It’s the end of March, and that can mean only one thing! It’s time for another goal update! Debt: YTD – 18.9%, Overall – 57.14% Karate: 32 workouts, 17 perfect pushup workouts Relaxation: Xbox 360 + games. Nikon D60. I think I’ve about got my yearly allocation taken care of here. 2008BloPoMo: MarBloPoMo was a […]

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Ains Rocks! Originally uploaded by dalcher. We had a great time at our first family Rock Band jam session. Here, you see my sister thoroughly rocking out while I accompany her on drums and my Dad looks on. Out of frame was on guitar and my brother-in-law on vocals. My niece even got in on […]

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Tonight we are hosting our parents and my sister, brother-in-law, and niece for some good ol’ fashioned family Rock Band fun. We’ll be ordering pizzas and playing some Boston, and I absolutely WILL NOT be videotaping my Dad playing drums and putting it on YouTube. I swear!

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Today’s workout was a standard breakfast club workout, however , Erbe, and I warmed up with black belt katas while and did their run. It was kyu test basics, followed by situps and pushups per the Breakfast Club Standard. We ended up with 420 situps and 120 pushups and rounded out the day with some […]

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Tonight was the rehearsal for ‘s wedding! It was the furthest I’ve ever been into Delavan, and the church was very nice. They were running behind since they had to pick up some relatives from the airport, but everything went smoothly and we’re prepared for launch tomorrow! His fiancee, Domika, is very nice and seems […]

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Tonight’s workout was a small one… only three white and yellow belts, , Erbe, , myself, and showed up for a special one-night-only visit from Saint Louis! In his honor, we elected to split the group into two sections, took our lower ranks in the other room to work on their test techniques and we […]

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Tonight’s workout began with a classic basics lesson which turned into some distance and timing drills. The timing drill had one side close their eyes, and the other side move the hand as a target and on the count you would open your eyes and had to tag their hand with yours. At one point […]

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Tonight was a good night of family fun… my sister, brother-in-law, and niece came over for some Rock Band (which, as the name implied, rocks). Shortly thereafter, I finally succumbed to the lure of my good friends in the camera world and purchased a Nikon D60. The kit we got came with a 18-55mm AF-S […]

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The Lenten season is finally over, and that means its Easter again! We’ll be spending the day visiting family, probably playing some Rock Band, and eating an amazing amount of food. I hope everyone else has as nice of a day as that! 🙂

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Today’s workout was a new height of glory for the Saturday Morning Breakfast Club. We did the Shodan and Nidan test basics and sparring combinations, once again alternating pushups at one end and situps at the other. and I were keeping track, but I think everyone had totals approximating mine which were: 400 situps, 125 […]

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