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Fight day in three days.
Quite probably the toughest guy I've been paired up against as of yet, but somehow I am the most confident about winning than I have been for any fight. I've been busting my ass to tighten up the little holes in my stand up game, and have found a few little tricks that I have a knack for that seem...
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The sky this time of year is rarely absolute, the days are a smoke hued haze, the nights fade out to a supernatural purple or rose tint. The cold finds a way to cut, even when not a soul freezing clime, the air infecting ones skin and lungs with a parasitic rime, the kind that saps the will for anything but survival and heat. Even...
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I wonder what its a sign of when you cant even really find time to download a bunch of songs youve written on a little list of stuff you hear on the radio at work and want to be able to hear at your leisure?

When one looks at the statistics for global poverty, education levels or any of the other myriad of statistic-ized topics, the frame of billions of people, or millions or hundreds of thousands per day, it is all to easy to lose sight of the scope. These are not numbers that we experience in a day to day context and therefore have little meaning to us....
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My nose appears to be quite painful and infected. Really less pleasant than it sounds (how is such things possible?) It's hard to breathe, and I want to just jam a knife up there to make it so the fluids will drain out (I won't because thats neither smart nor sanitary) Off to get some lovely pills for it in the morning though.

Right now, I have a knee that just doesn't want to do anyhing without yelling in pain, and a shin that has made itself a secondary career as a braille tutorial, what with the amount of bumps and gross swollen bruises on it. I got these last weekend while I enjoyed (I use that word loosely) North Battleford, Saskatchewan. I was slated for my second...
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I step into the cage, and the ref gives my opponent and I the obligatory 'are you ready?' before the bell tings and shuts off anything other than the focus of the fight. It takes no time at all to get into the thick of it- I come in with a kick to his leg, he tries to return one to my body and misses...
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I'm a little tired at the moment (having fought and then driven three or so hours back home to make it in for the crack of 1:30) but I've popped my cage fight cherry and came away with a 'W' on the record. I'll probably go into more detail after I've had a decent nights rest, but lets just say that I made the other...
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Five days until I find out what Im made of.

Matt Good never fails to enthrall me whenever I listen to him. Of all the things in the past few years that have changed, failed, or fallen away, it's one constant that I can always rely on- and from time to time, remind me of the better times and better things.