On Tuesday night, I knocked out 10 Sochin before we had a class relating to punching. Lots of punching. And it became immediately apparent that I do not do that very well. We did lunge punch, reverse punch, and jab drills for the first class, ramping it up to 3-5 time sparring and further emphasis […]

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I have to admit, I figured that I would be the last person in the world to be singing the praises of chiropractic care. In fact I thought all chiropractors were fraudulant snake-oil salesmen, up until I got to witness with my own eyes the removal of many of my wife’s legacy medical problems over […]

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I got an email notice that my paid LiveJournal account has expired. I notice no options that are unavailable to me, all my user icons are still there, and it appears that my $19.95 for the last two years has bought me nothing special. So I’m not renewing it until they show me something that […]

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Red Letter Day for me today… I woke up very non-sore from my 101 Sochin endeavor (well, at least a lot less sore than I expected). It appears that the entire world wasn’t quite crashing down after the big Oracle infrastructure move today, even though there were some performance problems they were overcome by Some […]

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After only two hours of sleep and a boatload of frustrating work tasks, Matt and I embarked on a wondeful journey… We went to two Pekin Parks and performed 101 Sochin kata in just over six hours (that’s 4,040 techniques!) It was extremely difficult. Extremely. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, but we did it. […]

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This morning’s workout was a great workout, albeit very humid. I was having a hard time getting my wind, I warmed up with five Sochin, which quickly became fifteen. One of my old instructors showed back up again this week, sporting a hybrid circular Chinese style of martial arts. I asked him if it was […]

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I received an email from FantasyMint (the company that made Tokkens from GenCon). Apparently we won something in their drawing that they had at the end of the convention! They asked for our mailing address so they could send it! Huzzah!

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GenCon to become pseudo-E3???

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I haven’t been down in my basement for about a week and a half, given all the other commitments that we have had lately. My cousin came over tonight and we went down there and I notice that my barstools are slightly askew… one is midway across the room, the other is turned over in […]

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Tonight my goal was to cross 1100 Sochin, and I fell a little short. Before class I got to 10 kata, and I decided I wanted to at least get 15 so I used warmups to try to get there. Mike-san joined me, and I ended up making it to only 18 Sochin. Our kata-streak […]

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