This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
You have to wonder about some people, and their problem solving abilities.. I work for an ISP, and our current main support person is off work with stress, and has been for over a month. The director in charge of support has also decided he has had...
Its that time of year again. Where I look back over the previous year and answer the same 40 questions.
2006 Edition
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...