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This day has been a nice, easygoing, lazy day (of sorts).

We went to church. The church was having a fish fry, and I volunteered to help, so after completing my Hospitality obligations and duties, I went over to the kitchen and for the rest of the time there, I was helping the ladies.

Redsnapper and catfish, greens, corn bread and pastries. I was part of the plating part of the food effort.

The girl I mentioned a few times in journals was there. Last mention, I believe that I recorded that she had texted me and I chose not to respond, along with my former neighbor who gave me head at my last apartments.

This last time I came back from Vegas, my dad had come up to my room door the next day, and told me, “Ol girl approached me at the revival the other day, saying that she’s got a bone to pick with you.”

I laughed and somewhat incredulously asked out loud to myself whatever for? He started chuckling that he had asked her what you got problem with my son for, and then had said never mind, that’s between you and him.

I laughed and turned back to my game (I was playing CoD Cold War online) saying, “That’s between her and Jesus.”

Well, as I said, she was there today. I first saw her manning my post in hospitality while I was having a great conversation with my mom, who’s also on the team. I assume she saw me before I saw her, as she was walking with friends and when she got near me, she started talking louder and more animatedly.

She walked past me as if I wasn’t there. I peacefully ignored her and fully focused on my talk with my mom.

As she passed us, my mom (who I’ve said before is extraordinarily perceptive) stopped in mid sentence and watched her walk in like:

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And looked back at me, and I just shrugged and grinned.

After this, I went to the kitchen. I had a feeling she (ol’ girl, as I’ll refer to her henceforth) would end up in proximity to me and sure enough, I after maybe 30-60 minutes heard her voice in the other room with some other younger people (17-21 approx age range).

I minded my business, and it took about 15 minutes after that for her to try to open the kitchen door out of nowhere aggressive as hell, to ask for a “paper towel”. We don’t like people coming through that particular door, so there was already a table blocking the door but I raised my voice loud enough to less than yell, “Hey hey hey, no.”

She made her request with her fingers sticking through the crack of the door (intrusive thoughts just gave me a wicked idea :man_facepalming:t4:) and I snagged her a couple of pieces, deposited them in her hand and one of us closed the door again.

Soon thereafter, she was in the kitchen mugging me. Like, in a movie where some guy doesn’t know he’s the hero yet and the one who reveals to him he’s a hero in whatever way is standing in a crowd of people, otherwise moving about their business, lasered squarely on him/her and only them.

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It wasn’t a vexed look. It was just raw intensity only somewhat disguised by her sunglasses. Sunglasses don’t mean anything to my sensitivity though, I could feel it and it took every bit of willpower to avoid the pull to lock eyes with her. Rather, I nonchalantly looked at the people to the left and right of her or that were closer to me in front of her and off to the side of our line of sight.

At one point, she had left the room and I was handling plates on the long dining table. She came through the door-way that was to my right and being a woman, sensed I was there without looking. She turned to the right, so her back was having facing me and with a flash I realized what she was about to do and put my hands on her back around her ribs, similar to how you might hold a bucket out to catch water.

At the same time, she had started pushing herself back to ‘bump into me’. I hadn’t extended my arms out, I suppose her back was a couple of feet from my chest.

I said something clever and nonchalant (of course) and after a couple of attempts to push her back into me, she - in front of godfearin’ folk, mind ye - allowed my push to bring her shoulders forward, somewhat down and pushed her ass all up onto my groin.

Khan Black’s training and the will of a sage blessed me to have only the most minor reaction down there. I played it off well and said something else witty, acting like nothing had happened.

I then told her something like, “The kitchen needs me. I’m on the clock, you know.”

She just increased what she was doing, and almost imperceptibly to anyone watching grinded on my groin.

I slid my hands down her back to just above her hips and gave us some space for Jesus, and calmly, but I’m pretty sure with a hint of my inner grin escaping, “Do I need to pick you up and move you, miss?”

I don’t recall if she said anything back, but I do remember her really pushing back with her full body and I think I locked eyes with one of the church sisters, exaggerated an eye roll and wrapped my arms around her, just below her breasts, and with her ass bumping on my now admittedly somewhat awakened ninji, carried her giggling ass back into through the door through whence she came, dropped her as a guy was walkingand said, “There ya go, here’s where you belong.”

I neatly dodged her attempt to smack me and smoothly walked back into the kitchen as if nothing happened.

She came back in a few times, poking or pinching my side when she would go by.

On a couple of occasions, she would walk right up to me - ignoring the older women giving her the most bombastic side-eye - and just hover right there at either my 2 o’clock or 4 o’clock.

Like I said. She’s intense.

At one point, in one of her hovering sessions, I relented and turned squarely to face her and smiled, jerking my head up in a questioning manner. She said something, I said something back, she said while staring deep in my eyes, “I missed you” and I smiled again and gave her a side hug, which she held for much longer than I was prepared for, which got both of us eyes from the kitchen staff, including her godmother who was sitting not 3 feet next to us.

I didn’t get flak, though.

Anyways this has been a long account, so, skipping forward, as my parents and I were leaving, a guy called out to me and said, “Aye you leaving, cuzzo?!” I said yessir, looks like that time and shook his hand, ignoring everyone else that was there with him (the younger group aforementioned), and I’m pretty sure she was with the group but I didn’t even glance at anyone else, just my guy. The silence was strong as hell for whatever reason as my parents and I reached our jeep which was about 15 feet away and I felt like everyone was watching me/us, but didn’t look.

Ol’ girl came walking up towards our car, on the passenger side where my dad was sitting.

As she almost reached his window, which was open about 6 inches, I waited until she was just about to say something and while staring straight at her, smiling with my eyes, rolled up the window from my side, just as she started speaking.

It was one of those great moments. It took a couple of seconds for everyone to get what happened.

My dad immediately went to reach to roll it back down, probably thinking I had mistakenly done it,

She had at first looked at my dad, and had some reaction, and then everyone in the car, including my mom, realized at the same time what I had done. My dad started busting out laughing, my mom was all “Ohhhh snap!” :joy: and ol’ girl yelled at me, of course smiling “Oh my God, that’s foul!!”

I just laughed and shrugged.

She turned her attention to my dad and said you’re leaving me? He said yes sweety. She said you gonna be okay? He said I’ll be good, I appreciate you darlin’. She paused and I felt it coming.

She said, “Well if he…” - nodding at me - “gives you any trouble, you let me know and I’ll beat him up for you.”

I muttered under my breath, just loud enough for everyone to hear, “Oh, just an average Sunday, then.”

She snapped her eyes to me and said, “You said what?”

I said, “I said goodbye.”

She said something about we don’t do goodbye around here, you need to stop that and my mom actually chimed in with support of her assertion, which was unfortunate because I had a ready-fire retort. I settled for, “Fare thee well, then.”

As I put the car in reverse and pointedly began rolling up my dad’s window again, she hollered through the ever-shortening gap, “Text me when you get home.”

I immediately said, “Maybe.” And pulled us out.

My dad started gutting it again and my mom was like “Dayum! You hit her with that pimp ish.”

I laughed and shrugged.

My mom started talking out loud about how all these women want her baby and what is he doing to these girls that get them going goo goo bananas like that. I shrugged again and looked in the rear mirror at her saying, “He’s just being himself.”

I didn’t text her when I got home. She texted me.

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After I got home, I played basketball.

Subconscious Mastery is noticeable in my custom in this area. I haven’t played in awhile, maybe a week or two. But as soon as I touched the ball to go to the court, I actually felt more one with it.

Ball-handling, making minute adjustments of my posture and how I twist with dribbles, how much force I put into the dribble to bounce the ball, adjusting from palms to finger tips, etc etc.

Shooting has some improvements as well, similarly to when I ran Hero Origins. My ball-handling stats have DEFINITELY gone up and even cold, I was still nettin’ hella well.

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Yesterday, I decided to take my motorcycle for a spin around my apartment parking lot to keep her system circulated and battery juiced. On like the fourth lap around, a guy came from out of sight while I was about 100 meters away, doing the shut it down sign across his neck.

As I came towards him, I immediately checked my thoughts and emotions, making sure I wasn’t projecting any unnecessary aggression or anger at the interruption, and politely pulled over next to him and jerked my head up inquiringly.

He said there’s kids and such running around and that they run out whenever they want without bothering to look (which, in hindsight now, it would be a very questionable child that ran into the drive with my loud ass bike coming up but neither here nor there).

I nodded patiently and said yeah, I keep an eye out for kids and cars alike. Never know what pops out on you.

He immediately looked a bit uneasy and sought to defend why he said it and I quickly shut it down saying that I have kids, I don’t mind, we’re a community and if the roles were reversed, I would very likely have flagged you the same way, especially if my kids lived here.

He relaxed and we got into a discussion about bikes. He has a Harley and after a brief talk, I told him it’s funny that he stopped me because I was actually on my way to go get my helmet on and some proper shoes (I was wearing my Puma slides cuz I’m ninja like that) and he was like, oh okay. He started again defending why he had stopped me and I again shut it down, asked his name, gave him mine and told him I’ll see him around with a grin and salute as I took off.

I pulled up to my apartment in the front and, true to my word and intentions, got my helmet and shoes on, and after letting my parents know I’d be out awhile, started testing baby girl on the road.

I kept it easy for the first couple of minutes, testing how it reacted to certain simple things like saying, sudden acceleration and braking and other checks.

I then felt comfortable to start riding a couple of levels below what I’m used to and started ripping around the neighborhood and up to bigger, proper roads. I didn’t go much further from our apartment than maybe a mile or two radius.

At one point, I encountered these two women. They were ahead of me about 7 car lengths and reached a stop sign in front of us. I didn’t know it was women in the car, all I saw as I was coming up on their passenger side was a head sticking out the window, looking back at me. I thought it was a dude, smiling back at me or something. They didn’t move from the stop sign, which put me on alert.

As soon as I saw the face and the fact that they were sitting still, I slowed down my approach and checking the intersection before I reached it, I stared at them as I rolled by. They just grinned at me as I crawled through the intersection, twisted to my left and staring at them to see what they wanted. I thought they either broke down or just liked the sound of my motorcycle.

I made it across the intersection and checked to see if they were still there.

They were.

I had a quick internal debate, internally shrugged and flipped around to go back to the passenger window. As I pulled up, I smelled a copious amount of weed coming from their window. They were saying something to me, but I had music playing in my Bluetooth so I put my index finger up to tell em wait, and paused my song.

They profusely apologized, saying they didn’t realize I had music going. I waved it off and asked what’s up? They said they wanted to see me do a trick. I grinned and said nah, I just put baby girl back together, I’m not ready to put her through that just yet.

They said oh okay yeah no you right, you right.

I said in a light-hearted but loud voice, “Ya’ll schmoking weed uppin’ there?”

They blinked stupidly like twice and then the passenger girl said “Yeeeah, but you ain’t baby cuz you on them two wheels and you need to stay on 'em!”

I laughed and nodded in agreement, saluted and ripped off. Dusted 'em.

After about 20-30 minutes, my fuel light came on.

I stopped at the gas station up the street from my place and the female clerk was giving me looks that translated to me as “wow you look fun” and similar looks and smiles.

I put in my gas and hopped onto my bike, ready to rip outta there as I felt her eyes on my back, turned the key and clicked the start button.

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My bike had no power. Confused and laughing at the same time, I checked to make sure the Killswitch wasn’t off. It wasn’t. I wracked my brain and remembered that the last I saw my battery lead, the negative screw was loose as hell. Likely stripped.

Nodding to myself, I got off of my bike and gave my seat a couple of slaps. After a couple of well placed slaps and start attempts, my readout came back on and I was good to go. I decided to just take her home - my bike, not the clerk - after that and leave her till I could replace that lead screw.

When I was back home and in my room for like 3 minutes, my mom came to my room and said someone is at the door. About your bike.

I said:

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And jumped up. I asked jokingly if they had a sheriff uniform and opened the door.

It was the guy who flagged me down previously.

He was grinning ear to ear and reached out just fist to bump mine saying, “Man, you fuckin’ hooked that shit!”

I grinned back and we started chopping it up. He told me that when I had left, he had stood there outside and listened for awhile. He described where he had heard me traveling to and from and in-between.

He was like, "My girl came outside 'cuz I was gone for a bit and asked me why the fuck I was just standing there. I told her ‘shhhh, sh.’ Listen. She started asking me what do you mean and I said shhhhhh babe, listen. You hear him? She was like, ‘omg is that the same guy?’ I said yeeeah, he’s fucking getting it, goddamn he’s hookin’ that shit!!!

I laughed and said yeah everyone has always told me they can hear me coming from about two minutes away and he said Yeah no shit dude, I was listening and I can tell you know your shit. I can just tell, you’re definitely a fuckin’ rider.

Fun conversation ensued after that, made a new friend.

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I’m glad you clarified :joy:

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I’m sureshe isn’t.

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I find myself idly considering in the back of my mind different ways to make other people happy, just for the joy of the act.

I’ve also spent a lot of the day being mindful of my breathing. At church, on the way home, playing basketball and thereafter.

As I’ve begun the new cycle with the loop of my Legacy of the Spartan custom, SoA II, it’s time to rotate.

Heartsong and Love Bomb. Gonna let them fully run through while I watch Bridgerton, of which I’m on episode two of the second season called ‘Victory’, I just noticed.

Love Bomb first, Heartsong next, and, I added Ascension Chamber.

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Would be even more impressive if the episode were called “Ninji Victory”

That’s okay. This episode of my life is.

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I stayed up until about 4 in the morning reading back on old journal accounts from my page, Where There Is A Will. I had nearly forgotten the amount of incredible experiences that I had there.

I found it enlightening.

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At some point in my dreams last night, I remember realizing that I can dunk a basketball and did so, with relish. I don’t recall any of the before or after at this point.

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Here at my dad’s physical therapy appointment, I said good morning to a man and he says, “What’s that son?” I repeated it and asked how he’s doing. He gave me a fist bump.

He says blessed, paused and said “And so are you?” I tilted my head to the side a bit and he says, “I knew it the moment you walked in the door.”

I nodded and he said “I feel things that get by most people.”

I grinned and said yeah, most people don’t really see that preemptively and he said, “I know you.”

I just nodded in silence and we had a moment, then he continued on with his therapy program.

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I’ve been more drawn to taking care of my hair. It has been getting more soft over the past few days, and is doing that thing I’ve talked about before with I believe Wanted and LotS where it ‘fixes’ itself to look amazing, without me doing much.

I decided on a whim to play basketball today while on the phone with my ex. She called me on the verge of a breakdown and so, I took my basketball with me and while we were on the phone, walked over to our apartment’s court and practiced my dribbling and shooting with one hand.

Kinda trippy to think back now but it was in the twilight hour when the sun was just beginning to go down, so it was dark and only got darker as I was playing and talking with her.

I calmed her down pretty quickly, before I even got to the court so for the majority of the time, I was dribbling between my legs and shooting one handed, anywhere from the post up to the 3-point line and scoring more frequently than not.

At no point did I get caught up in how she felt. My vibe was pretty nonchalant yet caring the entire time, but I was both focused on the conversation as well as my exercises.

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My older half brother has an issue with some guy he let stay in his place that I’ve kept out of for weeks up until today when I overheard him talking to our mom about how the guy pulled a knife on him.

I got pissed about that and told my mom to give me the phone and demanded that he explain exactly what was going on. I don’t feel the need to go into word for word details, but basically my brother decided to let this guy stay with him and the guy got drunk today, put hands on his wife who was also there and pulled a knife on my bro.

My brother is involved in some kinda new drama so often I find it perplexing, so I usually just give him advice, calm him down or check him as I feel is necessary.

This time however, I felt driven to let him know that if I needed to come down there and throw the guy out myself, I would. Even as I said it, I realized that it wasn’t necessarily my place to interfere. He let the guy in; he should be able to get him out.

My mom also said while we were talking and she was listening that she didn’t feel comfortable with me going down there and ending up going to jail. I trust my mom’s intuition for the very most part and that was enough for me to subside, slightly.

That was when my ex had called me.

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I’m watching the Selena documentary on Netflix for the second time. I watched it the first time with my ex awhile back.

I REALLY hope they come out with a similar series for Sade one day.

In other news…the actress they chose for her is great.

That bawdy 🫠

Friendly remember to and for myself to look into this herb.

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My mom told me today that if my beard gets any longer, imma have to start braiding it.

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4 minutes Spear of Athens II

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Made a new friend today, a Kenyan girl.

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