For those of you that do not have day to day contact with me, you may not know that the basement of my house is slowly being converted into a Old English LOTR style pub. I was able to decide immediately that I wanted to try to find a barrel to have as a trash […]

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I shouldn’t read about the Da Vinci Code before going to bed. EVER. Last night I had a dream that involved a reality show like Big Brother only instead of a random cast of strangers the cast was The Brady Bunch. I was the host, and they just got done unveiling the twist: the Brady’s […]

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Karate demo today. Items of note: Walker-san succeeds in two way break, McCabe-san successfully annhiliated two inches of boards. Most impressive break of the day goes to Sensei Hartman, who punched the center out of a board that was hanging from a rubber band. He hit it and a three inch strip of board went […]

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Last night was the last practice with Sensei Quinn for another three years or so. Boy, he doesn’t leave you disappointed! The first class we did kata and it was one of the most intensive kata workouts of recent history. We only made it through Heian Shodan, Nidan, and Sandan, but everyone was sweating like […]

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Just when I thought it was safe to stop jacking with my Linux box, someone from work turns me on to the X10 protocol… it allows you to control X10 enabled devices such as wall switches, plugs, etc from a PC or Linux machine. What’s this mean? Soon there will be sensors that can turn […]

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Last night marked the second appearance this year of Sensei Quinn. It’s always good to see him, I missed his last appearance because of an extremely heavy workload. The first class was rife with basics. I was next to the white belts that had only been there for two classes, so it became my job […]

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The wedding day came and I still had no tuxedo. I also needed to get my hair cut, because I wasn’t going to be the only shaggy groomsman at this thing. I set out to my sister’s beauty school to get my hair cut about 10 am. I stopped and got gas, and then made […]

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This weekend marked the wedding of two of my best friends, and . Friday night was the rehearsal dinner, which was held at Matt’s parents house. It was quite obvious that Matt was really feeling the stress, as most everything that came out of him had that frantic “this may be followed by vomit” tone […]

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Today I went to lunch with the four man Indian contingent from my group. They’re very nice guys and I enjoy hanging around with them, so I didn’t think too much of it. We went to Quizno’s and had some subs, but a couple of the guys wanted to come back and share the food […]

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Last night I neglected Karate in order to help Tasha find a dress for the wedding. However, before the dress buying, we had to go and get Tasha’s eyes checked at Sam’s. That took about an hour or so, and by the time the exam was through the Cat Benefits place was closed so we […]

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