Gathering intelligence....

I could have gone training today, but thought that today would be best spent wandering around my future workplace neighborhood and beginning the process of getting familiar with the surrounds and the routes I would take for public transportation.

The neighborhood is bustling and busy, in the area around the mid W. 30s between 7th and 8th avenues. Lots of good places for lunch and the occasional dinner. I'd most likely be coming in the area via the 34th street F line station...

On the way back is where things get dicey. As predicted in previous posts, I'll have a hard time making 7pm classes... I tried out a route today that had me taking the LIRR at Penn Station towards Flushing, then taking the Q17. I left at 6:05 from the workplace door, and passed the bus station that I would have gotten off at around 7:05pm for PMA. That, of course, is being incredibly optimistic, and it's far more likely that I'd end up leaving work around the neighborhood of 6:15 or maybe even 6:30...

So... it looks like I'll have to let Guro Nick know that 7pm classes are going to be impossible for me to make on time, and that I might be a little late, or I might even be really late. Most likely, this will force my emphasis at PMA to Muay Thai classes, at 8pm. There is a Tuesday 8pm JKD class I'll try to make, and I might scrap Inosanto Kali altogether. Sayoc is mandatory for me to attempt, and I also have 8pm training duties on Thursdays. I don't know if the new job will provide me enough energy to make these classes... We'll see next week.

Oh well, no sense fretting too much about it right now. The schedule might even drastically change in the near future.... and I still have all of this week to get some training in on time and in the usual state of mind...