Ouch.
My knee is absolutely a mess, my right one is anyway. I'll get to that later on.

My day started alright, easy run into uni on the road, and then as I was walking up, an undergraduate friend of mine who I worked with last year drove by, and gave me a lift down to my office and we had a quick chat about his prospects of picking up the PhD project that is the continuation and spin-off of mine.

Once I got into the office, I went downstairs and set up the salt crystallisation experiment and let it run. The rest of the morning was pretty mundane, just checking up on the crystalliser and taking measurements on the odd interval. The morning was passed by chatting to another friend who is currently in the US for work, and that was a good conversation, discovering that you can get broccoli soup with grated fluro cheese... and that girl scout cookies are tasty but with cheesy packaging.

I went off to Kendo training in the afternoon, and unfortunately stacked it early on and kneed the hard wooden floor pretty well. My knee is now pretty bruised up and a bit sore and stiff. I'm not entirely sure how it will be for tomorrow. Further more, as part of jigeiko, I got nailed just off the elbow by someone who shall remain nameless and it is killing my entire right tricep, and it hurts to use the tricep with any force which is also not very good....

Training today was pretty good, learning more turning around footwork and also practicing more hiki-waza, with sequences like men, hiki-men, men, hiki-do. We also did do-kirikaeshi too. In terms of playing jigeiko today, it felt like the best I have played since I started training again. I got one good men cut in, but I think my opponent was being lazy and let it through LOL but I felt good about it, had some good kiai too.

Tomorrow is Steve's BBQ, so depending on if I am able to train, it'll be interesting to see how the BBQ goes if I am in a tired state or not. Should be good regardless though.

Micheal from kendo, also my generation of players came back from Korea for a holiday. He returns next Thursday to join their conscription program, two years in the army, well, twenty months. Thus the holiday. I wish him the best of luck, and I'm sure he will be a much better soccer player and a lot more fit and capable with a gun once he finishes his stint.