fun movie. heck, all i was really looking for with this flick was some kung fu action and i definitely got that. i still haven’t sat down with ‘house of flying daggers’. i’ll probably do that tomorrow night while the gang is all out.

ya know, my martial arts movie collection is pitiful. it used to be much better, but we lost quite a few tapes in the flood and haven’t replaced them. perhaps it’s time to rectify that.

thinking about these ‘eastern’ martial arts makes me think about how we here in the west forget that we have our own martial arts traditions. granted, most of them are lost, but there are some kept alive. thanks be to the SCA and fencing!

read the ‘protector of the small’ series over the last couple days and that got me thinking about all of this stuff. reading about knights in battle on horseback and swords and lances and such things makes me think about the stories i want to be writing. i’ve got a young adult novel or two in there along with the rest of the epic. i may start scribbling some plot ideas down for that, just to see what comes out.

oh, and yes i spent time with mum today. helped her get some cleaning and sorting done as she starts making a true effort to downsize the amount of crap currently housed in the ol’ familial homestead. i hope she can stick with it, it’s just dragging her and my dad down.

and on that note, i am tired. still in recovery mode, though i did manage to at least straighten my bedroom up a bit when i got home and do my weekly load of laundry. i just couldn’t take it any more.

back to work on the morrow. oh joy.