Aikido for 07/13/2009 and a cherry tomato

Yesterday, I picked and ate the only cherry tomato from the tomato plant I grew from seed. This was the first tomato I have grown since living in Champaign. Here are a couple of photos, the first of the tomato plant and the second photo is the tomato in my palm about to be eaten. The taste was okay, not great.




I went to Aikido class and although nobody showed up (a student-worker at the library had said he might come to class), I did a short warm-up, a number of forward and backward ukemi, and then did 250 bokken cuts. I then went through the first 3 kumotachi and after switching to the jo, practiced the 13-step jo kata.