Today was good.  Work went quickly, I found out that an area luthier is closing down and liquidating their stock (going down there on Saturday!) and I feel optimistic for the rest of the work week. More soon!

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For the last few months, I have been cultivating an interest in the construction of acoustic guitars.  This started simply enough this summer once I finished my ukulele kit and continued after I saw Andy McKee perform in Denver.  After some research into his Greenfield guitars, I got interested in figuring out what it would […]

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I’m writing my blog post for Saturday WAY early, because I have a busy day tomorrow.  It is my buddy Doug’s bachelor party, and we will be starting off the day with paintball and then following up with Mexican food for dinner. We’ve got party vans rented to courier us from place to place, so […]

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Another great workout tonight!  It started out with basic combinations, and right before we began Sensei Tarrant said “we had a request for Unsu, so that’s what we’ll train toward tonight.”  That was my request!  Woot! The basic drills were designed to get the body moving in a back and forth fashion similar to the […]

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Those of you that follow my Facebook may have noticed that I was up late last night.  There is no explanation as to why… I drank roughly the same amount of caffeine.  Despite this, I found myself up wide-awake at 2:30 am.  I went upstairs to try to sleep and found that Tasha was awake, […]

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Last night’s workout was great, one of my favorite so far.  Everything started up pre-class, when Paul B and I opted to do some impromptu free sparring.  It went pretty well, I tagged him a few times and he tagged me a few times (once in the right ribcage that really stung!) and much fun […]

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The title says it all!  I had a long (but productive) day of refactoring code at the office, I was able to leave work with all unit tests passing and a clean build… that should leave me with a quick code review and debugging one issue tomorrow and things are back on track.  I learned […]

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Today I had a fairly long day at the office.  It was a good one, we got some code working and tested so it was time to check the code into source control.  I opted to do this around 4:45 pm, and of course I broke the build.  Luckily, one of my buddies was around […]

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Today was shopping day, I came downstairs to find that Tasha had already waded through a mountain of coupons.  In addition, she had marshaled our Nintendo Wii components into bags to take to GameStop for resale.  We headed out to perform this task with very low expectations, but I am pleased to report that the […]

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On Thursday night, PW and I headed down to the Fillmore to see Crowded House.  The band is fronted by New Zealander Neil Finn, so suffice it to say that my kiwi friends were very excited to get to see these guys.  Paul and I got there early, had a beer at the Cheeky Monk […]

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