h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

well lets see,

this weekend (22nd 23rd) I've been out "playing" with some fellow members of my local Bujinkan Dojo, it was great fun and it's always good to brush up on techniques I've let myself get a little rusty on, we were visited by our local 15th Dan Stephen Boulton, very nice man, easy to learn from.
and I realised what fun it all was again, my instructor was glad to see me I think (it had been about a year since I last went ) Saturday was mostly sanshin no kata and some Kihon Happô (essentually the basics) but Sunday was sword and Oni kudaki (not for beginners don't try at home) which is one of my favourite techniques and it felt good to be training with the bokken again
but boy did my muscles hate me on Monday

last night we went out to farmageddon ( www.farmaggedon.co.uk ) which is like a haunted house set on a farm, it was really good (if a little... well farmy smelling)

apparently I have a guitar lesson tomorrow, I say apparently because I didn't know anything about it till yesterday (its at a new instructors, my previous one shut down) so hopefully it will be ok,
Joe got me a guitar for my birthday (29th) but it's a surprise.... (even though I helped pick it) and Ephriam wants to wrap it up for mummy, (that's a lot of wrapping paper)

so all in all i've been rather busy I guess,
I've still got a load of business paperwork that needs doing (should have been done say... last week)
but mostly things are going well

Anthea

what guitar we got you a train set

Farmageddon was worth it for the midget with a chainsaw running at people in an attic shaped room.

And I don't know much about the guitar lesson either other than the place it is at.

I am going to have to google what you were doing in your first paragraph but it sounds

If Ephriam is like my daughter was when she was younger when it comes to wrapping presants it isn't the amount of wrapping paper that you need worry about it is the amount of cellotape that will be used

mount paperwork neatly avoided I notice

well neat sidestep i think it will have to be done probably tomorrow

yes the bujinkan is very very good for self defence, there are lots of videos on how to do it on-line but as i said the last one is dangerous (unless braking the other persons arm is your goal)

Ephriam keeps telling me its a toy train but he has to whisper it to me because he knows its a secret he also can't say the G in guitar...
the thing is we probably do have enough paper (i tend to buy too much at christmas so everyone gets Christmas paper all year round)