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Compared to last week I'm at:
Make the "subscribe" button workAdd a script to download content from the subscribed to profiles - This one will need cleanup / optimization, and I just barely cobbled it together for now.So I only managed to wrap up the second point. In other news, got meself a new laptop, and spent a lot of my tinkering time setting it up the way I like it.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
I had a bit of a week.
The marriage breaking up and coming back together in the space of twelve hours, deciding on a new Kindergarten and then putting that at doubt again, trying to polish up my rusty French because I'll have a visitor soon, having 13 hours of meetings in the space of two work-days, realizing that I optimized my work-code prematurely and its performance is far in excess of what justifies the complexities introduced by my optimization measures, going to a two-day HEMA event including a tournament and realizing that I still love fighting no matter how rarely I get to do it, finding out that being hungover and dead tired can be fixed by running into an old friend and starting a spontaneous grappling match as if the last five years hadn't happened (though I almost puked my guts out by the end of it), hearing that my old fencing club was in dire straits for lack of instructors so I went and tried to badger a friend into stepping up and assuming that responsibility only for him to volunteer me as if I were still active and us finding a compromise in which we would both volunteer only to find out the next day that in fact the previous instructors had no plans of stepping down and it was all a big misunderstanding, then an "awareness" training session that everyone assumed was about wokeness but that actually was about preventing sexual abuse of minors and anyways attendance qualifies me to organize club events so that I can host weekend fencing sessions that don't require me to finagle the 4-hour drive into my work-week, I signed up for another tournament at the end of May, discovered that my historical peak HEMA ranking was actually a lot higher than I assumed (in the top 600s worldwide, at a time when I was decidedly not fencing, which shows merely that lockdowns screwed everyone over and that those rankings are worthless) and then hayfever season started and I bittersweetly discovered that levociterizine works but also pretty much knocks me out for a few hours.
Right now I'm tinkering on how to handle the aforementioned weekend fencing sessions. Can't be too often because I need to keep an eye on the homefront, so it'll be at most monthly, perhaps rather quarterly. I have no idea who would even show up on weekends, so I don't know whether to just provide a time and space for free fencing or a more structured event. I'm no didact, so even with structure it would be simple: Some medium-intensity warm-up, maybe half an hour of non-technical exercises, and then proceed to sparring. Events with low attendance risk degenerating into chatty layabout sessions, and I'd hate to sacrifice half a day just to babysit a bunch of people sitting around and shooting the shit, so maybe some structure might be good. But seeing as I'm neither an instructor nor otherwise very respectable, I might not have the authority to motivate people to exert themselves, so having a pre-defined program might help. But again, with too few people it'd be no good. There's also the issue of novices: If I invite everyone regardless of experience and equipment, then any commmunal exercises need to be feasible for those with less experience and protective equipment. If I restrict it to those with a little more experience, there's a higher risk of not enough people showing up. There's also the question of when - I favor a Saturday morning time-slot, maybe 9 to 12. That puts it two days away from Thursday and Monday practice, and people can still go about the majority of their weekend without needing to cut it up too badly. But maybe I'm overlooking something here. Another issue my own frankly atrocious state of fitness; I probably won't be able to motivate people very much if my pitch is "do as I say, not as I fail to do", so it may be advisable to look for a date at which at least one other very motivated fencer is available to pick up the slack. But first of all I suppose I need to either talk to the club leadership or join one of the organisatonal sessions to hash out the parameters and procedures to organize the event. Step number one to increase my visibility and modest respectability is to show up tomorrow for the big tournament the club organizes and help out as much as I can.
I love May. What a beautiful month. Warm as summer on a good day, everything's green and in bloom, bright, so very bright.
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