Category: karate

  • I remember when I was a young man out drinking with my friends we would try to avoid “breaking the seal”. It’s this myth that once you go pee for the first time that you somehow doom yourself to a night of going back and forth to “the jacks” (toilet) as you would no longer…

  • Goodness me, time has flown! I haven’t written anything here since January! No apologies though, this is just something I do for my own amusement and I’m pretty certain nobody reads it anyway. “So, how have things been going?” I hear nobody at all asking. Fast! Sometimes it feels like I’ve unwittingly strapped myself to…

  • It’s New Years Day as I write this. Actually, the day is almost over, but still, because it is the beginning of the year I am thinking about new year’s resolutions. Eat healthier, exercise more, drink less, etc. No offense if these are your resolutions, I’m rooting for you! But I find these kind of…

  • I really can’t believe my luck! I say this not as a superstitious person, but one who is profoundly grateful for my many undeserved blessings. I look back on my life sometimes and am amazed at how I have somehow managed, time and time again, to stumble into good situations. To use an Irish turn…

  • About 20 years ago I had a blog. It feels strange to be able to write that. I remember when blogs were new and people had to say something like “weblogs, or blogs as they’re also known”. I studied software development back in the very early 2000s and one of my projects for my degree…