Daykyuu is here, we got the house mostly clean and all the walls are painted!  The only thing left to do on the list is paint the front door and finish cleaning, but we made very good progress today! In addition to the painting, I cleaned our spare bathroom, vacuumed, and put new quick-release toilet […]

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Six minutes to spare, I hate painting today.  Did the hallway connecting the foyer with the kitchen and most of the upstairs.  I have to get the ladder out so I can get the high parts above the stairs, but that should be easily done tomorrow.  That’s all for now, its time to drink a […]

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Well, today got off to an interesting start.  I got to bed late, because I elected to stay up and tape the trim so I could paint the foyer today.  Around 5 am, the rabbits simultaneously realized they could jump up the tiers of their new homes, and they did it like clockwork every 20 […]

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Yes, that’s right.  Not wooo, but booo.  I have to spend my vacation cleaning and preparing my house for the realtors to come and do comparisons this weekend.  So don’t expect much in the way of bloggerism from me over the next three days.  Aargh.

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Today our new carpet got installed, my basement has now been neutered to a semi-interesting beige and brown berber from its awesome 1970’s lava carpet.  Honestly, it is more than a little depressing. The guys got done a bit after noon, by that time I was embroiled in the required online learning portion of my […]

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Because Lehmen is going into Chapter 11.   Pretty much everyone else can expect to take it up the tailpipe too, but I’ve heard numbers being thrown around that say the over-under on the stock market today is a 350 point slide.  I’ve heard some big financial people saying that no fewer than 1000 US Banks […]

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At the insistence of a coworker, I have joined Facebook.  I wasn’t sure I was going to like the experience much, but I am surprised at how accurately it can divine my friends just from stuff I entered in.  In fact, a friend of mine I used to take karate with back in high school […]

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Today the rabbits got new homes!  They are now proud new owners of quad-level bunny mansions, and after another de-pooping they are resting in a cranky fashion under the eaves of the first floor.  Neither has figured out how to climb up the ramps to the higher levels, but they will get it eventually! You […]

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I was late to the dojo today, when I arrived the group was doing some sparring drills using roundhouse kick.  Things were feeling pretty good, we did one time attack, three-to-five time attack and some slow sparring.  The class wrapped up, but Mike and I elected to stay behind and slow spar a little before […]

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I did a bit better at my “arrive early and do karate stuff” target, getting to the dojo just after 6 pm.  I did all the Sandan required black belt katas with Mike and then it was time for class to start.  I knew we were in trouble when Sensei Hartman mentioned staying in stance […]

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