All caught up, almost...

I managed to not only catch up on the Slow Work™, but also did all of today's Routine Stuff™—the part that arrived, at least, as one of four files belonging to one such assignment wasn't actually attached to the email that delivered the assignment to my inbox. That said, my machine crashed twice today. Grrr.

There's not too much more to report, actually.

Things to think about include the parallel I see between "endangered languages" (a subject that seems to consume certain translators, from time to time) and tai chi (which is the only martial art I really know anything about). Between the diaspora of experienced Chinese martial artists that occurred after the war (and particularly during the so-called "Cultural Revolution"), the promotion of tai chi as principally an exercise and health activity aimed at promoting physical fitness, and the increasingly widespread use, worldwide, of firearms (which, without putting too fine a point on it, are a lot easier to learn to use than to learn a martial art of any kind) I can easily imagine tai chi knowledge dying out with the last serious practitioners.

Then again, maybe I've watched Needle Through Brick one too many times, I don't know.

Cheers...