Take a Blow to the Body

1. Tighten your stomach muscles. (A body blow to the gut (solar plexus) can damage organs and kill. This sort of punch is one of the best and easiest ways to knock someone out. (Harry Houdini was killed by an unexpected blow to the abdomen.))
2. Do not suck in your stomach if you expect that a punch is imminent.
3. If possible, shift slightly so that the blow hits your side, but do not flinch or move away from the punch. (Try to absorb the blow with your obliques this is the set of muscles on your side that wraps around your ribs. While a blow to this area may crack a rib, it is less likely to do damage to internal organs.)

Take a Blow to the Head

1. Move toward the blow, not away from it. (Getting punched while moving backward will result in the head taking the punch at full force. A punch to the face can cause head whipping, where the brain moves suddenly inside the skull, and can cause severe injury or death.)
2. Tighten your neck muscles and clench your jaw to avoid scraping of the upper and lower palettes.

To Fend off a Straight Punch

1. The straight punch-one that comes straight at your face-should be countered by moving toward the blow.
2. A punch can be absorbed most effectively and with the least injury by the forehead. (Avoid getting taking the punch in the nose, which is extremely painful.)
3. Attempt to deflect the blow with an arm.
4. Moving into the punch may result in your attacker missing the mark wide to either side.
5. (optional) Hit back with an uppercut or roundhouse.

To Fend off a Roundhouse Punch

1. Clench your jaw. (A punch to the ear causes great pain and can break your jaw.)
2. Move in close to your attacker. (Try to make the punch land harmlessly behind your head.)
3. (optional) Hit back with an uppercut.

To Fend off an Uppercut

1. Clench your neck and jaw. (An uppercut can much damage, whipping your head back, easily breaking your jaw or your nose.)
2. Use your arm to absorb some of the impact or deflect the blow to the side-anything to minimize the impact of a straight punch to the jaw.
3. Do not step into this punch. (If possible, move your head to the side.)
4. (optional) Hit back with a straight punch to the face or with an uppercut of your own.

(see more helpful hints at http://worstcasescenarios.com )

Random Scotto Factoid of the day –

I read multiple books at once. Depending where in the apartment or at work I am, I grab what’s at hand and read it… I keep a book by the bed, one (at least one!) in the potty, on the dining-table, next to my computers at work & home, and stored on my palmtop for portability. (the bed and palm books get read the quickest, and sometimes books cycle from location to location.)

Current books I’m reading, and locations – (I’ll apply links and fomatting, later, as it occurs to me)

• Work – Perl Programming and Apache Guides
• Palmtop – Blue Velvet Script, King James Bible, Tales of the Arabian Knights, (Will be adding Delta of Venus, shortly, possibly tonight)
• Home computer – The Stand – Stephen King
• Potty – Collected Astro City, Preacher, and Doom Patrol comics in Trade paperbacks
• Dining Table – Quantum psychology – Robert Anton Wilson
• Bedside – Tales Of Beatnik Glory – Ed Sanders

2 years ago today – Newt – pic here

This was E-mailed to me –

You know, I rather agree with much of that sentiment. I want a quality machine that runs fast and well. That said, the new gizmo looks neat, but doesn’t seem to be any great technological shake… I’d like my computer to be pretty much invisible, not a centerpiece. do the job quickly and without crashing, please, and stay out of the way when I want to write at my desk.

hmmm…

New magic group set to cast a spell over Taiwan

Waking the Tiger, eh?

Had wonderful, soothing sleeps last night. 🙂 Wearing my superman boxers to celebrate today.

Walkies today, and yesterday’s super jetpack link makes me wonder about the last groundbreaking invention before the internet? Anything more recent than my answer? (I don’t want to foul judgement by posting it out here. For what it’s worth, I don’t thing the little scooter is terribly groundbreaking)

It really impresses me what some people have seen over the last lifetime’s worth of years. 1903 we had the first manned, controlled flight… there are people still alive that were born before then… they’ve seen us go from being pretty much earthbound to being able to go to the moon, cold wars, world wars, and we lived through it all.

Human rights here in the US went to some pretty poor settings to some not nearly so bad ones. Women can vote, no more official segregation, and you can pretty much believe what you want in regards to religion, sexuality, and politics. Medical science has gone through the roof, as has technology in general. (Maybe, in my opinion the best side effect of some of the most horrible conflicts this planet has ever seen.)

I’m happy to be living in this place and time.

Other news…Newtie’s done with his meds! hooray! To celebrate, I had a naughty brunch. Ice cream sammich!

Booze poll results

Every night at 10… Newt checks the front and back doors.

I wonder what he hears/senses? I can’t spot anything outside…

I’m going to dose my little orange man up, and hit the sack early. nighters.

To heck with that personal scooter junk… somebody get me one of these.

No tush-burning exhaust, lifter fans…just the way I want it. now *that’s* cool technology.

Also –

Windows XP, the most secure operating system ever, has another security hole. In other news, the Titanic is an unsinkable ship. (my opinion on XP is here -warning, foul language, because is a pottymouth)

‘Dead’ man gets up and walks away just before his cremation

The midnight pooper has struck again

Taliban gone, Pedophilia Back.
Between that and goat-football yech. I try to be tolerant, but mistreatment of youth doesn’t fly with me.

I was in a funk, then bad mood earlier. Still a slight crankiness, but things feel better again. I have a game plan, and talking about what bugs me helped out. Now, it’s only a question of confronting those remaining issues.

I need to call my brother tonight, and see what’s the dealio lately. (We’ve been playing a lot of phone-tag, and missing one another… as one of the “big three” people in my life, it’s important to keep that avenue open)

Had a wonderful walk this morning… I got in before the thunderstorms had a chance to start. Refreshingly cool, because it was cloudy, windy and early. I skipped the double walk, though…one lap was enough. The beach was beautiful… grey skies, not too choppy, not too populated. I’m glad I didn’t do the airport walk, because I think that route would’ve been mobbed. As it stands, I was allowed to walk unimpeded at my normal ent-stride. (Hasty or not.) The wind was at my back on the way home and made the return simpler than the first half of the walk…just as well, because the bridge on atlantic is a bit of an incline. Lots of things to take pictures of. Only two weeks until I get my digicam!

screamingly cute giraffe pics – eyeball, lovey heads

Well, it looks like LJ’s servers are being shaken to death by psychic Martian ant ghosts, *again*

What the story is, I don’t know…I’m home from work, comfortably dressed, and have Newt laying next to me in semi-arc / half-loaf position. Another Monday down… got my paycheck today (as I was away from work on Friday.

Not really hungry, I might skip supper tonight. I’m feeling a little tired, but not too bad. I’m mostly over my mild ranty-ness I was at midday today,but at times, I can really be disappointed in some people. I’m no Will Rogers, but I’d like to be. I feel I still have more in common with Sam Clemens.

My mind tells me to wake up extra early, and walk early on, before it gets to the “devil’s armpit” level, like it threatened to do today…must remember sunglasses next go-round, too. Such thoughts are simply constructed at night, before rest…I know that it’s going to be tough come the dawn. Maybe I’ll be up early enough to do a double walk, but somehow, I doubt the urge will take me. Instead, odds are better that I’ll walk to the beach, sit there for a spell, and look off into the ocean for a while, see what mental sparks leap to me and take up residence in my noggin before heading home to treat Newtie.

Just occures to me that I have many blessings. Good that I can remember to count them here and again. 🙂

prickly pear tickles on my back… good and bad barbs. going to give the baby his drugs, and cuddle up in bed, let a my eyes chomp on a book for a few, and then sweet dreams.

1) I’m sure you’ve heard, but in case you haven’t: The universe is institutional green. And appropriately so, I might add.

2) Tiny Windows Games – a dynofoo production.

3) “‘The design was logical,’ he said. ‘They made a cube and a tower. I was sure they would make something spherical. I know them too well.’”

4) More bowties than you can shake a stick at.

5) I’m gonna go out on a limb here and predict these won’t sell terribly well.

6) “‘I would chose a Dell over a Gateway because Steven is cuter than Gateway’s cow.’” [link via ROS&RR]

7) The Wild Cat Ranch Retirement Home.

8) And finally, Music From TV Commercials.