Statistics show that a full moon really can "bring out the beast," at least in Norway, where the most collisions between cars and moose occur when the moon is full and the weather is cold.

SPRRRRRRRRRRRRINGBOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ENG 6 15 RSA

Whoa... very close match. Scoring only by kicks. Both sides came soooo close to the line but never made it... wow... !!

What was up with the trophy falling apart during the awards ceremony? Hmmm...

I posted this on multiply; forgot to post it here. Freshly Ground is a South African group...

watch and listen - it's one of the most beautiful music videos I have ever seen...

...but not the long flight home. Urgh :-/

See Multiply and all... photos etc. to come later...

I have them. So watch out... ;-)

Way back when I got my first passport ever, a friend of mine looked at the empty pages and said "this is going to get full of stamps..."

Well, I'm on my second passport now. I just got back from the US Embassy because I had to get new pages put into this passport, as I'm running out of un-stamped pages. Just like I had to do with my first passport...

I've finally started to write up some Madrid stuff...

And this video is rather interesting...

I'm on a Krav Maga break (for formal training anyway) until August. In the meantime, I need something to do, and after the strength drills from hell during Thursday's grading ("the Nazi" among other things), it's quite obvious I need to work on strength...

I still want to work on power, so I figured I'll do this during the summer:

day 1: legs + back (+ biceps)

day 2: shoulders + triceps + chest (+ biceps)

Today I purchased the following:

- training pants for Krav Maga
- focus mitts
- a large kick mitt
- mango shower gel
- a little travel-size bottle of conditioner
- lip gloss
- a leg from a suckling pig (tomorrow's dinner!)
- lots of spelt pasta (since it always seems to be sold out otherwise)

This is strangest shopping list I've had for quite some time...

I graded tonight, even though I said I wouldn't. We both decided this afternoon to grade. We were very apathetic about the whole thing...

We're both P4 now :-)

My injuries, in particular my evil finger, weren't bothering me too much. And I was able to execute the most difficult thing in our pensum - defense against an overhead stick attack - almost perfectly. I couldn't be happier about that...

(AS is the Norwegian version of Inc.)

We were at a Krav Maga seminar yesterday; the theme was protection of third persons. Our guest instructor was a guy from Sweden...

Not that I care. This whole ID check thing serves no other purpose than to make sure that someone doesn't pass off their non-refundable non-transferrable ticket to someone else anyway. Maybe the airlines should stop being so anal about that...

Homemade ID enough for air travel

How cool is this?!?!

Jewish same sex marriages welcomed

Jewish gays have lauded a decision by the South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ) to allow marriage between Jewish couples of the same gender.