Re-entering the arena...

No aikido all of last week due to lack of coverage (feh) but I don't seem to have backslid much. Was working with Jeremy, who leveled up when I did; this is always educational, because he is Mr. Inertia. Being a good bit taller than me, but more importantly very very solid, it's often difficult for me to move him unless I do the technique Just So. This can be frustrating but it's excellent practice. (And, on the carrot side, when I do throw him he goes halfway to the moon, which is gratifying.)

It's a beautiful day today, perfect weather for lifeforms like me (just 60 deg. F.), and I worried a bit about overheating; but another feature of working with Jeremy is that he overheats worse than I do, so I don't generally have to kill myself to keep up.

I really, really must get a handle on forward rolls when I can't get my arm down to lead the way. The rest of the world does it without breaking their necks and I can too, so my paranoid backbrain will please sit down and shut its pie hole.

They're so close together, after all.

Doesn't take long at all to go from happy, cheerful pookie to curmudgeonly pookie. About that many shit-brained users, in fact. The current winnah and new champeen is the guy (not even one of our users, I may add) who sent whinging, condescending email because he got an unknown-user bounce for mail he didn't send (virus forged him, I guess) and we should shut off those notices, as it's "very simple to do in postfix". Go away, you stupid little man, and read a few RFCs while en route.

He certainly wasn't the only one, just the most recent. There was a mailing list issue, milder, but of that long drawn-out flavor; a similar piquant bouquet of cluelessness with an overlay of claiming to know what they were talking about. One of our corp customers got infected with a spamware virus and I had to clean up the mail about it. Our prize aDSL idiot has been caught with his hand in the P2P copyright infringement cookie jar for the third time.

I'd probably cope better if I wasn't so dang tired.