I usually walk with my cousin to his car at night. Tonight, I was wearing sweatpants as my pairs of jeans are still in the laundry from the recent storm. Sweatpants don’t have much space for extra stuff, so I left everything in the house. I close the door, as not to heat the neighborhood, […]

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Tonight I came to Mapleton to help out in preparation for tomorrow night’s test. We had a nice basic workout that had elements of Saturday’s seminars. I would’ve liked to experience a warmup as described by Sensei Hassell this weekend, but we were left to standard fare as normal. Once Sensei Hartman took over the […]

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I have insomnia again. I didn’t even sleep in that much today and I usually am sensitive to the Daylight Savings Time changes. This year, however, I am wide awake when I should be tired. I don’t know if its all the excitement from the storm or just the fact that I’ve got some down […]

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Tonight, in between shopping and the storm, we returned home to find that our lovely dog had taken it upon himself to completely destroy the cover of ‘s copy of Wicked that she loaned Tasha. He also ate the first few chapters of another book that belonged to Tasha. To this point, he has never […]

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My lovely wife made my birthday cake this year. She used a Christmas gift from and , a castle shaped bundt pan to create this tasty work of awesomeness. There will be many more of these in the future, as they were both tasty and kickass. 🙂

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Tasha and I had a very nice day today, with the following exception. After a nice day of shopping and eating at Olive Garden, we decided to head to Wal-Mart before the storm rolled in. We didn’t make it. Right as we entered the door at Wal-Mart, they sounded a tornado warning. We didn’t want […]

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The first session of class was taught by Sensei Kerrigan, relating to shifting and use of one’s body during sparring. We ended up doing several very interesting sparring drills, however many of them had some footwork that just plain didn’t operate if you were taking the time to think about what you were doing. I […]

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To gratuitously steal an image from my friend : This is the image of a man that got out of life-changing surgery three hours prior: Many things kill me about this picture, as I have known Geoff for a LONG time. He has freckles, which were hidden by his previously blue complexion. His hands were […]

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