I needed some more cleaning supplies tonight, so I made a late-night dash to the local grocery store. I tend to enjoy going late at night because there are less lines and you always see extremely colorful people. Tonight the crowd was pretty mundane, save the cavalcade of four overly energetic teenagers stocking shelves. Because […]

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This Box contains the 90’s… Originally uploaded by dalcher. Well, I’m not proud of everything in this box, however it is a representative slice of what the late 80’s and early 90’s were about for me. That green set near the top is The 11th Hour, which I am dying to know if it still […]

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Today I slept in a little bit, however this was the only slackworthy thing that I did. Shortly after getting up, I gathered the documents for our refinancing (better rate, better payment, cash back WOOT) and dropped them off to our loan officer, went on a bonzai shopping trip to Menards, came back and repainted […]

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This morning I scheduled an appointment with Meineke to get my squealing brakes looked at. I was a little worried about the cost of such an endeavor, having called my Saturn dealership and asked for a ballpark range. They cited me $250-$600, before they added labor in there. So I decided to give Meineke a […]

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On November 18th, 1996, I was lucky enough to begin a relationship with my lovely wife. While our marriage is pretty short in tooth, our overall relationship has now spanned a decade and that’s a pretty cool thing. We spent it in an extremely low-key way… we ate out at Avanti’s, which is a favorite […]

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This morning, against my desires to stay in bed, and I ventured to Mapleton to do some more Sochin. We ended up doing 50… was correct, now that my goal is attained it is MUCH more difficult to compel myself to do large quantities of Sochin. We arrived around 8:50 am and were done by […]

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Before I decided to finish my Sochin goal tonight, I had committed to making some pumpkin pies for my D&D group for tomorrow night. Of course, as fate would have it, I have a 7 am meeting tomorrow morning. In order to make up a little time, I made my pie crusts last night which […]

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I did it! Before class tonight, I was able to get through 12 Sochin, putting my grand total over the 2000 mark! I really appreciate the help from everyone to help me get this goal… special thanks go to and Sensei Brewer for all of their long hours spent to help me strengthen my training […]

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I covered Mapleton tonight, so I got the esteemed privilege of starting class and warming up. Instead of the basic warmups, I decided to get everyone in a circle and do some simple basic techniques, since we had half a dozen young white belt kids that showed up. Thankfully, Sensei Brewer rescued me right around […]

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Well, I’ve been called out to post more non-karate related stuff. So here’s a few random things, in the spirit of ‘s random things…. I need to take my car in and have the brakes looked at. I called Saturn today and it appears my bumper-to-bumper warranty has expired, so I will take it to […]

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