At last the week from Hell draws nearer to a close.
I really don’t know how you people who have to go in to the office every day do it. How did I survive this, back when I did it? The alarm clock every morning? Hustle for the train … fight traffic. Man, it’s no wonder we’re so messed up. Look how we spend our days.
Today I teach my class on The Software. We rented out the meeting room at Tech Superpowers, and I dropped my slides off to be made into booklets at the Kinko’s on the way there from the Back Bay station. Supposedly, I’ve got 6 people showing up. Should be a fun class. It’s material that I know, cold, and these are the people who immediately said “yes please” when we offered the class. Each attendee gets their very own cluster instance to customize (under my tutelage). With six people I ought to be able to free form it, pretty much all day.
I’ve even got a colleague hanging out in the machine room at BDC to power cycle any of my example machines that get so badly hung that they become non-responsive … and we’ve supposedly got coffee and pasteries showing up at 8:30.
The only other news is that I tested for my brown belt last night. About a year and a quarter into this karate training, it’s starting to be a substantial amount of material to remember all at once. It took almost 20 minutes to run through it all at full velocity. I don’t think that the guy on whom I was demonstrating this stuff had a very good time of it. He was bigger than me, and my teacher kept telling me to hit hard and take him down vigorously.
At this point, if history is a guide, I remain a brown belt for a year or more. This involves relearning all the techniques left-handed, and approximately doubling my store of forms and weapons. Should be fun.
He’s also been letting us use the “speed bag,” which is a trip. Punching a fast moving object is building whole new neural pathways in my mind.
I should take a nap on the train. I may need it.
Update: Door was unlocked at the place when I got here. Met the owner, good stuff. It’s going to be a good day.
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