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	<title><![CDATA[8th Practice]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[More than a week later.  My wife has been working long hours and I'm still scared to bring my 7 year old to practice.  I don't want to hear the "Daddy, I'm bored!" routine in the middle of class.

I'm very glad I went tonight.  As usual we had a great class.  There was one technique (no, I can't remember the names) that I just couldn't get and just couldn't get and then, all of a sudden, a light bulb turning on in my head and I could do it right just about every time!  That was a very cool feeling.  I really enjoy how sensei teaches.  We start with a very basic move and then we add more and more things to it.  Tonight we ended on a very graceful and beautiful technique.  I need to start learning the names of these things.

Driving home is always trippy.  I have pretty bad astigmatism and I wear contacts during aikido practice.  Apparently I have dry eyes, and when I'm driving home, my eyes are dry.  This makes the astigmatism halo around every light source really exagerated.  It's like I've been eating magic 'shrooms - visually at least.  Combined with the endorphines from practice, they must be some GOOD 'shrooms. ]]></body>
	<date>07-13-2004</date>
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