Long drives and random ideas.
Category: Because I Want To
Life is Rolling!
Have no fear! All is well, and things have just been rolling along in a great if slightly crazy manner the last few weeks. I've been meaning to get some posts out about various things, both funny and random. But never quite seemed to get around to it. So, my apologies, dear readers. I have neglected …
Rough Terrain Ahead.
I've been driving a lot lately. Something like 160 miles a day. Which comes out to around, depending on how often I need to be at the dojo between 650 and 900 miles a week. And that's not counting any other adventures I take (training in Naperville, visiting either set of parents, exploring the Rennaisance Fair, …
Karate, Travel, and Unmitigated Ridiculousness
A few days ago (I'm already lying, it was yesterday.) I did a post on the U.S. Open and covered the rules of NASKA, the general goals I have in life, and all sorts of other wholesome, wonderful, very boring bits of information that I tried to package with funny pictures and a few attempts …
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U.S. Open: Turning the Page
Ready for it? This is a long one. This past weekend was the U.S. Open. It's an event that many martial artists, including me, prepare for all year. Last year it went...ok. It wasn't great - it wasn't bad. It was just an experience that gave me material to write a few a few blog …
Musical Chairs, But With Life Things.
I've been playing grad school musical chairs these past few weeks. I had a realization that the grant writing class I had signed up for was, while helpful, not particularly what I wanted to do with my summer. It was also requiring huge amounts of my time and effort, and I wasn't able to do things …
A Quick Check in at One Year
Time seems to pass in huge chunks of insanity that have an occasional moment of free fall. Kind of like a blender that explodes. Everything is loud, spinning chaos with sharp edges until the moment the top flies off and then there is just a beautiful arc of puree arcing through the air in a …
Enter Stage Right: Mr. Hobbles
Some of you may remember the Behemoth of my yesteryear. There is a trend that I've been following for the last few years. I seem to throw out my back or experience some other type of relatively minor injury that puts me out of commission for a week or so. This usually leads to some serious …
What to Write…
Infinity Nationals is this weekend. Life has been crazy and it only seems to be accelerating. I have my wife's graduation from Medical School, a move to Madison coming up on the horizon, as well as several weddings... I don't think this post going anywhere particularly productive. What to write? Often times I run into a …
Dojo Questions: What if I’m Not Good at Karate?
I have a hard truth for you. At some point, everyone, including the great Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris, was horrible at martial arts. No one has ever been born knowing how to do a perfect front kick. Nor do children at play naturally fall into front stances and punch from their core. In fact, …
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