Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Yeah. Late post, guess why? Broken computer!
A month or two ago, my power supply started making some funky buzzing noises. Really it just sounded like something was sticking into a fan, but it was *really* annoying, so I called up Dell tech support and they sent me a ‘new’ power supply. Really a refurbished power supply. Well Sunday morning, it conked out. I managed to get into work and get some homework done (not tons, but I’ll live) but I’ve been forced to play my measly ‘plethora’ of PS2 games for entertainment. Oh, the humanity!
Well I called up Dell tech support, and after going through their standard ‘is everything plugged in’ spiel, they agreed to send a tech out to fix me. Well right on time, he came over with a shiny (no, seriously, really shiny) new power supply, swapped it out, and I was good with game. Booyah. Course, then the Internet was down for a while, but my roommate, being the master of the Internets that he is, was all over that.
TKD news, we’ve started grappling. Originally, I was a little bit pensive. I’ve done grappling before, but I never really enjoyed it much. It just wasn’t fun like TKD is. TKD is a lot of fun, I just like doing it *so much*. That’s why I do it. Well we did some simple drills and I stomped them pretty heartily because, as anyone with a modicum of grappling experience will tell you, having even a little grappling experience will beat no grappling experience every time. Course, having a little more than a little experience will beat that every time too. It’s a really steep slope, but its easy to climb. So I was all over my partner this time, but I expect that with just a little bit of training, they’ll be flipping and tapping me out in no time.
And it didn't feel as unpleasant as it usually did when I sparred people grappling. Perhaps because now I have a chance, a good one even, of winning, whereas before I was generally grappling people that had experience on me. Cause pretty much everyone did. And like I said, with grappling, experience is everything.
Meanwhile, there’s a guy at work, we’ll call him ‘J’, that does grappling. He’s been doing it for about 4 years, which makes him so much better than me that I’d hardly even consider it a ‘match’, but I’ve heard that he’d love to meet up and just do some simple grappling. Mostly for two purposes:
1) I know, like, three submissions. The headlock, arm bar, and ankle bar. And I don’t think I’ve ever done an ankle bar on someone before. Point is, I should probably learn a few more. I don’t even know the…whassit called…chicken wing? That’s basic. Quite useful too.
2) If I keep whomping on everyone in TKD on grappling, I’m going to get an ego about it, and that’s just not good. Not for grappling experience or even for TKD. Last thing I need is to pretend I’m all superior to someone on the ground when we’re on our feet and get a good kick or two in the face.
Sparing went really well today, too. My opponent, (a junior black belt, which is the black belt they let you get before the age of 18) really wasn’t throwing a lot of kicks. I think he was intimidated (he was about half my size). But he kept dropping his hands, and I kept reminding him about why you, generally, don’t want to do that, uh, ever. I got some gook head kicks in. Course, his head is right around my chest, so don’t get too proud, here. It’s progress, though. I even threw some combos. Not enough, and not good ones, but it’s getting better. Woo.
Pretty much the only thing that happened this weekend, of note, was the pet adoption festival across the street from my apartment. I saw signs for it up around where I live and just strolled across on the appointed day. Which is a good thing, too, because this place was *huge*, and parking was scarce. Seriously, there must have been a hundred or more tents, filled with Dogs, cats, bunnies, and even a parrot rescue shelter looking to find good homes for…Polly, presumably.
Me, I went there because…ah…I love petting cats. Ooooh. They were so cute! They had some…okay, a lot of them, that were really scared to be there, but there were some that were very, Very, sociable. Very happy to see you and get their heads scratched. I miss that! There were a lot of kittens, too. Some really active ones which gave cute mews and pawed at you threw the bars and some that just cuddled up with about 5 of their closest friends in little kitty hammocks and looked adorable.
There were a lot of cats there, and dogs too, which would have been pretty sad except that there were a *lot* lot of people there. A lot. Lots. And some of them were really actively looking to pick themselves up a pet. I didn’t get one, though not for lack of wanting. It’s just that, for one, D is a little allergic, and for two, if you get a cat, you get a cat for 15 years, and I’m not quite stable enough for that. What if I want to go to Japan for a year. Sure, I’d *like* to take a cat along, but she’d end up eating all my sushi!
Monday I spent most of my time between Matlab runs at work looking at www.petfinder.com at pictures of cute little kittens. Good place to look if any of you are ever hoping to find a cat. They come all cleaned up and everything, mostly.
I also spent until 3 in the morning on Saturday playing the 1-level demo of Battlefield 2 over and over and over and over again. I may have to pick up that game, despite having so many others to play. I need my fix!
That’s it for now. Keep on truckin’!
-N
A month or two ago, my power supply started making some funky buzzing noises. Really it just sounded like something was sticking into a fan, but it was *really* annoying, so I called up Dell tech support and they sent me a ‘new’ power supply. Really a refurbished power supply. Well Sunday morning, it conked out. I managed to get into work and get some homework done (not tons, but I’ll live) but I’ve been forced to play my measly ‘plethora’ of PS2 games for entertainment. Oh, the humanity!
Well I called up Dell tech support, and after going through their standard ‘is everything plugged in’ spiel, they agreed to send a tech out to fix me. Well right on time, he came over with a shiny (no, seriously, really shiny) new power supply, swapped it out, and I was good with game. Booyah. Course, then the Internet was down for a while, but my roommate, being the master of the Internets that he is, was all over that.
TKD news, we’ve started grappling. Originally, I was a little bit pensive. I’ve done grappling before, but I never really enjoyed it much. It just wasn’t fun like TKD is. TKD is a lot of fun, I just like doing it *so much*. That’s why I do it. Well we did some simple drills and I stomped them pretty heartily because, as anyone with a modicum of grappling experience will tell you, having even a little grappling experience will beat no grappling experience every time. Course, having a little more than a little experience will beat that every time too. It’s a really steep slope, but its easy to climb. So I was all over my partner this time, but I expect that with just a little bit of training, they’ll be flipping and tapping me out in no time.
And it didn't feel as unpleasant as it usually did when I sparred people grappling. Perhaps because now I have a chance, a good one even, of winning, whereas before I was generally grappling people that had experience on me. Cause pretty much everyone did. And like I said, with grappling, experience is everything.
Meanwhile, there’s a guy at work, we’ll call him ‘J’, that does grappling. He’s been doing it for about 4 years, which makes him so much better than me that I’d hardly even consider it a ‘match’, but I’ve heard that he’d love to meet up and just do some simple grappling. Mostly for two purposes:
1) I know, like, three submissions. The headlock, arm bar, and ankle bar. And I don’t think I’ve ever done an ankle bar on someone before. Point is, I should probably learn a few more. I don’t even know the…whassit called…chicken wing? That’s basic. Quite useful too.
2) If I keep whomping on everyone in TKD on grappling, I’m going to get an ego about it, and that’s just not good. Not for grappling experience or even for TKD. Last thing I need is to pretend I’m all superior to someone on the ground when we’re on our feet and get a good kick or two in the face.
Sparing went really well today, too. My opponent, (a junior black belt, which is the black belt they let you get before the age of 18) really wasn’t throwing a lot of kicks. I think he was intimidated (he was about half my size). But he kept dropping his hands, and I kept reminding him about why you, generally, don’t want to do that, uh, ever. I got some gook head kicks in. Course, his head is right around my chest, so don’t get too proud, here. It’s progress, though. I even threw some combos. Not enough, and not good ones, but it’s getting better. Woo.
Pretty much the only thing that happened this weekend, of note, was the pet adoption festival across the street from my apartment. I saw signs for it up around where I live and just strolled across on the appointed day. Which is a good thing, too, because this place was *huge*, and parking was scarce. Seriously, there must have been a hundred or more tents, filled with Dogs, cats, bunnies, and even a parrot rescue shelter looking to find good homes for…Polly, presumably.
Me, I went there because…ah…I love petting cats. Ooooh. They were so cute! They had some…okay, a lot of them, that were really scared to be there, but there were some that were very, Very, sociable. Very happy to see you and get their heads scratched. I miss that! There were a lot of kittens, too. Some really active ones which gave cute mews and pawed at you threw the bars and some that just cuddled up with about 5 of their closest friends in little kitty hammocks and looked adorable.
There were a lot of cats there, and dogs too, which would have been pretty sad except that there were a *lot* lot of people there. A lot. Lots. And some of them were really actively looking to pick themselves up a pet. I didn’t get one, though not for lack of wanting. It’s just that, for one, D is a little allergic, and for two, if you get a cat, you get a cat for 15 years, and I’m not quite stable enough for that. What if I want to go to Japan for a year. Sure, I’d *like* to take a cat along, but she’d end up eating all my sushi!
Monday I spent most of my time between Matlab runs at work looking at www.petfinder.com at pictures of cute little kittens. Good place to look if any of you are ever hoping to find a cat. They come all cleaned up and everything, mostly.
I also spent until 3 in the morning on Saturday playing the 1-level demo of Battlefield 2 over and over and over and over again. I may have to pick up that game, despite having so many others to play. I need my fix!
That’s it for now. Keep on truckin’!
-N
Comments:
hmm not too big on the grappling being taught in the tkd classes. It's mostly because it's a trendy thing nowadays. And you know how i hate trendy. Also tkd teachers typically teach a watered down version of newaza (judo ground techniques) attempting to emulate bjj. (yes technically their the same, but modern judo newaza is just funky.) And I hate it when they do that too. you got the right mind set, you're in a tkd school, so learn tkd. If you want to learn grappling goto a grappling school. Oo something shiny...*runs* - kevo
# posted by 
: July 16, 2005 at 1:11 PM
: July 16, 2005 at 1:11 PM
oh yeah btw you wrote, "I got some gook head kicks in" I thought that was a hilarious typo. If not a cleverly racist yet entertaining comment. -kevo
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# posted by : July 16, 2005 at 1:13 PM
: July 16, 2005 at 1:13 PM