Food, Friends, and Random Anime
Just a quick post tonight (I really should be sleeping right now, hell I should be doing math, but oh well.)
I woke up this morning with a serious case of the Mondays, even though it was Tuesday (now technically Wednesday). Monday night I was tired of my car acting like a beast so I opted to do some maintenance on it. Just swap the spark plugs out with some fresh ones. Well that ended up turning into having to warranty out my spark plug wires and while I was there I picked up some replacement heater host for a six inch section that Mazda in all of their infinite wisdom decided to bridge to pieces of metal pipe with. (why they chose this route I'll never know. Of course there have been a lot of those moments with this car over the past year.) So a quick run to AutoZone and I had my new parts.
I replaced the spark plug wires easily enough, the heater hose on the other hand was a different story. I ended up giving up that night, although it was while I was laying in bed thinking about the problem that I remembered the water outlet housing which this thing connected to. So I figured it would probably be easier to disconnect the half-dozen sensors and pull the air box and upper radiator hose to get to the housing and take it off then to keep trying what I was. But it would have to wait until morning.
I woke up and dragged myself out of bed and then took a shower which felt nice, then had some breakfast and read my newspaper that finally started arriving. (it took two phone calls and coming into the office at the paper for them to figure out that they had put my address in with a 4 instead of a 9!) After eating, I decided that I still didn't have the energy/ambition to fix that thing and I was already going to miss my math class so I just crawled back into bed for an hour and a half.
I finally got going on everything about Noon, it only ended up taking about and hour and a half to take everything apart and put it back together. (Yes I've done this all before, a few times at this point.) Well I did about half a dozen things I'd been meaning to do while I was under there. But of course something had to impede my progress. I was tightening the negative battery terminal back on and the bolt snapped out of terminal. I mean of all things, literally the last thing I had to do and it broke!
Oh well another quick run to the Zone, no big deal. On the way there I was thinking about my friend's birthday party which is on Halloween. Literally while I'm thinking about him I look up and he's walking toward me. He showed me his new apartment, which is about a block away from mine. So that's a win right there 
Chilled with him for about an hour and a half, then went to the Zone and back to my place. Put the new battery terminal on and fired up the Mazda. Worked like champ, at least for the first few start ups. Now it's going back to the same old routine, I really wish I could figure out why it runs so rich. Well really I shouldn't complain it's running a lot better than it has been. There's another win.
From there I grabbed my Karate gear and headed over to teach. It was a pretty fun night. I let Karl warm all the classes he was involved with up, so I could take breaks One thing I am noticing lately, I've been learning to correct my balance a lot better, and thus I can relax more. I really need to be careful, I think when I demonstrate things from time to time, I may be getting close to hurting my students. I don't mean to, I'm not putting much effort into the strikes, just good body mechanics. As well I did discover the importance of backup mass with a kick today. More specifically a front kick, just relaxed my leg and didn't extend my hip. The kick is fast and seems to have some good penetration, something I need to keep playing with. So there's yet another win for the day.
When that was all said and done, I ended up going up to the university to chill with all the Japan nerds. (Yes, that includes me) We ended up watching a bunch of random anime, Code Geas is an awesome show, going to have to find the whole series. There was also a bunch of straight up comedies and one the bordered on softcore porn. But whatever it was good to get out of the house and see some friends that are not involved in Martial Arts. And yet another win for the day.
Now I'm finishing my blog post for the day. Nice and authentic, personal, and I hope a little entertaining. It was at least for me So this and a good night's sleep will be my last wins for the day.
Later!