I don't know what it is, but something about DA lags up my compy like nothing else. I say this because I've spent the last 2 hours reading messages. And it shouldn't have taken that long. And I still have 303 devs to ooh and aaah at. But that can wait for tomorrow.

So... What's been up in the last 11 days?

Well, first of all: The city of lights festival/parade thing last wednesday. That was gurt fun that were. I was leading the band, and as we blorked around Truro I kept thinking three things: "Don't forget to smile!" "Ahh, this band is good!" and "Geh! Not again!"
The last one was because I kept on nearly walking into the bunch of lantern holders ahead of me - I avoided being smacked in the head by poles and an illuminated hippo many times.
Got to hand it to them: That was a good hippo.
Also, the improvisations going on in the band were awesome! Next practice session I'm definately going to mention that.
We've got a gig going on sometime early december, which I beleive Penrythm might be hosting. So come along! I'll post more details when I have them (Probably wednesday).
EDIT: Some photos of the band on Flickr: [link]


What else? Umm...
Well, my week has been a little uneventful until today, and my yesterday was a bit dull because I spent all of it revising my taekwondo theory. But that was my plan, and I stuck to it. In the end, I still forgot what "twin upset palm block" was... (Sang sombadak ollyo makgi, for those who want some phonetic Korean...). But I got most of the rest of the questions right.
Questions? Oh, yes, I did my blackbelt exam today.
Divided into sections, I can rate it thusly: Good, goodish, allright, bad, ugh, amusingly nasty, good, annoying.
Good: I got my patterns right.
Goodish: The theory test.
Allright: 3-step/2-step
Bad: Sparring. I got my arse handed to me. Also, Carlie twisted her ankle nastily during the self-defence excercise, and she has bad ankles anyway... But she recovered pretty quickly, which is goood.
Ugh: Me vs some of the higher blackbelts (I got a wonderfully bleeding lip. My blood tastes funky.)
Amusingly nasty: 2-on-1 sparring (I took the worst pummelling i've ever gotten. Srsly. But it was somehow fun...)
Good: The new kicking techniques we've been drilling recently. I's good at them.
Annoying: Breaking. Normally I can do 2 inches of wood with either leg without much trouble, but I chose to do the wrong kick this time (Dollyo instead of bandae yop), and nearly fluffed it. And because of that, I wasn't thinking clearly, and nearly fluffed the hands as well (I did normal sonkal instead of the anuro sonkal i've been practicing). I didn't break with my right hand (Which is my better hand for it), but did with my left. Odd.
But apparently I did well enough to pass, so WOOT! I is blackbelted now!

And if you were wondering what all those technical terms mean, don't. They're quite dull, really. (Turning, reverse side, knife-hand, inward knife-hand).

I was tired enough from all of it afterwards to fall asleep in the middle of the day, which is something I almost never do. (I have a very strange love/hate relationship with sleeping...)

Umm...

Yeah, that'l do.
And as usual I'll say something about checking here more often, but we all know that's rather unlikely, don't we?

Love, peace, and weasel grease.

-Arth
Pengu is Korean for fart (Phonetics ftw!). Unless the bloke who told me that was lying...