Didn't Die.

Bike 'n bussed to martial arts class last night, did a double-shot of classes, and biked all the way home. Surprisingly, I'm not really in pain today, though my knees feel a bit stiff (the biking--whenever I bike, my knees ache--I blame it on an old bike that's not quite the right size for me). Of course, the second class would probably have felt like an easy class if I hadn't just had a pretty good workout in the beginner class.

This'll be good for me. Improve my stamina, make me work on my technique, get me refreshing my memory of the early material....

Discovered I need to fast-track updating and checking my notes if I'm going to do this, though--jang bong (long staff) form dived at my head from out of the blue. Urk. Otherwise, was good, and I got to be the "experienced one" a bit, which was fun. Also, I finally integrated slapping axe kick into sparring effectively, so this should be good.

Didn't plan on biking all the way home, planned on just biking to where I had more bussing options, but after conquering the first huge hill, felt like I'd be silly to stop. In retrospect, perhaps not.

Found: A whole crapload of games.

I frequently entirely seriously/jokingly say that the world has a way of giving me presents for my birthday. The definition has expanded over time, from "my birthday" to "the week of my birthday" to, now, "the month of my birthday"--though I thought getting to attend seminars way out of my league and getting published photo credits was a pretty good birthday present!

The world loves me. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Heck, I'm typing at a desk that's proof of it (present, two years ago).

At Job #1, I work in the same building as Game Informer Magazine. They seem to have done a general house-keeping and cleaned out a bunch of old computer games, controllers, etc. They filled up an industrial-sized dumpster to "mounding over the top" stage.

I found it first.

1 hour later, it was down to 1/4 strength--mostly boxes and videos.

I have a lot of stuff. Most of it is crap. I have no idea what I will do with it--experiment with some of it, try and sell some of it, gift some of it to unsuspecting mortals--I don't know.

Phil is just pleased that it included an Ngage player with Lara Croft preloaded.

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Phil is currently enjoying the mocking way too much.

Not that it's not justified, he just shouldn't be enjoying it so much.