This week’s workout schedule is: Monday (Mapleton), Wednesday (Mapleton), Thursday (Pekin), Saturday (Mapleton). I have a conference call with some foreign land tomorrow night and thusly will need all of my faculties.

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I started off today with a long volley of meetings. Whoopee. Luckily, everything was punctuated by a going away lunch for our current project manager and I got to eat at the FlatTop Grill. The food there was pretty good, I ate a pseudo beef and broccoli concoction with some chicken added in for good […]

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I just saw word that version 0.17 of MythTV will be out on Friday or Saturday of this coming week! Hopefully it will resolve some of the bugs that are still lingering around for me! Woooohoooooo!

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This article recounts how to craft yourself a good consulting gig as a self-employed nerd. Good read, especially for those people I know doing this. 🙂

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He looks kind’ve like Chunk from Goonies. He’s getting 1.5 yrs in minimum security prision for his ass-clownery.

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This morning’s frozen workout started quickly after a somewhat slippery drive into Mapleton. I woke up feeling somewhat queasy, I think I had a bad Quiznos yesterday. I took some Tums before I left, however it was not enough to stave off the mustard and burning tire gas during the workout. But I’m getting ahead […]

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Last night’s workout was distinctly unique… had that special gleam in his eye that says “don’t do strengthening during warmups tonight!” And I was right not to… the first class was pretty hardcore, even for the hardcore. We all got to select a youth to torture for the first class, I selected my favorite ball […]

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Last night was quite interesting at Mapleton. I got there about five til six, and there was hardly anyone there. They started flooding in about six o’clock, and I decided to wait around until 6:05 to see if Sensei was going to show up after all. I concluded that he probably wasn’t, so we started […]

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Last night’s workout was one of kata, kata, and more kata. There were also some interesting comments made about a condition that has, but I’ll leave them for him to recount or leave out, depending on his desires. During the first class, the black belts were split up to instruct the lower ranks, I got […]

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I had some really weird dreams last night. For starters, my brain wanted to replay the last twenty minutes of CSI: Miami for me only I was on the CSI team running around with that no-talent hack David Caruso. I had another dream I don’t remember too much about, but my third dream was just […]

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