FallibleDragon (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fallibledragon) wrote,@ 2005-08-07 23:10:00 |
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what's so civil about war anyway?
Jeez... watched a documentary about the nukes dropped on Japan tonight. Cried about four times, and just stared in horror for a lot of the rest. Words completely fail me :(
I had been reconsidering my stance on non-violence a LITTLE recently; thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to learn something like Aikido (the supposedly "non-violent" martial art, purely for defense). Watching that documentary knocked any such silly ideas right out of me, thankfully.
So I found a free Yoga video online instead; something else I've been considering lately. I do need to start regular exercise again, just to keep myself in shape, and I didn't want to resume the martial arts exercises that I learnt in the past, even if only doing the warm-up parts of that practice. So yoga will hopefully be a nice alternative, and much more interesting to me, too :)
I finally took the plunge, and have been watching the new Stargate SG1 Season 9 and Atlantis Season 2 (also a tiny bit of BSG Season 2). All going in interesting new directions, which holds lots of promise for entertainment value :)
I applied for a course recently... one I inquired about over a year ago, and just got contacted about last week. That would give me four different qualifications -- Microsoft administration and such -- in one go, so if they think I qualify, it'll be pretty handy. Also, it's in the same area as my local meditation centre, which I hadn't managed to prioritise for its own sake, so being in the area anyway would help there :)
Work-wise, I've been happily working with Python again, doing more work on my plugin for Inkscape. I also have a basically functional Jabber-based Livehelp client, which I'm working on building into a full livehelp webapp.
Oh, gotta go get my car's battery off charge, before it's too dark to see out there.
Jeez... watched a documentary about the nukes dropped on Japan tonight. Cried about four times, and just stared in horror for a lot of the rest. Words completely fail me :(
I had been reconsidering my stance on non-violence a LITTLE recently; thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to learn something like Aikido (the supposedly "non-violent" martial art, purely for defense). Watching that documentary knocked any such silly ideas right out of me, thankfully.
So I found a free Yoga video online instead; something else I've been considering lately. I do need to start regular exercise again, just to keep myself in shape, and I didn't want to resume the martial arts exercises that I learnt in the past, even if only doing the warm-up parts of that practice. So yoga will hopefully be a nice alternative, and much more interesting to me, too :)
I finally took the plunge, and have been watching the new Stargate SG1 Season 9 and Atlantis Season 2 (also a tiny bit of BSG Season 2). All going in interesting new directions, which holds lots of promise for entertainment value :)
I applied for a course recently... one I inquired about over a year ago, and just got contacted about last week. That would give me four different qualifications -- Microsoft administration and such -- in one go, so if they think I qualify, it'll be pretty handy. Also, it's in the same area as my local meditation centre, which I hadn't managed to prioritise for its own sake, so being in the area anyway would help there :)
Work-wise, I've been happily working with Python again, doing more work on my plugin for Inkscape. I also have a basically functional Jabber-based Livehelp client, which I'm working on building into a full livehelp webapp.
Oh, gotta go get my car's battery off charge, before it's too dark to see out there.
