Fall 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!
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Catch up day

Catching up on requirements is like going to the dentist office for five root canals. That's one thing about the website that's nice (when it's working) is the tracking color. Red has quickly become my Lex Luthor. Always scheming to take me down when I least expect it. Today I went to the soccer field for Connor's game, and probably lost a finger and a toe from the cold. It didn't look that cold with the sun shining, but man, I felt like I had mucus icicles hanging off my beard. That wind was brutal, and plus, I didn't prepare for it. Poor Connor, I didn't bring him an under shirt to wear under his uniform and he's on the field shaking his hands freezing. Made me look like father of the year. "Who's kid is that turning blue?" As they say, what doesn't kill you....... Had a quick lunch, peanut butter and jelly if your curious. We won't be showing up anytime soon on the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Then I had to change out the shocks on the motorhome and install a sway bar as well. I'm not the best mechanic, but I will certainly destroy something completely myself before having a professional look at it. Anyway, I found out that they sent me a broken parts bag (bolts, nuts, washers, etc) and was missing some parts. So, off to Lowes. Then, on step one, I was attaching a simple spacer and it didn't fit. So, I borrowed my neighbors drill press and made it work. As you can imagine, I didn't make it past step one. So, I decided to get a bunch of requirements out of the way and here I am, annoying you with this frivolous story when you could have been making the cure to cancer or watching the Bachelor. 

I need to catch up
An early start