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Last fencing session of this term tonight. The club may or may not keep running over summer break, but with so many of our members moving back home for the summer this weekend, it gets harder to justify. So, we got a little ... spirited here and there.
By 'we', of course I mean 'me and Ben'. We're both built like battleships (he's got the muscle, I've got the mass), we're both epeeists, and we enjoy a good fight. Tonight, we wired up and went at it properly, in a way that, while never unsafe, was extremely energetic and likely to attract the attention of the ref, had there been one.
About halfway through, Ben landed a nice hit on my lower abdomen. Due to my being in a really strange position at the time, I briefly tried to guard it with my foot before remembering what I was doing, and in that time the blade passed neatly through my sock. Blaze of momentary pain on my right shin, and a blade that travelled unsettlingly through the sock from front to inside-leg without doing any serious damage. It's just a graze, and more than anything I'm pissed off that the first proper wound I get from fencing in several years is entirely covered by my now-traditional combat trousers!
Now I need a new pair of long socks :)
Also, it's Download Day. Help Mozilla set a record for most downloads of a piece of software in 24 hours (*downloads*)
EDIT: Well that's freakin' hilarious. The Firefox 3 installer for linux requires a newer version of the GTK graphics toolkit than I have. This is the price of running 'old' linuxes, I guess (Slackware 10.2, current version is 12.1: it's about four years old). Have to see if I can find a package at some point.