tonight

as I mentioned on Monday, tonight is my rank testing in shootfighting. This can also be titled “a test of pain.” Basically, it’s going to be a lot of repitition of techniques. That actually isn’t to bad, except my cardio as of late is suckin’ lots of wind. I’m not worried about completing the test. I still have enough go in me to make it through all of the push-ups and stomach work. I’m a little concered about the sparring though. My prediction: PAIN. I haven’t been doing to bad with the kickboxing (and this is the real stuff… no cardio junk here. If the exercises and punching and kicking really tire me out though, I may get beat like a red headed step child.

Pictures

I have to head into a, grrrrr, all day all hands on meeting, so I probably won’t be posting much of anything today. However, you can check out pictures from the Midieval Times Trip I took a couple weeks ago.

messages captured in the past

though this posting is going up on Tuesday, it was written on Monday night in Dulles Airport outside of Washington DC. I was in the nation’s capital at a meeting with the National Parks Organization. This group is a private and publicly funded group that works with the National Parks Service to help people experience. The meeting was with a number of their proud partners (read as: corporate donors) to pick our brains about improving their website. As you might guess, I represented kodak.com. It’s been one of those down-and-back-in-one-day days. I left the house at 6.00am and won’t be getting back until close to midnight.

But it was also a useful day. I’ve been struggling with “what I want to do when I grow up.” As of late I’ve been evaluating my current career path and wondering if is the right thing for me. I had a great time today providing strategic planning and advice. I only hope I wasn’t too vocal. But this is the type of work that I think I want to do in the future. And that should be enough to light a fire under my rapidly enlarging butt to start looking at grad schools.

in other news

Being out of town, I missed the callbacks for The Balcony, the next exact theatre show. Thankfully, I’m acting as the Artistic Director for this production, so my presence wasn’t required. Still I would like to have been there. That being said, through the wonders of digital technology, I’ve already talked with Chris, the director, and Don, our managing director, and things went well. And that’s all good. This will be our first production with people outside of the core group. It’s exciting and scary at the same time.

And, thanks to travel arrangements, I also missed Martial Arts. Bleh. I have my shootfighting test on Wednesday. I jus hope my cardio is up to it. I have a feeling I’m going to be pummeled that night. But I also know that I’ll get through it. And that means that I’ll be starting to work on my grappling skills again. Woo hoo, more rolling around with sweaty guys! Oops…. I don’t think that was a sharing thought.

Finally, Heather, the ofoto album of the trip should finally be up by tomorrow (umm tonight… Tuesday) evening.

yesterday I cared

really. Myself and other kodak.com’ers participated in the United Way’s day of caring. I found myself reliving Boy Scout camp memories as we all helped prepare a Summer Camp located on Lake Ontario prepare to open. The camp, Fish-something-or-other, is a place for city kids from 6-10 years old can go to experience nature and do other summer camp type things. My fellow care’ers and I planted flowers, pulled weeds, and swept the “barn.” We had the option to do KP (that’s kitchen duty for all you uninitiated), but I turned it down. If I can’t do my own dishes, there is no chance in hell I’m doing them for others (even if it’s a good cause).

Pucca

Or Korean Pop Culture. The phrase come from “J-Pop” (Japanese Pop Culture). Where the phrase J Pop comes from, I have no idea. But it’s been around for a while and is used to describe all of the elements of Japanese Culture that have seeped into our mainstream. A great example is Anime. Any hoo, it seems that the “J-Pop” thing is dying out and the next hot trend is “K-Pop.” And in honor of that, and in an attempt to be hip, I present you some 110% fun K-Pro: Pucca:Funny Love. These anime styled flash movies are the continual story of Pucca, a little girl, whose only desire is to kiss Garu, antisocial boy ninja. Of course Garu wants nothing to do with this and does his best to avoid her, often with his cat Miro. Some of the cartoons are short and others like this one are practically epic. So check out some of the Pucca goodness (I dare ya to say that three times fast at the workplace).