Daily Adventures

... so... as I expected and hoped, my conditioning at this particular point is good enough for me to get through a two and a half hour workout in an unfamiliar discipline. I am pretty happy about that.

But it is NOT good enough to allow me to feel like anything but thoroughly beat up the next morning.

Perhaps to be expected, but, owowowowow...

... and I'm an thankful for ibuprofen.

On Friday night we invited 14 other parents into our house, and the principal of the new elementary school came to talk with us all. It was a good gathering, but it was kind of tiring. I did two apple pies that everyone loved and we had three pots of decaf coffee for everyone. And we talked about philosophies for learning, how the kindergartens were going to work, the new technology for the school (I have to admit it I still cringe every time a layman uses the term "User Friendly!"), and any and all security concerns we might have.

It was good.

( Details of the days and my first kendo lesson. )

I finally heard from the dojo and they have not only moved out to Fredrick (which isn't actually all THAT far away, compared to Arvada), but the meeting times are Sunday afternoons. It's going to be interesting to mix church and sword in a single day. Problem is that I'm bouncing off the walls in anticipation. I guess I should go ride the exercise bike or something and get myself back together again.

An interesting thing is that, now, the Fredrick dojo is the sister dojo to the main Denver dojo, so, sometimes the Denver folks come out to Fredrick to practice as well. So it's a small pond with occasional incursions of bigger fish. That should make it more interesting in the long term. Plus, I might want to do the hour long drive down to Arvada sometime and work with the bigger classes later in the evening on Sundays if I can't make the 1pm start time in Fredrick. That might be okay...