EDIT: This is a new version of the first video, more will come momentarily. This is NOT the complete video, unfortunately… the free mpeg splitting software that I could find did a dandy job with the first cut every single time, but anything after that became horribly choppy and terrible. This is actually video from […]

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I *finally* got the DVD ripped appropriately to my laptop, and I spent most of last night attempting to get it uploaded to YouTube properly. First, I got Javascript errors. Then, connection timeouts. Finally, I got a good connection with no Javascript errors so I left it on overnight to upload that 460 MB monster… […]

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Didn’t have much luck with the videos last night. I’m going to have to borrow the DVD and try to rip it to a file with some software I’ve got on my computer, but its going to be another day or two. Tonight Tasha and I went to Pekin Park and took some pictures with […]

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Tonight I’ve elected to take one night off from working out. Instead, I’m going to go and see if I can get the sparring video from Saturday available. We’ll see if I have any luck later on today, hopefully I’ll have some good footage available!

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Hungry Squirrel Originally uploaded by dalcher. This squirrel alerted me to its presence by chattering up a storm at me while I was sitting on my couch, so I grabbed the camera and chattered right back. Apparently it thought I was threatening its tasty tree morsels.

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Behold, the glory and wonder of Electronic Origami. I found this by way of Evil Mad Scientic Laboratories. Awesome!

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For those of you keeping score, we opted for Texas Roadhouse for our fourth anniversary dinner location. That makes the scorecard thus far: 1. New Orleans (pick any restaurant) 2. Ned Kelley’s Steakhouse 3. Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse 4. Texas Roadhouse And there you have it!

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My washing machine has been exhibiting some strange leaking behavior lately. Its not a lot of water, barely enough to leave a small puddle on our linoleum, however it is something that I want to get fixed. The strange part about is that it seems to occur intermittently, so tonight I’ve decided to employ ye […]

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Today the Breakfast Club consisted of , , , and myself. Today was the first day that I ran with and . I made a mile and a half with no problems. We then started in on basic techniques, with a plan to do strengthening in between katas later. We made it through our basics, […]

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Last night was our kyu belt exam! Everyone did a fantastic job, we had a whole compliment of really energetic students which resulted in several promotions. Not much else to say about it but that, did a great job of running everyone through a basic test-prep class! I’m looking forward to a return to strengthening […]

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