At your service

I had the opportunity to serve yesterday. The local TKD group held a belt promotion testing in which I had several students. I was pleased with their performance. Although I only ran one group and only refereed two matches, I felt that I served the group nicely by cleaning up their mess after the show was done. It wasn't exactly something a person of my rank is usually asked to do, but then I wasn't asked. I just happened to come back to the room after returning the hogos to the locked closet on the other end of the building and found that little had been done. Most of the chairs were stacked which I'm grateful for, but some were not and none of the tables had been collapsed or stacked. *shrug* Whatever.

I saw my ex there as well testing for her red belt. She did a nice job on her form and sparring. I'm pretty sure she doesn't read this anymore, but just in case, nice job.

And speaking of serving, after the clean up, I stopped briefly at the black-belt dinner, ate half a plate of food and then excused myself. The morning of testing, there was a power outage at my place of work due to a rather intense electrical storm and several computers (servers, etc.) were still down in the evening. I made a stop there and restarted them. I sometimes feel that my place of work has sucked all the life out of me and that I am no more than a programmed automaton doing my best to get through the days of work there. It's not that the work isn't challenging; some of it is. The real problem is that it isn't interesting to me anymore. I'm hoping this vacation will help, but I'm doubting it thus far.

A truly wonderful thing happened late last week. Two of my house-mates who do not always see eye-to-eye seemed to put the past behind them and attempt to rebuild some friendship bridges. I hope beyond hope that this works. It would definitely make living here nicer for everyone.

My vacation is proceeding. I only worked about an hour today so it's more like an extended weekend. I do hope to get some cable laid yet this week along with a few other chores around the house, etc. I need to call my father, too and try to set up something for Father's day. I was going to do that tonight but then a friend stopped over and we chatted about BESM d20 instead. I need to find a book but I think I'm going to wait a bit. There is supposed to be a revised edition coming out in June sometime. I'd rather have the latest if possible and since I don't think we'll be playing much before next semester, I think I'll be safe to wait.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but without it, little can be learned.