Merry Christmas folks. I've been busy and don't have a whole lot to say. I was hoping to have my requirements for next year ready to post but due to my emails not reaching him because of some unknown gremlin Sifu Brinker has only just received my first draft. Hopefully we get them hammered out sooner rather than later.
Other than that I don't have much else to say. I'm looking forward to hitting the ground running on the 1st.
See you next year.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain Alberta
www.silentriverkungfu.com
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Doing well...not that it helps
I've always been one to enjoy my own misfortune. If you can't laugh at yourself, what's left in life? Well, this is pretty funny. I'm now making twice what I was, but I now have less money. I had been getting paid daily, in fact, and now I'm pretty sure that I won't get paid until Jan 1st at which time my check should be sizable, even more so than all the bills due on Dec 30th. Really, at this point, I'd be better off with making less faster to cover my bills, but in the long term this should be best. The only thing I'm worried about is whether I'll be able to register in time for an event which takes place at the end of January and towards which I've been looking for a year. If I don't make it, I will be a thoroughly unhappy camper.
This has pretty much been my fail month. In a fall/winter wrought by disappointment and things exploding in my face, this is arguably the worst month of them all. The only thing which has gone right this month is the sandwich I had yesterday. It was delicious.
The thing which amuses and infuriates me is that I keep on doing things which should be great but have ended up just making things worse, at least for the short term. The things which have gone well are few and far between, while everything else unravels around me. I haven't even been able to get to the kwoon on even a semi regular basis, nor has my blogging been up to snuff, and the list goes on. The part which irritates me the most though is that it doesn't matter. That's all anyone says, when I happen to remark on my current state of dissatisfaction. I'm not sure what I would actually be happy to hear, but I'm sure it would be something constructive, like perhaps a solution. What I'm not a fan of is 'it'll be better later' or 'it'll all work out' or 'it's no big deal'. The first two are fair enough, I mean it's just a person trying to sound sympathetic and give you some hope, but I already know things will be better in the future. The last one though 'it's no big deal' annoys me. I know that having my plans continually dashed isn't a 'big' problem. I know that my blogging isn't a big deal (let's face it, the world doesn't change based on my blogs...yet). I know that not being able to get to the kwoon is not a big deal. I know that all my problems are not big deals. No lives depend on their outcomes and they don't have far reaching implications which cannot be solved in January and when I'm old and toothless I won't be muttering about how December 2009 was where my life went wrong. I know that my problems are not big to the world, but they're the problems I have and they're plenty big enough for my purposes.
Even my 'what the Ubbt has done for me' won't go right. I know exactly what I want to say, I have figured it out but how to say it is giving me some trouble. When I sat down at my computer tonight I had big plans for the next editing of it, but instead I typed this. Why? Because this is just what I had to say.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com
This has pretty much been my fail month. In a fall/winter wrought by disappointment and things exploding in my face, this is arguably the worst month of them all. The only thing which has gone right this month is the sandwich I had yesterday. It was delicious.
The thing which amuses and infuriates me is that I keep on doing things which should be great but have ended up just making things worse, at least for the short term. The things which have gone well are few and far between, while everything else unravels around me. I haven't even been able to get to the kwoon on even a semi regular basis, nor has my blogging been up to snuff, and the list goes on. The part which irritates me the most though is that it doesn't matter. That's all anyone says, when I happen to remark on my current state of dissatisfaction. I'm not sure what I would actually be happy to hear, but I'm sure it would be something constructive, like perhaps a solution. What I'm not a fan of is 'it'll be better later' or 'it'll all work out' or 'it's no big deal'. The first two are fair enough, I mean it's just a person trying to sound sympathetic and give you some hope, but I already know things will be better in the future. The last one though 'it's no big deal' annoys me. I know that having my plans continually dashed isn't a 'big' problem. I know that my blogging isn't a big deal (let's face it, the world doesn't change based on my blogs...yet). I know that not being able to get to the kwoon is not a big deal. I know that all my problems are not big deals. No lives depend on their outcomes and they don't have far reaching implications which cannot be solved in January and when I'm old and toothless I won't be muttering about how December 2009 was where my life went wrong. I know that my problems are not big to the world, but they're the problems I have and they're plenty big enough for my purposes.
Even my 'what the Ubbt has done for me' won't go right. I know exactly what I want to say, I have figured it out but how to say it is giving me some trouble. When I sat down at my computer tonight I had big plans for the next editing of it, but instead I typed this. Why? Because this is just what I had to say.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
What have I got to say?
I've been busy with trying to figure out exactly how to answer what the Ubbt has done for me, but I just can't stop writing. So here's an entry to tide y'all over til it's done.
Well lately life sucks, which is nothing new. But as I like to say, "Life happens, live with it or don't". So, how am I addressing my current status of broker than broke? I've got a new job lined up with double the pay. (Side Note: If you're waiting for an applause signal, this is it) I'm more or less pleased with where I'm sitting as of today.
One thing I am less than pleased about was having my car go into the ditch. The ensuing adventure
would have been a great day unto itself were it not for the 5'4" of witty, dark haired reasons for my car to be wisking me into cafe in Edmonton. But apologies were issued, discussions were had, and the preordained time and place has been re-ordained to next week, same bat time, same bat place. (Side note: Adam West is the best Batman of all time)
On a funnier note; my car cost me $400 dollars, my roommate's cost him several thousand dollars to the point where he has to make payments which I hope are not $400 per month. No, they're probably $1-200 dollars a month (I hope). Yet whose auto hasn't failed too start nigh a once? The fancy, expensive one which has even been plugged in? Or the 1989 red lunch box with wheels which got left in a snowbank over night? That's right loyal reader(s), the owner of the car whose muffler "makes [me] look like I have a sense of humour" (~My father's co-worker), can now make fun of an expensive car. It's not that I am happy that my friend's car is as impotent in this weather as a chihuahua guard dog in the arctic, but that irony makes colours brighter, the air sweeter, and flavours more vibrant.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com
Well lately life sucks, which is nothing new. But as I like to say, "Life happens, live with it or don't". So, how am I addressing my current status of broker than broke? I've got a new job lined up with double the pay. (Side Note: If you're waiting for an applause signal, this is it) I'm more or less pleased with where I'm sitting as of today.
One thing I am less than pleased about was having my car go into the ditch. The ensuing adventure
would have been a great day unto itself were it not for the 5'4" of witty, dark haired reasons for my car to be wisking me into cafe in Edmonton. But apologies were issued, discussions were had, and the preordained time and place has been re-ordained to next week, same bat time, same bat place. (Side note: Adam West is the best Batman of all time)
On a funnier note; my car cost me $400 dollars, my roommate's cost him several thousand dollars to the point where he has to make payments which I hope are not $400 per month. No, they're probably $1-200 dollars a month (I hope). Yet whose auto hasn't failed too start nigh a once? The fancy, expensive one which has even been plugged in? Or the 1989 red lunch box with wheels which got left in a snowbank over night? That's right loyal reader(s), the owner of the car whose muffler "makes [me] look like I have a sense of humour" (~My father's co-worker), can now make fun of an expensive car. It's not that I am happy that my friend's car is as impotent in this weather as a chihuahua guard dog in the arctic, but that irony makes colours brighter, the air sweeter, and flavours more vibrant.
Ben Davies
Silent River Kung Fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com
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