This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
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It is like the age old question, Ninjas V Pirates, but with less Pirates, and more rain! The weather is having an effect on the dojo atm. The cold, rain, and wind is for some unknown reason making people think twice about going to train in a...
I’ve not done a weekend review for a while, or any post really. So here goes, highlights from the weekend! FridayI went to see the film “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.”. Now I am not really a...
You have to love customers who think they are better, cleverer, more skillful than yourself. Although you do have to ask yourself the question “If they are better than me, why are they paying me to do this work?” I just had several emails from a...
I visited the Bristol Bierkeller at the weekend. It is an Interesting club, it reminds me of a cross between Edwards No 8 (Birmingham) and the kings (Wrexham). It was a good night, well they served a passable snakebite & black, and you got a...
Sometimes, I think my life is a bit unusual. Take today for instance. 9am until 2:30pm was spent at the dojo learning the ways of the warrior and technoshaman. I was playing with dangerous weapons, bouncing people and being bounced around the dojo....
This evening I became a Master Mason. I have now taken my third Masonic step, and been advanced to the third degree, or "Master Mason". Well I have now reached the degree of a Master Mason, I have no homework, or lines to learn. I am now a full...
Well today I am slightly less physically/emotionally/mentally shattered, And starting to feel more like my old self. I put it down to a training session that was basically some tai chi, ba gua, and a talk on spiritual stuff. Anyway.. I went to...
Last Sunday I was sitting my Ichi Kyu of kobudo Shinden Kihon Kata Yosei. Which is a statement that is completely meaningless to probably all bar a select few. But it means I have now finished that syllabus completely, and now get to move on the...
Think calm mellow peaceful thoughts… I almost drove into a council office car park and beat the living hell out of someone this morning (I think they were getting this feeling as they kept staring at me in their rear view mirror)… Worst case of...
Today, I came into the office in high spirits. The messed up depressed person in the office had a bad week last week. He had messed up big time, and had written a letter of resignation. Now I do feel bad for wanting him gone, since he has a...