Spring 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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Entry#10: 17 July 2019 New Keyboard

I accidentally missed yesterday's entry, which I feel bad about, so this journal is both a journal a sort of anecdote. Yesterday a keyboard (as in the instrument, not a computer keyboard) came in but I knew something was off when someone just pulls it out of a sedan, but because Amazon doesn't use solely UPS I thought it was fine. Because I was up in my room working on a painting, it took a few minutes for me to get an opportunity to go bring the keyboard inside; one of the first things I noticed was that the doorbell never rang. Then, when I went downstairs to bring it in I notice that the delivery guy left it in the literal middle of the driveway. Once I brought it in with my brother's help, we notice this gouge in the side of the box and that there were random screws in the box and essential pieces, such as the power supply (the packaging of which arrived, but not the actual power supply), were simply not there, while other things had random zip ties that had no purpose on them, and the keyboard itself was clearly used when advertised as new. Anyways, I took pictures and called my mom, who contacted Amazon, and a new one was sent, though the UPS guy that is supposed to pick up the other one hasn't come yet. I'm glad that we have a keyboard again because we used to have one but my dad got rid of it, and I used to like messing around with it; also, I'm learning a few of the basics. I would make this my new skill, but I'm not for two reasons: I already have a new skill I'm working on, and this is something that I've wanted to do for a long time for myself, and I feel that if I make it for the cycle then it will no longer be for myself.

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