Lots of good news lately. I have a new teaching gig at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. The class starts in January and goes for a couple months. It will be fun I'm gonna try and tape the lessons to put online on Youtube or something. Susan got a new job as an Assistant MGR at CVS she put in her notice today. Yay!!!!!

Danny Ocean: If all the animals on the equator were capable of flattery, then Thanksgiving and Hallowe'en would fall on the same date.

I leave for Alabama next week. My mom is going to be looking for a restaurant location. I'll be helping her look for that and a house. It will be nice to be there again but there is a lot of work that needs to be done for my grandparents. They have like 2 garages full of stuff to sell on ebay. So I'm taking my Palm Pilot and am gonna be taking pictures of everything and listing it when I get back.

My sale a few weeks ago didn't go as well as I'd hoped but I still learned alot. Ebay is still going well and hopefully while I'm in Alabama I can find a few more knives like I did last time and sell them for huge profits last time it was 10 times what I paid for it.

Oh yeah I almost forgot. Some junkie broke my driver side window and went through the car looking for money. Luckily this idiot was lazy or just ignorant because they left over $2000 in antiques in the back and took just over $2.00 in change instead. Dumbass.

Tolliver: "Sayin' questions in that tone and pointin' your finger at me will get you told to fuck yourself."

Alrighty. So things are going swimmingly for me right now. Ebay business is rolling pretty well. I have my last big antique sale next weekend. Its gonna be a 3 day 12 hours a day affair. The antique mall where it will be held is always busy and has been advertising this for about 6 months, so I'm probably gonna do very well.

I've been looking into making jewelry boxes and leather satchels for craft shows during the fall and winter. I'm leaning towards the boxes since I actually have some experience in doing that. I think a nicely crafted box with some quality woodburning on it will fetch close to $50.00 a piece. If I can ever figure out how to post images, video and links on this damn thing I'll have some stuff to show you all.

I play World of Warcraft pretty regularly now. Its gotta be the best game in the universe. My main character is a lvl 39 orc hunter named Monyet the other one I use is a lvl 28 undead mage named Rajanaga so if anybody plays feel free to contact me in the game. I'm always looking for NICE people to play with.

Willy Wonka: [singing] There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

Plans for the move are still rolling. We are planning on being down there by the end of next summer. Everyone will be welcome at Garza Plantation. I'm trying to plan out how to best set up a 5 acre parcel of land. I want to have a veggie garden. But what I'd really like is to have about 20 fruit trees. Apples, peaches and avacadoes would be nice if its warm enough for them. I think grapes and blueberries will do well down there. The plan is (in my head) to be as self sustaining as possible when it comes to food.

On Wednesday nights I go to a new martial arts class. I do about an hour and a half of what they do which is kinda like Mixed Martial Arts. Its a good workout but it doesn't really help me with what I do. But they are kind enough to give me the last half hour to teach the class a few things. Ahhh I'll never get over the expressions on peoples faces when they first realise the simple brutal effectivness of what I do. One of the guys there decided that he would be a tough guy and continuously interupt me while I was explaining things. Those of you who know me know that doing that is the quickest way to get me angry. So this fool keeps yelling out that he would "just charge in" if I did any of those "fancy moves". First thing to remember people is that what I do isn't fancy, it just looks that way because its different than half naked men in panties rolling around on each other in a ring. So after the third time of hearing this from this dude, I grabbed one of the students there who moved well in what they teach there. I told him to do exactly what the other fool had said "just charge in".

As he charged in I stepped back and smashed my right elbow into the top of his lowered head. Gripping his head between my forearms I told the class that now this man is at my mercy because his body will follow where ever his neck leads him. I straightened out my arms and he flipped in mid air and fell to the ground. Still holding onto his head I explained that the difference between what they do which is a sport and what I do is that from this position they might go for a choke or somekind of painful submission on the arm, which would require them to let go of their opponent. In what I do instead of letting go and making myself vulnerable I simply continue twisting and break the opponents neck.

So in one "fancy move" without breaking a sweat the opponent is on the floor and the situation is dealt with.

That pretty much ended the discussion.

Hattori Hanzo: For those regarded as warriors, when engaged in combat the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God, or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.

By the way I didn't complete the move and my practicing dummy is still very much alive.

Please let us all remember that many things which are seen on tv, video games and sporting events will get you killed in a combative situation. And just because your kinda strong but fat and try to act like stone cold steve austin or some other guy doesn't mean you can do a damn thing. My personal favorites are the ones who play video games and assume that through osmosis with the controller they now can move like Liu Kang or some other blinking light.