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One of the benefits of my job is that I get more days off than the average guy, however I have to work 12 hr days as a trade off - so on the days I work, all I do is work. I can't go to class but thankfully there is a gym in the building so I can get in an hour of training in.

When I do have days off I tend to overdose on training - Monday to Wednesday this week I was on the mats more than 13 hrs - Thursday I slept well, woke up sore, and then went back to work.

Teaching the orange/green night class is a lot of fun - I feel like Sifu Masterson did all the hard work creating such a high quality group and now I just get to enjoy the fruits of her labor. I am becoming more and more aware of the awesome and humbling responsibility it is to teach people in the martial arts. Lately it has become very apparent to me how important it is to trust your instructors (mostly trusting that they have your best interest and your safety in mind) - I hope that I have earned the trust of the students.

I am a little more functional than I thought I would be with my Judas finger (the one that betrayed me), being able to wrap it up really good to digit #3 gives me the ability to do 95% of most things. It doesn't bend though - I take the splint off for a couple hours a day at home and there is no way that this thing is bending more than about 30 degrees away from the knuckle right now - to make a good fist digit #4 has to bend down at least 90 degrees from the 2nd knuckle. It's been almost 2 weeks, I wonder how long it's going to take to heal.

I usually play 1-2 hours of guitar on my days off - it's my form of meditation - that's killing me a bit. I can still kinda use a pick but it's not the same - fingerpicking is my style so I'm a little restless on this front. It hasn't affected my angry bird skills so far as I can tell.

Something that is important for me to keep in mind is that even if I don't feel like I am getting better at certain things it is impossible not to progress when I put in consistent and mindful time and effort - even if there are temporary setbacks along the way.