Tonight’s workout was a pretty small one, only 7 students and Sensei Yaguchi. He allowed one of his upper ranking students to teach. We did a pretty basic warmup, this month’s combination of the month is: step back with downward block, at the same time arcing backfist strike (like Heian Nidan) and front leg front […]

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This is Clement Freud, providing the driest, funniest delivery I’ve heard on a joke in a very long time. He’s the grandson of Sigmund Freud, just for those of you keeping track. Courtesy of Boing Boing.

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So today I put my new capo to some practice and finally broke into my Death Cab for Cutie tab.  I have to say most of it is pretty advanced for me, but I was able to claim a small victory: I got most of the guitar intro of Long Division down.  I’m still really […]

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Yesterday we ventured across the frozen highways to Colorado Springs to see Dave Ramsey‘s My Total Money Makeover Live event!  We slightly misjudged the weather conditions and got there about 10 minutes before Dave hit the stage.  The place had general admission seating and it was PACKED, we ended up in the upper bowl.  I […]

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We’re heading to Colorado Springs to see Dave Ramsey Live! More later!

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After a long arduous day of travel, I have arrived back in Denver safe and sound. The flight from Chicago to Peoria went just fine, however the Chicago to Denver trip was VERY turbulent. They stopped drink service 3 times so the flight attendants could put their seatbelts on, and they just passed on the […]

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Last night I ended up at Texas Roadhouse with my family, where I unexpectedly ran into Oedewaldt-san and his lovely girlfriend. I was shocked and amazed to find out that I HAVE A READER and she found my blog as they began dating by Googling his name. I was momentarily concerned that I had said […]

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Last night I went to karate at my home dojo, at long last. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a crowd… Sensei Brewer and Erbe-san showed up as far as black belts go. We did have a special, non-photo-op appearance by lazarusman and a whole gaggle of red belts. For the first class, we did a […]

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Today was a good, productive day at the office. It’s always great being here to interact with the rest of our team face-to-face. Tonight on the docket: more karate! After that, I’m heading over to the Dukeses to visit with them. I’m posting this now because there is a very real chance I will not […]

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I’m going to gloss over my weekend workout since the more exciting one happened tonight. Since I’m back in Pekin for a few days I decided to hit the Mapleton dojo tonight. It only ended up being Oedewaldt-san and myself, so he decided to let me teach the first class. I went with one of […]

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