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Karate 11/12/2012

Our Sensai (teacher) challenged us last night to keep a diary of our training, and record the things we learned each week and what we want to focus on in the week ahead.

This week for me was about turning up. I missed last week because I was busy doing something, and I missed my normal 5pm class, dropping the caravan to the plumber for it’s gas works & certification. I really had to push myself to get to the 6:30 class, and almost gave up at the last minute because the school where the classes are held were having Christmas Carols and parking was a nightmare and we parked 1/2 a kilometer away and had to walk across the oval to get to class. In all honesty if Bec wasn’t with me at that point, I’d have gone home again.
Once I was there I was pretty much fine, other than something stuck in my throat that kept me coughing all class and evening and having difficulty responding and Kiaing.
My goal for next week it be there on time, ready & willing to participate fully (baby steps)
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Book Binding

Today I earned a certificate in book binding. All the way from being taught to use the machine to a pile of bound books. Sorry trees!

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The end of the year is nigh

Wow, I just bought an iced coffee with a use by date of next year. Time is flying, Christmas will be here in no time.

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A wasp and a spider

While working out the back on our Caravan, I spotted this wasp or hornet or whatever desperately trying to carry this huntsman back home for lunch. It was so heavy it couldn’t fly, and had to drag it along the gutter, across the road, where it dropped it once and flew off when a car came and just missed it, flew around, found it again, dragged it to the other side of the road, down and across a driveway and off into the neighbour’s garden. It was really quite extraordinary to watch.

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Google App for iPhone/iPad

Google App for iPhone/iPad

Camera by Beccy Snell www.beccysnell.com

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Tue 20th November 2012

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External Hard Drives

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)

RAID (redundant array of independent disks, originally redundant array of inexpensive Disks)

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Video Blog Intro

I thought it was time I put my travel time to use and started a video conversation with the world, so here is Episode 0

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WordPress

I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress, giving me a heap of extra functionality. Lots of things are broken at the moment, and I’ll get through and clean them up ASAP

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Whelmed

I was hoping whelmed could be my new target state of mind, as it had to be better than overwhelmed, which is how I seem to be feeling most of the time now, but it seems they mean the same thing…

whelm [wɛlm]vb (tr) Archaic

1. to engulf entirely with or as if with water

2. another word for overwhelmed

oh well..