Keeping It Up

Blogs are funny. I'll go months without using it and then it becomes really useful. I found out about a sword that my grandfather got in Korea. He gave to me and it's really amazing. But I posted some pictures here so that sword enthusiasts could determine what kind of sword it is and where it came from exactly. This is what I found out: Made sometime between 1906 and 1945, (probably closer to 45) it was a sword for a low ranking Japanese officer during the occupation of Korea. It is rare because of the efforts to destroy all the confiscated swords at the end of the occupation period. My grandpa got it and brought it back to America then and it's been sitting in his closet since then. I really love the thing and since i received it I became a member of swordforum.com. I'm not saying I'm going to start collecting swords, but if I was to, this would be a perfect start to a collection.

This has also been a special week because an old friend, Dan Puzzo, and I watched Houseguestw with Sinbad on DVD. You might ask yourself, 'Why would anyone want to do that?' Well, let me explain myself. We watched it a number of years ago around the time that it came out on VHS. We tried to keep it the same as last time, except this time we had Rolling Rocks, popcorn and Chex Mix. It we had been planning this for 3 years, trying to do it almost every summer break we had but we never got around to it until 3 days ago.  

Oh and getting back to the title and the point of the post. I haven't been faithful to my 2 followers and with the christmas season upon us, I figured this would be the best way to share in the giving spirit of Christmas. New pieces of business include working in a warehouse bending metal hooks to replace them with caribeeners, rockclimbing type clip. I went to a Blackhawks game and it was sweet. Had Kuma's Corner for the first time, and built 3 huge snowmen over the course of a week. 

Christmas is tomorrow and the spirit is all up in me to a ridiculous degree. (ie. the sweater) I have one more gift to buy, for my mom. hopefully bamboo cuttingboards are under $30...AND HERE'S A VIDEO I MADE FOR YOU!

MERRY CHRISTMAS,

MATT SPIRO