Ok, I talked to my parents tonight. And have a bit more info and some corrections to what I had understood before ( Read more... )

Ok, so some of those reading this will already know this as I have talked to you directly, but for the sake of passing information I am posting it here as well. I am going to try to keep this rather factual, because otherwise I will not finish the post ( Read more... )

7:00 AM - Recieved a call from my brother Brent. Brian, my youngest brother, is in the hospital and in surgery. At about 2 am he had dove off of the rocks at Presque Isle while swimming and hit the rocks. His neck is broken. He must have had someone there with him, or he would likely have drowned as well. He is living and that looks to be the ( Read more... )

So I took the evening off of class yesterday since I figured it probably wasn't a good idea to be swinging around a Kwan Tao with my arm being injured, and chances were that I would reopen the wound which is not something I particulary want to do. So instead I headed home to get some things done. didn't get near as much as I was hoping to don, but ( Read more... )

Heh, it is raining out and the puppy is running back and forth between inside and outside playing. Thouroghly excited [smile]. It seems odd, but it has only rained once or twice since we have had her, and I think she was locked indoors at the time. Almost a full year I have had her now, and in that time hardly any rain. Hopefully she will get to ( Read more... )

So tonight marks a first for me. I went to Tai Chi class, and everything went pretty well, I even got to try out a few new tactics that I learned this past weekend. So on to black belt class. Workout went ok, and we reviewed the three crane forms which was also good. Sparring went well though I didn't manage to get in some of the tactics I was ( Read more... )

So last night I started watching "My Neighbor Totoro" which is a Miyazaki anime I have been wanting to see for some time now. I was too tired to finish it htough, so called it a night and will try watching it again tonight. What I did see was good though, not that that is a surprise, and it very much stirred some longings for a simpler life. One ( Read more... )

So today was the first day of the Bagua Form from Grandmaster Sin Kwan The'. A very cool form that so far that I am not only liking, but pretty much understanding and remembering. I'm staying with the cousin of one of the other students, at least for last night and tonight. Tomorrow I will need to stay somewhere else, but I'll figure that out

So for this weekend I grabbed a selection of different reading material. A couple Star Wars books for kids that are fluff fun for if I don't feel like thinking too much, and a old book of Plato's writings that I have never gotten around to reading... so we'll see how that goes. I also grabbed Nicolo Machiavelli's "The Prince" which I have wanted to ( Read more... )

I took the car into the auto shop this morning to see about getting the AC fixed. We already did the conversion to the eco friendly freon, as well as dyed it so they could find the leak. Turns out it is the compressor. (Which was supposedly replaced by the shop I will no longer go to two years ago) So yeah, the parts will be around $750, plus a few ( Read more... )