Over a month in fact.
I haven't really felt like updating lately. Too much going on in real life. But, a few updates:
The calisthenics in Taekwondo class are getting progressively easier, by which I mean I can do more of them before giving up, not that they've become trivial. I still leave each class drenched in sweat, muscles burning. Earned two of three stripes last night as progress toward my yellow belt.
Still trying to talk Daughter into entering the August tournament as a yellow-belt (since she'll just be doing the forms and one-step sparring combos she'll already have to have mastered to earn her camo belt). May have to enter myself, or at least volunteer to help run it (having helped organize large Quiz Bowl tournaments in high school).
Bought a Wavemaster kicking target, so Daughter and I can practice beating the crap out of things at home. Haven't quite decided where it will "live". Same for the leg-stretcher (Daughter doesn't need it, she's limber as a cat) to help dear old Dad with his kicks.
My dining room tapestry came in. It's an Old World map, very cool. Daughter saw it last night, and said "ewww, it's got naked people on it". And sure enough, there are some unclothed breasts and buttocks (in the style of the period the map was drawn), but not pictured in any sort of sexual way (mostly nymphs on the half-shell in ocean scenes, or angelic figures in sky). I tried to explain to her that it was art, and that nudity isn't inherently bad, but her comment was, "well, some peoples' art sucks". Wonder if she gets this from her mother who, while not being a prude, has some relatively old-fashioned ideas about nudity. The bra section of the Sears catalog is more erotic than the figures on the tapestry. Wonder if the ex will pitch a fit about it. I'd hate to have to go back and bowdlerize such a nice tapestry. Now all I need to do is find the right mounting hardware. I'm thinking kinda old-worldy wrought iron mounts with open-basket finials, to echo the iron-work on the living room end- and coffee-tables.
Oh, what else...not a whole lot, really. Just more work and less sleep...and uncontrolled cheating on the diet. Doctor isn't happy with my tracking of my blood pressure (stupid wrist cuff is accurate enough, but it frackin' BEEPS, so I can't really use it at my desk during the day), but I have officially lost 5 lb since I saw him last...which is about 1/10 of what I'd have liked to have lost.
Back to the grind.
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