This new crustacean has chaps on! Dave, you should get one of these for your lake! You could get a theme going!

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My beautiful wife elected to stay here in Pekin tonight, which leaves her with a 2.5 hour trip to Gibson City tomorrow morning. She’s gotta be there and set up by 7 am, which means she gets to roll out of bed at the ripe ol’ hour of 3:30 am. Yuck. I certainly wouldn’t like […]

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Today started off with a division meeting that has already been recounted in a few other blog posts, so I won’t bemoan it too much. It was the same drivel that we have heard before from a different third party company that the management appears to trust over their own employees. The only thing I […]

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As previously mentioned, tonight re-starts my protein supplement augmentation. I got the Giant Tub O’ Chocolate Whey Protein from Sam’s Club over the weekend, and I can say with some certainty that it kicks the butt out of the Berry Flavored stuff that I was drinking before. It required half as much water as the […]

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Tonight was just the kind of workout that I needed. During the first class we got to help the lower belts do some partner drills relating to distance. Then we briefly split into groups to work on kata… I got to work with the red belts. They did a great job. The second class was […]

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In order to relax, tonight I did the following: Worked on importing music to my MythTV (successfully) Ate some chocolate cake leftover from my wife’s birthday Threw darts Worked on learning “Calico Skies” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” And blogged up a small hurricane. I’m happy to say I’m finally starting to relax again, […]

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Today was another frustrating and generally negative day. The precipitant for all of these bad feelings have been the management/development team/customer anti-love triangle that has been developing over the last two weeks or so. It just seems to have hit a flashpoint over the last few days, and this morning my team lead, CRM, and […]

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