Aikido for 06/04/2011 and 500th Post

Yesterday for Aikido, Garry started right away as is his practice for the open class. We started off with these techniques:

• katatetori tenkan kokyunage
• katatetori irimi kokyunage
• shomenuchi free-style
• shomencuhi iriminage
• shomenuchi yonkyo omote
• We then finished class by working on the bokken kata #5

This is my 500th blog posting. I started the blog in 2007 as part of some "Web 2.0" training I was doing for the Savage Library at Western State College by my then supervisor Beth. From just a general description of my life in Gunnison including the books and movies I was seeing and the many photos of trips friends and family made to visit me or the trips I went to other places. For a while now, the blog has been pretty much focused on my Aikido training and while I realize that it is repetitive, I find it part of my training to write at least an acknowledgement of my Aikido training.

I would like to continue to write and maybe I'll try to expand again and become more inclusive in what subjects and topics I cover on this blog. Next week I'll be Austin Texas for the first time, attending a conference and participating in a panel discussion. My life since I started this blog keeps improving but I feel that there is a deep loneliness that isn't necessarily explicit. I hope that as I continue to write and chronicle my life my next blog postings, that I'll become more social.