closer to staying on schedule

Can this post count as a Wedneday post? I mean it is Thursday, but I am still awake from Wednesday. We had a really late night of Martial Arts. Things are starting to develop for this skit. Sifu is really riding us because a weapons demo just ups the ante so much. Both because it’s more dangerous and because it needs to be clear. We’ll be ready though.

Right now I’m working to really get things under control. The last few months have been tough. I don’t think I’ve realized how much so until recently. By mid May I was really slacking off. To the point that it was effecting some of my relationships with friends and family. I’m working back from that point and I think I’m making real progress. But the next few months are going to be rough. I have a lot of commitments and I need to balance them carefully. Most likely that will require stepping away from somethings.

boot to the head, ed grubberman

We’ve just begun to practice the skit this year for Super Summers (a big Martial Arts event). Typically in these I’m the comic relief. However, this year Sifu announced that I was going to star. Which threw me for a bit of a loop. And then he also mentioned that this year we’re demo’ing weapons.

Most of the people who attend Super Summers come from a Karate background. So, being Kung Fu folks, we’re already considered a little wierd. Each staff member is asked to present a demo at a ceremony on Saturday night. Most of the demos are pretty straight laced: kata/forms or some type of demonstration of technique. Then there is us. We just don’t take ourselves seriously. And each year we try to come up with a different “bad kung fu movie.” So this year it will be me fighting off people with swords using a staff (that will have boxing gloves taped to each end and the wooden ring. Only problem is I don’t know either of those weapons. But I’ve got a month to learn them :-).

Spam!

Lately at kodak.com it seems like we’ve been getting spammed worse than ever. Now most of the subject lines come across as junk like:

subject: ultiiate odeology dval yt

But every now and then one really stands out. Here are a collection of some of the most recent standouts:

subject: REPLY FW: fades away existing stretch marks

This one was sent by “Meg_Ryan”. Not only do I remember requesting information about my stretch marks, but I would think Meg Ryan would have better things to do with her time. The again after Kate & Leopold and Proof of Life, she might not.

subject: Auction Education –>E B A Y< -- ethnic joke

Wow, learn to use E-Bay and tell Polish jokes at the same time… how could I pass this one up

subject: Christmas is near, order your contact lens early

I got this one in early April

subject: Transform your rod into a monster

subject: EXTEND your meat pole

A two for one…. Actually I just found the phrase “meat pole” funny. *snicker*

subject: Feeling tire all the time?

Not since the bus rolled off of me

And last but not least, my favorite:

subject: Jon dropped his load on my Bernius

Somehow I think that their personalization software isn’t working quite right. Either way this one made me feel more than a bit dirty when I read it. I really hope that I was the only person who received this one

…meat pole… *snicker*

back on schedule… I hope

I think I’m finally back on the posting schedule I had set for myself on this Blog and Kaizen (my martial arts journal). Everything being equal I think I should be able to maintain this….

I am not Matt. I am Devo

At Jenny’s suggestion… and perhaps my own sense of self deprecation, I’m posting pictures of myself from banding day. The Yellow Suit was to allow people on the street watching the extraction of eyases to see us better, not because of any hazardous environment reasons. However, all the suits managed to do is make me look like I ate the Falcons rather than helping band them.

After the falcons were removed and the eyases headed down to be banded, I remained behind to clean and check the cameras. The DEC also asked me to clean some of the bird remains out of the nest. There are 5 eyases this year and they’re knee (I’m pretty sure they have knees) deep in bird bits. Needless to say the nest STANK, and pulling birdheads and wings out of it was not my idea of how to spend a morning. Check out this picture:

I think the caption in the next picture says it all…

As for this one, I have no idea what happened, but I somehow managed to gain about 100 pounds in under a minute. Come here Falcon, get in my belly!