Well, it’s sunday again. Father’s Day. Yes, Happy Father’s Day indeed! I just got off the FaceTime with them boys of mine! It was a great little chat. It sounds like they have had a real good few days, so that’s nice! Works good, I’m back on the coating crew, no longer stringing pipe....I’m kinda “ahh shucks” about it. I wish I could have finished the job is all. But, alas, off to coating I go. It’s why I was hired, and I’m flat out all day! It’s funny the stringing crew passed us as we were at some tie ins. I was done my gig and just kinda not doing much. They are working like mules. They are hollaring at me come on you lazy dog..And so to my boss, I say, Hey mom, can I go play? Shes laughing yeah hurry up it looks like your late! Boom run over help the boys unload some pipe in the stockpile, get the truck ready again, and mom calls me back...well...we all have a laugh and carry on in our days. It’s good. Build the crews how I can! Even if it’s just a good laugh!
Any which way meow, I have been just fascinated with the first few moves of Da Mu Hsing, these last few days. I mean all of it’s cool, I’ll get to all of it soon enough, but, dang, I’m liking this flow I’m getting. It’s really kinda calming and soothing. Ahaha, you old form you, I feel ya! Oh I feel ya! This I just great. I’m working on getting that second hand floating and moving with my action hand, if you may. Ha. There’s been a few time s when my fist is like, I know move, but do what man? Ha. But it’s been fun, and it really as been. We were told to think of larger circles, to help with getting things moving. I’ve been making progress, but, man I’m stubborn, and just won’t move my hand. It’s glued. So, I’ve been giving that stationary hand the “eye” when in form and it’s slowy getting it. Well, something else to work on. No problem, just add it too the bottom as I strike off the ones on top.
And then, I was scrolling through my social media on Friday and this post comes up. A CWE add with Vampiro’s picture on it, with Shane Douglas! I’m like whoa, Vampiro is touring again! Sweet! I look closer, and I’ll be, its an ad for Edmonton! I’m going now! What’s the date? Further investigation leads me to understand its happening Oct 24, 2020....well, I’ll be a...holy happy horse faces. That’s my birthday! I’m literally floored....I read this ad again. Yeah I’m not confused. Vampiro is going to come to Edmonton! This is just great! I’m texting my missus, you best be getting me a fricken ticket or four there baby! Man! Seriously! 125 more sleeps. Happy dance with me.
This man Vampiro, man I just think so highly of him. Dudes, quite honestly, Vampiro, helped change the wrestling game, in North America. He brought this gimmick of punk rock vampires and kicking teeth in. He’s 6’4” and moved like the luchadors from Mexico, and people where floored. It was new and fresh. It was a punch in the face. It was graveyard matches and throwing Sting off of the Titantron! He brought the misfits to WCW and managment somehow thought the lead singer should wrestle for a title....against Dr.Death.....that happened! It was a proper beat down! Everyone knew what was coming, even us fans, where like, thats a bad idea! As soon as Vampiro hit the North American market, there was ripoff vampire groups everywhere, but only one lasted...His passion to his craft was inspiring. He’s kind of some of the old Gaurd, where they held their character, no matte where they where or what they where doing. Wrestling in Mexico, is just as big as football! So, you always where in character, and for the most part it’s still like that! I’ve never been there to experience it, one day I will hopefully!
Anyways, tomorrow is coming fast and I’m pretty sure you’d rather not get a history lesson in Lucha Libre.
And so Goodnight
Mr.Duncan
Sunday, 21 June 2020
Sunday, 14 June 2020
running in the mud
Oh, how wonderful of you to stop by. Well, then, what has been going on? Me? Oh well, ive been flat out these last few days at work. I got thrown on the stringing crew. What’s that? Well, in a moment you’ll kinda know what’s going on. It’s one of those things that until you see it for yourself, it just seems a little insane. Okay. So picture this. Here’s a semi loaded with 4-5 levels of 3” all around 19m in length. That’s approximately 2-3km worth of pipe. No big deal. So, one fella works on top of the truck throwing pipe onto a set of rollers we boom to the side of the trailer. Bang, pipe hits the rollers. Two guys grab the pipe off the last roller basically stand on it until it rolls off the rollers and a we set one end on skids to keep out the mud and the other sits up on a pipe tub. Seems easy enough right? Yeah, now, add in the truck stays moving in at least second gear, sometimes third, depending on the boss’s mood, the entire time. I was responsible for setting skids and sorting tubes. So, honestly I was in a heavy jog for the last three days at work. All day....all #$@& day. Honestly, I loved it. Big smile on my face all day. We are covered head to toe in dirt and heavy sweat stains. Just dripping from 730-whenever we cut our last truck loose. These last few days have been solid 14hrs days. Mmm mmm mmm, bring it on boys let’s go, this ain’t for kids or the weak of heart. Morning break? Sure right after this truck. I know it’s 230 in the afternoon and that truck is gone, oh look here comes another. So your sandwich? Eat it while your backing up the truck and smash some water into you because, well, whooo we are flying again. Oh you brought granola bars, you best be sharing if you have some in your pocket, because that’s just what we do. I literally offered half my sandwich to my partner. “Here homie, eat this”. “Oh no man, that’s yours!” “Yeah I don’t care your lunch is like nowhere here, so eat this.”
Yeah it was a disgusting amount of work and I loved it. The clothes are stuck to you, you don’t want to turn on the ac because that’s too much of a shock to the system, you don’t want to drink too cold of water, that will get you sick and you can’t eat too much, because, well, you’ll puke it up....hahaha. Yup I did that. “Atta boy Wild Willy, now your a pipeliner!!!! Hurry up and finish puking man, we got this truck to unload, and we ain’t stopping for you!” Yes, I have a nickname of wild Willy. I get called other things too, but.....I love my job. I really do. Stupid rain day today.
Anyhow, Kung fu has not been as prevalent as it has been, but, I’m still making progress. Instead of just getting off shift, smashing a days worth of food in ten minutes and passing out, I forced myself to eat two smaller meals at night. One was a healthy supper, do some training push some weights around and have a second much smaller snack to fuel the body to recovery and repair through the night. Let things settle and than bed time. No, it’s not the healthiest, but, I believe I’m doing great with what I have to work with. Not eating garbage, just eating. Thank goodness I spent some time doing meal prep! Bam! Winning!
Oh, good gracious team, I didn’t want to train. Oh I wanted to just go to bed and sleep, but, how am I going to progress sleeping? How am I going to get better laying in bed being sore? I’m not simply put, therefore, I best find some energy and pump out some reps and do some stance work. My feet have been killing me, but, that doesn’t matter, I’ll do some calf-raises. My back is sore from throwing pipe around, well, better do some more sit-ups. I’m obviously not strong enough there. Shoulders are sore from military pressing pipe? Oh, sugar, how about some push ups to strengthen those muscles some more. Legs sore, uhhhh, stances dude. I had so many legit excuses, to not train. But, I’d of just let myself down. I would have felt terrible the next morning, knowing I wasted many opportunities to progress in my Kung fu. What kind of a leader would I be if I just let some being sore and tired stop me from training? Weak! Weak, man, get ‘er into ya!!!! Insert Wild Willy! Hahaha.
Well goodness. And here we are. Right here. I believe just one more thing to talk about and I’ll let you go. Right, the Kung fu karaoke. I have finished putting the lyrics together, as I only had the first two verses put together. So, since Mrs.Bjorkuist asked for the song, I’ll put it together no problem. It’s gonna be a little bit yet, but, we have a day off today due to rain. So, I have a great chance to play catch up today and just train! I have tried to post my video of the first two verses, but, for some reason, I can’t post a video on this network thing, so, whatever. I’ll try to post it to YouTube and send the link that way. If not, well, I don’t know than! I will state, I can not sing, nor can I keep a tune....
Anyhow friendos, I’m going to actually eat some breakfast and get into some training!!
I hope your week is a great as mines going to be.
Thanks for your time
Mr.Duncan
Yeah it was a disgusting amount of work and I loved it. The clothes are stuck to you, you don’t want to turn on the ac because that’s too much of a shock to the system, you don’t want to drink too cold of water, that will get you sick and you can’t eat too much, because, well, you’ll puke it up....hahaha. Yup I did that. “Atta boy Wild Willy, now your a pipeliner!!!! Hurry up and finish puking man, we got this truck to unload, and we ain’t stopping for you!” Yes, I have a nickname of wild Willy. I get called other things too, but.....I love my job. I really do. Stupid rain day today.
Anyhow, Kung fu has not been as prevalent as it has been, but, I’m still making progress. Instead of just getting off shift, smashing a days worth of food in ten minutes and passing out, I forced myself to eat two smaller meals at night. One was a healthy supper, do some training push some weights around and have a second much smaller snack to fuel the body to recovery and repair through the night. Let things settle and than bed time. No, it’s not the healthiest, but, I believe I’m doing great with what I have to work with. Not eating garbage, just eating. Thank goodness I spent some time doing meal prep! Bam! Winning!
Oh, good gracious team, I didn’t want to train. Oh I wanted to just go to bed and sleep, but, how am I going to progress sleeping? How am I going to get better laying in bed being sore? I’m not simply put, therefore, I best find some energy and pump out some reps and do some stance work. My feet have been killing me, but, that doesn’t matter, I’ll do some calf-raises. My back is sore from throwing pipe around, well, better do some more sit-ups. I’m obviously not strong enough there. Shoulders are sore from military pressing pipe? Oh, sugar, how about some push ups to strengthen those muscles some more. Legs sore, uhhhh, stances dude. I had so many legit excuses, to not train. But, I’d of just let myself down. I would have felt terrible the next morning, knowing I wasted many opportunities to progress in my Kung fu. What kind of a leader would I be if I just let some being sore and tired stop me from training? Weak! Weak, man, get ‘er into ya!!!! Insert Wild Willy! Hahaha.
Well goodness. And here we are. Right here. I believe just one more thing to talk about and I’ll let you go. Right, the Kung fu karaoke. I have finished putting the lyrics together, as I only had the first two verses put together. So, since Mrs.Bjorkuist asked for the song, I’ll put it together no problem. It’s gonna be a little bit yet, but, we have a day off today due to rain. So, I have a great chance to play catch up today and just train! I have tried to post my video of the first two verses, but, for some reason, I can’t post a video on this network thing, so, whatever. I’ll try to post it to YouTube and send the link that way. If not, well, I don’t know than! I will state, I can not sing, nor can I keep a tune....
Anyhow friendos, I’m going to actually eat some breakfast and get into some training!!
I hope your week is a great as mines going to be.
Thanks for your time
Mr.Duncan
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Can you see it?
Howdy ho there! What’s going on? Well, things are not bad here. So, I got the trucks parked and ready to go for Tuesday on Saturday. We are ready. They give us time off. But, it’s day to day, so stay close. In other words I don’t want to travel back home in case I get the call to go back to work. So I figured okay it’s only a two days. Yeah I’ll jsut stay put. I’ll get the apartment ready to go, I’ll get some dinners pre cooked and froze and blah blah blah. Here I am ready to go and we are still sitting idle! I should have just gone home, stupid bosses and stupid listening to bosses! I’m kidding. I am! I’m a little mad at the situation and I’m just kinda brewed in place yesterday. Anyhow. No bad days, jus bad moments.....it wasn’t the WHOLE day. Just kinda most moments through the day.....hahaha ahhhh. Okay it was a bad day
Anyhow, I have been keeping up for the most part. I figured a nice idle down and some recovery time would be good, but getting that full back upswing is kinda tough, even after only a few days off. Pushed hard for the tourney and was ready to go, but work. So, I’ll just keep training for the next one, I do suppose. In all honesty, not being able to attend was a kick to the groin, and maybe I should have argued my point a little more, but, like I said, that moment did help establish me in the company. So, pros and cons, I guess. Now that I think about it, it would have been a powerful day either path I took, just different results.
So, yeah, Da Mu Hsing is coming great. I’m finding the transitions are getting cleaner, and I’m not thinking so much as I am doing. I believe it really helped practicing for the Kung fu karaoke. I almost had the form and song ending on the same spots. Only a few seconds of idle time, but, when I recorded it, for Sifu, I sang too fast and it turned out terrible! Hahaha. But, like I said, singing and practicing at the same time was a heck of a challenge. So, when I was doing just Da Mu Hsing, one it was hard not to start singing and two, it was way easier to not be thinking of lyrics and movements at the same time. Therefore, now, that I’m not doing the sing8ng anymore, Da Mu Hsing, way cleaner. It’s like polishing this turd and you know, it’s a decent looking turd now. It’s a “smooth
turd”! Ha!
Sorry, I was just getting my stew off the stove! Mmmm! In other news, while training for the tourney, I was working the stick obviously, and man, I had some good times. I really think training in this little apartment has put my awareness on high alert. I’ve already poked one hole in the roof and a few scuffs, but knock on my skull, I’m getting this tight spot figured out. Man, I worried about pooping lights, so my movements are slow and steady. But, for the tourney, I wanted to rock it out. So, I’d
been pushing for speed and flow. I felt the motions and such where nice enough to amp up the speed factor. I really had some great success there. Getting that humming noise going again. Love it. Just the constant hum of the stick through the air s very satisfying for myself. I love just closing my eyes swinging the stick and just listening to where it’s taking my body. And from there, I can listen to my stick sing a song! It can be a nice soft song, or it can be a song of heavy metal! Depends on my mood!! Weird! Either way, this has been a very successful few weeks in gp.
So, from here, I don’t know. Just kicking this half assed attempt at being lazy right in the face. My fist.... my attitudes face....right in the face...If I see you before you see me...right in the face...I’ve been listening to a lot of old school Limp Bizkit lately. Like a lot, so, that might explain my aggressiveness. And the fact that I wanna Break Stuff!
Finally-ish, here’s this. My strikes I’ve been working so hard on I wrote them into my little journal dated them and closed the book for a few days. Yesterday, I hopes of cooling down, I looked at my book, just kinda in general. I realized about myself from looking at my book, is darn am I ever a scatter brain! Like, yowie wowie, I’m writing a poem on this page, and the next one, I’ve got some breaking of the limbs sketched out. And then like 70 empty pages with a note here or there and than here’s some song lyrics. And put this on repeatish for the whole book. Or is it as sporadic as I think? I’m very much like this. I need to see, hear and then I need room to explain to myself. I need pictures whether it be actions or a book and I need to hear. Odd right?
Where am I driving this bus you’re screaming at this point? Depends on your Perspective, I suppose....
Mr.Duncan
Anyhow, I have been keeping up for the most part. I figured a nice idle down and some recovery time would be good, but getting that full back upswing is kinda tough, even after only a few days off. Pushed hard for the tourney and was ready to go, but work. So, I’ll just keep training for the next one, I do suppose. In all honesty, not being able to attend was a kick to the groin, and maybe I should have argued my point a little more, but, like I said, that moment did help establish me in the company. So, pros and cons, I guess. Now that I think about it, it would have been a powerful day either path I took, just different results.
So, yeah, Da Mu Hsing is coming great. I’m finding the transitions are getting cleaner, and I’m not thinking so much as I am doing. I believe it really helped practicing for the Kung fu karaoke. I almost had the form and song ending on the same spots. Only a few seconds of idle time, but, when I recorded it, for Sifu, I sang too fast and it turned out terrible! Hahaha. But, like I said, singing and practicing at the same time was a heck of a challenge. So, when I was doing just Da Mu Hsing, one it was hard not to start singing and two, it was way easier to not be thinking of lyrics and movements at the same time. Therefore, now, that I’m not doing the sing8ng anymore, Da Mu Hsing, way cleaner. It’s like polishing this turd and you know, it’s a decent looking turd now. It’s a “smooth
turd”! Ha!
Sorry, I was just getting my stew off the stove! Mmmm! In other news, while training for the tourney, I was working the stick obviously, and man, I had some good times. I really think training in this little apartment has put my awareness on high alert. I’ve already poked one hole in the roof and a few scuffs, but knock on my skull, I’m getting this tight spot figured out. Man, I worried about pooping lights, so my movements are slow and steady. But, for the tourney, I wanted to rock it out. So, I’d
been pushing for speed and flow. I felt the motions and such where nice enough to amp up the speed factor. I really had some great success there. Getting that humming noise going again. Love it. Just the constant hum of the stick through the air s very satisfying for myself. I love just closing my eyes swinging the stick and just listening to where it’s taking my body. And from there, I can listen to my stick sing a song! It can be a nice soft song, or it can be a song of heavy metal! Depends on my mood!! Weird! Either way, this has been a very successful few weeks in gp.
So, from here, I don’t know. Just kicking this half assed attempt at being lazy right in the face. My fist.... my attitudes face....right in the face...If I see you before you see me...right in the face...I’ve been listening to a lot of old school Limp Bizkit lately. Like a lot, so, that might explain my aggressiveness. And the fact that I wanna Break Stuff!
Finally-ish, here’s this. My strikes I’ve been working so hard on I wrote them into my little journal dated them and closed the book for a few days. Yesterday, I hopes of cooling down, I looked at my book, just kinda in general. I realized about myself from looking at my book, is darn am I ever a scatter brain! Like, yowie wowie, I’m writing a poem on this page, and the next one, I’ve got some breaking of the limbs sketched out. And then like 70 empty pages with a note here or there and than here’s some song lyrics. And put this on repeatish for the whole book. Or is it as sporadic as I think? I’m very much like this. I need to see, hear and then I need room to explain to myself. I need pictures whether it be actions or a book and I need to hear. Odd right?
Where am I driving this bus you’re screaming at this point? Depends on your Perspective, I suppose....
Mr.Duncan
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