Well, being a Saturday, I would normally get up early to go to uni for training, but there was no training today, so ordinarily I would have been able to rest and sleep in. However, I still got up at 7am and trundled into uni, but to actually do some work. I was being nice to complete some work for the biofilm project even though I could have just dropped the ball on them since I was now being employed by someone else for other work, but I figured I could still do this work (for now) on the weekend, and the money was still welcome until at least I have my pay sorted for my new job.
So in I got, I dropped by engineering to check on the experiment I had left running for my job, then got into the electron microscope unit. Spent a few hours there doing specimen preparation for TEM and SEM on the sample. It was actually originally though to be soft tissue, but it turned out to be very hard tissue, so I suspect the TEM work is going to have problems again in sectioning etc like before. The SEM should be fine.
After getting that done, I popped over to Fisher and had a chat with a friend of mine who I hadn't seen in ages, and just a general catch-up chat. Then downtown to meet another friend who I had lunch with at Pepper Lunch (I had a garden salad and a chicken/salmon combo, they stuffed up and gave me a salmon rice... and I told them they stuffed up so they replaced it with the combo, but didn't charge me the extra money since the ticket said salmon rice even though I had said the combo... I think the guy who served me was new cos one of the other staff was hanging over his shoulder while I ordered etc) and also more catching up here and there with coffee and cake in the Queen Victoria Building (Day and Night Mousse cake + Latte).
A bit of a long day, nothing terribly eventful.
I have been sick though, since last Saturday actually. I probably shouldn't have 'trained' yesterday with warmup since I think the 200 hayasuburi did me some damage. I was coughing today still and this time there was blood in the mucus and phlegm, definitely not a good thing. I'm trying to reduce the amount of coughing I'm doing.
Yesterday at training though, I didn't exactly train very hard because I was asked to look after the beginners as the regular person was at the snow (grr ~shakes fist~). We had two complete beginners, so I tried to teach them the basic footwork, chudan no kamae, and also how to do a three-step men cut. Sad to say, they were both quite unco-ordinated, and I don't know how long it will be for them to feel more natural and at ease. Of course it is seemingly being harsh on a complete beginner and I was one once too, but they were very tense, and quite shy in the sense that they didn't even want to try doing kiai either.... I hope they do break out of their shell otherwise they aren't going to get very far. The other beginners were doing ok I guess.
Post training, I actually went out and had dinner with some of the advanced beginners and one of the older members at Market City. It was like the first time in weeks I had gone out on a Friday night. I had a chicken katsu miso ramen from Mr Ramen which was quite nice and we chatted obviously about kendo for a bit before I drove one to Strathfield station, one to Lidcombe station and one home (he lives like 1km from me). Was quite a pleasant evening really. I got home in time to actually watch the last end too of the Individual Men's Archery for the Olympics, and to see the Korean guy choke and lose to the Ukrainian by one point LOL. It seems according to records, no Korean has ever won the individual mens gold in the history of it being in the Olympics, always denied by someone else. A stark contrast to the women where this year was the first time a non-Korean has won it....
Tomorrow, I'll be going over to a friends place to play D&D v4.0 some more with our current adventure set, though I have been told that this friend bought a Bravia 42" screen with the PS3 deal, so there might be some Soul Calibur 4 involved.... probably more likely than not, and possibly also more play than the actual D&D LOL.... Who knows, have to wait and see I guess.
So in I got, I dropped by engineering to check on the experiment I had left running for my job, then got into the electron microscope unit. Spent a few hours there doing specimen preparation for TEM and SEM on the sample. It was actually originally though to be soft tissue, but it turned out to be very hard tissue, so I suspect the TEM work is going to have problems again in sectioning etc like before. The SEM should be fine.
After getting that done, I popped over to Fisher and had a chat with a friend of mine who I hadn't seen in ages, and just a general catch-up chat. Then downtown to meet another friend who I had lunch with at Pepper Lunch (I had a garden salad and a chicken/salmon combo, they stuffed up and gave me a salmon rice... and I told them they stuffed up so they replaced it with the combo, but didn't charge me the extra money since the ticket said salmon rice even though I had said the combo... I think the guy who served me was new cos one of the other staff was hanging over his shoulder while I ordered etc) and also more catching up here and there with coffee and cake in the Queen Victoria Building (Day and Night Mousse cake + Latte).
A bit of a long day, nothing terribly eventful.
I have been sick though, since last Saturday actually. I probably shouldn't have 'trained' yesterday with warmup since I think the 200 hayasuburi did me some damage. I was coughing today still and this time there was blood in the mucus and phlegm, definitely not a good thing. I'm trying to reduce the amount of coughing I'm doing.
Yesterday at training though, I didn't exactly train very hard because I was asked to look after the beginners as the regular person was at the snow (grr ~shakes fist~). We had two complete beginners, so I tried to teach them the basic footwork, chudan no kamae, and also how to do a three-step men cut. Sad to say, they were both quite unco-ordinated, and I don't know how long it will be for them to feel more natural and at ease. Of course it is seemingly being harsh on a complete beginner and I was one once too, but they were very tense, and quite shy in the sense that they didn't even want to try doing kiai either.... I hope they do break out of their shell otherwise they aren't going to get very far. The other beginners were doing ok I guess.
Post training, I actually went out and had dinner with some of the advanced beginners and one of the older members at Market City. It was like the first time in weeks I had gone out on a Friday night. I had a chicken katsu miso ramen from Mr Ramen which was quite nice and we chatted obviously about kendo for a bit before I drove one to Strathfield station, one to Lidcombe station and one home (he lives like 1km from me). Was quite a pleasant evening really. I got home in time to actually watch the last end too of the Individual Men's Archery for the Olympics, and to see the Korean guy choke and lose to the Ukrainian by one point LOL. It seems according to records, no Korean has ever won the individual mens gold in the history of it being in the Olympics, always denied by someone else. A stark contrast to the women where this year was the first time a non-Korean has won it....
Tomorrow, I'll be going over to a friends place to play D&D v4.0 some more with our current adventure set, though I have been told that this friend bought a Bravia 42" screen with the PS3 deal, so there might be some Soul Calibur 4 involved.... probably more likely than not, and possibly also more play than the actual D&D LOL.... Who knows, have to wait and see I guess.
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