From Twitter 12-30-2010

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From Twitter 12-29-2010

11:32:03: Artfire - Texas Guild - StClairDesigns - A fabulous selection of stone and metal jewelry #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/cw3Tq2
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From Twitter 12-28-2010

11:00:27: Artfire - Crazy Train - EVA ROSE 1900 - #artfire #handmade - Vintage beads, charms and sequins http://ow.ly/3nRJQ
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From Twitter 12-27-2010

11:31:28: Artfire - Texas Guild - StClairDesigns - A fabulous selection of stone and metal jewelry #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/cw3Tq2
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At the Movies: The King's Speech

The King's Speech : 4  (at the theatre)

A film about the speech problems of King George VI, the attempts to correct those problems, and one of the most important speeches he had to make.  I loved this film.  There were some good, funny moments in it along with the trials and tribulations of "Bertie".

Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush all did fabulous jobs with their parts.

A very good film!

At the Movies: Watchmen

Watchmen : 2 (on DVD)

I knew nothing about the comic the Watchmen before seeing this movie.  I didn't know a heck of a lot about them by the end of the movie.  The role of the superheroes is hereditary though, it appears.

Superheroes out to stop one of their own who has gone bad.

I don't plan on watching it again.

Aikido Thursday Night 12/23/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, Trey, and Troy.


Techniques:

Troy did a sample demo for his third brown belt.  The real thing is tentatively scheduled for December 30.

Aftermath: None of note.

From Twitter 12-26-2010

10:25:28: Artfire - Men of Artfire - FiresideTurnings - Nice products from the lathe using wood from Wisconsin #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/37AVX
11:00:13: Artfire - Crazy Train - MOON AND BACK BEADS - #artfire #handmade - Jewelry with meaning! http://ow.ly/3nRJs
16:39:41: Item of the week - A Sierra style click pen in Red/Black dyed Box Elder Burl - drop me a note for 10% off http://bit.ly/37AVX #handmade

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From Twitter 12-25-2010

10:25:38: Artfire - Men of Artfire - FiresideTurnings - Nice products from the lathe using wood from Wisconsin #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/37AVX
14:10:42: Artfire - Texas Guild - RodeoRocks - A fabulous selection of stone-based jewelry #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/eYhmhB
14:34:40: I liked a YouTube video -- Silent Monks Singing Halleluia http://youtu.be/ZCFCeJTEzNU?a
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From Twitter 12-24-2010

10:25:26: Artfire - Men of Artfire - FiresideTurnings - Nice products from the lathe using wood from Wisconsin #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/37AVX
11:00:27: Artfire - Crazy Train - TIE DYE BY SARA - #artfire #handmade - Hats, socks, shirts all tie-dyed! http://ow.ly/3nRIO
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From Twitter 12-23-2010

10:26:03: Artfire - Men of Artfire - FiresideTurnings - Nice products from the lathe using wood from Wisconsin #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/37AVX
12:36:19: Artfire - Texas Guild - RodeoRocks - A fabulous selection of stone-based jewelry #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/eYhmhB
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From Twitter 12-22-2010

11:01:07: Artfire - Crazy Train - TESSS ART PENDANTS AND MORE - #artfire #handmade - Pendants out of clay, dominoes, etc. http://ow.ly/3nRIb
11:25:29: Making shortbread. Batter's in the mixer getting aerated for another 15 minutes.
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From Twitter 12-21-2010

09:27:22: Picked up 1/4 cow of grass-fed beef. Mmmmm. Beef.
10:25:37: Artfire - Men of Artfire - FiresideTurnings - Nice products from the lathe using wood from Wisconsin #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/37AVX
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From Twitter 12-20-2010

06:59:06: Up earlier than I would be on a workday and it's my vacation! Why am I up? I have no idea.
10:25:55: Artfire - Men of Artfire - FiresideTurnings - Nice products from the lathe using wood from Wisconsin #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/37AVX
11:00:37: Artfire - Crazy Train - SOUTHWEST STUDIO - #artfire #handmade - Gorgeous photos from the Desert Southwest http://ow.ly/3nRHI
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15:26:24: Lunch at Stomps aka Tookies reborn. I hope it's good.
15:43:03: Life is worth living once again. Stomp's truly is Tookie's reborn. Awesome food! I've missed it.
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Weekend update

Friday:

Off from work so worked on Sean's console some
Aikido

Saturday

Worked on Sean's console
Aikido
Miracle on 34th Street at a local theatre

Sunday

Worked on Sean's console
Worked on some pens
Football
Dinner with K, K, and J. at Durango's

Aikido Saturday Afternoon - 12/18/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, Trey, Troy, and Dan.

Ukemi:  Full ukemi, no big falls.  Watched over Dan.

The Walk: Twice, as usual. 

Releases: Worked on some of Ki Harry with Troy and did the usual 1-8 on both sides.


Techniques:

I spent the afternoon working with Troy on 1-10 of Ju Nana Hon Kata.  He had some issues today.  He had trouble with #2, #5, #6, #8, ad #10.  Nothing serious, just a brain lock from so much work on it over the past couple of days.

Aftermath: Stubbed toe still hurts.  We worked on armbars so much that I was horribly sore Sunday morning from all of the stretching.

Aikido Friday Night - 12/17/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, Trey, Troy, Sal, and Dan.

Ukemi:  Full ukemi, no big falls.  Watched over Dan.

The Walk: Twice, as usual.  As is not usual, I got lost in the Walk.  I was happily counting away and got lost in the sound of my voice.  That messed everyone up except Trey.  *sigh*

Releases: Worked on some of Ki Harry with Troy

Techniques:

I spent the evening working with Troy on 1-10 of Ju Nana Hon Kata.  He did well again.

Aftermath: I stubbed my toe by catching it on my hakama.  Ouch.

Aikido Thursday Night - 12/16/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, and Troy.


Techniques:

We worked on the knife defense takeaway techniques of San Kata.

Then I uke'd for Troy on his Sankyu belt demonstration techniques.  He did quite well.

Aftermath: None of note.

From Twitter 12-19-2010

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From Twitter 12-18-2010

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From Twitter 12-17-2010

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From Twitter 12-16-2010

11:00:46: Artfire - Crazy Train - AYA DESIGNS - #artfire #handmade - A wide variety of necklaces and other jewelry http://ow.ly/3nRGV
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From Twitter 12-15-2010

15:23:04: Artfire - Men of Artfire - CabinHollow - Amazing metalwork ready made or custom! #artfire #handmade http://bit.ly/37AVX
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From Twitter 12-14-2010

10:07:18: Artfire Spotlight Shop: Mad Moravian - Handmade pens, bottle stoppers, chainmaille jewelry and other odd bits #artfire http://bit.ly/g00Ksm
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19:26:30: Whoa! I sold my chainmaille hat band! I've got a strong nibble at least. #artfire #chainmaille

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From Twitter 12-13-2010

09:57:15: Artfire Spotlight Shop: Mad Moravian - Handmade pens, bottle stoppers, chainmaille jewelry and other odd bits #artfire http://bit.ly/g00Ksm
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Weekend update

Friday

Aikido

Saturday

Blueberry muffins
Pick up a load of mulch and dropepd some off at K's and at J's.  Used the rest around the plants in our "orchard" at home
Some work in the shop on Sean's commission
Aikido
Dinner at Durango's

Sunday

Artfire publicity
In the shop working on Sean's commission
Football
Dinner with the in-laws
Football

Aikido Saturday Afternoon - 12/11/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, Trey, and Troy

Ukemi: 

Light warm-up.

The Walk:

not today

Releases:

Not today

Techniques:

We worked with Troy on getting ready for his 3rd brown demonstration.  He went through 1-10 on both side with Trey.  He did quite well.  some tweak, but not major issues.

Worked with Trey on Owaza Ju Pon - left-sided.  We never do Owaza on the left side, but Trey got a bee in his bonnet and spent some time on it.

I got to run through Koryu Dai San no Kata (8 kneeling and 8 standing).  I did ok.  I fogrot the sequence of techniques and missed some items on a number of them, but overall it was ok.

We then worked with Trey on the 8 kneeling of Koryu Dai San no Kata.  He did pretty well.

Aftermath: None of note

From Twitter 12-12-2010

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From Twitter 12-11-2010

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From Twitter 12-10-2010

09:58:14: Artfire Spotlight Shop: Mad Moravian - Handmade pens, bottle stoppers, chainmaille jewelry and other odd bits #artfire http://bit.ly/g00Ksm
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23:43:04: Won a nook at company Xmas party! To keep or not?

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From Twitter 12-09-2010

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From Twitter 12-08-2010

09:57:28: Artfire Spotlight Shop: Mad Moravian - Handmade pens, bottle stoppers, chainmaille jewelry and other odd bits #artfire http://bit.ly/g00Ksm
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From Twitter 12-07-2010

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From Twitter 12-06-2010

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Slightly humorous Spam email

I received a slightly humorous spam email in my junk box this afternoon.  They claim to not be spam and to not be an automated email, but they are both.  I'm including the email below, with the bits that might generate more traffic to the sites for which they wanted more traffic altered.

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Now, it's not a hilarious email, but it struck me funny for some reason.

Weekend update

Friday

Aikido

Saturday

Blueberry muffins
Aikido
Dinner at Durango's
D&D at RoHo's
Tim Burton's Alice on DVD

Sunday

In the shop working on a pen commission
"A Christmas Carol" downtown at the Alley with K and our moms
Football

Aikido Saturday Afternoon - 12/04/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, Trey, Brad, and Da

Ukemi:  Light warm-up, watched over Dan

The Walk: twice

Releases:

Worked with Dan for quite a while.  Worked on getting his weight neutral compared to a little front-heavy.  The goal was to get his back foot to stop moving first.  It will improve his timing.


Techniques:

I worked with Dan on Shomen-ate left and right sided.  Moer time was spent on the right and he made some good progress.  We spent a lot of time on the footwork for the left-sided technique.

Aftermath: None of note

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From Twitter 12-05-2010

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From Twitter 12-04-2010

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Aikido Friday Night - 12/03/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, Trey, Sal, and Dan.

Ukemi:  Full ukemi, no big falls.  Watched over Dan

The Walk: Not tonight

Releases: Not tonight

Techniques:

I spent the evening working with Sal on 1-5.  We made it through 1-3 fairly quickly and then stalled on Gedan-ate and Ushiro-ate.  We spent 30 minutes on those two techniques but did not get to a great resolution on them. 

We're trying to get Sal ready for his green belt test before the end of the year.  We've got a few more weeks to do it.  I hope he makes it to more training nights.

Aftermath: I think I've sprained my wrist again and I have no idea how it happened.  It was iffy before this training session.

From Twitter 12-03-2010

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I Has A Hot Dog

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Aikido Thursday Night - 12/02/10

Aikidoka:  Tim, and Trey.


Techniques:

We worked on the sword takeaway techniques of, I think, San Kata.

1st :

Sword strike is an overhead strike.  Tori counters with a right goblet step while accentuating uke's body drop by using the edge of the hand on uke's left arm.  Continue the movement of the arm down to the sword hilt, grabbing the hilt and continuing uke's off-balance until he has to take a roll-out.

2nd

Sword strike is a yokomen from uke's left cutting tori from tori's right side to left.  Tori counters with a left goblet step, catching uke's right arm for Oshi Taoshi (left hand on the elbow, right hand on the sword hilt).  Tori follows through over uke's fourth toe causing uke to take the fall while leaving the sword in tori's right hand.

3rd


Sword strike is a yokomen from uke's right cutting tori from tori's left side to right.  Tori counters with a right goblet step, catching uke's hands with his.  Tori then executes a hip switch, steps through with the left foot, executes another hip switch and then throws uke with Shihonage while retaining control of the sword.

4th

Sword strike is a straight thrust to tori's gut.  Tori counters with a goblet step to the left, extending uke's body drop with the edge of his left hand.  Tori then allows uke to rise and, on uke's way up, rotates counterclockwise to enter with aikinage and then continues on past uke.  This technique is not a sword takeaway.


Aftermath: None of note.

From Twitter 12-02-2010

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18:02:32: Jack got bit by another dog while on a walk yesterday. Drew blood and caused a limp, but no real damage. He's on antibiotics just in case.
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From Twitter 12-01-2010

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17:34:55: Starry Home Crafts - Artfire Spotlight shop - a fabric smorgasbord http://bit.ly/a1B8Tc #artfire
18:03:19: Item of the Week - a bottle stopper turned out of Padauk. This is my favorite of all the stoppers I've turned http://bit.ly/37AVX #artfire
22:13:45: VaBeachQuilterDeStash - this week's Spotlight shop - all sorts of fabrics for the quilter in your life - http://bit.ly/gs1Uph

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At the Movies: Burlesque

Burlesque : 3


A girl leaves rural Iowa to try to make it big in Los Angeles.  After trying out for a number of auditions, she makes her way to a Burlesque theater.  She eventually gets a change at the theater to show off her dancing and singing.

I went to the movie hoping for a Christina Aquilera concert and got a decent story in addition.  There are a number of plot holes and some scenes with no reason behind them, but I enjoyed the movie.

At the Movies: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1:4 (almost a 3, but I'd be willing to see it again)

The next to last installment of the Harry Potter franchise, seen in the theater on Thanksgiving weekend.  Saw it with K. and enjoyed it fairly well.  They left off some explanation of what the Horcruxes are that I thought would have been helpful.  They did a good job with the relationships between Ron, Hermione, and Harry.

The ending credits were the most disappointing of any of the HP films.

From Twitter 11-30-2010

08:50:15: Artfire Featured Shop - Virginia Beach Quilter. See the fun and fabulous quilts she makes and customizes: http://ow.ly/3goX3 #artfire
16:34:46: Item of the Week - a bottle stopper turned out of Padauk. This is my favorite of all the stoppers I've turned http://bit.ly/37AVX #artfire
16:42:43: Starry Home Crafts - Artfire Spotlight shop - a fabric smorgasbord http://bit.ly/a1B8Tc #artfire

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