sensei8

We both keep fighting the good fight; that’s all we have to do…you at 73 and me at 68!! I just wish the best for us and everyone else that’s fighting something. I’d like to live in my 90’s but that’s up to God!!

Saw my Oncologist this Saturday morning, yeah, I was surprised myself because not many doctors work on Saturday. Monday my Oncologist calls me and tells me that she needs to come to her office this Saturday, even though I’ve an appointment with her on May 13th for a follow-up. Of course, I start thinking about bad things. Has my cancer returned?!? Am I no longer in remission?!? What could it be?!? My PSA is at 0.06, which is GREAT!! No cancer still…I’m still in complete remission!! So what is it that caused my Oncologist to call me?!? On February 10th I had a PET Scan that my Oncologist ordered. I’ve a MRI scheduled for March 6th. My Oncologist says all of my labs are GREAT!! Then what is it?!? I’VE A HOLE IN MY HEAD!! PET Scan shows that I’ve a hole in my head over my left ear the size of a golf ball!! WOW!! I’ve a hole in my hole!! Aside from the many jokes about one having a hole in their head, this isn’t really that funny!! I seem to be falling apart!! My Oncologist has ordered an MRI and X-Ray for my head and brain. I’ll try to have that done at the same time that as my other MRI on March 6th. Hopefully the PET Scan machine on February 10th had a hiccup and I don’t have a hole in my head!! Lately, like this week, my head above and back my left ear has been very tender and I do get a sharp pain if I touch a certain part of my head as well as I also experience a very dull headache in this same area of my head!! My eyes seem to flutter and lose focus for a quick split second from time to time. I asked my Oncologist, Dr. Ann Wierman can people live a long life with a hole on their head?!? She said, “Yes!!” Am I alarmed?!? Am I scared?!? Yes, of course, I’m quite concerned!!

Hopefully any new stadium HAS A ROOF on it because playing football in a blizzard north of I-40 can’t be fun at all. Oh, one last thing…seeing that the taxpayers help finance the stadium, shouldn’t the taxpayers get tickets at a much more affordable prices?!? Ticket prices to a Raiders home game in the nose bleed section are, well, STUPID…gouging at its worse.

My Knights scored 5 goals in the 3rd quarter against the Kings for a 6-4 final!! GO KNIGHTS!!

There’s everything about this that I love. Removing redundancy at all costs and by all means. The unfortunate difficulty lies with the overbearing Governing Bodies because they want it their way as though their way is the only way; that’s ridiculous, of course, and that’s why our founder left the Okinawa powers that be. Their way, the Okinawa powers that be, is their way and it never has been the way of our founder, and it’s not my way. I don’t have to tell anybody about the Heisenberg Principle that says the act of observing a phenomenon changes it.

The one thing that I always stress to my students is that whatever the techniques found in a Kata, the bunkai isn’t always as one might assume. The Gedan Barai that a white belt might execute in, for example, Taikyoku Shodan, is not always what it appears to be. This is one reason why we teach bunkai starting at Jukyu.

In addition… Neither of us have to like the way any of us CI’s address a testing cycles because we have to do ‘you’, not ‘me’ or anyone else…just do ‘you’!! In the same chord, not one CI have to tolerate how any CI approaches how testing cycles are conducted because ‘I’ do ‘me’ and ‘I’ don’t do ‘you’ nor do ‘I’ ever want to do ‘you’ and ‘I’ surely don’t want ‘you’ to do ‘me’. We CI’s should be complete in our totality whenever it comes to how testing cycles are implemented across the board. If ‘I’ do ‘You’ long enough, ‘I’ will no longer be ‘me’, but ‘I’ will become ’you’ which ‘I’ have no interest in that whatsoever, and neither should ’you’. I don’t ever want to become a worse valueless shoddy imitational version of myself by losing sight of my integrity. Imho!!

Is there at least a syllabus, so that the students can practice on their own at home? I think a problem that can arise from this is the material they need not being covered on the day they show up Well, that’s the responsibility of the student to come to class. IMO, the very existence of tests already does that. The last BJJ school I trained at did belt promotions every quarter, but there were no tests. You were simply promoted based on how you were evaluated on regular training days To each MA school to their own. Testing Cycles were held once every 3 months, and once a year at the Hombu’s Annual Testing Cycle. However, Testing Cycle Candidates must petition to the Hombu, of which, not every candidate is eligible for said Testing Cycle. Unannounced or short notice? Because “unannounced” creates a “right place at the right time” scenario that leaves out guy that did movie night with wife and kids because he was unable to schedule that around the test Perhaps I misquoted myself. The Student Body knows the Testing Cycle schedule and that it’s held once every 3 months…March, June, September, and December; the Hombu’s Annual Testing Cycle was held every June/July. Exact date and time are posted 1 week before said Testing Cycle schedule. This is why I think the list of testable items need to be kept short. If the list is too long, there’ll be little to no time to do things that are not on the test Wells, our Testing Cycles have an exacting detail to them. Lower the rank being tested, the shorter the Testing Cycle. Higher the rank being tested, the longer the Testing.

I appreciate you saying that. Patrick, if my memory serves me correctly, took over my team, or for the most of the season, because I was struggling to keep up and such.

That’s quite sad because the WNBA players play their hearts out every game. There are some players that are beasts and could hang with the men with no problem. The Las Vegas Aces are quite a good team, having won 2 WNBA Championships. Unfortunately the WNBA, like Brian says, are barely viable. Crying shame!!

Sign me up, Brian!!

Is there a WNHL hockey like the WNBA is for the women’s basketball?!?

That’s right because there’s Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS.

Yes. That comes about from not having matured in techniques yet, as well as being afraid. Imho!!

I’ve never bought a condo/honeycomb; I’ve always been a renter. Many of my relatives have bought new homes; my dad built 2 house; one for his mom and one for himself. My understanding about buying a home is that one should NOT buy a home in a HOA community because the HOA can be a nightmare; they can end up taking your home away. Good luck in your search!! Please keep us updated.