Tonight’s workout was spearheaded by Oedewaldt. It was great, there was a real spirit of comaraderie in the dojo tonight. We decided as a group (it was Mike-san’s idea) that we should split into groups so each section of lower belt ranks could get a little of basics, sparring, and kata. Dukes and I took […]

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Today marked Day Two of vacation time. I marked this festive occasion by sleeping until roughly 10 am, then visiting Tasha for lunch at her office. One of her supervisors only knows me through my karate stories that Tasha relays, and I can tell he has that edgy politeness that indicates a belief that I […]

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Thanks to and for going above and beyond the call at the office this weekend. Its good to know that you guys have my back when overreactions like what happened this past Friday rear up. Thanks for keeping me out of it as much as possible, and for humoring me with updates frequently. You know […]

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Since my Dad has gotten his new car, he wanted some of my stuff out of his garage. In between my freshman and sophomore year, I got a loft bed in trade for some tutoring assistance that I provided. The guy I got it from was moving off campus and didn’t have anywhere for it, […]

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On Friday night, several members of the blog crew and their significant others went to see Harry Potter 4. I was rather surprised that it wasn’t a gigantic zoo like we expected… there were lines, but the theatre wasn’t totally packed. Then again, we didn’t go on opening night like last time… Before we get […]

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At long last, finally some time off. I had a few extraneous things to take care of around the office, but a few hours of focused effort tonight got that stuff done. With a few entertaining exceptions, I’m staring down the barrel of 10 days of loafing around and generally being a sack of crap. […]

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Tonight’s workout was spearheaded by Oedewaldt. I led warmups, nothing spectacular. We went through the basics rubrick, Kevin had all the black belts circulate in order to make corrections but I got a little bit of basics in during that class. We broke into groups for kata… I got Jerry-san, Cunningham-san, and Kasey-san. Two red […]

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Tonight’s workout departed a bit from the normal clamor of sparring that we’ve been up to. After some fairly brutal warmups by Kevin, we had a pretty basic first class. Lunge Punch, Front Kick, San-bon zuki… that lead into blocking up and down the floor, and then some partner drills to help the lower rank […]

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Tonight I had progress (of sorts) on the diagnostic log. I coded up a portion of the logic for the inner workings of the system, and then got dissatisfied with the “struts-blank” name of the project. It was deploying on my web server as “struts-blank” and I wanted something different. I refactor->renamed it and it […]

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I have made progress on the diagnostic log… I got Struts running on my local Eclipse workspace. I’m going to set up the database on Wednesday night and see if I can get some connectivity from my code. Once that’s done, I’m a few days of coding away from getting that project off the ground. […]

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