Apparently, Mel Gibson is attempting some bid for sainthood with his new film. Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, start of the Catholic season of Lent. It was also the opening of Mel’s “The Passion of The Christ” that you’ve heard about on the news. Ash Wednesday is usually one of the “Bad Catholic” holidays that even […]

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Karate felt good tonight. For the first time in a very long time, Karate felt good for me. I decided to take some extra time to stretch my back, mostly because Sensei Hartman ordered me to. After stretching my back, he came over and helped me pop it by standing back-to-back with me and picking […]

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I was expecting to hear from my contract job today to see if my funding went through… I didn’t. I emailed my supervisor to see what is up, so hopefully I will find out soon. I spent the rest of today playing on my MUD and generally being a hermit. Dad got me outside for […]

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We ended up crashing about 3:30 am or so, and we all slept well into the day on Sunday. We then went to IHOP where we had the worst waitress ever. In order for me to relay the level of stupidity that this girl maintained, I must explain the screwed up orders: Matt ordered a […]

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Saturday marked the onset of my very first D&D campaign, and it went off quite well. Tasha and I headed up to Matt and Sarah’s early in order to do some shopping ahead of time… we misjudged slightly and were about a half hour early so we hung around Wal-Mart for awhile. After Matt and […]

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Tonight we begin my first major D&D campaign ever. Tasha and I are headed to Bloomington to meet Matt and Sarah, and we’ll probably end up playing far into the morning hours. I have much planned, but I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself. There are several things that are just so […]

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CALGARY (CP) — Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to the brain. [ Check out the full story here ] My take… Crazy Canadians are developing ways to forget that they’re in the geographical equivalent of a […]

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I am REALLY SICK of wanting to train and not being able to. Tonight we got a pretty decent basics workout, and I felt like crap the whole time. On top of having little to no energy, my back started aching about halfway through the workout. With some prodding by Tasha, I decided to leave […]

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I was awoken by a call from Caterpillar today. It was the woman from HR that I interviewed with, she called to tell me that they want to consider me for a special program that is reserved for only their “most elite” new hires. The position would entail six-month appointments where I would work at […]

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Today was a pretty good day. I did get on the road at 11 am this morning, arriving in Macomb at 12:30. I grabbed some lunch with and her boyfriend, that was pretty fun. My meeting with my supervisor was constructive. They provided me the information about the system, which appears to be pretty straightforward. […]

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