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Don’t think there’s a whole lot in specific to say here. Just making a general update (I have been getting modified comic strips in my mailbox each morning suggesting that I make an update (hi Victoria)).

I’ll report that I passed my first Aikido grading a couple weeks back. Now I have the rank of 9th-class (as opposed to my previous rank of “absolutely nothing”). Very cool, but it’s made me realize even more that it’s a long long path that I’m on. The training for the test, and the intensive midsummer training before that, took quite a lot out of me and I finally hit a wall in the week after my test. I’m only now starting to recover a bit and really want to train again.

Things are finally starting to get comfortable at work — in the past little bit I’ve wrapped up two projects which have been lingering around (and causing stress — not because they’ve been difficult, but because they’ve been lingering). It’s really nice to be able to go home on Friday with no thoughts about coming in for a few hours on the weekend “just to clear off the plate a bit”… On the other hand, I’m sure it’ll get busy again before too long, so I’d better enjoy it while I can.

Time is fast approaching to figure out what I’m going to do about going home at Christmas… I can’t believe it’s been almost a year already. It’s already past Thanksgiving at home!

Hmm, I guess that’s about it.. If you haven’t been paying attention to the photo galleries recently, go have a look — there’re a bunch of new photos in there (and a new version of the Gallery software).

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