I don’t believe in coincidence anymore, brother.
Thank you for the think today!
I’m glad I picked it up. 
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Thank you! High praise indeed! 
Tempted to get Virtuoso de Musica in there somehow…maybe in place of Negativity Dispacer.
Still time to decide. 
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9/28 Morning Time!
My energy is humming this morning! Tingling, from the underside of my feet, to my palms, to the top of my head, and awareness of everything in between.
There’s going to be some good pizza made today!
People often tell me my product is delicious, “This pizza is so good man!”, as they go for round two.
Seconds is the best compliment I get.
I make the best pizza out of anyone on the staff, hence why I have my spot. I could be positioned somewhere else…but then I wouldn’t be PizzaShaman.
Why is my pizza so good?!? I used to wonder myself. It’s the same ingredients that anyone else would use, roughly the same amounts and variety per pizza. It’s not rocket science. Why was mine so much better? Students got to telling me they avoid the pizza station on my weekly day off, because it’s not the same. Why?!?
Then one day about a year ago, the Universe delivered the answer.
I was going through the instructional videos for the Grand Circle, a standing post qi gong. Grandmaster Jiang was explaining the difference in the hand positions and what that did to the energy flow. Cocking your hand like SpiderMan shooting webbing blocked energy flow, hands aligned straight with your forearms allows it. I’d seen this before, but this time I had the realization that I was doing qi gong when I made pizza. I will cock my left hand while keeping my right aligned, all throughout making a pizza (sauce, cheese, toppings… stretching is a separate step). I sometimes step differently with my feet as well. or pop my left foot on its heel. I send/allow my energy to go into the pizza and that makes it delicious. That’s what makes my food so good.
My Pizza Magic!
So, feeling my energy up this morning, I know I’ll be making some good pizza today. Students will be happy! Thanks to SubClub they are more vocal with their appreciation in front of my bosses, which is great for job security. Oldest daughter has over 2 years of college left and as long as I continue to work there, her tuition is free.
Hmmm. Not quite what I intended to write this morning. It happens.
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Btw where can we order your pizza, and do you have a menu?
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Reminds me of the Daoist story of Master Cook Ding
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So you are the guy who feeds the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!!!
You are the secret to their boundless energy!!! Shredder coming after you to stop this!!!
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The first sentence, talking about limits…I see the Universe working through you for me in your sharing of that, Malkuth.
I found this insightful. I readily identify with moving by spirit, as Ding described. At least, I can with making pizza.
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What a coincidence you pick these guys! < No coincidences!>
It was these guys and my grandmother that got me into pizza when I was 8 years old. It’s a bit late to be digging around, but I have a photo album from that time period that my grandmother had put together. It still has the pizza cut outs from the action figure packaging taped to the inside cover. Probably some character bio’s in there too. I was a big fan at 8 years old!
I’ll take a gander around here in the next week or two, see if I can find it. It would make for a fun journal entry.
Still. Very coincidental!
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My pizza doesn’t get ordered, per se. I work in the dining service department of a small college where I run the pizza station. I just make pizza and keep the shelf as full as possible. I don’t get too fancy with pizza on the daily; I prefer to keep to simple pizzas as the students like them better. Easy to recognize pizzas and they always look the same < Delicious!> as my consistency in pizza making is unmatched.
I make a garlic white pizza that gets a “PizzaShaman recipe” garlic oil brushed on the dough before layering Parmesan, Cheddar, and Mozzarella cheeses. After cooking the pizza, a sprinkle of my pizza herb blend before the cut.
So that pizza, a regular marinara 3- cheese pizza, a pepperoni pizza, either sausage or sausage and bacon pizza, and bacon pizza are available at all times. I have a rotating weekly special pizza, and sometimes I make a special dessert pizza.
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Haha! Was a big fan myself. My previous username Raphael is inspired both from the name of the angel bearing it and the ninja turtle with the red eye band 
. Had a well made plastic action figure of him too. Red was my favorite color in childhood.
And for you, here’s the most kickass TMNT intro:
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Nighttime!
I have this nagging idea to get Virtuoso de Musica into this HeroWork custom. You see, I have a violin. Purchased a couple years ago; even took a few lessons. A childhood dream that I wasn’t able to follow through on at the time.
But now there’s SubClub.
And with this mastery/discipline/workout thing I got going on, I feel that being able to get that module in would be great, providing me with another option for use. It would likely have good synergy with Dance Mastery as well.
For reference,
HeroWork v1
HERO CORE *
SPARTAN CORE *
RM:UWx Core *
Carpe Diem Ascended *
Organization Perfected
Cosmic Navigator*
Negativity Displacer *
Stop Porn and Masturbation*
Shifter-Sexiness
Stonelike *
SPS Fat Burn
SPS Cardiovascular
Inexhaustable *
Dance Mastery *
Stronger
Manipulus *
Gentleman’s Speech *
Void of Creation *
Divine Will
DEUS
So I started thinking about what I have in there to work with Spartan and what that core could cover:
SPS: Fat Burn
SPS: Cardiovascular System
Inexhaustible
I want to keep the Sexiness shifter as I like that look. Stronger likely would work with Spartan but I feel HERO as well. < Could Stronger be covered by the combo of both of those cores? 
Better keep it to hammer that home.>
I will drop SPS: Cardiovascular System and replace it with Virtuoso De Musica. My exercise plan is rowing and I want to build endurance. Inexhaustible will help with that. My cardiovascular system will improve as a side effect of working out in that fashion, plus whatever cardio scripting in Spartan. Sweet. Just needed to type it out and think of ‘my wise guys’ Lion and Malkuth.
Fun fun!
Something is telling me that Negativity Displacer could be used with Sands of Time. Just had to jot that down for some reason. I was curious about that module as well, SoT, but now is not the …time.
Hmmm. Can I get one more ? My speech module question answer was actually Charisma & Flirting Automatic Mentor/Improver. The prompts from the speech scripting in WB are …awesome. I’m at a loss for word to describe how beneficial it has been for me. MUCHO!
Gentleman’s Speech would be a departure from that, certainly, but I think fit the custom build more. My goodness! Such temptation! Thank you, gentlemen in charge, for the creation of WB and that magic scripting!
It would be best to have just one speech module in this to see how it goes. GS it is. Nothing wrong with manners and better speech!
HeroWork V1.1
HERO Core *
SPARTAN Core *
RM:UWx Core *
Carpe Diem Ascended *
Organization Perfected
Cosmic Navigator*
Negativity Displacer *
Stop Porn and Masturbation*
Shifter-Sexiness
Stonelike *
SPS Fat Burn
Inexhaustable *
Virtuoso de Musica *
Dance Mastery *
Stronger
Manipulus *
Gentleman’s Speech *
Void of Creation *
Divine Will
DEUS
Might just order it when I get up in the morning. Maybe I can hold out for a couple more posts and that ticket. We’ll see.
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I thought that your name was just some kind of joke or something but you are a true pizza shaman
Bless your pizzas
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ah ha! I never thought about that for your previous username. I only thought of the angel back then.
As for me, I’m old enough that I remember reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a little-known black and white indie comic book. It was like, ‘Whoa! This is interesting! What the heck is this?!’ The cartoon is a little after my time. But those dudes (I think they were called Eastman and Laird?) made real bank off their idea. So that’s awesome.
It was funny at the time because as a goof/competition at the same time, someone made another indie comic called Adolescent Radioactive Black-Belt Hamsters. haha. It was good too. But I never saw it again. This all seems like an internet rabbit-hole that has my name on it. Maybe, later.
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LOL when I was a kid Ninja Turtles just came out and were a thing and with my three friends we made ninja turtles of us and I was Raphael
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And I love the Renaissance artist Raphael too!! Lol!
That was the original TMNT. They were more badass too since they were more angry and ruthless compared to the later versions.
ROFL! Loads of similarly inspired comics too with Frogs, Sharks and such.
That’s right up my alley too!
One more reason I love you brother!
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9/29 Morning Time!
HeroWork v1.1 was just ordered! The discount difference would have been negligible, so I went ahead. I believe it will compliment InnerWork splendidly. My excitement builds! I am eager to start that guy up and get those magic words of Saint and Fire rolling through my brain. I have a lot of stories I would like to get out, and HeroWork will assist in that.
Deciding if I want to listen today or do a 4 day washout til Monday, when I start ALCH2. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Let’s turn inward.
< Yes?>
Hey Shaman, should I listen today or washout? You know the routine, and know the goal better than I do.
< You ask stupid questions. You were going to washout last weekend; you did not, HERO! 
>
< Frown all you want, as long as you are resting from subs. Asked and answered! You’re welcome. >
So it’s a washout until Monday. T break starts 10/9 and I’ll surely have HeroWork by then, so I’ll be good to go.
I think I should get that Chromebook back on the menu. One thing I neglected was that it would be easy to load my instructional videos on there and be able to take them (and practice) wherever versus being confined to either my living room (play on tv, it works but is a pain to set up) or my computer room, where the screen setup isn’t ideal for any sort of footwork practice.
I did find two jars of Medicine I started brewing over 2 years ago!
Chillin’ in the dark in my basement. I gave them some good shakes last night. Strong medicine now! I will have to get some bricks for pushups to toughen the hands. Extra bonus of working the chest muscles that rowing doesn’t hit too hard.
Hmmm. It’s starting to come together, at least in my head.
A blessing upon your day, SubClubbers!
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My dessert pizza:
A deep dish crust infused with my own cinnamon honey butter and topped with honey dip glaze.
An older pic. These days I sprinkle cinnamon sugar on it before putting it in the oven, so it gets that nice caramelized top before the glaze.
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Looks so good!!!
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Delicious
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