Thursday, June 19, 2008

Living the dream.....

Tonight, the sparring went great. I had five rounds, two minutes each, and I was fully "in the game". In short, it's time to admit that I've been exaggerating about how much I had slacked off. I was scared that I had lapsed in the vacation and that I was way off track. I'm now thinking that I was just jet-lagged the first night back when I whined about the hard class. Since then, I've had a great week of workign out. Conclusion, I did work out enough on my vacation which I took with the kids and my fiancee. I'll go further, I am managing to hit a balance that really works for me. I'm more than just pleased. I feel it's time for me to admit (not in any particular order): I'm staying in shape and moving forward in the dojo, I've got a great family life, I'm happily engaged, and I have a most interesting/satisfying job. I'm living the dream....

Moving on....Thursday (today) was bugo kumite. This translates as fighting with armor. A good description in that we wear foot guards, shin pads, cup, chest protector, 16 oz gloves, mouth guard, and head guard. As I said, five rounds and not fully exhausted.

Also Thursday night in class, it was announced that two of our classmates, Melissa and Mr. Dan, are training to go into the amateur MMA ring for the Warriors Collide 6 in Ft Lauderdale's War Memorial Stadium on September 13. Very exciting. Of course, I worry for them but then, that goes with me being 50 and they being in their 20s. And you can be sure that I'm going to attend.

Some news for you blog techie types. I've wondered how many people read this blog and how they find it. I have long had this blog hooked up with a service called Feedburner which is supposed to provide statistics (and subscription services). But, the stats haven't ever worked. Today, after months of intermittent fiddling with it, I finally got it to register some visitors. So far, since I got it working at 10 am this morning, there are 7 visitors (6 from google, 1 who typed in the site URL), I'm pleased that it's working. Next techie project: try to get the blogcatalog widget working so that it stops showing that my most recent post was March 2008.

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4 comments:

  1. Rich Holmes4:59 AM

    OK, here's a comment!

    (I wonder if your stats counter registers me... I subscribe to the RSS feed for your blog, and usually I read your posts in the RSS reader (Google Reader) rather than going to the actual blog page.)

    - Doctroid (yellow belt, 1 tip, age 52)

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  2. BBat5010:54 AM

    Doctroid. Thanks for commenting. Good geeky question. Answer: NO. Feedburner tracks webstats in terms of visitors. It separately tracks Subscribers. But, it only tracks subscribers who put their email into the email box: it does not track rss subscribers or people who read the blog on blogcatalog

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  3. BBat5011:21 AM

    And doctroid, congrats on tip. What dojo are you in?

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  4. Rich Holmes1:41 PM

    Lavallee's Dewitt, NY.

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