behind

that’s what I still am :-(

sick

I’ve been rather ill for the last few days. Violently ill. Exorcist ill. :-P

I’m on the mend now, but the weekend was a bit of a wash and I missed work yesterday, so I feel rather behind the 8-ball.

steps forward, steps back

Life seems to be a mix of those right now. I’ve been able to read more and have been improving on the Martial Arts side of the house. But at the same time that’s just making me realize how much I need to sacrifice for my own self development. Or at least focused self development in particular areas. I’ve always tried to be a Renaissance person, and with a full time job, there’s no way to do everything (especially if you want to maintain friendships, especially those over great distances). So for the moment, I need to put some things on the back burners to finish the things that I have in front of me.

My biggest goal: is to try to gain a teaching rank (Sifu) by the time I turn 30. I’m not sure if it’s possible, I’m a year and a half away from that. But I’m going to try!

grrrr blogger

I’ve made some “background” fixes (like the martial art link finally works). But everytime I update the template blogger converts all the “&” into the escape characters. Which if I’m not careful when I correct breaks the comments. Bleh. Well at least I realized it pretty quickly this time. The weekend was pretty calm. I mainly cleaned and helped Drea with the federal decision she is working on (believe it or not I was proofreading for her… really, I proof read other people’s work far, far, far better than I seem to proof my own… ain’t that always the case?).