"Try again without the horse blanket."

The new, light, karate-style gi top is a vast summertime improvement. Unfortunately the pants that came with it have an elastic waistband, which I find terribly annoying when it gets all sweaty, so they are rather useless to me; I'm still using my old pair with the patch in 'em. Half a loaf, etc.

My leg is, in fact, improving (if at a glacial pace). Still not back to normal, but I can stretch further than I could last week. As it happened, we weren't doing anything today that stressed it anyways. Therefore, since the universe must have balance, I have picked up a new ouch (during the weekend, strictly speaking) which seems to be some kind of nerve pain in my upper arm. It crops up during kotegashi and when I'm putting a shirt on. Go figure.

According to FitDay, I just burned more calories in aikido than I've eaten all day so far. This begins to beg the question of why I haven't lost any weight in the past week, but I shall be patient and give it a month before judging.

I lurve a happy ending.

Amazingly, our first DG mission ended satisfactorily. The kid was involved, though unconsciously (he had a Mythos artifact, specifically a medallion he never took off, that was linked to a byakhee; so when he dreamed about people who'd hurt him, the byakhee would go out and hunt them down). We acquired the artifact, un-wrecked the kid's life, killed the byakhee[1], and made a good coverup that no one will ever manage to untangle. Go Us. Of course, then there was Steve's comment to me: "Wow, a mission with a happy ending. I'll have to do something about that." Let the bloodshed commence.

[1] That is to say, Agent Michael killed the byakhee by himself, since he happened to be the only one around when it showed up. And he survived. All together now: "Nick is a far luckier bastard than he has any right to be." arkham1010, your Navy SEAL is going to have to get up pretty damn early in the morning if he wants to catch up on bragging rights, here.

Dilemma.

mir_nyc just reminded me of something arkham1010 and I have discussed in the past: Skirmish's 24-hour-long D-Day simulation paintball scenario. On the one hand: soooo cooooool! On the other hand, this is the kind of event that seems quite likely to draw the Fighting Uruk-Hai, which is negative amounts of fun. Wibble.