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My wife and I have been getting into the new Doctor Who series books recently (just have a look at my library). Unlike novels from the previous Doctor Who series’ these are not just novelisations of the existing episodes; these take the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant characters (most with Rose, Martha or Donna) and create new stories. Wev’e got 21 of them on the shelf at the moment and due to go get some more soon.
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Congrats to Andrew, Gretta, Jane, Jeff and Simon on passing through the first part of their Black Belt grading; the sparring. As usual it was a fairly intense night with some shadow sparring, a few rounds of sparring drills, a round (or two) of light sparring, five (I think) rounds of full-on jui kumite, and one round of sparring cum grappling (standing to ground).
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I’ve just had my annual salary review and have been done over yet again. Yay! It wasn’t as painful as in previous years as my current boss tells it like it is, rather than wheeling out the barrow of the well worn “HR-provided” lines for managers to their staff, which is the approach my old boss used to take. I appreciate his honesty, not “putting lipstick on the pig” as he often says.
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Along with the changes I made last weekend (Added some menu functions) I’ve added a few other plugins to make the blog a bit more usable. These included adding some social bookmarking links and blog statistics.
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A few weeks ago my mate Skip said there was a weekend bike trip on to sort out the last night of the upcoming trek. I was undecided about going, especially with the huge work load due to this stupid tender I’m responding to. Then I realised I really needed to get away on the bike for a weekend and take a break. I was pretty wound up with work and leaving my Martial Arts behind. I decided to take Skip up on the offer. If only I’d known how wet and cold it was going to be…
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