I just finished teaching an 9 week winter community ed taiji class that was perhaps the best community ed group I've taught. It was small, only 6 people, but no one dropped out, unlike almost every other class I've taught.

By 6 weeks, the entire group had picked up the whole first section of the Yang long form. By 7 weeks, they felt confident enough that they asked me to stop verbally coaching through the form. Additionally, by the end of class they all looked reasonably good doing it. So, the last two weeks, I was also able to spend time introducing and playing with taiji sword and bagua circle walking.

This class was a real pleasure to teach. I managed to grab a short video of us tonight at http://qik.com/video/5558201. Although the camera angle could have been better, nonetheless I congratulate them on a job well done!

-- Pat

I just had an unpleasant realization, due in part to a similar comment from Bob Nix. (Gee thanks Bob, even though you feel the same, way to share. :-S ).

Due to recent team reorg pulling linux into the windows group, nearly everything I've done in the past 5 years is now completely irrelevant. For me it's a real bummer 'cause I've either solely implemented, been the driver for, or worked on nearly every major process, standard, cross platform project or initiative in my prior team, as well as all of the linux specific infrastructure.

Now, almost none of what I did will matter or be used by the windows team - for the simple reason that it's 40 people's worth of stuff to my 1, and in a team that big common standards outweigh nearly everything else short of outright technical impossibility. Also since I've leaving the old unix team, everything I'm leaving there will bitrot and be irrelevant to them in 1-2 years, too.

I'm really rather bummed.