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Played for 7 hours straight on Sunday at the rapier practice in Guelph. Nobody touched me more than three in ten, and only two people were close to that. Somebody loaned me a passable main gauche but that was just ridiculous so I put it down ( Read more... )

There’s a giant standing on Mill Street. A sculpture: huge, stretched, dark figure bent at the waist. Hand on hip, the other jutting an accusing finger straight down at head height for a mortal. Otherwise featureless, menacing, vaguely parental. The plaque says something about a "village idiot ( Read more... )

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~r

Went to a tiny rapier practice in Kitchener on Thursday. Still moving pretty well despite the dusty floor. In fact I straightened up near the end and did some lovely effective and minimalist Spanish side-step-and-stab stuff. Italian lunges can be risky on a slippery surface ( Read more... )

Hey, wow. Hi everybody!

I figure I started this as a rapier blog, so it makes some sense that I stopped blogging when I stopped playing. So, since I have officially STARTED RAPIER AGAIN!!! it makes sense to start blogging again ( Read more... )

1. Have you ever lived with one or more animals for which you've been at least partially responsible? If so, what kind of animal was it? If not, what are the animals (whom people know personally) that live in closest proximity to you, and how often do you interact with them, if at all?Yes. Lots of cats, a couple of dogs and at least three rats (one ( Read more... )

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~r

Following yet another catastrophic Windows crash on the living room laptop, I am forced to run Ubuntu off a CD (Which gets bonus OS points for actually working, more-or-less as advertised ( Read more... )

"I suggested to the class the image that time comes at us from every direction, from the entire sphere all at once, and disappears into the past inside us. Time surrounds us-we are consumers of time; we ingest it ( Read more... )