Very dangerous over short distances . . .

""I want to get back to basics, I want to play saxophone. I've started to love playing straight-ahead again" 
 Sadao Watanabe, 2007 interview

As he did last night at Yoshi's.  They should have billed it Sadao and his three Ninja Assassins.  Sadao up there with three guys less than half his age, killing it.  Danny Grissett, piano.  Johnathan Blake, drums.  Ben Williams, bass.  Huge musical talents just laying it out there, straight ahead no frills.  Again, no dumbing it down for the audience .  No smooth jazz.  It's ok to play two ballads in a row.  Sadao a gracious gracious man letting all that young talent just stretch it out.  Ben Williams, a kid in dreadlocks suit and tie driving the bottom.  Grissett pouring out notes and holding it down with his left hand.  Blake shifting from sticks to brushes, so laying so far back on the ballads you thought he was gonna drop the beat but always there at just the last millisecond.
The room was maybe 2/3 full, as one guy in front of me said, "well I came to see McCoy Tyner, but I guess that's next week."  Hope he was not disappointed.

Saturday
Yoga, then 12:30 ct class.  She focuses a lot on joint mobility and form, not a blazing workout which was a welcome relief after pretty athletic MH class.  Remedial swing clinic for some class members turns into great tip for swing work later in week.
Sunday, three mile marsh walk with Ian and 5 and his pack and we go to Finnegan's watch in awe as Ian slams a triple cheese burger.  Opening day of NFL and Raiders and Niners suck.  Badly.
Monday.  Busy in office, rush home cause their mother will be late and head out back like so:
ankle tilts and circles
5+5 x 2 pushups to 20 kg renegade rows
10 suitcase deads, 28 and 32
press ladder 5+5 16 up to 1+1 32.  Last circuit triple on the 28 both sides and double on 32 right, three tries to get a rep out on 32 left.  Patience.
10 24 kg goblet squats
3x
Go heavy or go home swing work. 15/15 ten reps x 10 32 then straight into 28.  13,200 pounds swung in ten minutes, fucking gassed halfway through 28's but just grind it out.  Oh yeah.
Tuesday, busy, 2.6 miles at the end.  That's all.
Wednesday, squeeze in three miles am, then 5:15 MH, good class flanked by lovelies.  I'm old, not dead.
Thursday, late pm:
pushups, 20/20 8x10, 80 in five minutes
Double 16kg squat to press
10+10 rows, 60lb dumbell
5+5 slsx2, second with 12kg bu
3x, ten really slow five count pushup circuits 2,3 to bring total to 100

30/30 24kg swings, 20x10 1+1 24kg tgu for active rest.  Focus on simultaneous knee bend and hip snap results in uber ballistic swings, clamp abs and lats down keeping it low.  Smoking swing work out.

Humming, incoming from vk about sk's half ironman.  Good for him; Gimli here would die on the run.
Today,
into marsh with Rose by 7:20, three miles.  Scramble all day, will be busy weekend.

Pradeep class, 4:30-5:30, yes, you have all you need.

Brigid comes in on the ferry so we can meet and head up to Yoshi's.  I meet her out front and she immediately starts in on the horrific car accident in Novato.  11:50 am, five high school kids in a bmw 7 series, beer and liquor in car driving at high speed lose control and slam into cattle truck, killing one, severely injuring two.   Driver, minor injuries, arrested in hospital for DUI.  Medivac helicopters over her school for lunchtime.

It is the parents' fault.  What kind of parent hands the keys to a $70,000 high performance sports sedan to their high school age kid ?  The same kind of parent who is either blind to, or unable to effectively deal with, the fact that their kid is so devoid of judgment that they are drinking before noon and joyriding with their friends with utterly predictable results.  I can't but help but launch into lecture mode with Brigid, "don't get in the car,"  "tell them to let you out, I will come get you wherever you are"  She is already there.
She has no problems with lecture tone, is silent for a minute and I feel bad about dimming Sadao's glow, but am pretty upset about the picture of her in class a quarter mile away from kids being air listed to trauma centers in Santa Rosa.  She brings it back, says:  "Dad, let's stop and buy Junior Mints and watch Firefly when we get home."  You got it babe, who could say no.  Be another ten sets of snatches tomorrow, but that's just fine.