I was given the gift of sleeping in a ridiculous amount today.  I woke up after noon (woo!) and then proceeded to enter in all of our grocery receipts from the last three months which had been accumulating in a drawer.  That took me about an hour and a half, and by then Tasha was […]

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Wow, what a great night.  The venue was a very weird/small music school in the middle of a neighborhood in Denver, and there was probably room for 200 people in the place.  Andy McKee came on and played pretty much all of his YouTube hits, including a lot of stuff from his new album “Joyland”.  […]

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Tonight begins the Dalcher Summer Concert Series.  This month we have a plethora of great concerts to see, starting off with the YouTube sensation Andy McKee.  Here he is performing his song “Drifting”, the original recording has received over 31 million views.  He was a late addition to our set of concerts that we will […]

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Tonight I made some mods on my ukulele!  I got my clip-on ukulele tuner, and my new set of Grover tuning machines.  These things are really nice, however I had to drill out the headstock to fit them and one of the tuning pegs I drilled out too far.  I had to secure the bushing […]

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It’s one of the 65 or so days of rain each year here in Colorado.  The temperature dropped a good 15 degrees today, and now the thunder is rolling in.  Tonight is D&D Encounters, the end of a chapter.  It should be a fun time, and I hope my character survives. In other news, I […]

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Karate night tonight, we opened up the class with some basic combinations done in a circle.  Then we moved on to their Shodan test basics, transcribed from a 2006 dan exam: Sanbon tsuki Variations on lin-geri (front kicks, round kicks, side kicks) Inward block, elbow strike, backfist strike, reverse punch Outward block in back stance, […]

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Today was my day off for the Fourth of July, so I celebrated it by sleeping in and then getting caught up on a “for fun” coding project.  The project is to build a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style of app and it is proving to be quite a fun exercise in database design and […]

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Today, Tasha and I spent a lazy day relaxing.  I grilled bacon-wrapped filet mignon for our Fourth of July celebration.  Then the weird weather set in.  The Denver area had giant hail, flash flood warnings, and a really strange cold snap… our “feels like” temperature was 43 for awhile tonight. So needless to say, Tasha […]

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Today started out with a chiropractic adjustment, lunch out at Chick-fil-A, then shopping at the Mall with Tasha.  After all that, we opted for a nap… there’s nothing better than a lazy three-hour nap on a day off! We decided that we couldn’t be bothered to make dinner, so we went to Olive Garden where […]

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Today was another barn-burner at work.  I can handle a fairly significant amount of change in a given time period, but lately it has been grating on me.  Without going into too much detail, I was asked to essentially change what I was supposed to be focused and working on three times in three days. […]

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