Cross-sizing

I stopped going to LaFayette Concert Band rehearsals when Heather started working Tuesday nights. She no longer does, but I haven’t gone back. Between the dojo and Kenny’s piano lessons I’m out three evenings a week plus Saturday late morning / early afternoon, and that’s enough for right now. (For similar reasons I still am [...]

From all over

The Black Belt at 50 blog has a new entry talking about the various martial arts styles incorporated in the Lavallee’s curriculum. Some of this I knew, some I didn’t. We refer to it as “karate” but really that’s just a convenient shorthand term; what we actually do incorporates elements of many styles of martial [...]

Brown

Kenny and I have the same color belts again, though he got his four months ago. This is belt #7, but this and the next (red) each take longer than each of the first six. They’re the first of the advanced belts. Then there’s high red, and the fun really starts…

The heres and theres

So:
A week ago Friday we went to my niece’s high school graduation in New Hampshire. We drove there during the day, attended graduation in the evening, drove about an hour back in a Syracusewards direction to Lowell, Massachusetts where we had a hotel room reserved, spent the night, and returned home Saturday. My other sister [...]

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Going green

I got my second blue belt tip today (er, technically yesterday), which means I start the process of testing for green belt next Spotlight Week… which begins this Monday.
I half expected this, half expected not to test this month. First half was right. And this is good, in some ways. Weird in others.
Like, Kenny. He’s [...]

More misc mundane

Besides the Buffalo trip…
Kenny had last week off from school, but kind of a rough time. He’d come down with a virus in the middle of the week before; by last weekend he was pretty much over it, but was coughing a lot due presumably to postnasal drip, and sometimes he’d gag, and then… well. [...]

Antibiotics

I want to marry whoever invented antibiotics.
By Thursday I felt well enough to attend practice of the new-ish Syracuse morris team, which now has a name, Wild Blue Morris. I didn’t dance a lot. But by Saturday I was able to go to the one and only practice this year (so far, but probably for [...]

Fever

A week ago Monday I was at the dojo; it was Fitness Week, so they were putting us through a lot, and I’m stupid, so I was giving it to them, and by the end I was pretty wiped out. My voice was hoarse. Also, I was coughing a lot. Had been since earlier in [...]

The mundane lately

Kenny got his first tip on his green belt yesterday. I guess it’s mathematically possible for him to get the second tip a month from now and then test for brown belt in April, though I’m guessing May — or perhaps even later — will be more likely. That’s out of the intermediate levels and [...]