This one goes out to my gaming homeys. I watched this movie last night, and I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna vomit. It reminded me so much of our EvensBrook campaign.

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising

Last night we had a belt exam for the children.  It went really well, I think.  I was actually blow away by how well some of the children did; and likewise frustrated by how well some of them did when compared to their regular class participation.  The little buggers showed us what they can do; and I think the classes are going to start getting a ( Read more... )

Missed Monday night class again due to work.  I managed to make it to Thursday's class, but was about 30 minutes late.  When I got there, the class was doing yakusoku kumite drills (think 5 time attack all you Shotokan folks).  There were an even number of people, so I elected to do kata on my own rather than disrupt the class.  I did 15 bo kata in ( Read more... )

This week finally marks my first time in the dojo this year.  Monday night Sensei Struchtemeyer returned with a killer circuit training workout that included 5 stations.  Station 1 was kata, station 2 was beating "the big blue bag" with open handed strikes in sets of 3, station 3 was clinch knee strikes on a kicking shield, station 4 was full power ( Read more... )

Driving home from another late night from work tonight, I almost #2'd myself when, suddenly, my passenger side mirror exploded and face and antlers of a deer smashed into my front passenger window.  It happened so fast, I didn't even have time to freak out.  I never saw the deer in the front, and I never saw him in the rear view after the impact.

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This week was bad for karate again. Monday was MLK day, so the armory was closed.

Tuesday I managed to train my paduan and have my small adult class.
Tania and Tommy showed up. We had a short class concentrated on using
the hips more effectively. After that, I had them do some of the drills
on the shodan exam.

Thursday was preempted by work ( Read more... )

I'm still here.  Unfortunately, it's been a bad start to the New Year ( Read more... )

Ummm... it's been a while...

Merry Christmas!

That is all.

Luna City Arcade

I have to apologize to my good buddy dante8. Last week he was telling me how great Google Reader is, and I commented about how badly it sucks.  In all fairness, I had not even looked at Google Reader since it was first release; and it did suck then.  Therefor, I felt that I should give it another try before reasserting my position.

The results are in.  ( Read more... )