Hooray! I just preordered my Eee PC 1000 from Amazon! It is scheduled to be released on Monday and I can’t wait to get it!

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Today the name of the game was clearing out the back yard planter. Whenever my yard needed cleared of sticks, errant portions of rosebushes trimmed, or the two stumps that still grow limbs need trimmed I would throw the detritus into this planter that is made of railroad ties. I took four bundles of yard […]

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Tonight’s class was a really small one… just three white belts, a yellow belt, , , and myself. We had a very basic first class where we worked on lunge punch, front kick, downward block, and rising block. Second class we focused on black belt katas, working leisurely through Bassai Dai and Kanku Dai. I […]

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I got my package that I expected to be bhut jolokia peppers. Turns out the auction listing had “seeds” listed and pictures of the actual peppers. Not knowing any better, I assumed they were one in the same so I was a little disappointed by this. The guy did, however, provide a sample Trinidad bird […]

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Tonight was another of our classic battles of low vs. high for attendance. We had a bumper crop of white belts, a few red belts, and a few brown belts. Some of our visitors were from Mapleton, since they are closed for their annual cleaning this week, its always good to see people from that […]

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I stand before you all today a man of accomplishment. I allowed myself to sleep in a bit today (around 9:30) and then I immediately launched into a whirlwind rage against my list of “To-Do’s”. I trimmed as many of the low hanging limbs from the front Chinese Elm tree. I bundled said limbs into […]

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My Xbox Live Vision camera arrived today! I immediately tore open the box and tried to make an MTmini out of a cardboard box and a frame. The only problem is that I didn’t have a suitably sized frame and my box was slightly oversized for the piece of paper that I had handy. The […]

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Tonight Tasha and I were watching “I Love the New Millenium” on VH-1, and an ad for the ASPCA came on. It was longing shots of sad little puppies and kitties that were left behind by Very Bad People. Yes, this is bad, but they had to set the commercial to strains of Sarah McLachlan‘s […]

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I was catching up on my multitouch forum yesterday and decided to poke around on the Internet for components. One of the major pieces to the puzzle is the projector or LCD monitor, and thanks to some good advice from some forum-goers I decided that I would end up going the projector route. I decided, […]

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I arrived a bit late to Mapleton this morning and ran a few laps with . , , and Oedewaldt-san were already working on kata. Mike and I opted to work on some basics to warm up, and then work on some of of the same body shifting drills that we did on Thursday. joined […]

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