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A few weeks into the boxing gym now, and I'm glad I started. It's a killer workout, and the coach is good about helping me work on stuff. I would like it if we worked on defense more, but it's still been beneficial.
About 5 or 6 months in to the new academy now, and it's also been a very good decision. I'm learning a lot at a pretty good pace.
So with Jeet Kune Do, the new BJJ academy, and now the boxing gym I should be able to perform much better this next year. I'm feeling good about it, and I have till then to get my weight back down to where I want it.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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You are planning on losing weight...in the run up to Christmas.
O...Kay. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanksgiving and new years are the only real obstacle. I don't celebrate christmas, so I'm ok there.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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I'd love to find a boxing gym around me. I can't go to a normal gym and just "pick things up and put them down." Feels good, but it just offends my need to be productive.
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It was difficult for me to find a boxing gym. I had looked a few times, and they don't do the advertising and whatnot. I just had to ask around with some people I trained with to find the one I am at now.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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All the better I imagine. Otherwise you'll have goofballs galore.
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There is all sorts of crazy going on where I work at the moment, power shifts in the management, arguments over who is to blame for various things, and now the dumbest request I have ever seen has come my way. I am resisting it, and have support from my manager to continue resisting, but as I said, there is a shift in the balance of power and we are being lined up to catch the sh*t when it hits the fan.
I've been summoned into a meeting tomorrow, one of the managers on my side has just phoned me up and asked me to go, be as polite and helpful as I can.
And to try not to walk out or hit anyone.
The worrying thing is, at the weekend I had a dream that I was in a meeting with some of those who will be present tomorrow. My final line in the dream meeting before storming out was "With all due respect, you can all go and f*** yourselves".
Until developments this morning there was no indication at all that I would be in a meeting with these people anytime soon.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Repeat after me, "Hey, I'm here to help."
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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chriselst wrote: And to try not to walk out or hit anyone.
That's generally good advice in a business meeting.
Too many witnesses.
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I sometimes think the only reason I've never killed anyone at work is because when you start I don't see how you could stop.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Quote: because when you start I don't see how you could stop.
Maybe, but they can only hang you once no matter how many you kill ... so you might as well clean-up properly!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I sure wish THAT was less true.
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Sounds like you could use some hints from Simon Travaglia: clickety[^]
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I'm like that with peanuts.
Hold on... Don't read that the wrong way...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I wouldn't waste time or breath saying "with all due respect..."
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Oh you have to say that bit.
Then you can follow with almost anything and it isn't an insult. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: and it isn't an insult
Really? In my world you can add anything you want to "go elephant yourself" and it still just says "go elephant yourself". 
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Yes - but these are management dweebs and their brains are programmed by buzzwords and aphorisms.
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yeah, it's amazing what you can get away with letting slip out of your mouth if it's properly couched in that kind of nonsense.
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mikepwilson wrote: it's amazing what you can get away with letting slip out of your mouth if it's properly couched in that kind of nonsense
Usually, stuff that's couched in that kind of nonsense doesn't let anything slip, though, because there is zero other content.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With all due respect, your non-positive work flow does not fit within our core competencies and will require a paradigm shift outside the "box". This will require meetings, pre-meetings and even pre-pre-meetings.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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That gets my buy in.
We'll have to touch base and assemble a tiger team with the right core competencies to move the ball forward.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh sh*t, my nightmare has come to CP!
I have one of them in the office, he no longer talks at me and will leave a meeting if I am part of it, self defence.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's good that you've on-boarded as a proactive change agent.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"If I were ten years younger I'd take a flamethrower to this place!"
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