Friday Morning Feels – Hippies And Cowboys
Some old drunk on a barstool on a Merle Haggard tune That’s my kinda room
Your Composure Is Waiting For You
I bought The Daily Stoic: 365 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living for myself as a New Year’s present and for, you know, education. I’m really enjoying reading it because I seeContinue reading
Agile Manifesto For BJJ
I’m working on a longer post about applying agile methodologies to BJJ training, but I thought it would be kind of cool to take the Agile Manifesto For Software Development and tweak it a littleContinue reading
Getting My BJJ Sprints Fired Up Again
I was talking with one of my teammates last night and found out she’s a software engineer. I asked if she used Jira at work and told her about using it to run sprints forContinue reading
How Far We’ve Fallen – 1987 CMA Awards
I’ve probably watched this about 100 times on VHS. Thankfully somebody posted it to YouTube. Just for some perspective, the nominees for male vocalist of the year were: George Jones George Strait Randy Travis RickyContinue reading
Yeah, But It Never Happens That Way
Big jiu jitsu realization yesterday. “Yeah, but it never happens that way.” I realized pretty quickly in rugby that the way we drilled some things in practice never happened in a game. But it doesn’tContinue reading
Hopelessly Bad At This
The other day after I was taking a round off during open mat and talking to one of my favorite training partners about a visitor we were training with that day who was absolutely wreckingContinue reading
Finding My Sweet Spot For BJJ Training Intensity
For the past month or so I’ve been given the opportunity to come to the gym on Friday mornings for two hours of BJJ training. For the first hour, you get to drill exactly whatContinue reading
Todd Snider and Jerry Jeff Walker
Love them both. Here’s why.
Officially Old
Dang it. A few weeks ago we were in Walmart and I noticed they were selling Levi’s blue jeans. Not just selling them, but selling them at Walmart prices. Like, $25 a pair for someContinue reading
2018 Excalibur 10 Miler Race Report
;TLDR Version Ran much faster than I thought I would (1:20:05) Ran almost as fast as I could have–made a couple of small mistakes that probably cost me some time. Still love this race. StillContinue reading
Re-Focusing on Closed Guard
Another BJJ revelation the other day. Surprise surprise. I really like Coach Frank’s teaching style and the cool stuff he shows us. But as I was struggling through my 6th or so inverted rotation fromContinue reading
The Stages Of Password Change Adaptation
Stage I “Why can’t I unlock my machine?” Because I’m typing the password I used previously (Stage IV-ing it) and hitting enter before remembering it was changed Stage II “Uh…hang on.” Remembering that you changedContinue reading