Writin' Forty

  If anything the theme I’ve been having repeat over and over in my life is that nothing is magic. Last blog I was talking about how the wife and I have found the house we are going to call home in North Carolina and while there’s some wonderment and awesomeness involved at the end of the day it was preparedness and opportunity that got us in the position to be able to receive the blessing that was the home. I am seeing the same thing apply in  jiujitsu  recently. Recently, as in since about the start of the year, my school has opened up the opportunity to attend training of some sort 5 to sometimes 6 days a week. A lot of this training has been centered around the fundamental levels of training, which I am interested in for all sorts of reasons:  I absolutely need this training in general, this training is crucial to me doing better on the purple belt test whenever that pops up again, and personally I want my whole thing to revolve around the fundamental principles of  jiujitsu  more

  Not much new has been going on in the life of the big guy here. Ok, that would be fibbing somewhat. I’m in the process of landing a beautiful home that might be what the  Mrs   calls  “our forever home”…I hate thinking in those terms. Life changes so quickly that we could have to pick up and leave for any number of reasons. But what I will say is that instead of renting the home we are in now we will be owning a home in Charlotte for the first time and that’s pretty damn cool.  In order to have money to buy the new home I sold the rental property that I held onto for 18 years. It’s crazy that I kept it that long. My idea was that it was going to eventually be a perpetual source of income but due to this  covid  situation I would have been a fool not to sell it. I put more money in my bank account than what’s ever been there and much like the kid with a few dollars, the money was burning a hole in my pocket to do SOMETHING with it and another house was the right idea. We went searchin