Since I am going to be en route to my new place on Election Day, I voted early!  Woot for democracy!

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Honestly, I can’t recall a lot about the workouts last week except that they were full of pullback, footwork, and fair to middling amounts of frustration at not getting these fundamentals to work correctly!  Therefore, I will focus on tonight’s workout. It was just the lesser black belts to start class tonight, so Kevin-san elected […]

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This weekend marked the first major volley of going away parties.  A very rousing good time was had with my D&D crew, culminating in a goodly amount of intoxicated Rock Band 2. Today, we headed to Goofy Ridge to see Tasha’s family, and then it was on to our October family birthday party where they […]

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Tuesday was the first class after our clinic, and we spent the majority of the class working on matters of pullback related to basic technique.  It seemed to be a more intense class to me, I was having some difficulty catching my breath and making my body do what I wanted.  I think it had […]

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Last weekend we took a break from the relocation procedures to take in a Death Cab for Cutie concert in Champaign.  I had only been exposed to Death Cab for Cutie via a few tracks featured on The O.C. and the fact that they are considered a major force in indie rock.  I didn’t have […]

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Today was our annual Big Clinic in Saint Louis, we were lucky enough to get instruction from Sensei James Yabe again.  I always enjoy attending his classes, we did a lot regarding hip action and timing while sparring.  I will elaborate in more detail soon, but for now I am stiff and tired so I’m […]

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Just got a call from my realtor, she said that they accepted our counteroffer contigent on the completion of the repairs!  Their counteroffer almost perfectly breaks us even with the 5% down that we had to have in order to secure our new mortgage in Colorado. At this point I’m considering breaking even as good […]

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Tonight’s workout was exceedingly difficult.  I was still sore from the Tuesday workout, the first class was an exercise in overloading my already sore and tired muscles.  We’ve been working a lot on pull back lately, and I was really feeling it across my shoulder blades.  In addition to that, the drill we did during […]

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it’s low. I get to go meet with my realtor in a few minutes to work out a counter-offer.  The trouble is that their offer was only around $1000 more than we have left on the mortgage, ideally we would cover the rest of the amount needed to secure the mortgage on the new house. […]

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After a week that felt like a month, I made it back to the dojo tonight.  I had a pretty severe headache beforehand, so I took a nap and woke late, so I arrived at the dojo around 7 pm. Both classes tonight consisted of excellent basics and combinations… jab, reverse punch, front kicks… and […]

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