My most favorite part of my week was I was finally able to track down a Systema instructor within 1 hr of my house.  He only charges $20 for a 2 hr private lesson.  That's an awesome price if you've ever taken private martial arts lessons before.  I also found a place that sells 6" diameter wooden fence posts that I can use to make a mook jong wooden dummy from.  Took me about 3 weeks to track a place down that had them.  Was afraid I was destine to have to use pvc pipe for it.  Still might make one out of pvc for practicing knife fighting and some mook jong dummy forms.  Also closing in on being able to get my blackberry storm.  Have to wait until feb 10 to get it so it falls on my billing cycle so I don't have to pay outrageous fees for getting it outside of cycle (i.e. have to pay the extra days outside of cycle on next bill, which usually means almost 2 months of payment).  I also got my wife interested in doing the editing of all the photos I'm taking/have taken so I can get caught up on the backlog and so we can start determining photos I can start selling on the web as posters. out of the several hundred I've taken, I'm hoping for at least 20 that I can put on the site and sell. That'd be awesome.

  On a sadder note, I found out today that one of the girls I was friends with at Time warner was dead.  One of the guys I work with used to work at twc also, and we were talking about when we used to work there and I mentioned that I missed the people I used to work with and I mentioned her, he told me she had died awhile ago.  Official story was it was from a gall bladder surgery.  The unofficial story was that she od'd.  She left behind a son.  It's pretty sad.  She was very emotionally unstable when I knew her (she was taking anti-depressants), so it's not a big shock if she did OD, but it's still sad.

  Anyway, when we're finally caught up on the backlog, I'll post some more pics, including the mook jong when I have it built.