Sochin Goal – Achieved! As my previous post indicates, I did very well on my Sochin resolution. I was able to achieve my goal of 2000 Sochin in November, after only 10 months of effort (my goal began on 1/21/06, so there’s still a little time left). It was a wonderful exercise in diving deeply […]

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Today was the last official workout of 2006! We assembled in loose fashion today to have a triumphant run through of the 27 kata that and had been studying this year. That included good ol’ Sochin as well, so I was pleased to have a nice capper to this year. Unfortunately, we ended up a […]

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Last night’s workout was a barn-burner. Dad and I showed up a few minutes late and got to witness a severe warm-up of 60 sit-ups, 30 push-ups, hovers, and various other fittings of pain. The first class was very simply basics. Lots of them. In rapid fire succession. We even got some stance training in […]

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Teddy’s in Trouble! Originally uploaded by dalcher. After a Christmas party at our place tonight, Teddy decided to take it upon himself to examine the rest of a gift bag that had been left within Teddy range. As you can see, he knows that he is in trouble, but doesn’t care because he gets attention.

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Today was fun… I slept in ridiculously late, despite my most sincere intentions to go to karate this morning. We went out to Goofy Ridge (a small… interesting settlement near Sand Ridge State Forest) to visit my in-laws, it was a very quiet and laid back holiday celebration. We visited for quite awhile and opened […]

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This image, an AP Photo by way of CNN.com, shows Iranian ambassador to the U.N. Javad Zarif impersonating a French stereotype who had their order show up wrong at a restaurant. This just goes to show that regardless of how baseless your claims are, how wrong you are, or how many guns/bombs/WMDs you have that […]

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First things first: CONGRATULATIONS to and for achieving their 2006 goals. Matt and I were reflecting on our Sochin goal on Tuesday night, it seems amazing that we covered as many kata as we did in the time frame that we had. Both Matt and I turned out our goals well inside of the calendar-year […]

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Over the weekend, I applied for my FOID card amidst a series of conversations with my Dad and brother-in-law about handguns during which I was reminded that if I wanted to inherit my Dad’s gun collection I needed to have the appropriate ID. To many of my friends that have known me for awhile this […]

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Introducing… The Cheat! Originally uploaded by dalcher. And the other furry family member… this is The Cheat! He is a two year old Holland lop, and when we first got him we thought he was a girl. I had originally named him after one of my favorite programming languages, Perl. However, after exhibiting interestingly aggressive […]

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