I miss training Brazilian jiu jitsu soo badly. It makes me teary to think of the year(s) I've lost from the sport due to illness and the resultant surgeries.

I miss my friends, the competition, the training. I miss it all. And no amount of bike riding can really truly replace it. I'm a barely average bike racer, but I know I can be great at jiu jitsu.

To all my friends from my days at Fabios' I miss you. To all my friends from my time now at Atos, I miss you.

Infamy

Both of my male grandparents served on the west coast during WWII. Seattle and San Diego.

I've been to the site where a Japanese balloon firebomb killed a group of Sunday school kids in Oregon during the war. Poignant. A monument rarely visited.

I've been to the locations of 3 different internment camps for Japanese in Oregon and California. Awestruck and shocked. These places at the time you could just walk right up to and had no restoration or protection. Forgotten history in another decade.

I have and wear a memorial bracelet for a MIA, later listed KIA, serviceman.

Pearl Harbor. Been there, all the tours, all the monuments. Overwhelming feeling of sadness at the loss of life. I cried and didn't try to hide it.

This is not just any other day, and should be remembered. Breed Hill, the Maine, the Alamo, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor. So many things in American history that should never be forgotten.

Dear Anonymous,

To answer your question, yes I do believe that the government you asked about is monitoring the internet and cellular communications of protesters and dissidents.

A state security apparatus would be foolish not to and it would also be silly for those on the other end to think anything they send, say or type is secure or not being monitored.

Peer to peer encryption should be used on top of a cypher, giving layered security to your communications.

I wish you the best with a successful regime change.

Rowdy

just rowdying around

Hmmmm, what's going on here?
Oh, just up in a tree. Hanging xmas lights.
Just another scar. This one is from those darn pedal bikes I'm riding all the time.
Best teriyaki chicken kabobs ever. Evah!And I made them.

12 Days of Rowdy

I have 12 days till hopefully my final surgery for Crohns disease/surgery complications. And although some people hate to hear it, since I'm not a fan of xmas I don't mind co-opting a seasonal song to my own ends.

Here you have it, my own original creation, The 12 Days of Rowdy. (Subtitled ''till surgery')

12 hot showers enjoying,
11 chances for pizza eating,
10 nights of dreaming,
9 football games
8 hours of fasting,
7 (not for family reading)
6 bmx races,
5 coats to charity donated,
4 months 'till jiu jitsu training,
3 new books for reading,
2 shots of Humira,
1 hope for health!!

Who's #1? You know!

i suck... but i wont quit till i win

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