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I Never Met a Board I Didn’t Like

Until now. I noticed that Ninja wannabe hasn’t got much press time over the past few weeks, so I thought I would share a story. Long ago, back when I was a blue belt, my Sensei had these cool, plastic re-breakable boards. They supposedly simulated different thickness of the real boards that some martial artists

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Starship Troopers

Ever since I was about twelve years old, and I saw Aliens on TV for the first time, I’ve been a huge fan of military Sci-Fi. One of the first Sci-Fi, military books I read is called White Wing. I was probably only twelve or thirteen when I read it. Ender’s Game is a favorite

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Shopping and Sisters

This evening I went shopping with my sisters. Oh, and the niece, can’t forget her. Every year for at least the past four years we’ve taken the middle sister shopping for her birthday. Mostly it’s a day (or in this case and evening) to just hang out, look at ridiculous things that we would never

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Nostalgia

When I was a kid, I was convinced that my parent’s didn’t care if I looked like the biggest dork on the planet. Well, I think that’s actually true, they didn’t care. I rarely got anything that even loosely resembled to the latest fad—whether it be those cool jelly bracelets, a VCR, a kitten, one

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