IBJJF Worlds – Day 3

Well it’s in the books and done for me and the team. This day was another of being there to support the team and take photos for me. The big revelation today was how tough some of the folks that I train with are. One only tapped because his opponent managed to dislocate his jaw … Read more

IBJJF Worlds 2026 – Day Two

Ok, so Day Two is in the books. I wasn’t on deck this time around so I was mainly around to support the team members who were competing and to watch other matches to see what was interesting to see. I’m not going to comment on the matches since I wasn’t the one fighting them … Read more

IBJJF Worlds 2026 – Day One

Earlier in the year I made the decision to go down to the IBJJF worlds to compete. Competing at some level in the sport was something that I was thinking of doing for a while and after some thought about it I figured why not just go big and just straight into the deep end … Read more

Project Hail Mary

I’ve read the book, and watched the movie, and have enjoyed both but for different reasons. The book was fun to read, the internal monologue from Grace was fun and I honestly enjoy reading the places where the get into the details of what’s going on and why things were done in the way that … Read more

Moving user profiles, why do it?

Ok, this is a bit niche, but one of the things that I’ve commonly done over the years is move user profiles from the boot drive and get them placed into either a second drive or partition. There are reasons for this, and most of them run around the use of the products that my … Read more

Last moment preperation.

SO, I’m a few days out from the IBJJF Worlds down in Las Vegas and at this point it’s just some final prep and getting things packed and ready to go before I go down. And as I’m closing things up at work to head down I’ve been asked so many times if I’m nervous … Read more

3d printing and models, and reviving rusty skills.

Many years back I was given a 3d printer for Christmas, and that’s kicked off a bunch of stuff where I’ve been printing things off, and eventually started trying to design some of my own things to solve specific problems that I’ve had. Rolling back to High School I did spend a couple of years … Read more

Workspace optimization.

So spent some time in the last couple of weeks playing around with a couple things in my office/workspace and moved some stuff around. First thing that I did was mount my TV on the wall on a swinging mount. Previously the thing was just sitting on a cabinet that lucky enough happened to be … Read more

Thoughts on moving.

It’s been a long while since I’ve had to move personally. I got lucky enough to get into the housing market at a point where it wasn’t insane and have been luck enough to be able to maintain housing. I do have a number of friends however who have moved from time to time and … Read more

Air conditioners and climate change.

So, for many years we have had air-conditioning in the house. I used to have a unit back in my parents place when I lived there and when I eventually moved out I had to leave that behind since I wasn’t able to put one into my window at the apartment I was renting. In … Read more