Good news, everyone!  MusiciansFriend is working with me to come up with a mutually agreeable compromise.  More details soon!

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I got a call back from the guy at MusiciansFriend, who explained the situation and asked if I wanted to keep my order open.  He explained that Gibson committed to fulfilling all of the orders but they were placed on indefinite hold because they weren’t sure when they could fill them.  I left it here […]

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I got a call from a number I didn’t recognize tonight, so I let voicemail pick it up.  It was Brian from MusiciansFriend who was calling to inform me that Gibson doesn’t know when they expect to fill my order for my Les Paul Traditional Goldtop, so the wait may be “indefinite.”  He wants to […]

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Today was a good day.  We had Agile training at work, where I learned a few new techniques and design patterns.  Shortly after I arrived at work, Tasha texted me to tell me that her iPad had arrived.  The rest of the workday completed without incident.  I came home extra-motivated from two days of learning […]

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Tonight I made it back to the dojo (thank God!) where we worked on kata and sparring drills.  We did all of the Heian kata, followed by a sparring drill where we made a circle and took turns doing blocking and counterattacks against an opponent randomly called out by Sensei Tarrant. After this, he spoke […]

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Tonight PB and I got together to work on Sochin.  We probably did a dozen kata in his backyard, and I got a chance to teach the kata to him a bit.  It still feels very natural to do this kata, which makes me happy that I have burned it in so effectively.  I’m going […]

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Happy Mother’s Day to all you mom’s out there, especially my Mom!  For some reason I woke up today thinking about all the things that we used to do for Mom on Mother’s Day.  I can remember one specific Mother’s Day where my sister and I woke up to make mom breakfast in bed and […]

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Tonight we had a combination Cinco de Mayo party and D&D session.  It was a great time, Paul and Teague made really excellent Mexican food (including margaritas!) and much merriment was had by all. We had a rather interesting D&D session using the Underdark sourcebook tonight, they opted to explore an area that led to planar […]

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Was awesome!  This will be spoiler-free, but I consider this a worthy sequel in almost every way. Things of note: Mickey Rourke did an excellent job as Whiplash.  Scarlett Johansson is smokin’ hot.  Don Cheadle did a passable job in the role of Rhodey, however I missed Terrence Howard.  I think the difference between the […]

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Today was a much better day at the office.  I had a long discussion with our IT director and we smoothed over the momentary differences that have cropped up over the last few days and things appear to be OK now.  The sinus infection/cold/cough that I had is starting to abate and I actually got […]

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