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I wrote an article for Patch.com: https://patch.com/maryland/perryville/public-speaking-tips Check it out and let me know what you think!

Thanks! I just get a little tongue tied and blank on what to say next. Nerves of public speaking... I know how to get through it and that is practice and preparation. I have to rehearse it, saying the words out loud, writing it down, recording it and playing it back, seeing and hearing my mistakes, then making notes and correcting them. Writing and re-writing my notes with less and less detail is how I know I'm getting there. As a back up, I'll have that final note card tucked away, but if I work hard to get there, then I won't need it.

Through Giving Tuesday and a few key friend donations, I was able to break my fundraising goal for Extra Life! Made it to $1000 for the first time. I can't wait to get that gold medal in the mail. I have my two silver ones hanging in front of me at work to remind me of what I was working towards this year. I'm slowly getting over my issues talking on camera. That gold one is going to push me far next year. I'm planning to record more video throughout the year. That way I can practice my video editing skills putting together short highlight videos to post. I need to practice my creeds, combos, and katas on repeat until the test. We had a review and I blew it a couple times. Embarrassing. At least my kicks and effort are up. Some of the kids struggle staying focused and putting in good effort consistently. That drives the instructors bonkers. My gaffes became jokes for the instructors to chuckle about. In the class before, I sempia the intermediate ranks. We ran a drill which incorporated the ideas I plan to teach in my spotlight, which shows that the lead instructors recognize my idea and teaching points have merit. Made me feel real good about my spotlight. 🙂 I still have to execute it though [sigh].

Shopped yesterday and now have veggies and fruits for the week. I should be able to hit my diet goal for a while without any issue. I've got karate class everyday this week to hit my class and sempia requirements. And I am preparing for the test. I want to crush it, so I am going through all my forms and combos fine tuning everything. I need to review my spotlight with a few more participants and write down what I want to say and how I want to say it. After this test, I am going to finish my IJRS exam. It's been sitting too long on the back burner. My essay is going to take a bit longer, but I need to check a box on one of them soon. I am not procrastinating, but if I pick something else up before I finish one, then I certainly will be. The Blog project is itching to get started, but I need to finish these other things first.

NOTE: I'm starting today 12/2 and running through 1/5. No time off for this Jedi. Welcome back for another episode of The Exciting Adventures of JediNickD! It was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away that I joined this site and started my first challenge. World 1 was my first extended stay through 22 challenges. I took a hiatus from NF and came back with a new direction for my goals where I warped to World 2, which I defeated in a Boss Fight slaying some mighty big goals. In World 3, I continue to develop my fitness, getting my body in the best shape of my life, even with the Degenerative Disc Disease, Arthritis, Disc Fissures, and more. Through physical therapy exercises and karate, I have maintained my core and back muscles to ease the pressure off my spine, but in the end I defeated World 3 by transforming my life into a new form. With chiropractic care healing my spine, reaching the high ranks at karate, blazing through the new Toastmasters education program called Pathways, and working to complete Novice rank at IJRS, World 4 was something new everyday. I have moved over to the Monks to reach for more diversity in my workouts and culture as my focus has been more on my karate training in the recent months. As I actively take on more responsibility of coaching, mentoring, and teaching in all aspects of my life, I can see a different me forming on World 5. I just keep on L-I-V-I-N, fight the good fight lightin' it up, and level up my life!  Challenge Lesson: "We are what they grow beyond." I've been actively mentoring and coaching Toastmasters since I joined in 2012. The past two years, I have been working with kids in karate classes as a Sempia. Since 2008, I've been raising two kids of my own. In 2000, I picked up coaching youth and high school rugby. It is a joy of mine to help, teach, instruct, coach, mentor, and inspire others. I get a thrill from seeing others faces light up with excitement or pride. It warms my heart to see others succeed where they were previously struggling. When Yoda says, "we are what they grow beyond," he means that a protege will grow beyond the mentor using the mentor's mistakes and lessons learned to grow from in addition to their own. It is like an iterative function, where knowledge is accumulated in the protege to become a mentor and pass on knowledge to their protege, with the amount of knowledge growing in size each time. Our failures become their successes. Their failures become their proteges successes. As long as we learn and pass on, as long as we listen and observe, as long as we apply and succeed, we will continue to grow. My Main Quest and Mission: My mission is to be the best Jedi I can be. My main quest is always to enhance my overall health, fitness, and knowledge to be prepared for whatever challenges life could throw at me. As a Jedi, I need to be able to help people, whether that is a life threatening situation or just a charitable one. There is no boss level in Jedi training, there is only tomorrow. I'm using Habitica and Excel to track a ton of things, so I may make some changes below to better integrate them, but I'm sticking to the basics drawn to 5 Weeks. World 5 Level 3 Challenge: FITNESS: Cardio: Speed and Stamina - 500 min total, 100 weekly. Track time and distance. STA +1 Walking: Fortify the Spine - 1250 min total, 250 weekly. CON +1 Exercise: HIIT Lifting and Bodyweight - 300 min total, 60 weekly. STR +1, STA +1 Flexibility: Stretching and Physical Therapy - 700 min total, 140 weekly. DEX +1 Karate: Training and Practice - 1400 min total, 280 weekly. Track progress towards belt. Track improvement on all material. DEX +1, STR +1 DIET: Lean Body - Track weight. Complete measurements before or during Week 1 and again during or after Week 5. Looking to maintain 150 lbs or less while shrinking my waist and building muscle. CON +1 Keep on cutting out the crap - No CheezIts, limit snacking at work, cut down portion sizes. Drink more water. Track fruit and veggies for 5 cups a day. CON +1 LIFE: Get Stuff Done - Complete 115 Hours of various Chores and Maintenance, with at least 23 hours each week. Chores and Maintenance are the following areas (goal hours for challenge) Dishes (16), Laundry (10), Cooking/Cleaning/Dusting/Vacuuming/Trash/Other (32), Yard Work (2), Animal Care (24), Home Renovation and Auto Maintenance (10) WIS +1, CHA +1 Epic Quest - Complete something EPIC! I want to be able to look back at my four week challenge and say, "that was the challenge I did X". My challenges tend to be a lot of the same old. I've given myself plenty to improve in small steps, but I also want to see big strides in the things I've been working on. What box can I check? What have I been procrastinating? What am I focusing on? WIS +2, CHA +2 INCENTIVES! Working hard for CASH! ($866.10 carried over) REWARD: For each week in which I complete 25 or more hours of Chores and Maintenance, I will put aside $10 to spend how I see fit. CONSEQUENCE: For any week where I complete less than 23 hours, I will give up $10 of saved cash. REWARD: $5 for each Personal Project hour CONSEQUENCE : Lose $10 for each week without at least one hour for Personal Projects. REWARD: $5 for each HIIT workout. For a healthy heart among other things, HIIT is recommended by my health coach. I don't like them, but they are a necessary evil. CONSEQUENCE: Lose $5 for each week without a HIIT workout. REWARD: $5 for each day with weight below 154.0 lbs. CONSEQUENCE: Lose $5 each day with weight above 156.0 lbs. REWARD: $5 for 1 Sprint/Run/Bike workout (minimum 10 reps/30 min/10 min), $10 for second, $20 for third and up. CONSEQUENCE: Lose $10 for each week without one of these workouts. BONUSES: $1 for each hour working on Jedi Training (mentoring, reading/writing, charity, meditation, IJRS lessons). $2 for each hour working on Toastmasters including meetings. $2 for each Home Renovation or Auto Maintenance hour PENALTIES: Lose $10 for eating pizza, candy, popcorn, CheezIts, pretzels, potato chips. Lose $10 for more than 6 Dr Peppers a week or more than 6 meals with cheese a week. Lose $10 for less than 5 cups of fruits and vegetables in a day.

World 5 Level 2 Challenge GRADES: FITNESS: Cardio: Speed and Stamina - 500 min total, 100 weekly. Track time and distance. STA +1 A = 520 min, weekly met Walking: Fortify the Spine - 1250 min total, 250 weekly. CON +1 A = 1860 min, weekly met Exercise: HIIT Lifting and Bodyweight - 300 min total, 60 weekly. STR +1, STA +1 A = 380 min, weekly met Flexibility: Stretching and Physical Therapy - 700 min total, 140 weekly. DEX +1 A = 700 min, weekly met Karate: Training and Practice - 1500 min total, 300 weekly. Track progress towards belt. Track improvement on all material. DEX +1, STR +1 A = 1635 min, weekly missed once. Halloween and Extra Life week was difficult to get karate time in. I fell 70 min short, which would be the time lost those three days (Halloween night, 24-hour Game Day, and the Day After Game Day). I did workout those days, but I mismanaged my time into the wrong buckets on other days to get those 70 min. I had 60 min extra of lifting exercise. DIET: Lean Body - Track weight. Complete measurements before or during Week 1 and again during or after Week 5. Looking to maintain 150 lbs or less while shrinking my waist and building muscle. CON +1 A = weight tracked. My waist is doing well. Thanksgiving break was a wash though. I did well on Thanksgiving and the leftovers, but pizza, Chinese, and Roy Rogers were not great outside of that. Keep on cutting out the crap - No CheezIts, limit snacking at work, cut down portion sizes. Drink more water. CON +1 C = Cutting down. Water up. Fries and popcorn though. LIFE: Get Stuff Done - Complete 110 Hours of various Chores and Maintenance, with at least 22 hours each week. Chores and Maintenance are the following areas (goal hours for challenge) Dishes (16), Laundry (10), Cooking/Cleaning/Dusting/Vacuuming/Trash/Other (32), Yard Work (2), Animal Care (24), Home Renovation and Auto Maintenance (10) WIS +1, CHA +1 A = 116 hours, weekly met Epic Quest - Complete something EPIC! I want to be able to look back at my four week challenge and say, "that was the challenge I did X". My challenges tend to be a lot of the same old. I've given myself plenty to improve in small steps, but I also want to see big strides in the things I've been working on. What box can I check? What have I been procrastinating? What am I focusing on? WIS +2, CHA +2 A = Won Spookiest Trunk at Trunk-or-Treat. Extra-Life Game Day was an awesome success. Striped and ready for Black Belt test. Performed in my daughters' David and Goliath play. Birthday was fantastic. Thanksgiving trip to Massachusetts was therapeutic and fun. I've almost wrapped up two of my Toastmaster Paths. And I am coaching two amazing people in Toastmasters! What wasn't Epic about the last 5 weeks? INCENTIVES! Working hard for CASH! ($516.85 carried over) $349.25 earned! $866.10 to carry over. I have some expenditures to add, but I think I need to make this harder. REWARD: For each week in which I complete 25 or more hours of Chores and Maintenance, I will put aside $10 to spend how I see fit. CONSEQUENCE: For any week where I complete less than 22 hours, I will give up $10 of saved cash. REWARD: $5 for each Personal Project hour CONSEQUENCE : Lose $10 for each week without at least one hour for Personal Projects. REWARD: $5 for each HIIT workout. For a healthy heart among other things, HIIT is recommended by my health coach. I don't like them, but they are a necessary evil. CONSEQUENCE: Lose $5 for each week without a HIIT workout. REWARD: $5 for each day with weight below 154.0 lbs. CONSEQUENCE: Lose $5 each day with weight above 156.0 lbs. REWARD: $5 for 1 Sprint/Run/Bike workout (minimum 10 reps/30 min/10 min), $10 for second, $20 for third and up. CONSEQUENCE: Lose $10 for each week without one of these workouts. BONUSES: $1 for each hour working on Jedi Training (mentoring, reading/writing, charity, meditation, IJRS lessons). $2 for each hour working on Toastmasters including meetings. $2 for each Home Renovation or Auto Maintenance hour PENALTIES: Lose $10 for eating pizza, candy, popcorn, CheezIts, pretzels, potato chips. Lose $10 for more than 6 Dr Peppers a week or more than 6 meals with cheese a week.

152.4 lbs Karate class last night. Practice yesterday and this morning. Getting ready for my test has been fun and a ton of work. Last night, we worked on cleaning up kick techniques, then this morning I went back through those exercises. I needed the details for my snap and roundhouse kicks.

152.4 lbs Fun racquetball games this morning. Fun karate class last night. More fun on the way as it looks like we are headed to the theater for Frozen 2 tonight. Another birthday party for a nephew on Saturday. Sunday afternoon, I should be on the roof hanging lights. I also need to do some vehicle maintenance.

Yes, I love the way Steve writes. Fun and inclusive. I appreciate the advice. I'm not worried about writing something that has already been done. I'm more worried about doing it well so I don't look like a slacker. A slacker appearance would just undercut everything I write about. My posts here are casual, so I can be brief, informal, and a little carefree, but a blog I'd want to be professional.

Completed two more speeches in Toastmasters. I am planning to start a blog for another project which will wrap up my work for my Effective Coaching path. I expect to complete a second path soon after. I'll need to serve as a club coach to complete my second DTM though. The blog will probably be Jedi-centric as I have a ton written for it already. A Toastmasters blog will probably come second. A Life Coaching blog will have to come third. Any suggestions about starting a blog? I've written blogs at several sites before, but none were anything note-worthy. If any reading this has any advice, then I'm willing to listen. My personal critique is that I probably keep my writing too serious and focus on personal perspective when writing. I forget to ensure I include my target audience and have a little fun with it to keep it interesting for the readers.

154.8 lbs I had some cake for my birthday yesterday. Chocolate with peanut butter frosting and semi-sweet chocolate ganache. So rich. Pot Pie chocked full of vegetables. I certainly put in too many calories last night. I'll have to climb some stairs to burn extra calories today. Karate at the dojo tonight.

Spotlighted my spotlight at class yesterday. Went pretty well and not too long of a lesson. I got to work with two students for demonstrating the technique as I talked to explain the application of the drill. They did a great job. I explained the three benefits for using the drill, which are to avoiding retreating straight back, to practice readdressing your target as they attempt to move around you while throwing your combination technique, and to practice moving into your opponents space to strike. 154.0 lbs on my 39th birthday. Hooray for me! Ran 3.9 miles for 39 years. I don't plan on making that a habit, but I was up early enough and the weather was not too cold or wet. I need to get to the grocery store to replenish my healthy food at work. Won't be until Thursday though, which means Wednesday I will have ZERO vegetables and fruits at work unless I plan something at home tonight. My wife went shopping yesterday, but didn't tell me which is a bugger. She literally hates grocery shopping so I get why she doesn't use my grocery list or ask if I need anything. She just wants to get in and out as quick as possible. It's funny though that she enjoys planning meals and cooking for everyone, but the act of shopping just stresses her out. I'll just hit Subway for lunch and get plenty of veggies on my sub. It'll be tough to get all 5 cups worth of veggies on one sub though.

Calling it a combo side-step drill. 154.4 lbs Karate practice this morning drilling on my arms for quickness. Used the small 2 lb medicine ball to weight my shoulder rolls and punches, then I hit the bag after practicing my combos (jump turn backs need more work).

Hey Monks, looking for a little help: For my Black Belt test, I plan to run a one-step drill for spar class designed to teach getting out of the way of a technique for the defender and re-addressing your opponent for the attacker. The attacker throws a combination technique to drive the defender off their spot. In a regular one-step, the defender retreats straight back, then counter-attacks. For this drill, the defender will side-step before counter attacking forcing the attacker to re-address them. This one-step drill will be a closer imitation of a spar match. I believe our regular one-step drill IS GOOD for one-step combos to develop quick feet and countering; however, taking more than one step backwards can trap you in a corner. Doing one-steps with longer combos is training us to retreat in a straight line. I think it has created some poor habits which show up on the spar floor when an opponent is retreating. I'm pretty confident my one-step drill will be effective at training stronger spar defense habits. The only difficulty I see is that a pair of participants will utilize a larger part of the floor space. When we have a large class, the straight one-step sets up lanes to maximize floor space. The rings my drill will put participants in may not support larger classes. Let me know what you think. Also, help me name it! Possible names: Side-step Drill Cycling one-step Counter-step Spar one-step Pick one or suggest your own.

154.6 lbs Karate practice this morning. I worked on my spotlight for the December test. I plan to run a one-step drill for spar class designed to teach getting out of the way of a technique for the defender and re-addressing your opponent for the attacker. The attacker throws a combination technique to drive the defender off their spot. In a one-step, the defender retreats straight back, then counter-attacks. For this drill, the defender will side-step before counter attacking forcing the attacker to re-address them. This one-step drill will be a closer imitation of a spar match. I believe our one-step drill IS GOOD for one-step combos for quick feet and countering; however, more than one step backwards can trap you in a corner. Doing one-steps with longer combos is training us to retreat in a straight line. I think it has created some poor habits which show up on the spar floor when an opponent is retreating. I'm pretty confident my one-step drill, which I am working on a name, will be effective at training stronger spar defense habits. The only difficulty I see is that a pair of participants will utilize a larger part of the floor space. When we have a large class, the straight one-step sets up lanes to maximize floor space. The rings my drill will put participants in may not support larger classes. Possible names: Side-step Drill Cycling one-step Counter-step Spar one-step

153.8 lbs Karate practice to work on forms. Pulls to work the arms. Class tonight. Knocked out another Toastmaster speech at lunch today. Talked about coaching one-on-one which I feel is the best way to help someone improve. It was fun, educational speech but I needed a story to tie to my message. My story will be the results of the three Toastmasters I'm currently working with.

153.0 lbs Crushed both stripes last night at karate class. So happy to have that pressure off and I can focus on preparing for the test with my spotlight and breaks. I ordered a sweatshirt from the dojo and I was able to order the black one. So excited! I've still got Extra Life work to do to meet my goal, plus IJRS exam and essay to work on. November and December will be some productive months!

153.4 lbs Karate practice this morning. Class all week to work on getting my last two stripes: Combos and Final Review. I've got ideas for my breaks and spotlights already. I'm pretty excited to test for Black! Extra Life Game Day was Friday through early Sunday morning for me. I've raised $760 so far! It was a pretty EPIC weekend. We started Friday night with a round of Cosmic Encounter (hands down the greatest game ever). If you've never played it, at its base is a strategy-conquest game where every player is attempting to colonize the galaxy by using their resources. Each player has two unique alien powers to "break the rules of the game" and a hand of cards as their resources. I have a house rules set which incorporates two editions of the game with over 100 aliens to ensure every game is a new experience. Fantasy Flight has down an amazing job with the new release and expansions, but they have left out some of the most chaotic (read: BEST) parts of the Mayfair edition (Moons, Serpent and Schizoid Flares, and Custom Cards to allow home-brewing), so I have mixed those together. We had 5 players for a moderate size game, but the chaos was underway early as I trounced everyone in the first encounter defending a home planet, then took the second turn to convincingly win the first outer base for everyone, except the defender of course, then in the third turn, defending a home planet again, almost successful expolited a loophole in the game play with one of my powers. Unfortunately, for me, I got zapped. Some time later, my daughter landed on the Anti-Truth moon, leading to everyone have to speak like it is Opposite Day and a lot of confusion trying to explain to her to leave the Anti-Truth moon to end it. I need to check the video stream for that part to watch 4 people telling her explicitly to "NOT move that ship for that moon". It was hilarious. To wrap up the night, we played two games after that: Splendor and Magic: the Gathering. Splendor is always a fun quick game, which the kids can all play. A friend and I busted out the Magic cards after everyone else turned in for the night. Magic is probably my third favorite game as it has that anything can happen element which Cosmic has, while I get to build my own decks using strategies I enjoy. It is just hard for me to invest money into a game for me, when I'd rather invest my money in the family, friends, and helping others. Saturday morning kicked off with Halo and Diablo with the wife and kids. At 9am, we went to a Pancake breakfast for the Boy Scouts Den of one of our neighbors. We brought R2D2 BopIt to play at the table and in the car. We also played Pokemon Go to hit a few game milestones while out of the house. Around noon, we settled back down at the table for board games and had the NES emulator running for Super Mario and Legend of Zelda. We played an awesome round of "The Thing" board game with 8 players. I've only played the game thrice now, but it has jumped to my second favorite game easily. The chaotic social deduction game always ends with an intense climatic standoff as we fight for the right to survive. I'm so happy my wife bough that game for me for my birthday! Later, we played Trogdor and Clank in Space, which at two more favorites. Then, my wife introduced a packed room to "Don't Stop Talking or We All Explode" VR Bomb Defusing game. Lots of confusing and yelling and exploding and FUN! The highlight of the stream for the day might have been when the kids were playing Clue by themselves. My daughters were just a barrel of laughs during that game. The day was not perfect though. My cameras and streams were temperamental, but nothing is worse than the cyber attack the Extra Life website had to overcome. Who commits a Denial of Service attack on a charity website for Children's Hospitals? Truly evil people for sure. Anyway, they fixed it by the afternoon. I just hope that the cyber attack did not involve screwing with the transactions and credit card information. Stealing money from the kids or ID theft of the donors would just be awful.

153.0 lbs Racquetball was awesome. My quads were sore from karate on Wednesday and walking for Trick or Treating last night. Sore is good and I moved well. At times, I felt like my feet were in concrete and I could use a new pair of sneakers, but I had a lot of fun and played my ass off. I came back to win the first game, lost convincingly in the second with a bunch of unforced errors, then came back and won the last one. I don't usually get a good run of points as my friend is very good at breaking my streaks, but I was able to keep running at the end of both matches with some great hustle. His hamstring is still recovering so he didn't push forward for a few shots, but that was only when the points didn't matter. When it came down to the end of the matches, he was pushing and staying competitive. Exciting and fun games. Cosmic Encounter to kickoff my Extra Life fundraiser! Already over $300! https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=349914 All donations raised through Extra Life fund the life-saving work of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals located all across North America. Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals will treat over 10 million kids this year alone. Donations help to make miracles possible for them. My sponsored hospital, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, will directly benefit from the donations. I toured the Johns Hopkins Children's Center this spring. The staff pointed out the many ways the funds are used. They have an incredible facility for not only treating patients, but making their stays positive, enriching, and comfortable. They have video game consoles and toys in every patient's room plus an art studio to inspire creativity, a library to foster curiosity, and a gymnasium to run and play. Without Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network, funding becomes a huge obstacle to have or maintain any of these. It is wonderful to be a part of enriching children's lives while they go through a difficult and possibly life-threatening experience.

153.4 lbs Back into pull ups and chin ups. It had been a while. My tendonitis finally healed up (and no issues after racquetball last Friday), I gave it a try yesterday. It felt fine, so I went for a few more today after my ab blast workout. I'm going to need to do more to strengthen other upper body muscles if I'm going to get back to level I was. Next challenge, I'm going to plan more exercise minutes and possible drop some cardio or karate. Probably only a 20 or 40 minute per week shift. Halloween tonight is expected to be really stormy. I might go as Mary Poppins so I can carry an umbrella. ;-D

154.0 lbs Blue stripe for roll escapes last night. Two more stripes by the 11th. I should be golden. Getting the house ready for Extra Life Game Day has been a drag. Whenever I make progress, another mess comes in behind it. Mostly, I feel bad for my wife, who will do most the cleaning Thursday and Friday while I'm at work. I just wish all 6 of them could clean up after themselves better. It'd make prepping for a party so much easier.

I responded with the same. She said, just make sure it says 100% juice and no added sugar. I have an orange juice I like, so I'll check it next time I'm at the store. She recommended making smoothies, but I'm not a fan. Tomatoes are probably the best way for me to sneak more fruit in, but I usually don't eat a full cup of tomato with anything.

Attempting to increase my daily servings of vegetables and fruits. I added a counter to my spreadsheet and will add a task to my Habitica. I have peppers, apples, spring mix, and carrots at work. That should get 4 servings a day. I just need one more at home to hit my goal of 5. My "health coach" recommended 100% fruit juice as a way to get an extra fruit serving in since I don't like most fruits. 155.2 lbs Ran 2 miles, then sprints. Phew... I need some water. Chiropractor appointment, education session, and karate class tonight. Toastmasters at lunch time. Busy day.

Birthday celebrations over the weekend were a lot of fun. Ropes and zip lines on Saturday, then dinner at a local Indian restaurant and cake at home on Sunday. Spent the rest of the weekend at the church for trick or treating, service, and play practice. Karate practice this morning. Maybe class tonight and Wednesday. Thursday's class is probably cancelled for Halloween and Tuesday I have a chiropractor appointment and education session.

We won Spookiest Trunk at the elementary school's Trunk or Treat. It was our Wedding Anniversary (14 years), so we decided a ghostly wedding would be our theme. We got a ghostly groom and bride costumes with white makeup, which turned out really well. My wife made ghosts to hang, then a church and cemetery diorama out of Styrofoam. I blacked out the windows with curtains. We brought Bob, our life-size, pose-able skeleton, to have crawling from underneath the car. One daughter posed as our flower girl and handed out candy. It was pretty awesome and a lot of fun playing the part. It turned out to be a great way to spend our anniversary. Karate today, racquetball tomorrow, Go Ape ropes course and church Trunk or Treat Saturday, play practice Sunday. I need to squeeze in two oil changes and setting up the living room for Extra Life gameday. Busy, busy