Somehow I find myself transfixed again and again before the news ( Read more... )

And it's quite good. Relaxing here in the morning is very peaceful and quiet. If you count out the construction going on in the same floor - but I got used to it. Morning coffee is ready and most of the red-line work is done. Now it's just a trouble-shooting day, nothing hard or uneasy ( Read more... )

Or at least trying to ( Read more... )

It's a beautiful day today. With sunlight bright and clean air to make sure sight is good all around, even the colors seemed a bit more vibrant today after a good night's sleep. Muscles ache a bit after too much walk yesterday plus some sparring (we had Armor-Friday on the Arnis training) but that would solve itself with enough stretching and good ( Read more... )

Driving through the night, not caring much how fast, how slow, or how much there is left of the road to go on. The road goes on, mind is empty from everything resembling coherent thoughts. Lights flicker by, an bad driver almost pushes me to the wall then straighten himself at the very last moment. Another second gone by and the radio is a blur of ( Read more... )

So I return home, scarred but happy. After yapping too much, cutting too much (including myself), talking about things and generally having fun with a bunch of guys which I can identify myself with.

Now that's something new.

I don't think I had such contact since the army.

Family lunch after a quick dart into some calaniot field. Rumbling around the table about the world in general and life in particular, with my sister being medically discharged (but still meaning to volunteer) we also had a lot of army talk. Somewhere along the way we get something like this ( Read more... )

I have lost count the times I took a long drive through the night, odd thoughts tend to surface when the road stretches and there is not one to talk with. Mostly recollections of things and moments that happened. Remembering the past and watching it through a different prism, seeing myself and laughing a little at the follies of my earlier youth. ( Read more... )

I love the rain, this dim light that encroaches everything and makes the world a smaller, intimate place. I love the sticky leaves falling on head and walking between the drops, feeling the freezing air deep inside. The silence of both nature and city under a blanket of white noise. That's a source of inspiration for me ( Read more... )

In the tradition of nin-jutsu, they say you must learn at least one extra martial art just to get some perspective. They also say you get to that only after you got all the basics of nin-jutsu. I'm no black belt, but since I have this nice opportunity, it's a good time as ever to start something new. Arnis, or the full name - Lightning Scientific ( Read more... )