Somewhere on fencing.net, someone mentioned the cost involved in competitive sports. I've been maintaining a spreadsheet with ALL my household expenses on it for quite some time and recently started pulling out my fencing expenses as a separate yearly total. This MONTH'S total is $2,246.02, which is half the amount that I spent for the entire year thus far. I also note that I spent less than $4,000 for all of last years's fencing and yes, that includes lessons, hotels, airfare, new ...
My primary problem on the strip continues to be FWS. What is FWS? Fencing While Stupid. I finished 2nd, but barely managed to pullout of the pior DE because I kept doing the same thing over and over again and didn't even recognize it until the half, when A came over and pointed out the obvious to me. Oh! That was stupid. A finished first so I lost 7-15. In the first half, I wasn't far behind but she ran away with it the second half. I need to fence smarter. ...
I biked over to fencing to see if any of the Friday sabre juniors were there, and was out of luck--a good number of our sabre students have gone to Hungary. However, Mark gave me a lesson. He is teaching his curriculum to a couple of his relatives-in-law who want to start a fencing program back home, so while he was giving me a lesson he had them shadow me. Most of it was standard stuff. I often find it very hard to write about Mark's lessons even though they make tremendous sense ...
WalMart has decided to assist me in detoxing from M&Ms by eliminating Dark Chocolate M&M from their stores. [Or at least the stores in my area.] Purely out of curosity (and not because I'm going to track down the product or anything ) I went to the M&M web site and found a highly useful tool for finding the product I wanted by searching for who carries it in my area. Ahem. I have no plans at the moment to drive to KMart, about 15 miles away. Really I don't. Nor ...
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