Work: crappy. 64.5 hours last week, we’re over 30 already this week. Annual Review: Excellent, got a fairly sizable raise. Karate: a casualty of work. I got as far as driving to the dojo last night before the support phone summoned me back to work. Birthday: Very fun, laid back. Went shooting on Sunday with […]

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We’re up to a grand total of 43 hours of work this week… let me tell you, it was fun. This week is turning into a wipeout as far as going to karate is concerned… my grandparents are moving to Florida and my uncle and cousin are coming in to drive their U-Haul full of […]

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The title of this post refers to a very clever song by Jonathan Coultan. I am in the middle of a crazy, mostly self-inflicted development cycle at work. I did 14.5 hours today, and am planning to get started again tomorrow morning around 6 (again). Hopefully there won’t need to be a third day of […]

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Today’s workout was really refreshing for me today. We did all of the Heian and Tekki katas, followed by the required black belt katas for Sandan. And a Sochin, for good measure. We then went into sparring drills similar to what we did on Thursday night. Then the free sparring. We got some really good […]

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I had a pretty bad headache most of the day today, so I wasn’t looking forward to karate tonight. The first class was pretty rough for me… it was a fairly basic class but I just couldn’t get my body to connect up correctly. Toward the end of the first class my headache was starting […]

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Your programmer personality type is: PHSC You’re a Planner. You may be slow, but you’ll usually find the best solution. If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right. You like coding at a High level. The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way. You work […]

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Today is my lovely wife’s birthday! We’ll be going out to her favorite place (The Olive Garden) and then going to pick out her iPod nano after work today! Happy Birthday, honey! I hope you have a great day, you deserve it!

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This post has been locked down to only those of you that expressly knew where we were staying before we went. Enjoy!! Unfortunately, we got part of the way down the road before we realized that I had left the camera at the house so everyone must be subjected to some crappy 35 mm disposable […]

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Route 74 was getting icy on the way to our weekend road trip down to Clinton, IL. Just after a large truck scared the crap out of us by dropping a lime sized rock into my windshield at 55 mph, things started to get interesting. (The rock did NOTHING to my windshield, miraculously.) I was […]

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As some of you may remember, toward the end of last month I laid out some goals for the short month of February. I am pleased to say that I had very good results on all fronts: * 12:30 am bedtime – Probably the worst results of the batch, but still not bad. I only […]

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