After Nearly a Decade

I'm retiring from fencing. No more fencing, no more coaching, no more refereeing starting August 1st, 2008.

Why? it's not because I'm burnt out in the sense that I've had too much fencing. It's more that this has always been my plan. To start something, raise it up, and then turn it over to the people who asked for it - the members. Now that RCF is incorporated, I only serve to stand in the way of preventing many people from doing the work that one man cannot. The tools are there, the armorers, the coaches, the refs, the facility, it is far from an impossible situation.

My hope is that people will take it upon themselves to do more demos, to bring in friends, to teach each other to do the things they have learned. In the mean time, I will be regaining my weekend, my evenings, and my opportunity to be a the kind of guy who is "a family man", or to do some side projects at work, like training other developers to use our software, or to take a business course, or learn more about electronics, or read, or any of those things that I've left in a pile on the side while I worked with fencing.

I know that many of you define me through my fencing, but it's the right move for the club, it's the right move for me too.

I have eaten

I have eaten no less than three delicious Cadbury Creme Eggs today. Mmmmm.

Oh yes, it will be mine

The keyboard I've always dreamed about, but I thought manufacturers were too dumb to make. Easy to hold, built in mouse in the form of a touch pad, and freakin' Bluetooth. Ships later this moth to a Will Read near you!

The Good Girl

So last night I watched The Good Girl with Jennifer Aniston. As soon as I sat down and got to the DVD menu I realized I had already seen it, and that it had left a bad taste in my mouth, but decided to watch it anyway, just to see why.

It's an independent film, so the transitions are weird, and it has a stale-lack-of-soundtrack feel to it, which works in this case. The movie focuses on this one woman who hates her life, because it is so bland. She meets a guy, a boy really, who gives her a chance to escape and in turn she'd be helping him escape the same plight. But she chickens out and people all around her get hurt because she's unwilling to own up to her actions and insecurities.

And then it ends. That's it. "People can't change", says the film writer. I get it, but I hate it.