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Now I get to spend all kinds of money buying sweet lenses for it.

Permits for Mt. Whitey are availiable in may for a summer climb so my cousin and I are gonna try for those, either way we are gonna do a winter climb sometime around february also.

My cousin gave me a flask as a gift for being his best man.

I sunk in a choke from his back and applied a neck crank submitting him about 1:34 in the first round. He was a shorter guy but only one pound lighter than me at the weigh in. I was told that he had no ground game but as soon as we touched gloves he shot in under my cross and took me down by the waist. I worked it from the gaurd into sidemount then landed a few knees on his head and he gave me his back so I choked him out. I had so much adrenaline in my chest I had to fight against I felt like I was half as good as I should have been but I still won early in the round. He would have been much better off trying to exchange punches as kicks with me than fight me on the ground.

My cousin taped it on my digital camera it’s here on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgwifF6TcXM

Got my first fight coming up. One catch though. It is an MMA fight but it will likely be in a ring rather than a cage….so can I still check of this goal after I win?

If any of you 43thigners are using Skype send me a message in 43people and get in touch, its the coolest thing I’ve talked to people all over the world and practicing my foreign langauages is a lot easier when theres always someone to practice with.

I train full time now two and a half hours a day six days a week. My trainer talked to me tonight and said my grappling is very good for the people I will be fighing but I need to work on my striking and get my cardio at a comfortable level and he will get me a fight in the near future.

Afterwards this only lady came up to me and I was expecting a lecture…”I think that was great what you just did” is what i got from her. Downside is the fountain was only about a foot and a half deep so I had to lay down to get completely wet.

I went to Nicaragua for 10 days and am off to a very good start in learning spanish. Got a bit of the Rosetta stone software now and ordered a couple books. Hopefully by the end of the year I will be able to hold my own in spanish german and chinese.

I just was given 4 stripes on my white belt from Rodrigo Gracie so I imagine the next seminar I attend with Rodrigo or Royce I will be tested for blue belt.

I really have no excuse this goal should have been checked off a long time ago…in the next two weeks I will have accomplished this….not my full license to drive one but at least my permit.

Does anyone have a link for me to a cheap set of starter picks. Or should I work on making my own with a shaved screwdriver and dental pick?

I’ve lost 23 pounds in the last three months, and I’m consulting a dietician later this month.

The way things are going my strength level and weight will be meeting somewhere in the middle…I am shooting for a weight of 220, and although I should be able to at my size and age I’m not benching 220, so maybe before summer is out I can pull it off.

I’m thinking about starting some kind of Yoga routine to supplement my martial arts training and increase my flexibility. As far as opinions do any of you 43things’ers have anything for me on Yoga.

It would be nice to get it at a class setting but I probably dont have the time to drive to a place so I may look into getting some videos or something of the sort.

My new school is a Royce affiliate so that helps a bit.

I just started at a great new competition oriented MMA school that is also a Royce Gracie affilliate….its close to my house, cheap, and the instructor, unlike my previous ones, is big enough to kick my butt….it’s lookin’ good. The school also has Muay Thai classes that I take now so I hope I can drop 20 pounds and be a good looking force to be reckoned with. Maybe sometime next year I can check this goal off the list. I am a realist though and even though I kick a lot of butt sparring my skill level and cardio is nowhere near what it needs to be to step into the cage.

Its one of those things that I always remember to do at the moment I could use a flask but never think of when I am shopping…so now I place this burden on the shoulders of 43things.

I’m sure someone out there has a flask they never use…...I don’t care if your name is engraved on it because you got a crappy gift you didn’t want at some wedding rehersal, I just want to get my drink on. Just let me know if you want to get rid of a flask and feel a warm sense of altruism, and I will cover the shipping costs.

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I wasn’t actually a vegan since I still wore my leather products and slept on feather pillows. For a month and a half though I didnt eat any animal products and I lost a few pounds doing it. I lost a lot more just eating less while I was in southeast asia, so I’m going to see a nutritionist and see if I can’t stay on this weight loss trend one way or another.

My mom always told me when I was young that on hot days you could do this. One of those things that nestles in your memory popping up sporatically only to be soon forgotten again in the sea of logic and reason that is reality to a serious person. One of those things that finds itself so well at home on a list of 43 things nestled into the backdoor of cyberspace.

I’ll have to do this as soon as it gets hot enough, right now theres still snow in minneapolis so I am SOL.

I go to the movies by myself all the time. I even worked at a movie theater once just to get free movies and popcorn. Everyone thinks there’s some taboo about sitting in a dark room focused on a screen by yourself.

The thing about taking other people with you is that you are in a sense vouching for the movie you are going to see…so if the movie turns out to suck you always catch flaq for it.

And I’m a sad bitter lonely man because none of the girls on 43things will accept my movie date invites….Maybe if Paolo isn’t busy I could invite him to a Brokeback Mountian screening.

Interesting story on the topic…I asked a guy friend of mine if he wanted to see brokeback mountian with me the other day and he declined…so I saw it myself. It was a decent movie, nothing amazing though. My friend who refused the invite dragged me into Underworld Evolution and man, there is something about Kate Beckinsale in leather pants that makes a crappy movie good.