The roads were dry, the sidewalks clean, the lawns showing brown. Then we got a big dump of snow the other day, and more today.
Curses.
At least I have a Mexico-themed party to go to tonight.
So I got myself an early start.
So I got this email just now:
By the time you read this, your manuscripts will have already been rejected.
There's no sense in asking me why or what you could have done differently, because I've already moved on to other stories.
It wasn't you. It was me. I — Awww, who'm I kidding… [...]
…or "What I had to do for a silver medal".
I'm the one being thrown.
Enjoy!
The throws are, in order:
Uki-otoshi ("floating drop")
Seoi-nage ("shoulder throw")
Kata-guruma ("shoulder wheel")*
Uki-goshi ("floating hip throw")
Harai-goshi ("sweeping hip throw")
Tsurikomi-goshi ("lifting-pulling hip throw")
Okuri-ashi-harai ("sideways foot sweep")
Sasae-tsurikomi-ashi ("blocking lifting-pulling foot throw")
Uchi-mata ("inner thigh throw")
Each one is performed right-handed and left-handed.
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* Which impresses everyone, but really isn't [...]
I should keep my phone's hands-free speaker away from my credit cards.
So I got a silver in the kata competition. Video will come later, once I've youtubered it.
Tomorrow, sometime, I'll be doing something very much like this:
at a tournament. (Except I only have to do the first nine throws.) Wish me luck!
"Margaret?"
"Yes, luv?"
"Next time you buy tissues, would you be so kind as to buy the kind with the lotion in 'em?"
"And why's that then?"
"See, luv, when I get a cold, usin' them regular tissues is kind of like usin' sandpaper to blow my nose."
"Oh Hubert, you exaggerate so."
"I ask you, wife of mine, do I [...]
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