Today was a fantastic day at Mapleton! After their morning jog, and I broke off from the pack and did a day of crazy strengthening, basics, kata, and rejoined the group for some sparring. It all started with the Perfect Pushup handles. Mike explained to me the Perfect Pushup Workout that comes with the handles, […]

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Had a pretty long day of constant meetings tonight, and after dinner I was basically zapped right out of energy. So I took a three hour nap, and now I’m feelin’ fine. Looking forward to a good hard Saturday workout tomorrow! I’ve been itching to hit the Perfect Pushup handles since I read about ‘s […]

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Another good Valentine’s Day has come and gone… I got Tasha a dozen roses and a card, which I left out for her in the morning. We spent a quiet evening in, because frankly going out for dinner on Valentine’s Day is a recipe for disaster. I got to play indirect Cupid this week… a […]

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Around 6:15 tonight, threw up the Bat Signal indicating that there wasn’t anyone to cover Mapleton tonight. He told me that he had a couple of the purple belts leading things, but I felt bad about the purple belts being thrust into that situation so I ran over there and got there shortly after they […]

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The plumber has come and gone, and it literally was almost nothing. Apparently the flapper gasket had worn so far that it literally fell apart in his hands, so he replaced that and our flush arm. In addition, he spent some time inspecting the floor and looking at it from underneath and came to the […]

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Tonight was a late night at work, followed by a long night of cleaning our bathroom in preparation for the plumbers. I know, it seems somewhat asinine since the plumber works around gross fixtures all the time, but there’s a matter of personal pride involved in this equation. I made it clean enough to not […]

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Harry Potter Character Combatibility Testcreated with QuizFarm.com You scored as Hermione Granger You are Hermione. You are academic, intelligent, and reasonable. On top of this, you are highly concerned with justice, scorn the small-minded prejudices of others and work hard to defend the under dog. Many times you may find that your heart and mind […]

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With the help of my uncle, I was able to get my faucet to stop running in my bathroom. The problem: $1.02 worth of washers had gone bad. It took around 20-30 minutes to fix, and down falls one household problem. I’m afraid the upstairs toilet situation is going to end up much more than […]

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Up next on the docket of household annoyances that need to get fixed: more plumbing! With our current bathroom situation, we have been relegated to using our secondary bathrooms as primary ones. Tasha had a houseful of her friends over last night for a jewelry party, so I headed to the upstairs bathroom to take […]

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Today’s workout was , Erbe, Snook, Dad, and I. We started out with Shodan test syllabus basics for the brown belts, and quickly moved into kata. , Dad and I really focused on Tekki Sandan today but we decided to alternate every few katas with calisthenics. Perfect pushup handles, tricep dips, leg raises + 8 […]

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