North of 49

Woohoo!!!

It is North of 49's birthday today! We've been around for one year, and while I had an anniversary comic lined up, it's not quite done, but should be by the week's end.


Yay! This blog is one year old! Hope it stays around for many more years!

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I got promoted to Warrant Officer 2nd Class in my cadet squadron tonight, so all the cadets have to call me "Sir" now.

It's great to finally be promoted, sicne I'm there more often than my Chief.

AKA, God on Earth.

Dude, thank you so much for helping to restore my account. Don't know what the hell happened there, but it was probably unheard of in computer history. Apple must be on to me.

Thanks again dude, you rock!!!


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Okay, so even though I haven't been to Okinawan Kobudo in ages, I'm still learning new stuff from the Far East. This time, I'm adding "Qi" energy to my arsenal.

Big mistake.

You see, molding your "Qi"(pronounced "chi") energy requires movements on your behalf that channel energy from heaven and earth. Hence the beautiful flow and power from Tai Chi.

So after learning the basics, they start to test your ability. This involves hitting your pressure points, jabbing you and punching you in areas, and hitting you with blunt objects/resisting blunt objects.

But this is not where my pain comes from(although the stuff they do to you is painful as hell). My pain comes from my inexperience of releasing my Qi energy. The idea behind this is that you build up qi energy in a desired location, and it will help protect you. The problem si that afterwards, you have dispell/release all the built up qi energy and the qi energy that went into to you. If you don't do this, then it's painful as hell.

Needless to say, this is happening to me. I think I get it all, but surely enough, it comes anyway and then I look like an idiot to passers by.

On the bright side, I can now moderately build up qi in my abdomen, shoulder/clavical muscles and pressure points and can offer a good bit of resistance to bamboo.

I'm not sure if this will work, but what if we were able to reform other people's immigration policy as well as ours?

What I mean to say is, people know that in 1st world countries they can find other people of the same culture and can speak their own language and practice their own religion without fear of prosecution.

If we could implement reforms like this in other countries and encouraged strong, healthy grown and infrastructure in these areas, we would be far better off. People would not make 20,000 mile journeys to Canada, USA, Europe, etc. but instead migrate more locally.

What do you guys think? Feel free to elaborate and add your ideas to this plan/idea.


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