Monday

Monday this week was a real nerve tester. Delivered my motorcycle to get the valves set and tire changed. Service said it would be about four hours so we though we would do our city shopping that day and wait for the motorcycle to be finished seeing it was at the shop at nine AM. We went shopping for four hours went back to the dealer he said the mechanic had to have lunch then go to an appointment so the motorcycle would be longer. So I left it there and drove the forty-five minuets home and pick the bike up the next day. On the way home message came on the cell phone that my time on the cell was going to expire at midnight. When I got home I went to use the landline to fix the cell problem, the landline was dead, the phone company was rerouting the line thus no phone. No problem I’ll use the cell to call Rogers to straighten out the problem. Now I am talking to Melanie the Rogers computer you know how it goes if you want this press 1 if you want that press 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 by the time you get to number 6 I’ve forgot what number 1 was so I listen again. Press the number I think is right and guess what it is not so back to the main menu and listen again. Pick another number yah this is right but still can’t talk to a real person. Seems like they give you the run around! Probably just me being paranoid eh! I get tired of talking to a computer put the cell down, it rings at five-thirty my motorcycle is ready. Good thing I didn’t wait…. Now I’m ticked off at the cell phone company. Decided to phone the landline company and talk to their computer, it tells me to call back later, because there is an overwhelming amount of calls. Then my daughter Kylee wants to give my cell company a try. She listens and is pushing buttons. Soon she is hollering at the cell phone, HELP HELP the same as I did, because there is one part you can’t push buttons it has to be voice activated and it will not activate it just keeps asking you to say help if you need help. Now I’m standing back laughing at her. She gives up. I’ve had enough I’m going to Kung Fu to rid my frustrations. Then she goes down the road to the neighbors where the phone is working, makes the call to the cell phone company on the landline, gets through and the twenty-four hour help line tells her she will have to call back between nine to five tomorrow. Well I did call back Tuesday. My credit card was updated in December, and I emailed Rogers about the update. They thanked me; January I’m cut off I call back, everything gets straightened out February I’m cut off call back they tell me everything is OK. March I’m cut off, call them, and fix it. Till last Monday when they cut me off. I finally find out what the problem is. It’s because my credit card was rejected three times the system did not except it. But they also used it six times! Now the system has permanently rejected my Credit card. Seems to me it was their fault I was rejected. Needless to say Monday was a bad day.
Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain Alberta Canada

Coffee Cups and Cigarette Buts

Why is it, that everywhere you look? This is the repeditive garbage that’s in the ditch, on the road, sidewalks, in front of buildings. Pathways on nature walks! The coffee cups are not only creating the garbage, they are of course using up our recourses of trees for paper cups and oil for Styrofoam. The coffee is hot so a layer of bubbly plastic is wrapped around the cup so you don’t burn yourself, or put an extra wrapper of puffy paper, or better yet give you two cups. America uses enough disposable coffee cups in a year if placed end to end could wrap around the earth 55 times and would weigh 900 million pounds, so use your reusable mug.
Now rules have been set, no more smoking in the work place. Glad that happened. But that chased everyone out side in front of the doorways. I guess now we can see who smokes. Just wish they would throw their buts in a proper disposal not on the ground and out the window of a vehicle. Smoking is the number one killer in the US. It is stated that 800,000 people die a year of smoke related illnesses.
Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain Alberta Canada

Fishing

Went fishing today. Sad to see that fishing in Alberta lakes is depleting. People taking more than their limit, also taking fish that are smaller than regulation and of course the train wrecks that spill toxic chemicals into the lakes and rivers. A person really has to be careful on reading the regulations. Every lake has different rules about the size, type and quantity of fish that can be taken. At least there is a size limit on most fish. Hopefully the quantities will come back if everyone follows the regulations. It takes a Walleye eight years to become big enough to spawn. With growing an inch a year that is a lot of up hill battles for a small fish. When humans insist on destroying nature.
Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain Alberta Canada

Not Good

Just realized I missed my deadline blog. I totally apologize.
No excuses!
Well I think I have broken the barrier of no more elbow pain it took just about a year. My elbow has been pain free for about a month still doing pushups at one-fifty a day and elbow feels fine.
Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain Alberta Canada

Down Days

It seems that my team mates are all talking about their down days, good topic! You know the day we set aside to just rest our mind, body and soul. It has sparked something inside of me and made me realize something about my life. Well I do choose Sunday along with most of my other teammates. But they work a five-day workweek. For me a rest day still seems to be Sunday, which I totally agree with, and I love Sundays, and I do chill on that day, but the problem is I work four days on then four days off, so I get four Sundays off in a row then I don’t. So I tend to not take a down day on those four weeks. I carry on, with the constant on the go stuff, but then I crash, and say enough! Hey that’s not good. Then there is a knee jerk reaction, I just decide to throw in the towel, but when I finally decide to do that it is generally to late, and I need more than just one day of look after me. I tend to push myself a little to far, and when I do I am no good to anybody. So what I’ve got to do is find more balance and I will.
Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain Alberta Canada