The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score ...
Sweet Baby Jesus
So I have my brown stripe test (for kung fu) on the 16th. I just found out on Friday.
For one thing, that's not a lot of time for a pretty huge test.
For the other, could next weekend get any more crazy? Hosting dinner with the Greek, Ladybug, the Rocket and TeamHooking after work on the 15th; test about 2pm on the 16th; as soon as I'm done, scrape myself off the floor and jet downtown to check in to the hotel, grab a shower and head down for the company xmas party; come back out west on the 17th, then go hook up with Dougly, the CBC, Jay and his lovely wife M-Italia for Peking Duck, and drinks later on. Oh, and my team's xmas lunch on Monday.
Head explodie!
Xmas Time
My lovely wife is playing the xmas music and baking up a storm. She's producing xmas goodies in industrial quantities.
Our xmas shopping is almost done. My lovely wife has already got me done. I'm not quite finished with her yet though.
After I told her about my imminent test, she told me I was getting one present early. She got me a kicking shield, a huge body pad for martial arts practice. We have the hand-size focus gloves but we've been unable to find a kicking pad, but she found one. And she gave it to me so I could use it to get ready for my test. She's pretty awesome.
The Weekend
Off to a hockey game yesterday afternoon. The Sens got pwned by the Rangers. Partly that was their own fault (they played with teh suck) but the fact that the refs were clearly either a) scheming against them, b) fucking stupid, or c) both didn't help. Seriously, the officiating was embarrassing.
Today I was off with Serdic, Kewarken and a few of Foran Object's friend working on the workshop. We managed to put up two walls with a peak height of 16', assemble the main centre beam to go between those two 16' points, get it atop said points with only one piece of scaffolding (I came up with an idea to help make that amazing feat of engineering possible), and put up 6 ceiling rafters to stabilize the whole thing.
I am tired!
Foran Object took pictures. They should appear on his blog shortly.
Miscellaneous Stuff
Serdic is burning all of S3 of BSG for me shortly. He rocks.
I'm a little scared of my brown stripe test.
My lovely wife's laptop is having battery and keyboard problems. A half hour on the phone to India for support got me the following: they believe my warranty expired in October, when we got the machine after xmas last year (and have the paperwork to prove it), they can't send me a new keyboard but require me to send the machine to them, they are disinclined to send me a battery but would rather fix that when I send them the machine, and since they believe my warranty is expired they want four hundred bucks to do it. I got the number for someone we can scream at to get our warranty squared away. My lovely wife will handle that part; I'm good at being reasonable and conciliatory on the phone, and she's good at scaring people shitless to get results.
We watched Miracle on 47th Street the other day (the original one). My lovely wife asked me to pick an xmas movie. In a major achievement for guys everywhere, she has conceded the point that Die Hard is an xmas movie! But she says I can only pick it once per holiday season when told to pick an xmas movie to watch. I am eminently satisfied with this arrangement.
I've heard Snoopy's xmas CD quite a few times now.
I am ready for holiday vacation time! Woo baby!
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