My MarBloPoMo efforts have utterly failed due to D&D! We had a lot of running around to do today and I didn’t get to the computer to blog until just now. Rats!!

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Tonight’s class was a lightly attended one. We ended up with Oedewaldt-san, myself, , Erbe-san, Snook-san, , Dobbleaire-san, Jane-san, and a gaggle of yellow and white belts. Oedewaldt took the lower ranks and left the higher ranks to us. I took the opportunity to work on slow sparring, focused on relaxation, timing, and distance. I […]

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Tonight was the last and final phase of my birthday celebration! It was dinner at my parent’s house and some time for me to hang out with my niece! I had a pretty nice day at work today too… I got quite a bit done, got taken out for lunch for my birthday, and then […]

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Tonight I got thrust into teaching the first class, and I executed a class that I’ve wanted to do for a long time: I focused on fudo-dachi, a stance predominantly used in the Sochin kata. We simply did a whole boatload of basics in fudo-dachi after working in some stances more familiar for the lower […]

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As mentioned yesterday, today is my birthday! I’m celebrating with a birthday feast of Pizza Hut (nothing but the best for us, let me tell you!) and then I have to perform a little business tonight as we have an amendment to our taxes that needs to get filed. I had the option of scheduling […]

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Tonight was my family birthday celebration! Tasha made me a great cake and we went over to my aunt’s house so we could hang out with the rest of my family. It was nice to get to spend some time with them, shoot some pool on my uncle’s pool table, and eat some food. Tomorrow […]

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Today’s workout started late for all parties involved. I arrived around quarter to nine and had only missed one pass up and down the gym floor, so I joined in with , , and Erbe-san for a good set of nidan sparring combinations, including a handful of additions devised by . At the end of […]

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Now that I’m eleven workouts in to augmenting my karate training with perfect pushups, I thought it would be good to take some stock. The testimonials on the box of the Perfect Pushup handles claim results in only 10 workouts… and I actually have to say that it works! Two different elements spring to mind […]

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For the first class, I got to teach the new white belt while Sensei Brewer took the first class. It was another small one… a handful of yellow belts, a white belt, , (welcome back), Tina-san (you too!), Dobbleaire-san, Erbe, Sensei Brewer and I. I knocked out two of my three sets of pushups in […]

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The process of breaking in my Xbox 360 is going well. I have to say, Halo 3 is a thing of beauty. It has awakened a long latent set of coding in my DNA: that, when stimulated causes a hypnotic state known as Gamer’s Trance. Those suffering from Gamer’s Trance experience a dreamlike, blackout state […]

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