Tonight was another great workout.  We began class with a large amount of basics, which took the format of slide in with reverse punch, slide back with a block, and then slide back in with another reverse punch.  We did a variety of face-level blocks: rising block, pressing block, high inward block, and high outward […]

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Talk about jumping right into the fray today… I got to the office and we quickly realized that there was a big wrinkle in the code that we were working on, so the rest of the day quickly evaporated into debugging and looking for creative solutions to the problem.  Days like this slip by quickly, […]

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Eve’s been smiling off and on for the last few days, but this afternoon we were able to catch it on film.  She’s been acting a little differently the last few days… instead of wanting to be cuddled all the time she’s ok with just sitting propped up on my lap or in her carseat.  […]

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I’ve grown tired of this WordPress theme, so over the next week or so I’ll be selecting a new one.  Nobody be surprised if they visit the blog and it looks totally different, I’ll be experimenting with some new templates so it might change dramatically day-to-day.  There’s not much else to report right now, Tasha […]

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Tonight was my triumphant (ha!) return to the dojo, after a two month break.  Now that our Eve schedule is a bit more established, it’s high time that I get back to some stress-relief time and that means a return to the dojo.  We started the workout with a ton of basics in a circle, […]

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Ten years ago yesterday, one of my favorite authors passed away.  Douglas Adams wrote the five book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, among other excellent sci-fi series.  He holds a special place in my heart because his work was one of the first things that Tasha and I bonded over when we began dating.  […]

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One of the most frustrating aspects of being a Dad is the relative powerlessness of it all.  The baby spent part of the night curled up happily with me (which was great) but shortly thereafter began screaming all night long.  I changed her, rocked her, fed her, walked her, sang to her, shhh’d her, swaddled […]

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It was a long day today… spent dutifully refactoring code.  My day ended up quite sourly with a late meeting from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm… sadly positioned at that time in order to accomodate three remote teams.  It seems those meetings will continue in this fashion twice a month.  Not a major price to […]

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Today was a pretty average day at work… we had a somewhat thorny design problem to work out and after that my day was punctuated with pop-ins.  Normally this gets annoying after awhile, but it helped me get refreshed on a bunch of different topics and it made the day go by quickly.  The 80+ […]

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Today marked Tasha’s first Mother’s Day, and we were pretty busy!  Things started off with 9:30 am Church followed by breakfast at Denny’s (Tasha’s choice).  Surprisingly, it wasn’t as busy in there as we expected so we got right in.  After that, it was back to the house for a bit and then back to […]

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