• Happy New Year! Remember that I love you, even if I haven't said so recently, and that I do think about you even if I live far away.

• I finally injured my right shoulder in November, through overuse, with aikido weapons and Victorian canefighting and throwing a football with some kids at Thanksgiving. It's just torn muscles, or whatever happens to muscles when you overuse them and they hurt and take some months to heal. It's healing well, I think.
  • In a way a mild injury is a gift, because in aikido it forces me to learn new ways of doing things, with a heightened awareness of how my body works and how much force I've been using.
  • Apparently, now that I know how to use my body, I can throw a football. I felt its weight at the end of my arm, and how my arm would slingshot it on its way, and it would launch off my fingers with a nice little spiral, which is what happened. I always imagine this is what it was like for my brothers when we were young: they would go and try something with their bodies, and just...be really good at it. Come to think of it, they still do. Jerks.

• The office shut down for the two weeks of the holiday, and I thought we weren't being paid, but apparently we were, which was a nice surprise.

• I bought a TV. At 37", it's relatively small by modern standards: the 32" was "a great extra TV for the bedroom or kitchen". I've very excited to have a non-crappy way to watch movies. It should arrive at work tomorrow, so I'll hopefully gush about it once it's set up.

• I'm trying reopen my romantic side without getting moody and depressed. Let's call it an ongoing project.

• Goal For This Month: Clean up my apartment so it doesn't look like a sloppy bachelor moved in last week. (It's been two months.)

• Work continues apace on my rakusu. Unsure if I'll get it done on time (for sometime in February).
• I like lentils.

And that's what's happening in my life. Exciting, no?