In yesterday’s post, I was talking planning on talking about health in general, but I quickly derailed myself to talking about family dysfunction instead. It’s related to health, though, so I don’t feel completely bad about it. Let’s face it–family dysfunction is baked into so many things, I could unpack it forever. I’m also still… Continue Reading
Let’s talk about health in general. It’s the broader category under which martial arts fall, and it’s not something I talk about much. It’s something I’ve been thinking about more, and I want to get in better shape. This is tricky because I have a life-long history of eating disorders. It started when I wsa… Continue Reading
I have more to say about martial arts. This is probably not a surprise as I tend to obsess over things–especially when I see something that spurs on my interest. Such as the demo. Or watching videos of my teacher’s teacher doing different forms. I wrote yesterday how my mind was blown by him doing… Continue Reading
In yesterday’s post, I was talking about the Lunar New Year’s demo that my teacher’s teacher’s school had done for Lunar New Year. They do it every year, and I’ve attended more years than not in the past fifteen years. I particularly remember the one in 2020 because it was right before the pandemic hit–and… Continue Reading
Today (Sunday) was the day my teacher’s home school had their Lunar New Year demo. It was broken up into three parts–the Taiji section followed by the Xingyi chunk and lastly, Bagua. I was watching on Zoom. The demo started with everyone who wanted to participate doing the first two sections of the Solo (Long)… Continue Reading
I have been studying Taiji for over fifteen years. Yesterday, I was writing about how I did some light sparring with my teacher in our last private lesson. And how much I loved it. I am still in the midst of realizing that I am not a newbie any longer nor someone who simply studies… Continue Reading
I am studiously ignoring waves ot the world around me, well, everything. Glances at news and shudders in rage, disgust, sadness, and anger. There is only so much I as an individual can do, and I am just done. I have never been a super partriot because that’s just not my style, and now, I’m really disdainful… Continue Reading
At this point, I’m just amused by my neverending review of Balatro (LocalThunk). We all know that I will write another post about Balatro at some point because that is how I do. In fact, I am going to write one now and give my completely arbitrary rating for this game. I explained my rating… Continue Reading
Yes, I’m back with part five of my ‘final’ review of Balatro (LocalThunk). Today, I have been grinding out the Big Hands achievement (getting 80 cards in a deck), and I haven’t geotten close. Well, I have gotten maybe 70 once? There are not as many useful tips when I Google as there were for… Continue Reading
Ok. I promise that this is the last post about Balatro (LocalThunk)*. In the last post, I talked about the grindiness of playing for higher stakes wins and *SPOILER* chasing my white whale, Stuntman (the last joker I needed to complete my deck). Now, I’m trying to do two of the last five achievements I have–well, one of… Continue Reading