You look awesome in that pic! Want to swap lives?
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I'm beginning to think that my username on this site is misleading...it's been over 2 years since I switched to kali, and I think I spent 3-6 months looking for a dojo, so that places it at around 2.5-3 years since I last trained any ken/mpo, with no intention of going back..
dvcochran
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Please, please, please send it my way. We desperately need rain.
Xue Sheng
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Hmm...just read another post....and now I'm wondering....is it ok to respond to someone with...."Dude, seriously....just shut up, you're a pansy"
It should be a valid response, doesn't it!
I have simplified my online presence a little and my need for 'because you are f'ing stupid' has greatly diminished.
Xue Sheng
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Yes, I am in the process of minimizing my online presence as well these days because, as I age, I find I have a lot less tolerance for overly opinionated ridiculousness...
AngryHobbit
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Bummer! Unicorns and space potatoes are super-important!
AngryHobbit
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I know I've been away for a few days - this has been a very long and stressful week. I am officially looking for a new job, cause - damn....
Last Saturday, I apparently forgot how to put one foot in front of the other and took a nasty-ish spill from the stone steps at our house, skinning one knee, badly bruising another, twisting one ankle, and skinning both hands. It actually wasn't as bad as it could have been - I used my martial arts training to adjust the fall. @gpseymour approved (the adjustment - not the fall, although, I don't know... it could have been made look like an accident
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Finished my active shooter training refresher. Mandatory. Yes, I work for a hospital - you know, that place where people normally come to get better. But, thanks to some people, it's also a place where people might get shot. So... this is what we have to do now.
One of the active shooter videos was delivered by an employee who was a student at Virginia Tech when THAT happened. She did a really good job keeping it together and pointed out some very important things - like stuff you might not even know about yourself, that would happen in such a situation: cognitive disconnect, time distortion, tunnel vision, etc. But, of course, it ended up being much more than just another training video - this girl was very obviously and irrevocably shattered by what had happened. I teared up as I watched, I wanted to give her a hug.
Their other safety video was also pretty good - and I like it that it was delivered not by some corporate training person but by their two security managers. And they talked about the same common-sense stuff we talk in martial arts classes: when you enter a room, identify your doors and windows; identify what can be used as a barricade; what can be used as a weapon, including what you are wearing (shoes, belt, fountain pen, etc.) I liked it a lot better than some of the stuff I'd seen.
Last Saturday, I apparently forgot how to put one foot in front of the other and took a nasty-ish spill from the stone steps at our house, skinning one knee, badly bruising another, twisting one ankle, and skinning both hands. It actually wasn't as bad as it could have been - I used my martial arts training to adjust the fall. @gpseymour approved (the adjustment - not the fall, although, I don't know... it could have been made look like an accident
)Finished my active shooter training refresher. Mandatory. Yes, I work for a hospital - you know, that place where people normally come to get better. But, thanks to some people, it's also a place where people might get shot. So... this is what we have to do now.
One of the active shooter videos was delivered by an employee who was a student at Virginia Tech when THAT happened. She did a really good job keeping it together and pointed out some very important things - like stuff you might not even know about yourself, that would happen in such a situation: cognitive disconnect, time distortion, tunnel vision, etc. But, of course, it ended up being much more than just another training video - this girl was very obviously and irrevocably shattered by what had happened. I teared up as I watched, I wanted to give her a hug.
Their other safety video was also pretty good - and I like it that it was delivered not by some corporate training person but by their two security managers. And they talked about the same common-sense stuff we talk in martial arts classes: when you enter a room, identify your doors and windows; identify what can be used as a barricade; what can be used as a weapon, including what you are wearing (shoes, belt, fountain pen, etc.) I liked it a lot better than some of the stuff I'd seen.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Greater than the average number of complete idiots on the road this morning.
Xue Sheng
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I'm letting to much stress build up and that is never a good thing.....it always ALWAYS impacts my health
AngryHobbit
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That's why I listen to audiobooks in the car. Keeps me from focusing too much on the idiots.
Xue Sheng
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The cars were not the cause, they are a symptom. I rarely get upset with drivers and their idiocy these days. But everything else has apparently built up
donald1
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Autocorrect is really getting to me today first it changes goju ryu to goji ryu then it translates it to goku ryu. It translates kung fu into king to. That and it changed bagua into bogus multiple times. Even as I type this these things it changes some of the very ones I mentioned. (It was pretty adamant bagua should be spelled bogus.)
Xue Sheng
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Auto correct is turned off on my browser for things just like that
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
Yikes! That looks like a scene from a bad horror movie. "The Giant Lobster Invasion".
Or it could be "land of the tiny restaurants".
AngryHobbit
Senior Master
The lobster, obviously-he'll feed the whole village for a month!
Xue Sheng
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Well, I'm tired.... good night MT
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