I made good on my intention to take last night off and rest, however it was punctuated by my family wanting us to come over and visit. So visit we did. My Mom’s printer was acting stupid, so I got to look like the King and fix it. Again. Also, she’s had ongoing trouble with […]

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On the way to work this morning I was coming up the ramp on the way to Edmunds Street and I saw that someone had hit a little beagle. He looked pretty young, probably three or four years old and it was sad to see him lying on the side of the road. I only […]

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This weekend was GOOD. I learned some interesting stuff during the weekend Karate workout, but after that it was pure rest and relaxation. We went to the store after Tasha got off work, and then we decided to try a South Beach approved meatloaf recipe from one of the books. Despite some minor panic that […]

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On Friday I got just enough into doing some new development that it got my nerd juices flowing again. I cracked open the source for my Genetic Art software and decided that much of it was poorly constructed. I have not done anything about this yet as I don’t want to fudge the bucket without […]

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Today’s workout was generally crappy. I felt like mud during the first half of the Shodan test and confused during most of the Nidan test. I found that my sparring guard was mostly all wrong, which is making for some complications when I try to do my Nidan test combinations. I keep my guard too […]

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I haven’t had one of these in awhile, but last night I had several interesting dreams. The first one involved going to a James Taylor concert only once I arrived at the Civic Center it became this weird Barnes and Noble looking knockoff, and people that were milling around said that James would be leading […]

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I was really considering taking last night off, since my energy levels were at a week-long low. Work was a bit of a bear yesterday, and by the time to get ready for Karate rolled around, I mostly just wanted to sit on my can. As usual, when I drag myself up off of the […]

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Tonight’s Mapleton workout was really great. Mike-san and I started out by going through the Nidan test basics, which felt generally OK. The first class consisted of the same faster-paced Sensei Brewer workout that we had on Tuesday night with the noteable exception that we had the entire gym instead of the somewhat cramped dojo. […]

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Ugh. I have two six inch stripes of pain going down from my armpits to the sides of my hips. Apparently those muscles are doing something that they haven’t been for a long time. This is a good thing, even though it doesn’t feel like it at the moment. I don’t have much more to […]

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Tonight was a very fulfilling workout. It started out with a quickly paced fast-burn Sensei Brewer workout that was pretty tough for me since I am still feeling the effects of connection in my upper body. It consisted of many basics and several combinations that harkened to dan testing without explicitly being the dan test […]

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