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Here’s a quick movie a friend shot after my sensei’s 50th birthday party and before my blue belt test. We had streamers on the ceiling that hung down about 8′ above the ground. They wanted to see if I could hit it with a jump kick.

Dish: Satellite dish is installed, no big problems so far. I do think that DirecTV has a better system and easier to use receiver, but we’ll make due with this. We are getting a better deal and they were able to get our bedroom hooked up, so I’m happy. Nothing wrong […]

But, dammit, I got my blue belt.
Class went pretty well. We only did a 60 minute class last night so that we could break out the cake for our sensei’s birthday. They had done an awesome job decorating the dojo. They had black balloons everywhere, banners, and streamers hanging from […]

So Dish came out and installed the new system last night. It’s pretty good, they set up the new dish on the roof instead of mounting it in the yard where out other system was. The installer actually ran a signal to our bedroom, something no one else had been able to manage. […]

Google gives me 2.5 gigs of email, why is my work account limited to 12 megs?

Things didn’t go well with the cable company. Turns out that not only where they out of stock on DVRs and couldn’t tell us when they’d come in, they had been that way for over a month. I reemed a few people over scheduling us, making us take a day off, confirming it […]

We were supposed to have the cable company come out yesterday afternoon to switch us from satellite to cable. They called Thursday evening and confirmed that they’d be there between 1-5PM Friday. Sure, no problem. It was Monica’s birthday so taking an afternoon off of work didn’t seem like a bad idea. […]

Today is Mica’s 23rd birthday!!! Happy birthday baby, I love you!

I put the money down for our 2nd year anniversary trip next fall.

Today was just one of those days at work. Walked in to find an email from management wanting details on a problem we’ve been trying to tell them about since June. Less than 5 minutes later, another manager is at my desk wanting me to prepare slides on the issue for a noon […]