An interesting bit of information came my way recently. It's martial arts stuff, so those who aren't interested, this is your cut-off point ( Read more... )

I think my sensei is trying to kill me. Every time I attend aikido practice, we end up doing randori. For the uninitiated, that means I have anywhere from 1 to 5 people all trying to punch, grab, grapple, kick or otherwise hurt me. Best Beloved believes that he's attempting to get me ready for my black belt test this September, but I'm the one ( Read more... )

It's been a somewhat interesting week. No jobs yet (so the voices in my head are getting louder and more insistent), but we just had a social night at LadyLarken's place with S. A good time was had by all. My training for black belt continues apace, though I've been taking too much time off. And I've been skipping out on going to therapy, ( Read more... )

On the whole, I give the movie a 3/5. People that saw the first two (and comic books geeks in particular) do need to see it, but it's not good enough to qualify for "Legendary" status ( Read more... )

I just finished putting together a new batch of mead. It's about 5 gallons of sack mead (which means it's sweeter than most), and ideally, it should taste like fine wine and kick like an enraged rhinocerous. I'm using a finer quality of champagne yeast (instead of wine yeast), and we'll have to see how that brews out. I've also got the plans set ( Read more... )

So here we are, sunny Arizona and all the clams we can eat ( Read more... )

Yup, yup, yup ( Read more... )

I'm a damned healer?

Tonight was some goooood practice. We got a lot of learning, hitting and falling done, and a good time was had by all. In addition, tonight was the first time I've seen one of the ranking instructors (Betty) in some time and I had something to tell her. A few weeks ago I'd found a website designed to calculate the likelihood a particular ( Read more... )

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