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Feeling  todayBrand new kitten! Brand new kitten! (Changed 2-15-06) Thursday, September 19, 2002
JOTD A visitor to a monastery notices that they have some very beautiful flowers on the grounds. Coming home, he tells his friends about them. Soon word starts spreading about the flowers, and the monks keep getting more and more visitors. The monks build a greenhouse and start cultivating the flowers to sell. Soon they have a thriving business and become very wealthy and are paying less and less attention to spiritual matters. Eventually, the head of the monks' order hears about what's happening. He decides to send Brother Hue out to investigate. Brother Hue had a reputation in the order of a fearsome temper. He gets to the monastery and sees everything. A terrible rage comes over him. In a fury, he destroys the greenhouse, uproots all the plants in the ground, and burns the place to the ground, making it unusable in the future. Turning to the monks, Hue proceeds to lecture them fiercely about what they were doing. Moral of the story: Only Hue can prevent florist friars. Monday, September 09, 2002
TALKING 'BOUT THE WEATHER Nifty little addition down along the left side, right under the "Just Read" section. Fun little graphic for the weather in the Cleveland area. One minor problem with it.... it's not an "up-to-the-minute" type of thing. Sunday, September 08, 2002
EN GUARDE!! Had my first fencign tournament of the season today. Didn't do too terrible. Ended up 16 out of 25. Lost all my bouts but one. It's kind of a weird sport where you can say you lost most of your matches, but still had a good day. It was my 2 more important ones that were the good ones. For the fencing impared of you out there, the way a tournament runs: It starts out with pools. Pools generally have between 5-7 people in them, depending on how many have signed up. You are (relatively) randomly sorted into your pools. You fence all the people in your pools, and your wins/losses decide your seeding for the direct eliminations, or DEs. Today, I lost all the bouts in my pool. Generally, I'll win one or two, depending on how well I'm doing. After everybody finishes their pools, all the seeding and organizing is done for the DEs and you fence those. The DEs are the "tournament" part of the tournament. That's where you get your first place, second place, etc. for the day. The pools are fenced for 3 minutes or 5 valid touches, whichever comes first. Pools used to be 4 minutes long, but the USFA (United States Fencing Association- the ruling body for fencing in the US) decided to drop them down to 3 minutes, so that they're equal to the international federations rules (The jerks!!). The DEs are 3 - 3minute periods (for a total of 9 minutes), or 15 valid touches, whichever is first there. My first DE I won 15-8 against someone I've had problems with in the past. Personally, he's a nice guy, but fencing problems. He's usually beaten me when I've fenced him before. My second DE I lost 15-5, at 8 mins 57 seconds. If I hadn't pressed my attack at the end, I could have timed the bout out, and would have lost 14-5. My opponent for this one is also someone who I've had problems with in the past. He also usually beats me, but it's been well before the full time period. Today, I took him the whole way. Of course, he's also given our top foilist (John, who just turned 13) problems in the past, so I don't really feel too terrible losing to him. He didn't goose egg me, and we went all the way to the end. So that's how I can say I lost all my bouts but one, and still had a good day fencing. |