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Wow...what a difference a week makes. As some of you may know, I had to have a surgery last week to remove a pilonidal cyst from my tailbone...yeah, it hurt and I did not want to got thru that again. Surgery went ok, but while recovering I was asked a couple questions. After giving some answers and a blood test I was basically told, "congratulations, you have diabetes." A doctor visit the next day confirmed it...yep...no getting around it.
So whats this mean to me? Well, its the swift kick in the ass I needed to get healthy and lose some weight. I am following the doctor's orders exactly and taking my meds. Its just kinda weird...one day everything seems fine and the next your learning all about blood sugars, which foods are good, which ones are bad, and everything in between. Just part of life's roller coaster...your up sometimes and then down the next...at least it was caught and caught early. Now to get things were they need to be and make sure they stay there. |
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So, I am sitting here at work, bored out of my mind. I love my current position. It is office work and the people I work with are awesome. Just right now every vendor and customer seems to be closed, so we are here doing what work we can and being bored for many parts of the day. I cannot wait until January when everything will kick back up again. I prefer to stay busy in my day...feel like I am getting something done.
I am looking forward to this weekend. Kristi and I are going to look at some houses and such...it should be a good time. Then going to a friend's house and do some roleplaying games. Much fun there! Sunday I am going to watch the UFC pay-per-view. Monday is the big New Year's Eve party and Tuesday will be set aside to relax.
Not much going on in the SCA right now. Been on the sidelines with a bad tooth problem lately. This has been driving me crazy. It will be fixed on Jan 4th though. I am currently planning on fighting in crown this Spring. Gonna spend alot of time training and getting ready for it. I plan on doing alot of work with Cadogan and Sir William to get ready. Both of those guys are top notch and they should help me be more than ready by the end of May. In other SCA news...I am going to be co-autocrat this year for two of our Barony's big events. It should be fun. I find that the longer I am in the society, the more responsiblity I am taking on. I look back sometimes when I first got in and all I would do was fight and little else. If you would have told me 5 years ago I would autocrat an event I would have called you crazy. I am, however, really enjoying putting an event together and watching my planning come together.
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Sitting here in my hotel room I am reminded that it is the small things in life that matter. Right now there is nothing I want more than to be hanging out with my friends and enjoying their company. After spending some time last weekend with my most wonderful friends Cadogan and Anne-Marie, I realize how much I miss their company. Even if it is just hanging out, talking about SCA stuff, or whatever...The time I got to spend living with those two last summer still holds a very special place in my heart...truly those two are very special. The above being said, I also really my Kristi. When life seems like it just beating me down she is there for me. Life is much better with her. For some reason tonight I really want to be home. I miss her so...ah well...I will be home tomorrow. Me... |
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A bit of free time...I haven't posted in awhile and figured I should get something on here. Work has been stressful as of late. We are nearing the end of this contract job and have not been told what is next...if there is a next. Well, things looks good...we keep getting told that there is more work coming up and that right now is just a transition period. I hate transition periods. I hate the unknown. I suppose that is human nature...afraid of what we don't know and afraid of those things beyond our control. This is no different. I will continue to work as hard as I can on this project and hope for the best. Not much more going on. Still doing SCA stuff when I can. I will be putting forth my best efforts this year. Try to hit at least one practice or event a week (though that is a bit difficult with my current traveling job). If I continue to do what I am now, I will have to find a way to make my armor portable. So, right now stuck in Minneapolis, MN. I thought Ohio was cold...nope. My lungs stung from the cold and the snow was falling all around. This winter has been kinda quiet back home, but not hear. At least it wasn't an ice storm like the rest of the country is getting. I had alot of fun this past weekend. I love getting together with my friends and roleplaying. There is something about being someone else, if even just in your mind, that is hard to describe. Perhaps this is why I love the SCA so much. Not much more else to say...I am going to go down to the hot-tub in just a bit...relax and enjoy just being alive; I so often neglect that.
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Argh, stressing out today because of technology. I need to use some of the resources that from the office, but due to being out in the field and technology not cooperating the way it should, I cannot get to the resources I need. Dang...ah well, I will probably just head to the office tomorrow evening, look up the things I need to and be about my merry business. I hate not having things done, drives me crazy. I am really getting into my work. The more I do it, the more I like it. who knew...enough of work, however...I know I have said it before, but I miss my girl. Damn how I miss her. Now I know the same feelings of some of my friends when we have been out and they simply had to state, "I miss her..." Ah well...it is better that feel this than not have any feelings at all. I wish she could travel with me and such...that would be freaking awesome. I am really enjoying the pool and hot tube here at the hotel. Also, the weight room here is alright...when we go down to Florida, things should be good there too. Not much more to say that this. I think it is high time for a good soaking. Me |
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Hello there again dear friends...I do hope life has found you well. It has been sometime since I have written and much has happened. I have quit my job at the bank and am now working for a company named Ajilon who is doing work for Xerox where the project is headed by one of my friends. So far I love the job..I can finally do all the travel I wanted to do. Also, on the plus side, I am teamed with a good friend (Hamish)...makes travel all that much better. He and I are alike in some ways and very different in others. I am currently in Chicago, but will be in Florida for the next two weeks. Gotta love that. I do miss home, however. I missed fight practice tonight, which REALLY sucks...oh well...on those weeks I am home I will have to be sure to make sure to make the most of my practice. I am also thinking about how I can train while on the road. If any of you have an idea, please let me know. I am, however, hitting the gym on a routine basis and swimming as often as I can. I miss Kristi...badly...I have gotten very used to falling asleep with her next to me...now the bed feels empty. I cannot wait until this weekend. Also, on the plus side, after these initial three weeks, I will be home almost every other week. The one thing I noticed about Chicago though that made me think were the buildings. Looking up at them, I felt so small and so insignificant. I was totally amazed until...I saw a construction worker. Another building was going up...I quickly realized that yes, while one of us seems insignificant we are not. We are all part of the greater whole of humanity and when combined we are capable of such greatness and splendor. Just wow...well, I will write more later... Me |
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Pennsic is over...I must admit that my favorite time of the year has passed. I don't know really where to begin...of course the fighting was awesome and the shopping was great. Getting to see some of my best friends again for such an extended period of time was the best though. Charging into battle with Ozzy, fighting alongside Cad and Baynard with bastard swords...wow...Pennsic for me is simply Christmas every day of the week. Its like Valhalla...you rise and shake off the night before, ready yourself for battle, die in a blaze of glory only to have beautiful valkriyes take care of you, finally returning to your camp for food and beer!!! Ah...the life... Seeing in how I have not written in awhle, I do suppose some updating is in order. Over the summer I finally got the chance to live with one of my best friends...wow, what an experience. I believe this is something we all should do at some point in our lives...it gave me the chance to see him as he really is, day in and day out. It was an awesome time and one that I will remember for a long time. Thank you my friend... Which brings me to my current state...living with my wife to be...this too is an experience. There are some things that I have to get used to, but I am quickly adjusting and it is all for the good. Well, I will post more when later I feel the need to write. |
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This weekend was great...got off of work early...met my furture wife (still getting used to that one) at home...and had a quiet evening. We started looking for some furniture for our place when we move in August and had dinner. Something, however, REALLY bugged me. A friend of mine needed help. It was not the need of help that bugged me, it was rather the cause of need.
This was Crown Tournament weekend in the Middle Kingdom. One of my favorite times due to all of the banners, colors, sights, sounds, and chivalry. Whether I am in the tournament or not does not matter really. Just watching some of the best tournament fighters our society has to offer is awesome. I hope one day to find myself numbered among the best, but that is far off and much training is needed between now and then. To strive to allways improve is a goal of mine...whatever the prowess level, one can alway get better...
We arrived on site very early and on time...and for me that is one hell of an accomplishment. We helped set up the site and got everything running. I felt bad for the person in charge of the set up as most of her was either not there or running late. Oh well, things happen and I was more than happy to help out.
One thing kind of bugged me about Saturday though...the fighting. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE hitting another human being with sticks as much as anyone, but I don't feel that this is what Saturday should have been about. You see, Saturday is traditonally reserved for the arts and sciences. We should appreciate what these people are doing. Without the A&S people, the fighters like myself, are just people hitting each other with sticks, and the fighting has little point. Gone are the colors, the research, and everything else that makes the Society the great thing it is. So, I did some shadow judging and learned a great deal. Yes, I could have fought, but to get a chance to learn more about other things when such great minds and talents...I could not pass up the chance.
Sunday...TOURNAMENT day!!! WOOT!!! The fighting was awesome...just wow...watching such highly trained warriors take the field for the honor of their lady...as I was reminded later in the day, an inspired man fighting for his lady and set upon the course of making her Queen is very difficult man to best. I will one day make my lady Queen...I love her so much and she has given so much to me...words fail me now...
This brings me to today...ah, Memorial Day...We were going to have a role-playing game...one that I have LONG wanted to start. Should be a great game...A REALLY great game, at least I hope so...an introduction game that has lots of twists, turns, and plenty of surprises...unfortunately there have been problems...I was going to run it awhile ago and most of the people I wanted in backed out. I was wanting to run it today, and a game that at one time had like 12 people, is now down to 3. Sadness...To me, an introduction game should have the majority of the characters in it that will be recurring players. I am a bit frustrated by these events...oh well, maybe one day I will get the group I want/need.
So...this leaves me wondering what to do today...who knows...there was some talk about a movie day at a friend's house, maybe a cook-out and Ultimate Fighting Championships at another. Or, I may just spend the day around the house with Kristi...who knows...
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Currently working on the thought problem concerning the ball and the wall...if you throw a ball you can obviously mark 1/2 the distance it travels...then you halve it again, and again and again...and as numbers have no bottow limit, it would stand to reason that the ball will forever continue to get just 1/2 of the distance...but through experience we know the ball does in fact hit the wall and bounce off...what does this tell us? That regardless of how we contemplate a problem the most important aspect is what actually happens? That this world does not conform to our ideas and physical concepts and that thought and rationality are the only important things in life? Who knows... Me |
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Another day off of work...this allows me to do numerous things...work around the house a bit, think of the nature of God and the universe, and contemplate what the hell I want to do for dinner. Fighter practice is tonight, but I am unsure if I will...I have been doing ALOT of driving lately and am just feeling the need to be at home and accomplish somethings I want to around here...then again the urge to hit someone with a stick is pretty strong...feeling pulled...
Still waiting to hear back on several things...I do hope this job goes through. Things would be working out so well. I went and checked out the town-house I want to live in. Its nice, plenty of the room, the rent is right, and the location couldn't be better. Right out front is a martial arts studio. I checked it out last nite...VERY cool. They teach MMA (mixed martial arts) grappling, striking, you name it. This is something I have been wanting to get back into for some time. Also, I must mention that some of my really good friends live in the same complex. Now if I can just get this job...
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Once more feeling the need to write...one of my friends has encouraged me to do this and I decided I would take her advice. I will be writing more later as the time allows. The colors may change, the look may change, but the insanity that sometimes come forth will never change...until later...remember always give the world the big end! Me |
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