Tonight, we were one of a few thousand Ameren customers in my area that was affected by a sub-station outage that took my power out from 6 pm until around 10 pm. As a result, Tasha busted out her giant supply of candles and we lit this place up pioneer-style. I really like candlelight, and […]

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Well, today we unexpectedly bid farewell to Heath Ledger. I really enjoyed him in A Knight’s Tale, and it is a shame that his life ended so soon. I don’t understand why or how someone could overdose on medication, or what could’ve possibly been so bad in his life that it would have to end […]

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Well, Teddy had a grand total of five seizures last night. They got further apart and less severe as the night went on, the last one he had was 7:30 pm yesterday. We kept him upstairs by us so we could take care of him if he had another one, but he slept through the […]

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Nothing like a little excitement to start off Sunday morning. Teddy had three seizures within an hour and a half, which classifies them as cluster seizures. We were told if this every happened again (it has happened before) we were to take him to the emergency clinic for treatment. Last time, they gave him syringes […]

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Today’s workout was our standard Saturday fare, but we had a few more people this time. We did normal basics, gyaku kihon, and stance training. I was able to handle two sets of kibadachi with on my back: 32 seconds the first set and 28 the second. We all were feeling a bit off today… […]

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I’m happy to report that thanks to saving random A/V junk in a box, I was able to get our new DVD player that my parents got us for Christmas hooked up to our old TV in the bedroom! The only useful ports on the back of the DVD player were composite, and my TV […]

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I really enjoy training at work… mostly because when its over you’re allowed to go home early. I’m not going to get into details, but our instructor for this class was very good however the subject material was repetitious. I found myself often digressing to work, getting things done while paying attention to the instructor. […]

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Tonight’s workout was a very good basic class, dealing with simple, strong stances and good old fashioned repetition. Sensei Brewer had the first class go through some timing drills, preparing them for five time attack. The second class we did some warming up with basics and then did one time attack. I found that our […]

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As some of you know, thanks to and we have been introduced to the world of Guitar Hero. This song by Dream Theater is INSANE. I have to submit that if you’re even able to last through half of this song you should probably just buy a real guitar and go make a few million […]

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Tonight we did more work on our stance, stability, and gyaku kihon. The basic workout emphasized using the shoulders against the action of the hips to make a “wrung out towel” feeling in the center of the body. We then got an opportunity to exercise this feeling in the second class, where we did reverse […]

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