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socal trip blog #3

This blog is for the 3rd day of the socal trip.   I woke up around 7 am and we went to the same starbucks near the airport for breakfast. Since the bagel place next to the starbucks wasn’t very good, I got a coffee cake from starbucks instead which was much better. We then […]

socal trip blog #2

This blog is for the second day of my trip to socal from a little more than a week ago.   I woke up in the hotel room at around 6:30 and we went to a get breakfast at a starbucks that was down the road. Coincidentally, this starbucks was also right next to the […]

Summer Weekends

This past weekend was both eventful and fun. I was off work Friday and was able to play golf and catch up with a good friend then met up with some different friends for a work happy hour later in the evening. Saturday I played golf again, then went to an outdoor concert and dinner. […]

Healing

I am healing and recovering quicker than I thought I would.  It has been a little over three weeks since the injury happened.  I can now do all of the requirement except full sit ups.  I can do crunches.  I did planks as a substitution when my ribs hurt when I lifted my head.  They […]

Mindfulness

Another book I am in the middle of is You Are Here by Thich Nhat Hanh. I have really enjoyed this book so far. One of the concepts in the book is mindfulness and being in tune with the task at hand. Instead of multitasking and divding your attention. I normally pride myself on being […]

Loss of a Friend

This past Saturday night, my work family suffered a tragic loss. A close coworker very suddenly and unexpectedly passed away while he was swimming laps in a pool. It’s believed that he suffered a heart attack and wasn’t found in the pool until it was too late. He was mid-60s but was overall quite healthy […]

Ego Is the Enemy

I am currently in the middle of three books. One is called Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday.  This book is about how our ego can get the better of us and make us act certain ways. The best way I can describe it, is as mindset awareness. I can think back to different […]

heading to socal

(this was written in notes app on my phone. the wifi at the hotel wasn’t great) Today(friday) my aunt, my mom, my grandma, and I flew down to orange county for my cousin’s high school graduation. Our flight was at 1420(2:20pm) since it was going to be basically impossible to get my grandma to the […]

White Belt Promotion

On Friday the four white belts in my class received their yellow belts.  I am so proud of them.  They worked very hard on sparring kata # 1 to get their belts.  Congratulations to all of them.  Now they can move on to sparring.  They have all the fundamentals to do it.  How exciting for […]

Fostering Kittens

For a while now there have been litters of kittens that have been hanging around both my mom’s front patio arena and also my dad’s front patio. My mom loves cats and every time she sees a stray cat that hangs around our house she tries to capture it and take it to a cat […]