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Last night was my first sparring lesson in Karate, and boy did I get beat up. I grew up as a kid, my dad always telling me, “You don’t start any fights, but you sure as hell finish them.” I lived by those words as a kid and through my adult years, (though the instances of fighting did dwindle after middle school) and tried to never be the aggressor in a fight. Well the thing about point sparring is you have to be the aggressor or at least think like one. Well I don’t. I used to wait until the other guy would hit me and then unleash a world of hurt on his ass, I do that in sparring and I lose. Needless to say lesson has been learned. I need to start the attack, not just finish it.

I also need to know when to hold a little back, and not kill my classmates. I let my anger get the best of me a little bit through my beating, and the repeated blows to the top and side of my head didn’t help. My opponent jump up. I’m not sure what he was trying to do but it was pretty stupid to leave your feet in that situation. I took my opportunity and hit him with both hand right in his chest. I sent him flying about five feet and onto his back. I’m not sure how Sensei took it, but I know I acted out of anger and frustration. I have to watch that in the future.

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Ok I know, I know, I haven’t been around the blogosphere in a while. Come to tell the truth I haven’t really had the time to blog. Life has taken a definite upswing, in my favor no less. The miracle of modern drugs. I have started to notice that the haze that I lived my life in has been lifting. I had been depressed for so long that I didn’t know what it meant to not be depressed.

I’m not even sure if I’m not depressed anymore I just know that I feel totally different than I did. I care about my health and well being. I didn’t do that before at all. I made some life changes, hopefully for the better. I started taking Karate lessons last week. I’ve been to three classes so far. I really enjoy them, but I have to say they are kicking my ass. I didn’t realize how bad my conditioning really was. After an hour in class I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus, but in an odd way I feel better for having done the class. It is an alien feeling for me, feeling good about anything.

I have started to enjoy my family more. I know this sounds odd, but just hear me out. I was always there for my family in the past, but in the role of guardian, caregiver and support personnel. I always felt like an outsider who helped out. I am just now starting to feel like a part of the operation. A cog in the mechanism that is out home. It feels good, even if it is a bit overwhelming. I guess that I’m starting to feel “normal” if there really is such a thing.

Even work is starting to get better. I can’t say that I’m overjoyed with the state of the union, but I have accepted my role and will just deal with things as they are dealt to me. I’m not going to stress over thing that are not in my control. I just know that I will do everything in my power to do my job and do it well, whatever happens was meant to. I can’t allow the games my boss seems to enjoy playing to get to me. He just needs to get his ducks in order and start to realize that he has a good bunch of people here, even if they bitch all the time about everything. I really think that he just tries to hard and sees threats where there really aren’t any. Hell he created the atmosphere here, he has to live with it.

On the writing front, I haven’t done any in a while. I have been having ideas, and I do plan on going back and finishing my NaNoWriMo novel that I started. I will get back to it as soon as my life calms down and I can make a schedule for my free time.

I also want to give credit for the great cartoons I recent found (including the one up above about the blog) to Gaping Void.com. Check them out.

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Over the weekend the podcasting world lost a very good man, and an even better friend. Though I did not know Joe Murphy, aka Mason Rocket, personally, I had listened to many of the shows he contributed to such as Slice of Sci Fi and Wingin It to name a couple. He was a very good man, had a great personality and made me laugh quite a bit. Though he lost his battle with cancer, I am sure that he has moved on and is making friends and having fun where ever he is. He lives on in our thoughts and our prayers.

If you use Digg, please digg this comic about Joe’s passing on with Cap.

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