In may, I go to battle.  The time has come for push-hands competition, and making that decision caused a shift in consciousness towards harder work, and clearer goals.  Now the shift goes from internal healing/exploration/mastery, to using previous advances at said endeavors to conquer and smash! (well, push.  But really well)  I find myself getting up a little earlier.  Training more days than I used to. Having more fun.  I also want to find some martial arts schools that offer open sparring days.  It's not really clear how much ass I can kick now.  It's time to find out.  In theory more than in the past, but I'm not content to let it be a theory.  That's the plight of the no longer training martial artist (man, if he did that kick on me, I would just like catch it and be like BLAM!  That would show him).

Yeah.  Otherwise, work kinda sucks.  Bosses kinda suck.  Blah blaah.