Motivation- See video below

Pause my play list. Below is is the video that I watch a lot when I train my horse stance. It helps me to not be such a wuss when my leg starts to burn a little or some other minor pain. That kid is amazing.

Addendum- It was pointed out by to me by two savvy subscribers (Timpani and Liz) to my blog that the intro is written in Spanish. Translation as follow, "In 1980 at 8 months of age Robert suffered a grave infirmity. Diagnosis: Meningitis. Prognosis: Robert would not be able to talk and much less be able to walk some day... Twenty six years later Robert demonstrates how wrong science was. Robert Rivas Castillo is today a 3rd degree brown belt A. K. K. S. (American Kenpo Karate Systems) Chile."

So much to blog, so little time.

My wife suggests that I would get more comments if I posted more than once a week. Don't know that I can do that, but I wanted to post something. Thought I'd just blather about my week and go from there.

I played D & D Friday night at my friend Dave's house. We are playing the new 4th edition rules and it's different. This version, among other things, tries to bring the newer generation brought up on games like World of Warcraft- essentially inspired by D & D- back to the pen and paper- and laptop- sit down with a group of people live-and-in-person gaming. The raw mechanics are good, but the flavor is still bothering me. Essentially, the mechanics of everyone's abilities are the same, but it has different wording. Wizards of the Coast- the publisher- was trying to level all the basic classes (fighter, mage, thief, priest), so no one felt like they were not doing something. (Shaking head.)
Now, I always say that no matter what the rules, if someone spins a good yarn, I will play the game. My friend Dave spins a good yarn. D & D and other role playing games (RPGs) are basically sharing your idea of a fantasy world with some friends and making a story together.
Thursday night I did not go to my Kajukenbo class. :( Between Timpani's back and all of us being sick, September was just a wash for that. That's bad too because maybe turning 38 was working on my brain on some levels because I have been feeling very round shaped. Not good.
I decided to go back in October. I started stretching again this week at work and standing in a horse stance for a few minutes to begin getting back into it. (I also surprised Timpani by suggesting a walk one night.) Hope for the best.
I will try to find the youtube video that I watch when I am standing in a horse stance. In Kajukenbo and a lot of traditional martial arts, you stand in a horse stance for extended periods of time. To pace myself, I put on this video of a guy from Chile testing for his brown belt in Kenpo. (It is about a 5 minute video done to Breaking Benjamin's song "You.") I use that video 'cause the guy had meningitis when he was a baby and was told he would never walk. It's a good way to remind myself how much of a wuss I am standing still for 5 minutes when this guy is blessed to move at all.
Why the heck allow someone to indent while composing, if the indention will not appear in post? I guess I need to figure out the HTML for that. :P
I finally changed my play list back. I think that I was holding onto active remembering of 9/11 just a bit more.
I also added a reading list to my page.

More later....