Thursday night’s workout was interesting… I got some very interesting insights by way of a King of the Hill exercise, where we circled up and did some full speed matches, with the first point winner continuing on. My first time around I had to go up against Rush-san. For those of you that don’t know, […]

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What a pathetic excuse for a harvest festival this has been. We’ve had a staggering one trick-or-treater this year, and I didn’t even get to see their costume as I was talking to my Dad on the phone at the time. We ordered some pizza and I gave the guy a couple of Reese’s Peanut […]

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This probably goes without saying, but we made it back in one piece around 6 pm local standard time. We hit the grocery store and then hung out around the homestead for a bit. Its good to be home, I missed my dog.

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We are at the final rest stop before Illinois, so I am pleased to inform you that we have made it out of Iowa without any lasting corruption. Tasha was speaking in Black Speech earlier, but I figure once we’re out of Mordor that too will pass. The wedding and reception went very well. We […]

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Tasha and I successfully got lost and then made our way to the church in time for the rehearsal. We were forced off our path by deadlocked traffic in the two lanes that we required to remain on 35W. I found out I am really good at navigating from a map. 🙂 I, however, am […]

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We’re at the last rest stop in Iowa now, so I’m taking this chance to update. I am unsure if Minnesota is so wirelessly awesome, if it is not I will update again from the hotel. At the rate we’re going, we will have to run right to the rehearsal at 5:30 tonight. Good times […]

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It appears that most rest stops in Iowa offer free wireless now. I have to say I’m pretty impressed by this fact. This rest stop is a little more of the “smells like hobos” variety, but its still passable. We’re almost to Cedar Rapids now, we’re going to grab some food and then make for […]

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I got my quarterly rating from my supervisor last night. I got a 3A rating, which is above the norm. I asked her what needed to be done to get a 2, and she said I’d probably need another big project between here and my annual rating in April. We’ll see how much magic I […]

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I’m sitting outside a rest area in Iowa, I didn’t know they made these things clean, let alone with wireless internet access. There’s a couple of really excellent trees here, one chock full of the noisiest birds in history. I took some pictures, however I left the cable at home so I will have to […]

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Tonight Dad and I decided to go to Mapleton. We got there about 6:05 and Erbe-san was warming up the class. He was the only other black belt there, he asked me at the end of warm-ups if I had a plan and I said yes. There was a new person in the class (Paula? […]

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