Hallo-weiner Originally uploaded by dalcher. The audience has demanded it and it shall come to pass… more pictures of my niece! Addy came clad as a stylin’ frankfurter for her very first Halloween. She was fairly to extremely asleep while she was over with us, but MAN is she adorable! My brother-in-law missed an obvious […]

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As mentioned many other places on the blogosphere, November is NaBloPoMo or National Blog Posting Month. In essence, it is a writing goal to compel people to post to their blogs at least once daily in November. I’m going to unofficially participate this year to see if I can get it done daily, if it […]

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On Thursday night, the black belts were tapped to help correct during a very basics oriented class. Sensei Brewer worked with some of the lower ranked students in basic distancing concepts, and us black belts got to help keep them out of arms reach of one another. In between the first and second class, and […]

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I’ve been listening to my iPod for about 5 hours now and I’ve not had one of the problems that I had before I attempted the fix, so I’m willing to designate that effort a success!! Should something bad happen to this iPod, the backup plan was to use Tasha’s old shuffle until I deem […]

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Tonight’s class was a sparring bonanza. We started off the night with a partner drill relating to Taikyoku Shodan. We got in groups of three and basically just went through the first four movements of the kata and used them to defend against different attacks. It was a good, basic set of sparring drills and […]

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iPod Autopsy Originally uploaded by dalcher. Two days ago, my iPod started acting extremely funny. It started with a clicking sound, and then it would not synch. I got the sad folder icon, followed by the sad iPod icon. I thought that maybe the battery had just gone out, so I put it on the […]

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Over the weekend, we stopped into GNC and educated me in the way of energy supplements since I had so much success from the Eight Ball shot that he gave me at the seminar. He pointed out EndoRush and cautioned me that I should only drink 1/4 of it since there are four servings in […]

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Tonight I had to run to the store for a bag of rabbit food. I had chosen to wear my black NSFW (Not Safe For Work) t-shirt that was so kindly gifted to me by Miss and . As I was checking out, I could tell that the checkout girl was trying very hard to […]

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Thursday night’s class was the usual test prep class… Sensei Brewer put Rush-san and through their paces. I’m going to fast-forward past this workout not because the class was unimportant but because there was a LOT of good karate stuff from the weekend. The clinics with Sensei Otis this weekend were excellent. I think I […]

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