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This weekend, we’re going to try to head down to Fair St. Louis. We’ll probably go Monday. I wouldn’t mind seeing Ted Nugent and I love airshows.
Saturday, we have to take the dogs into town to get their nails cut. That’s always fun. Macy thinks it’s social hour and […]

Thursdays are definitely the worst day of the week, I think. For starters, it always feels like the week has been much longer, and unlike Fridays, you don’t have the imminent weekend to get you through the day. And Wednesday night karate doesn’t help.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my […]

Read a book.

Last night, after we got home and fed the dogs, Mica and I went out for pizza and a quick trip to the library to pick up a movie for her. After that, we curled up on the couch and caught up on season 3 of Reno 911. We haven’t had an evening […]

Last weekend, my karate school took some students to the Bluegrass Nationals Karate Tournament in Louisville, KY. It’s one of the larger national championship tournaments every year. My teammates did quite well, as usual.

Ben won the youth 17-18 advanced fighting category
Chad won the men’s advanced heavyweight division
Chad, Joe and Conan won […]

I BBQ’ed ribs tonight and fixed some fried cauliflower with it. Mmmmm. Very, very good. Haven’t had ribs in quite a while. In a few minutes, we’re going to head out to Chesterfield mall to pick up some photos I dropped off last night. This will be my […]

Hope all the fathers reading this had a great Father’s Day. Mine has been very productive:

Cut the lawn
Reshaped the hedges
Replaced the kitchen faucet (our old faucet started leaking last night so I had to turn the water off)
Replaced our old-style heating/AC thermostat with a new programmable digital thermostat.

It’s a nice evening out, I should […]

Mica and I went downtown this morning to meet her parents for an early Father’s Day celebration. We spent the morning walking around the Arch museum and the old courthouse building before taking them out to lunch at Charlie Gitto’s downtown. I had the best rigatoni carbonara. Took half of it home […]

It’s been about 6 months since I really wrote anything at this site. Things have been very, very busy until recently but I’d like to start keeping a journal again. The old AShapiro.net is gone, along with the last 3 years worth of posts (471 posts, I believe). I’m hoping this […]

AShapiro.net is back and now running WordPress. I’m afraid all previous posts, images, accounts, comments and files were deleted, so this is pretty much starting anew. Over the next few days, I’ll be finishing up most of the static pages and I’ll be back to keeping my blog here as time permits. […]