they mounted a foolhardy attack on the most powerful, well-defended battle station ever built. And we’ve all seen the video over, and over, and over, of the one-in-a-million shot that resulted ( Read more... )

jaybirdchoi 1st weekend of march sat in San Diego for Youth PCCs, sun CSUF for NCAAs western regionals. Last week Chicago for 4 days at NAC E This week 26 hours at home on tues followed by week in Columbus Ohio for NCAA championships. This is my first time at college fencing's big dance. Next weekend I will be going to Boston for the Pris de Fer SYC ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall my 40th birthday post where I commented that I had blue hair, The above Icon is from that time. This is what happens when you go rummaging thru you PC late on a saturday night.

Last week I received an email from a friend informing me that a mutual friend of ours was in the hospital after being in an auto accident. The news from his family was that he was recovering. Today I received an email with his full name in the title. I knew that it contained it bad news. Loosing a friend is never a good thing, What makes this so ( Read more... )

Sadly an end of era for investigative news is coming to a close as ALIENS CONSPIRACY SHUTS DOWN THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS No doubt Tommy Lee Jones will have to find a new way to hunt down unruly aliens. The LA times has exposed the alien plot let a writer do an op ed piece about his struggles to resist the unholy alliance of batboy and GW the writing ( Read more... )

As has become an annual tradition over the last 3 years, I went to the US Fencing National Championships. This year held in Miami, in the Summer, during Hurricane season!. 9 days of reffing 1 day of fencing, followed up by 4 days in central and northern Fl. doing touristy type of things. Miami was hot and humid and rainy, every day at 3 like ( Read more... )

So I was eating at Valentino's at the Venetian while waiting for Phantom to let in and on the menu they had free range chicken right under the VEAL! Nothing like trying to make foks feel better about eating their free range chicken while offering caged calf. April had the veal, and you could taste the suffering.

Who knew that the lead singer of hawthorne hieghts played spiderman?

Last night April and I went out for a valentine dinner(nothing like an hour + wait to be seated). An older couple was seated in the booth across from us. After their order was taken they pulled out a DVD PLAYER!!! God forbid they, I don't know, talk to each other. Leave out that they were doing this at in a nice resturant, they could have had ( Read more... )