I had a very productive workday today (probably my most productive in the last few weeks), however I did get a bit of a break during the day.  My supervisor and I had the same fault occur on our sprinkler systems within the same day, and he is rather handy and knows how to fix […]

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The ukulele is DONE!  I spent the last few days on the final coat of lacquer finish, installing the hardware, and sanding/filing the nut and bridge to adjust the string height.  The last thing to happen was applying the sound hole decal, I’ve never applied a water-based decal in my entire life correctly until now […]

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Today Matt and I ventured up the Bald Mountain trail to do some Sochin.  We succeeded in doing 11 kata apiece (12 if you count the one we screwed up) and did some slow sparring to round out the day.  There wasn’t another soul up there today, so it was really peaceful and fun. Bald […]

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Today’s ukulele progress report is pretty straightforward: it’s finishing time!  I got some help with this one, my buddy Paul donated a Vox amp box to help me create the most rocking paint booth ever!  Tasha helped me rig up the box, a coat hanger, and a shower curtain to protect the ukulele from errant […]

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Tasha and I are waiting at Denver International Airport for Matt and Sarah to arrive! They should be arriving soon, we are very excited to see them again. Hopefully this time nobody will barf hot dogs on me.

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On Friday night, we met Paul and Kara at the Waterloo for dinner and a Meniskus show.  The website said they went on at 8, but we found out shortly thereafter that they actually went on at 9:45.  After we ate, the girls went for a walk and Paul and I stayed behind and talked […]

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At work, I had to do battle with a particularly annoying set of bugs.  These were the type of bugs where everything looked like it was working properly and just wasn’t functioning correctly.  After beating my head against the table all day, getting frustrated and fed up, having some Chick-fil-A, I eventually had an “a-ha!” […]

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Sensei Hartman’s been reminding me gently that I need to train more.  He’s right.  I completely acknowledge that I’ve been sporadic at best lately, in both my gym workouts and my karate workouts.  I have been doing some karate at home and occasionally with Paul B but that’s a sorry excuse for making it to […]

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It’s hard to call tonight’s effort a day of work, but I did complete a few more steps today.  I sanded the edges of the neck flush with the fretboard, fitted the bridge, and prepped everything for putting the lacquer on. Now I have a problem.  I need a dust-free area to apply the finish, […]

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Last night I went down to feed the rabbits and I noticed that Joe was standing funny.  I picked him up to find a giant poop-ball on his hindquarters, it was at least raquetball sized and smelled terrible.  So I got to spend the better part of an hour liberating his butt-region from the crap-demon. […]

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