I am continually surprised how few people have heard of Toasted Peanut Butter sandwiches. I grew up on these things, my parents used to make them for us all the time. Its just like toasted cheese… take two slices of bread, put butter on them and peanut butter between them. Then you grill it until […]

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I believe honestly, without a shadow of doubt, tonight was one of the hardest workouts I’ve ever endured. That includes the annual gasshukus and 4-hour long seminars with high ranking black belts from around the world. I know you all are vibrating in anticipation for the description of this abomination, but before I get to […]

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Tonight was made very hard due to an experiment in torture that my own father devised. We decided to get to karate early to work on kata again, but he had planned to bring his weight vest and hand weights to help me with my Sochin. It took me 35 minutes to get through five […]

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Tonight I was reading an article about how Apple is bucking the rest of the recording industry by sticking to their 99 cent per song pricing strategy, and it dawned on me why I love my iPod so much. I love the fact that Apple sticks to what their customers have come to expect. They […]

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Dad and I initiated Project Kata tonight and showed up at the dojo a little before 6 pm. Around 6:25 I was done with 15 Sochin kata. My legs were starting to get tired, but I told myself that I could squeeze out 5 more during the break period between classes. I did 2 Bassai […]

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For no reason, I just remembered that my cousin’s bedroom when we were growing up had cowboy wallpaper. Years later, he and his brother shared a room with bunk beds. The rest of the room had been refinished to reflect comic book characters or something, however if one stuck his head up into the drop […]

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This article details How To Do What You Love. I only read a little bit of it, but it seems to make a lot of sense. May help people who carry around a lot of stress about work that they once loved.

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The plumber showed up around 8:20 am this morning to diagnose my toilet difficulty. The moment he removed the lid, I saw the problem. The small hose that connects the fill pipe to the rest of the tank had come apart and was basically spraying a 45 degree angle of water at the right side […]

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I was surfing around via Google tonight and found this site that has a Chinese translation of my last name, Dalcher, shown here: Also, making a guest appearance is Dukes: ‘s last name: And last, but certainly not least, -san: Damned Chinese know everything, including how to translate my name for me. I just looked […]

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Tonight, as my lovely wife and I were getting ready for bed we heard the sound of water hitting linoleum. Upon investigation, we find that the toilet in our non-master bathroom is losing water from its tank every time it fills. Since its losing water, its filling quite frequently. So it sounds like a job […]

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