What's up friends? How goes the battle? Figure I'm long overdue for a web update, so here I am.

Well, it's been a long holiday! I've been off work since the 20^th. This is sweet news. I was back in New Brunswick (though sadly, spent all of my time in Moncton, aka The Land of The Damned) for a week. Pretty good times, hanging out with the family. Got to make it back to Freddy for one quick busy day, and it was oh so good to see those people that I saw. You know who you are. I love my friends like I love mint condition hardcovers. A lot.

Now I'm back in Van. Was back ... 5 days ago? Got home on the 27th ... no idea what I did. Oh yeah. After a long, long delay in Toronto (4+ hours!) we arrived in Vancouver at like 5 am. Some girl there was like "uhm, what flight are you getting off of? There aren't supposed to be any flights." Yeah, tell me about it, lady. Anyway, I had my book, I had my earphones, and I had in-flight entertainment. I chatted with my new friend Clare on the phone for a while, even. I am a very flexible traveller.

I got to bed around 6, but woke up at 11. I needed to go running, so I ate a bit of yogourt and set out on an epic 26.6 km run to Capilano Dam. I was supposed to do 27.5, but I got home and just could not motivate myself to shuffle along for even 6 more minutes. I was so dehydrated and famished, it was sickening. When I ran through Stanley Park starving squirrels were actually bringing me acorns, like "hey, eat this, you need it more than I do."

On Wednesday night I went to Clare's birthday party, which was fun. I told the "Man With An Orange For A Head" joke and not a single person laughed, as usual. Man, that is a good joke. I also drank a bit too much, and so I was pretty hung over the next day. I think I got to bed at 4 am.

The next day I'm not sure what I did. I think I hung out with Lianne, then went to Tim's place for New Year's Eve. It was fun, low key, laid back. I tried my hardest to defend against Tim's Drink! (tm) brand of peer pressure, and did pretty well. I crashed at their place, and we had breakfast. I got a great shirt to run / yoga / climb in from Tim and Andrea for my birthday. Thanks team. It looks just like this except my arms are nicer: http://shop.lululemon.com/RUNFlex_Tech_SS/pd/c/720/np/720/p/1632.html

Then later that day I did some Krav action, then met up with Clare and Lilyann, who took me out for dinner for my birthday and then a movie. We went to Baru, which I would definitely recommend (http://www.baru.ca/) and then rented "Thirst", which I thought was going to be sweet as hell. It turned out to be very good, but long, weird, and disturbing. A great original vampire movie, for sure. It's a bit of a porn though, so don't watch it with your family. Trailer is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIUMK8xBixA

Saturday morning I had a crazy Krav workout. Here's the workout:

With a buddy, one guy runs 10 ft out and back, then 20 feet out and back, then 30 ft out and back, touching the ground each time. While he is running, his partner is doing continuous burpees. When you get back from the third "leg" of the run, you switch positions, and the runner does burpees and the burpee guy starts the running. That is one round. For the next round, you run out and back as before, but then go through the entire run again! Again, while you're running, your partner is doing continuous burpees. Then switch. Then run the set 3 times each. Then 4 times each. Then five, count 'em five times! That is a huge, huge quantity of burpees. Holy cow, that is tough work, kids. That was our warmup. Then tons of pad work, kicking drills, then sparring. I avoided injury, for the most part, which was a miracle, I was so tired.

After that, I went home, showered, ate a bit, then went climbing with Clare. Yeah, I've been back into the gym a bit. She needs a partner who is going to motivate and teach her, I need a partner who won't let me boulder and get injured. We're a good match! We were both so weak though, we gave up after a few routes and went for thai food instead. So much easier.

And now I'm home. I missed UFC 108 because I had no one to watch it with and I was soaking wet from the rain and hypothermic and just wanted to come home, but that's ok. I should sleep anyway. I am a zombie.

By the way, if you haven't seen the Whale Whores episode of South Park, please watch it (check out Comedy central, they should all be up there, here, this link might work for you: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/south-park/season-13/south-park-1311-whale-whores/. And after you watch that episode, you'll be loving this:

Cartman signing Lady Gaga's "Poker Face":

Amazing.

Welcome to 2010. More soon.