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Not much to speak of as of late, except continuing to work my ass off to keep up with all my schoolwork. Started watching "The Pacific" which is an awesome follow up to "Band of Brothers". Really cool that I'm actually learning a lot about WWII at the same time in history class and that the show is pretty accurate.

BJJ has been coming along well, been working on some improvements in certain parts of my game and taking in a lot of advice from my classmates. Still haven't made it to many Judo practices because I am still concerned at how well my knee would take getting thrown around. The knee is at about 90%, so I have most of my mobility back and the pain is starting to finally subside even though I still have problems going up and down stairs, nothing major.

No time to talk politics. Wish I could because there is a lot to talk about now, it'll just have to wait.

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