So I got to the Funeral home about 9:45am.
I got a couple of pics of the hearse. It was pretty cool looking.
When I went Wednesday night, he was dressed in a suit. Yesterday they had re-dressed him, in his riding gear.
The funeral progression had lots of cars, and about 10 motorcycles. The trip took about 45 miles. It was a nice last ride. Wish I had my motorcycle working. These were the riders that I want to associate with. Not because several of them were Tang Soo Do masters, but because they had the right attitude. If you're on 2 wheels your a brother, regardless of what you ride. One even had a sticker, Bikers are a rare breed, Harley riders are a dime a dozen.
The ride went from Flatrock Mi, to Gibraltar Mi, around to New Boston Mi, back to the Funeral home. We rode through the cemetery (funeral home was on it). Saw the new Lighthouse they but cremated remains in. Master Burns will be the first set of ashes entombed there.
Went to the luncheon after. Lots of fun. Lots of people I met. It really was a Master's met / who's who of South East Michigan Tang Soo Do.
Didn't get home until 4:30 pm.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Diet and...
so when I did the life post earlier, I forgot to mention a few things. Note this is my 5th post today.
1: Diet - So I'm testing at the end of the summer. That's all I know. It should be for my first gup, but if any past performance is any indication of future expectations, I might be testing for higher. I really don't think so though.
Either way, I want to be in a size 5 uniform. Because those are my patched uniforms, and I don't want to patch my current ones.
Tho help me reach that goal, I gave up drinking alcohol a while ago. I don't miss it to the point I don't even know how long it's been. about a month or so.
I've also decided this week to give up meat. Not quite vegan, but pretty close. Line last night when someone asked me what a vegan was, he knew the word but not what one was, I said "if it doesn't grow from the ground it doesn't go in your mouth"
I have cheese and potato perogies, and I'm not going to go obsessively over the contents on some wrappers (power bars). Otherwise no dairy, no eggs, nothing that doesn't come from the ground. I'm going to grab some soy protein this week at the store though. Not that I'll really need it.
So until July 31, no booze, no meat.
Martial Arts goes on break after next week for 6 weeks. My plan for those six weeks are:
Monday - Yoga
Tuesday - Power Core (taught at the apartment complex, it's free)
Wednesday - not sure yet
Thursday - Bootcamp (taught at the apartment complex, it's free)
Friday - Kettlebell class
Saturday - don't know yet
Sunday - Kettlebell class (if I can afford it).
Also want to work ETK minimum again at 24kg, and 100 push-ups, and some kind of pull-up and sit up program. (Have to be able to do 45 consecutive push ups and sit ups for my next martial arts test). Maybe I'll try to get pistols down too.
1: Diet - So I'm testing at the end of the summer. That's all I know. It should be for my first gup, but if any past performance is any indication of future expectations, I might be testing for higher. I really don't think so though.
Either way, I want to be in a size 5 uniform. Because those are my patched uniforms, and I don't want to patch my current ones.
Tho help me reach that goal, I gave up drinking alcohol a while ago. I don't miss it to the point I don't even know how long it's been. about a month or so.
I've also decided this week to give up meat. Not quite vegan, but pretty close. Line last night when someone asked me what a vegan was, he knew the word but not what one was, I said "if it doesn't grow from the ground it doesn't go in your mouth"
I have cheese and potato perogies, and I'm not going to go obsessively over the contents on some wrappers (power bars). Otherwise no dairy, no eggs, nothing that doesn't come from the ground. I'm going to grab some soy protein this week at the store though. Not that I'll really need it.
So until July 31, no booze, no meat.
Martial Arts goes on break after next week for 6 weeks. My plan for those six weeks are:
Monday - Yoga
Tuesday - Power Core (taught at the apartment complex, it's free)
Wednesday - not sure yet
Thursday - Bootcamp (taught at the apartment complex, it's free)
Friday - Kettlebell class
Saturday - don't know yet
Sunday - Kettlebell class (if I can afford it).
Also want to work ETK minimum again at 24kg, and 100 push-ups, and some kind of pull-up and sit up program. (Have to be able to do 45 consecutive push ups and sit ups for my next martial arts test). Maybe I'll try to get pistols down too.
Life lately
Kettlebell:
So I haven't been to a kettlebell class for the last 2 weeks. Mostly because of bad timing. 2 weeks ago, I made it to class late, wasn't going to change and play catch up since they were mostly done with their warm up. Last week I didn't get out of work on time. 10 hour shift. Wasn't supposed to be but bad things happened and it took a while to get out of here.
I've played around with some on my own but nothing serious. I did some swings last night focusing on my hip snap and tightening the glutes... Man did that hurt. But in a good way. it was only 20 swings, @ 24kg but man. MAN. I might try it tonight (after I get back from the funeral home) with 32kg.
Martial Arts:
I haven't made it to the Saturday classes, I've been getting up to late to go. Usually waking up half way through the class. Otherwise nothing major going on in class. One of our Masters passed away over on Sunday. He hasn't been to our school in a long time.
The only other thing Martial Arts wise, we did free fighting again last night. I was all over the tall guy, faced him twice, and the fast guy, faced him once. T has gotten a little better at control. I only have one bruise in my arm. Not even sure it's from him though. Could be from J. I was blocking and countering as fast as T could throw things. He also got my foot stomps. I'll step on a person's foot to hold them there, while I pound. I've never been able to do that with him before.
J kept running all over the place, and having to stop to catch his breath. He's got a better body shape than I do, but I guess I'm actually in better shape than he is. Second fight, less than a minute in, he was soaked in sweat, backed off, doubled over and saying no more.
Oh, and when I give out punishments now, we do burpees not push ups. Next will be full body attacks (deck squat to a push up to a squat to a jump). Some people enjoy doing push ups, and don't care if that's the "punishment". So I made it harder.
Death:
A guy who was a black belt when I was a kid, and a master when I went back to MA as an adult, passed away over the weekend. He was pretty young, 53 years old. He got melanoma and it wasn't caught until it was already in stage 4. Meaning it was into his internal organs. Treatment didn't go to well, and he's been at home in a hospice environment for the last few weeks. He was a 6th Dan, but probably should have been 7th (Grand Master), my master (who is older and been a DAN as long if not longer (5th dan)) said he's going to refer to Master Burns as a Grand Master.
Back in 2002, the city closed my school for the summer. We train out of the community center, and they didn't think there was enough people to justify having summer classes. So I went and trained under Grand Master Drouillard. Master Burns would pretty much run the class. The grand master would turn it over to him to run.
I'm going to the viewing tonight, and the funeral tomorrow. Even though I knew who he was, and trained under him at one point, I still feel like an impostor for going. I doubt he'd have known or remembered me, if he was healthy.
Other things:
Been working on pull ups and push ups. I can do 4 assisted pull ups with a Super Band, the 1 and 3/4 inch one. Did 5 sets of 10 pushups last night.
Captain's feathers have grown back pretty well, from his accident. Took him to get his claws trimmed over the weekend. That was fun.
Haven't been to yoga for 2 weeks now either. Yoga Mondays, kettlebell class Fridays.
Work is work.
So I haven't been to a kettlebell class for the last 2 weeks. Mostly because of bad timing. 2 weeks ago, I made it to class late, wasn't going to change and play catch up since they were mostly done with their warm up. Last week I didn't get out of work on time. 10 hour shift. Wasn't supposed to be but bad things happened and it took a while to get out of here.
I've played around with some on my own but nothing serious. I did some swings last night focusing on my hip snap and tightening the glutes... Man did that hurt. But in a good way. it was only 20 swings, @ 24kg but man. MAN. I might try it tonight (after I get back from the funeral home) with 32kg.
Martial Arts:
I haven't made it to the Saturday classes, I've been getting up to late to go. Usually waking up half way through the class. Otherwise nothing major going on in class. One of our Masters passed away over on Sunday. He hasn't been to our school in a long time.
The only other thing Martial Arts wise, we did free fighting again last night. I was all over the tall guy, faced him twice, and the fast guy, faced him once. T has gotten a little better at control. I only have one bruise in my arm. Not even sure it's from him though. Could be from J. I was blocking and countering as fast as T could throw things. He also got my foot stomps. I'll step on a person's foot to hold them there, while I pound. I've never been able to do that with him before.
J kept running all over the place, and having to stop to catch his breath. He's got a better body shape than I do, but I guess I'm actually in better shape than he is. Second fight, less than a minute in, he was soaked in sweat, backed off, doubled over and saying no more.
Oh, and when I give out punishments now, we do burpees not push ups. Next will be full body attacks (deck squat to a push up to a squat to a jump). Some people enjoy doing push ups, and don't care if that's the "punishment". So I made it harder.
Death:
A guy who was a black belt when I was a kid, and a master when I went back to MA as an adult, passed away over the weekend. He was pretty young, 53 years old. He got melanoma and it wasn't caught until it was already in stage 4. Meaning it was into his internal organs. Treatment didn't go to well, and he's been at home in a hospice environment for the last few weeks. He was a 6th Dan, but probably should have been 7th (Grand Master), my master (who is older and been a DAN as long if not longer (5th dan)) said he's going to refer to Master Burns as a Grand Master.
Back in 2002, the city closed my school for the summer. We train out of the community center, and they didn't think there was enough people to justify having summer classes. So I went and trained under Grand Master Drouillard. Master Burns would pretty much run the class. The grand master would turn it over to him to run.
I'm going to the viewing tonight, and the funeral tomorrow. Even though I knew who he was, and trained under him at one point, I still feel like an impostor for going. I doubt he'd have known or remembered me, if he was healthy.
Other things:
Been working on pull ups and push ups. I can do 4 assisted pull ups with a Super Band, the 1 and 3/4 inch one. Did 5 sets of 10 pushups last night.
Captain's feathers have grown back pretty well, from his accident. Took him to get his claws trimmed over the weekend. That was fun.
Haven't been to yoga for 2 weeks now either. Yoga Mondays, kettlebell class Fridays.
Work is work.
I've been busy, computer stuff.
So one of the things I wanted to do when I created this blog, was make it more professional than my live journal account. That failed. But I do tend to try and cover an array of things here, besides just working out. Which is what lead to those other two posts earlier. The ones about U-verse and Knoppix 6. I took longer entries that I saw people going to via google (in my site tracker report) and made 2 condensed versions so they wouldn't have to hunt through longer posts for them.
Two weeks ago, my laptop at home suffered bad things when I tried to upgrade my installed version of Sidux to the latest version via apt-get dist-upgrade. It resulted in me having no GUI to use. All the data was still on the drive, and as long as I didn't want to do anything that required a Grapical environment, I was ok. Sadly that made surfing the web and watching videos hard.
To fix it, I bought a new hard drive. 320gig for about $70.00 USD + shipping. After installing it, I tried the latest CD ISO of Sidux, only to have it do the same thing up the software upgrade. No GUI. Next I tried Gentoo, after 2 failed installs I said screw it. Then I tried something else, I don't remember, and didn't care for it either, so I tried Gentoo again. 2 more installs later, I finally had a working system. As long as I didn't want to use a GUI. Trying to install the GUI would cause the system to shut down. It'd be in mid compile, and the next thing I know, it's turned off.
So I went back to Debian, haven't ran straight Debian for a while. Set up and encrypted hard drive, which is nice, and Debian so far is the only one I've seen that give the option on install. Of course it took about 5 hours to erase and encrypt the drive. I got a working system, with a GUI, but didn't like that some of the software was old. Debian Lenny had verison .8 something of VLC, and Open Office 2.4. Which trying to upgrade to 3.0 was what caused the problem to start with on the laptop.
I told the system to update itself to the Unstable branch, I tend to run something based off Unstable or Testing anyway, and it removed my GUI and wouldn't give it back. I got the Debian Testing Nightly build install, and it installed fine. I told it to install KDE, my preferred GUI. It did. KDE 4. Which was ok, because I wanted to try KDE 4 out.
I don't like KDE 4. It's too Vista like for my tastes. I don't see why they have to chase what Microsoft is putting out for the GUI. I can't turn off Plasma (or if I can, I haven't found out how yet) so I can install non-Plasma themes from the theme site. I don't like the desktop widget. I like to store some files on my desktop. It's the way I am. They're files I refer to regularly, things like what episode is next in a series I'm watching, a list of commands, etc. I don't like the bars at the top of the windows, I'd like to change those. And lastly, I don't care for the slowness. Even scrolling / page up / page down in Ice Weasel (Debian's Firefox fork) is slow. It shouldn't be and wasn't under Gnome.
I'm thinking of installing XFCE and LDXE on the thing and see how those deal. I also have to find a way to get my old data off the old hard drive. I've gotten most of the tweaking done though.
Two weeks ago, my laptop at home suffered bad things when I tried to upgrade my installed version of Sidux to the latest version via apt-get dist-upgrade. It resulted in me having no GUI to use. All the data was still on the drive, and as long as I didn't want to do anything that required a Grapical environment, I was ok. Sadly that made surfing the web and watching videos hard.
To fix it, I bought a new hard drive. 320gig for about $70.00 USD + shipping. After installing it, I tried the latest CD ISO of Sidux, only to have it do the same thing up the software upgrade. No GUI. Next I tried Gentoo, after 2 failed installs I said screw it. Then I tried something else, I don't remember, and didn't care for it either, so I tried Gentoo again. 2 more installs later, I finally had a working system. As long as I didn't want to use a GUI. Trying to install the GUI would cause the system to shut down. It'd be in mid compile, and the next thing I know, it's turned off.
So I went back to Debian, haven't ran straight Debian for a while. Set up and encrypted hard drive, which is nice, and Debian so far is the only one I've seen that give the option on install. Of course it took about 5 hours to erase and encrypt the drive. I got a working system, with a GUI, but didn't like that some of the software was old. Debian Lenny had verison .8 something of VLC, and Open Office 2.4. Which trying to upgrade to 3.0 was what caused the problem to start with on the laptop.
I told the system to update itself to the Unstable branch, I tend to run something based off Unstable or Testing anyway, and it removed my GUI and wouldn't give it back. I got the Debian Testing Nightly build install, and it installed fine. I told it to install KDE, my preferred GUI. It did. KDE 4. Which was ok, because I wanted to try KDE 4 out.
I don't like KDE 4. It's too Vista like for my tastes. I don't see why they have to chase what Microsoft is putting out for the GUI. I can't turn off Plasma (or if I can, I haven't found out how yet) so I can install non-Plasma themes from the theme site. I don't like the desktop widget. I like to store some files on my desktop. It's the way I am. They're files I refer to regularly, things like what episode is next in a series I'm watching, a list of commands, etc. I don't like the bars at the top of the windows, I'd like to change those. And lastly, I don't care for the slowness. Even scrolling / page up / page down in Ice Weasel (Debian's Firefox fork) is slow. It shouldn't be and wasn't under Gnome.
I'm thinking of installing XFCE and LDXE on the thing and see how those deal. I also have to find a way to get my old data off the old hard drive. I've gotten most of the tweaking done though.
Knoppix 6 and SSH
I've noticed a few trends in my visitor lists. One is people looking for information about Knoppix version 6 and ssh.
As I've said before I like my Gnu/Linux a little harder. I installed Knoppix 6 on a laptop at work and ssh was not included. No server, no client.
It is included on the Live CD, and can be ran from the live cd. However when I did the install, it was not there. To get it, I had to do the following:
root@Microknoppix:~# apt-cache search ssh
root@Microknoppix:~# apt-get install openssh-client
The above commands are tested from the live cd. On an installed system your milage may vary.
*EDIT - 2010/04/22
I've revisited this. Running Knoppix on VirtualBox.
Knoppix 6.2, LXDE. Click the desktop menu button, and under preferences Start SSH.
Aptitude had the ssh server listed when I searched for ssh, with the sourcelist that was installed from the LiveCD
As I've said before I like my Gnu/Linux a little harder. I installed Knoppix 6 on a laptop at work and ssh was not included. No server, no client.
It is included on the Live CD, and can be ran from the live cd. However when I did the install, it was not there. To get it, I had to do the following:
root@Microknoppix:~# apt-cache search ssh
root@Microknoppix:~# apt-get install openssh-client
The above commands are tested from the live cd. On an installed system your milage may vary.
*EDIT - 2010/04/22
I've revisited this. Running Knoppix on VirtualBox.
Knoppix 6.2, LXDE. Click the desktop menu button, and under preferences Start SSH.
Aptitude had the ssh server listed when I searched for ssh, with the sourcelist that was installed from the LiveCD
AT&T blocking port 25
I've noticed a few trends in my visitor lists. One is people looking for information about AT&T U-verse blocking port 25.
Yes they, like many ISPs are blocking out bound port 25 for non-business customers. This is in an attempt to cut down on spam. I think it's a failed attempt, because the zombies still spam like mad, but meh.
I was able to get my U-verse connection un-blocked by calling tech support. I also have a static IP address block. If you're trying to find out a way to get around the block good luck. If you have a reason that you need out bound port 25, and are not a spammer, you'll need to call Customer Support.
Yes they, like many ISPs are blocking out bound port 25 for non-business customers. This is in an attempt to cut down on spam. I think it's a failed attempt, because the zombies still spam like mad, but meh.
I was able to get my U-verse connection un-blocked by calling tech support. I also have a static IP address block. If you're trying to find out a way to get around the block good luck. If you have a reason that you need out bound port 25, and are not a spammer, you'll need to call Customer Support.
Friday, May 8, 2009
computer stuff
So yesterday, because I really wanted my laptop to run Open Office 3, instead of Open Office 2.4, I upgraded my distro. I run Sidux, which is a mash of Debian testing and Debian unstable.
Turns out that they've upgraded the Xserver software, and in the course of the upgrade things got broke on my box. If I want to access my laptop as a text only console device, with no gui, it's fine. However I use my laptop as my everyday computer.
I finally ordered the new hard drive I wanted for the laptop. 320 gig, 7200rpm I should get it Tuesday. Problem is I don't know what I want to run on it as my OS. The reason I went with Sidux to begin with, was because it was the only distro that supported my wireless card at the time. However there are things about it I don't like.
Here are the choices:
Sidux - not happy with some of the changes they made / some programs they use (like ceni)
Knoppix - Used to be great, but I don't think it's the linux swiss army knife. New installer isn't that great either. Doesn't work unless you use the FS they want you to. I like ext3, but I can't use it with there install. there was other issues I had with it to.
Debian - It's nice, and I think a great base, but come on 4 DVDs for an install? Seriously. Ok downloaded the netinst cd. But No live cd, so I can't make sure things work before installing
Gentoo - I've only "successfully" installed it once, and even then I didn't have a GUI. It was on work's laptop.
Not being considered: Anything Redhat based. I use Redhat, Centos, and Fedora at work, I just don't care for them that much. Ubuntu, same reason, even though I don't use it at work.
Until I get the new drive, I'll be running a live cd. I've got a few to play with the next few days. It'll be nice to clean some of the crap off the box to.
Turns out that they've upgraded the Xserver software, and in the course of the upgrade things got broke on my box. If I want to access my laptop as a text only console device, with no gui, it's fine. However I use my laptop as my everyday computer.
I finally ordered the new hard drive I wanted for the laptop. 320 gig, 7200rpm I should get it Tuesday. Problem is I don't know what I want to run on it as my OS. The reason I went with Sidux to begin with, was because it was the only distro that supported my wireless card at the time. However there are things about it I don't like.
Here are the choices:
Sidux - not happy with some of the changes they made / some programs they use (like ceni)
Knoppix - Used to be great, but I don't think it's the linux swiss army knife. New installer isn't that great either. Doesn't work unless you use the FS they want you to. I like ext3, but I can't use it with there install. there was other issues I had with it to.
Debian - It's nice, and I think a great base, but come on 4 DVDs for an install? Seriously. Ok downloaded the netinst cd. But No live cd, so I can't make sure things work before installing
Gentoo - I've only "successfully" installed it once, and even then I didn't have a GUI. It was on work's laptop.
Not being considered: Anything Redhat based. I use Redhat, Centos, and Fedora at work, I just don't care for them that much. Ubuntu, same reason, even though I don't use it at work.
Until I get the new drive, I'll be running a live cd. I've got a few to play with the next few days. It'll be nice to clean some of the crap off the box to.
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