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Off to Japan
I'm off to Japan for two weeks as of the first thing Thursday morning. I'll be competing in the World Naginata Championships, and participating in this year's INF seminar and a special Shin Getsu Kai seminar at the home dojo for Tendo-ryu. I'm very excited, if a little last-minute-panic-y over the logistics of packing, transportation, where we're ( Read more... ) -
Maybe not quite a sign of spring
I heard bells clanging, and a diesel truck approaching. "Ice cream truck!" I thought to myself. I went to the door, and down the street came... a knife sharpening truck ( Read more... ) -
So much for 2010.
Goodbye, 2010. And good riddance. Despite being the best year so far financially (and the best naginata year), you were seriously awful.
2011 is looking promising, though.
Final score for New Year's resolutions from last year: 2 of 3. -
Remember, remember, Eleventh November
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns ( Read more... ) -
2010 CNF National Championships
Engi Kyogi ( Read more... ) -
Clark Spaulding Davis
Clark S. Davis, 77, known to his friends as “Spaulding,” passed away at dawn on August 7, 2010 at Hamot Medical Center, after collapsing a week earlier ( Read more... ) -
The worst possible reason to visit home.
I'm in Erie, and I will be for the next little while ( Read more... ) -
Moved!
Whew. What an exhausting weekend. Thanks to rbowspryte and 90pointmetaphor and tocityguy and Pope John of no LJ (and a timely last minute save by enevarim), linuxspice and I are now moved out of our old apartment and into Arcadia. I need to rearrange our things and set up my desktop box, but we're done ( Read more... ) -
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks, everyone, for your birthday wishes. It's been a rough year, and a particularly rough month, and I feel like I've made a complete hash of the things most important to me in life. Things are going to be chaotic until at least the end of the month, when we vacate the apartment, but I hope to be better about being in touch after then.