This follows on from In Which the Minutae of Daily Life Does Not Grind and runs to 2,582 words.

Tong Nao was already opening the mat storage when I arrived, so I put down my things and helped him lay out the mats. Then we pulled out the Club’s supply of damas to check on their state. Apparently, the carry-over team members from last year all had ( Read more... )

This follows on from Returning to the Scene of Someone Else's Crime and comes in at 2,950 words.

From my point of view, the rest of the evening passed without undue incident.  Master Que did talk to Master Kung, but he didn’t share anything from the conversation with me.  The manager of The Riverside Terrace dropped by our table and said some ( Read more... )

This follows on from It's Not All New Now and runs to 2,663 words.  It is also, if I can count correctly, the fifty-fith episode of Nai....

I put down my things, sat on one of the other seats around the small table he was using, and asked, “What do you want to do?”

“I want you to win, of course,” he told me, punctuating this statement by ( Read more... )

This follows on from Social Business and runs for 2,745 words.

Madam He continued to be penetratingly dissatisfied with He Ban first thing in the morning, and I escaped to the bathroom as quickly as I could on waking. I went downstairs for breakfast and provided for the family shrine before I ate my own meal. Master Que was not evident until I came ( Read more... )

This follows on from Unexpected Afternoon Episodes and runs for 2,921 words.

We repaired to The House of Internal Repose, which I would never have found on my own as it was in through a side door between two shop entrances on the Boulevarde, and then up a flight of stairs to a large room that was open to the afternoon air over a courtyard or alley ( Read more... )

This follows on from More Domesticity and Business, and came in at 2,561 words.

After lunch I spent the afternoon in the training room with Master Que revising my forms and reviewing my combat strategies.  We finished with a new set of forms, something that hadn’t happened for some time.  I’d finished my third run through on my own when Master Que ( Read more... )

This follows on from Last Day of the School Week (Part 2) and runs for 3, 089 words.

I got up before the He family next door, that or He Ban was permitted to sleep in on weekends, and quickly dressed before going downstairs to address the family shrine before spending a quiet hour in the garden on my gi forms.  When I went back inside for ( Read more... )

This is follows on from Last Day of the First Week (Part 1) - there are two parts because the whole post was too long.The signs led me to a desk at the western end of the floor where it looked like a room had been demolished and remodelled into an open support area. There were several empty desks, storage cupboards labelled with the names of ( Read more... )

This follows on from Mostly An Evening Out, and surprised me by coming in at 4,724 words.  This is too large for Livejournal, so this has turned into a two part post. :)

It was a very pleasant morning, and warm enough to make me glad both that the warmest part of the year was past and that I usually started earlier in the morning than this. On the ( Read more... )

This follows on from Halfway Through The First Week and runs to 3,028 words.  I may have gotten carried away with the bar....

After chuckling over what might well have been an enormous scandal at the time, I sat down to start my artistic write up of items for my Art tutorial.  The first of my three items was the scroll, so I talked about the ( Read more... )