Thursday update

Yesterday I received an e-mail from Jake saying he would not be able to make it to Aikido class. I didn't teach as it was the last night of finals (most of campus was empty) and Jake wasn't coming to class. Last night and this morning I was thinking about Aikido and my life. In my own practice and when I discuss Aikido with people, I do not usually talk about the "big" topics of Aikido. For example, I do not explicitly discuss the nature of Ki or what is or is not Aikido. Although I find such topics interesting to consider and discuss, these higher, over-arching themes and topics are not usually a part of my daily Aikido presence. By presence, I mean most of my Aikido is not in my mind but in my muscle memories of practicing Aikido for over 11 years. I'll notice it when I reach and open a door at work with more grace than I had in the past. I'll notice my Aikido presence when gauging the inter-personal distances when interacting with patrons at the Library. I'll often strech my wrists with a random sankyo strech as I am typing on at my workstation. Aikido is both practice on the mat and in living during the day. 

It has been snowing most of the week and I have had to shovel my sidewalk every day. Winter is here and I'm betting won't relinquish its grip until late April. I am looking forward to January's Aikido Bridge Seminar in warm San Diego. My cousin, Jason Rossman, is a Marine Martial Art Instructor based at the Marine Base in San Diego. I hope to see him while I'm there.

I have been spending more time than usually coding the second version of the eCataloger Google Application.
I am getting close to releasing a beta version from a data-set of monograph metadata I created a few years back in Salt Lake.