Got to the gym late today (after another fairly long day at the office), where I did a short cardio workout on the elliptical.  Tasha did some laps around the track and then it was time for weights.  I felt stronger today, moving my weight up on a few machines.  We ended the workout doing […]

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Today wasn’t as long as yesterday, but still pretty long.  I got out of the office around 6:30 pm after a day of mild productivity.  Tonight we had Week 7 of our Financial Peace University Home Study review, so that was fun.  It’s Ash Wednesday, so it was a day of fasting and no meat… […]

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I had an exceptionally long workday, peppered by bug-fixes, inexplicably long meetings, a disappearing morning, one coworker that went home sick (after summoning me to gather his garbage can for him prior to barfing), another coworker with a mother in critical condition, and finally at long last the workday ended.  About 30 minutes ago. So […]

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This afternoon Paul B and I got together for another sparring workout.  This time we worked more on ironing out some of his stylistic differences in preparation for his cross-rank exam for Shodan.  He tends toward having a high, boxing style sparring guard which leaves him somewhat open to lower counterattacks.  He also tends to […]

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Tasha was working today, so I ventured out to the rec center to have a karate workout.  I got there early and knocked out Bassai Dai and Kanku Dai before Paul arrived, once he showed up we moved into basics.  We did some stationary blocking training, and I gave him an introduction to pressing block.  […]

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Paul, Kara, Tasha and I are going to see Meniskus record a live CD tonight at the Walnut Room in Denver.  Tasha’s been at work at Genghis Con all weekend, so I took the opportunity to pick up the kitchen, load the dishwasher, and vacuum so she didn’t have to.  I even made a Key […]

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For starters, let me say that I really didn’t want to go to karate tonight.  I had a really long/bad day at the office, and I really wanted to just sit down and veg out tonight.  But after Paul called, we both decided it was best if we worked out.  So off to the dojo […]

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Tonight was a good gym workout, not much cardio (since apparently Paul had been there 20 minutes before I got there) but we hit the weights pretty quickly.  In addition to the normal machines, I added the ab crunch machine.  It felt good to work out my core again, and I was able to do […]

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So a few weeks ago, amidst the cleaning frenzy of the Man Cave project, my Dyson vacuum started acting up.  I noticed that the hose assembly had lost suction but the regular vacuum was working just fine.  While I was trying to diagnose the problem, the vacuum up and quit working altogether. I quickly admitted […]

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After flexing some time back and sleeping this afternoon I made it to the dojo for karate.  We worked on several combinations with backfist strike and back kick, doing some cool partner training where we worked on the mechanics of the spinning motion.  One side would jab, the defender would do a pressing block and […]

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