Do you ever get that feeling that you need a little help in relaxing? I was feeling like I needed a bit of assistance last night and I didn’t want to put on any music. So, I opted for a bit of white noise and tuned my computer to iSerenity: ambient sound environments at your desktop for relaxation and solitude. I would recommend checking out the ‘rain’ environment as that is what I used last night.
I just woke up remembering a dream that I attended a mixed martial arts workshop with Randy Couture. I had ended up sparring twice, once against another attendee that I submitted quite easily. Then I volunteered to spar against the man himself and came in fast with a double leg take down and then quickly scrambled to initiate a bare naked rear choke to submit him.
After the submission, he lay on the mat for a bit and I helped him up and bowed to him stating that I appreciate the opportunity and not to worry as in the game of mixed martial arts, anyone can be tapped out, that’s just the nature of submissions. He smiled and commented on my quickness and speed.
After the workshop, I was heading to my car, and I ended up walking through Disney World. I recall seeing the train and a couple of people walking behind me eating cotton candy smiling at me.
Weird..
Just wanted to take a brief detour and share with the readers of wujimon another hobby of mine, that is aquariums and fish tanks. More specifically, I enjoy keeping and maintaining freshwater planted fish tanks.
Growing up, I wasn’t allowed to have any cats/dogs/gerbils due the my parent’s allergies, but they did allow me to have aquarium fish. My first fish tank was given to me when I was 10yrs old by my cousin and it was a 20g angelfish/silver dollar tank.
Over the following 20 yrs, I have kept many types of aquariums ranging from a south east asian tiger barb themed tank to an african cichlid tank to a saltwater coral reef tank. I have finally settled on keeping freshwater planted tanks as cost and maintenance requirements of the tank fit well with my current lifestyle.
The link to a flickr photo set shows a photo of my saltwater coral reef tank that I had in college and then shows the progression of my 37g freshwater planted tank and finally shows the beginnings of my 20g long freshwater office tank. Enjoy 
What other hobbies are folks involved with?
Just wanted to take a brief detour and share with the readers of wujimon another hobby of mine, that is aquariums and fish tanks. More specifically, I enjoy keeping and maintaining freshwater planted fish tanks.
Growing up, I wasn’t allowed to have any cats/dogs/gerbils due the my parent’s allergies, but they did allow me to have aquarium fish. My first fish tank was given to me when I was 10yrs old by my cousin and it was a 20g angelfish/silver dollar tank.
Over the following 20 yrs, I have kept many types of aquariums ranging from a south east asian tiger barb themed tank to an african cichlid tank to a saltwater coral reef tank. I have finally settled on keeping freshwater planted tanks as cost and maintenance requirements of the tank fit well with my current lifestyle.
The link to a flickr photo set shows a photo of my saltwater coral reef tank that I had in college and then shows the progression of my 37g freshwater planted tank and finally shows the beginnings of my 20g long freshwater office tank. Enjoy
What other hobbies are folks involved with?
Last night, I upped the breath count to 25 per posture instead of 15. The transition was pretty smooth and didn’t notice any troubles maintaining my awareness for the additional 10 breaths. I did notice some extra tension on the outer edges of my shoulder in addition to some tension in the upper-most thigh region. I just worked on the melting imagery more and eventually the tension went away.
After completing the 3 zhan zhuang postures, I did some basic training exercises. I basically did some straight line drills of the following postures: Part Wild Horse’s Mane, Repulse Monkey, Ward Off, Cloud Hands. After the drills, I went directly into the first section of the Yang long form. Overall, it was a good session and definitely something I will incorporate into future sessions.
Also, I potentially found a new training spot after clearing up some room in the basement. My son’s play area is down there, but there’s now some more room were I could definitely ‘do the form in the space of a cow sleeping’ type of training 
This morning while taking the little guy to daycare, I felt some nerve tingle in my left knee and then on the way to the car, I felt another slight tingle in my left shoulder. It must be the change in weather as the temperature dropped about 20 degrees F or so overnight. On the other hand, just got some antibiotics and working through a spout of bronchitis and potentially some whooping cough (most likely from son’s daycare). I’ve been sick for the last like 3-4 weeks and it’s not very fun.
On a far side note, I wish wordpress would allow the posting of an entry WITHOUT a title. Like define some random number or whatever if there isn’t a title. I guess I could do that myself, but I’d rather not.
