New Me
Welcome to Charlie Mac version 26.194 or somewhere close thereto!
It’s been a long while yeah? No reason really just never really wanted to sit down and write or upload new pictures. Anyway I guess a bit has happened since last August. At the end of September I went on a long 9 day trek with my friend/ co-worker all the way to Kyuushuu and back, by car. I didn’t realize how long that would be in actual car time nor how much of that car time would be spent in silence despite attempts to get some kind of conversation going. Even though I didn’t get around to blogging it, I did try to write a lot of it down on good ol’ fashion paper which I might try to go back and write up sometime. On October 12th, I turned 26 starting my slow slide down to a possible mid-life crisis that everyone seems to expect once hitting the 30 mark. In November we had our Salmon festival here in Shimoda and I have to say this year’s was a bit gloomy due to the rainy weather. However I did catch a salmon this year! And the little bugger is still waiting to be cooked up in some delicious manner in my freezer. In late November and early December I attempted 2 rather advanced Japanese aptitude tests which I think I did poorly on due to not studying kanji, the Chinese character system, enough. Finally that leads to the now where it’s quite cold and snow is on the ground.
Skating has started again and I’m back on the ice almost every night after work trying to work off all the weight I gained due to the my ankle accident over the summer. It’s quite amazing how much the muscles in my ankle area, both ankles, seem to have atrophied. Just doing warm up 3m diameter circles on the ice sets those muscles on fire with exhaustion. Despite all that it seems I’m making a decent recovery as I’ve already managed to achieve my best time from last season on the 500m of 1:10. The goal now to actually get cornering down. Some might call it the cross-over, either way it’s hard.