Funny

Funny line--
[After Instructor Brad describes the defense against an attack with a small stick ]
Sensei Dave: "And if you get attacked by a quarterstaff, you have been hanging around too many Renaissance festivals."

Funny toon--
Irregulary Webcomic on Elven poetry

Update on life

Having not been very good about updating recently, I offer the following in abbreviated form:

Tunes: Basil Poledouris' The Jungle Book is amazing. The Heart got me a copy; the theme is a very full, grand view of life, the adventure in the wild. The track "Attack of Shere Khan" has some very nice brass work which I think comparable in quality to the Asteroid Belt music from The Empire Strikes Back.

Books: Timothy Zahn's The Icarus Hunt is a sort of Firefly (for starship, bad guys, and plot) meets Ronin (for characters), and a lot of fun. Sci-fi is just better when it's about the down and out who can barely keep their ship running.

Activities:


It rocks.

Vehicles: Angus passed 233k, but inspections may catch up to him soon. Have to wonder how it saves the earth to downcheck a car based on emissions, requiring me to buy a new one, and thereby causing all the carbon emissions of refining, processing, and working two tons of steel, making carpet, glass, etc.

Work: I am working full time but not permanently. Nonetheless, reversing the cashflow hemorrhaging caused by education has been nice.