Today’s workout was abbreviated due to frequent calls from my car dealership trying to coordinate everything they needed to service my car. I was still able to get some interesting combinations in and some sparring drills with and Rush-san accomplished before we had to quit for the morning. We did a set of moving forward […]

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Tonight we were trusted with the care and feeding of the class. led the class through a long bout of strengthening and stretching, then Garls-san took the white and yellow belts into the other room to work on kata. I was charged with taking the rest of the class through some kata, but I decided […]

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Company Man Originally uploaded by dalcher. Monday night, Tasha and I were watching Heroes. Shortly thereafter, I was told by my wife: “Stop looking so serious! You remind me of Thompson from Heroes!” For those of you that don’t know, Thompson is played by Eric Roberts. “But he’s old!”, I exclaimed. “Well… maybe a young […]

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The Waffle Ninja Lives… Originally uploaded by dalcher. Despite being seriously wounded, the Waffle Ninja appeared at my house tonight and convalesced before disappearing back into the night. She will live to fight again.

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I spent Monday in Chicago on business, so today was a complete loss when it comes to productivity. In fact, I had to stay a few hours after in order to get some things accomplished that I needed for later on this week. No fun. However, I had a development session interrupted this afternoon by […]

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I spent most of today window shopping for a new handgun. After several visits to several sporting goods stores, I wanted to check with Gander Mountain in Peoria to see what they had. I went, saw that they had not much additional selection than some of the other sporting goods shops that I had visited, […]

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Meh! Originally uploaded by dalcher. Here is The Cheat, as you can see he is all better from his recent sickness! Both of the rabbits got their cages cleaned today and they are very happy. I spent most of the rest of the day lounging around… I had lunch with my Mom and then went […]

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