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This post might be a bit of a downer. If you aren’t in the headspace to handle that just keep on scrolling and move on. So, a couple of years ago we lost my Mom. Skimming over a lot of it we have been trying to deal with all the stuff that she collected over … Read more

So one thing that I miss having on my computers at home is proper remote management of the device. Yes, I have my servers setup so that I can ssh into them and get access to things but out of the box you can’t access things like the BIOS or do a reload of the … Read more

So it’s been a couple of weeks since I was at the IBJJF worlds and now that I’m back into my normal flow of life I guess that it’s time to think about what’s next. First question, am I going to compete again? I’m thinking that I will so I’m going to proceed under the … Read more

I’m in somewhat of a grumpy mood so I’m going to complain here. Feel free to bail if you don’t like that type of stuff. If you are hanging around you have been warned. So. The internet. I’ve been online for a long, long, while. I was online before webpages were really a thing and … Read more

I was poking around some WordPress themes, kind of toying with the idea of putting something up that looked a little fancier than what’s currently on here. And after poking around for a bit I decided that it really wasn’t worth the time to spend screwing around with new templates and such. At the end … Read more

At this point it’s looking more and more like that’s not the question that you should be asking, the question is how to use it without loosing your ability to think and function without it. Generally speaking I prefer to learn skills directly and to do as much as I can without the aid of … Read more

I recently spent some time sitting in Vegas at a BJJ tournament and did have a chance to step around and take some photos of the area around my hotel and up the strip as I was walking around. The last time that I was wandering around in Las Vegas was back in 2005, so … Read more

Well it’s in the books and done for me and the team. This day was another of being there to support the team and take photos for me. The big revelation today was how tough some of the folks that I train with are. One only tapped because his opponent managed to dislocate his jaw … Read more

Ok, so Day Two is in the books. I wasn’t on deck this time around so I was mainly around to support the team members who were competing and to watch other matches to see what was interesting to see. I’m not going to comment on the matches since I wasn’t the one fighting them … Read more

Earlier in the year I made the decision to go down to the IBJJF worlds to compete. Competing at some level in the sport was something that I was thinking of doing for a while and after some thought about it I figured why not just go big and just straight into the deep end … Read more