Fat Ninja

Denial comes easy.
Not that of going without,
mind you.
I mean that failure to truly understand who you are;
to recognize fault for folly.
It’s simpler,
by far,
to find an external cause
to which one can attribute their shortcomings;
to lay blame at the foot of
some immovable, well-entrenched root.
Because there’s a counterfeit solace
in self-righteousness that you
might confuse for legal emotional tender.
You might […]

The Gang
Well, much to chagrin of my supervisor, I was unable to attend our team party this past Saturday night. The reason being that we had plans to take the kids to a little Halloween party out in Sherwood. It was a good time and the kids had an absolute blast. Enjoy the pictures.
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This isn’t a pic from my class, but this is one of the elements of the katas
So, I went to one of Obukan’s classes last Thursday. It was supposed to be purely for observational and informational purposes. Well, the sensei took me aside and I explained how I ended up there and why I came, […]

Laura just messaged me to inform me that my 360 has at last found its way home. It’s definitely been an interesting couple of weeks, but in a lot of ways, it’s been a good thing. Rather than filling up my idle hours with gaming, I’ve done a lot of reading and I’ve become reacquainted […]

My struggle with weight has been a long one, to say the least. When Laura and I first started dating, I went on a diet and met with succcess. However, during Laura’s pregnancy with our son, Byron, I put on a lot of sympathy weight. Since then, I’ve done little to get my weight under […]

I shall call myself an idealist;
A thinker of the best things possible.
And for that, I should call myself an arrogant fool.
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I’m not sure what has sparked it, but I’ve been feeling incredibly inspired of late. It must be the onset of another Oregon winter, with its unbroken grey skies and endless drizzle. At any rate, I’ve been doing a lot of “drawring” of late. This is my most recent work (with which, I might add, […]

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Many thanks to H3RO for applying the mad Photoshop skills.
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Do you see in these words
What I put into them?
Is it possible that,
Through a simple manipulation
Of diction, I am not only able to transport
You to other times & places,
But that I can,
for just a moment,
Confer my mind to yours,
Touching something hidden and
Innate within all of us.
Do we share similar emotional
Responses to certain stimuli,
Or are these […]

A drawing I did for the site…
That one is�one that�I’m having worked on by a friend for�use on the splash page of this site. What follows are most of the World-of-Warcraft-inspired drawings I’ve done.
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