My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. …and it makes life so much easier.
~ Anthony Hopkins
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None of my business →
Trout →
Appetizers, salad, Pinot Grigio, Trout with lemon and Thyme. You’ve wondered why Tracy puts up with me… now you know.
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Childhood winters →
A random slide from the early 90’s, taken at 660 Westminster street in Allentown. (Some of you may recall the big pink house with the pool?)
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Setbacks are inevitable →
Last weekend I trained exceptionally hard all weekend. Monday and Tuesday were tired, sore and broken-down recovery days (as exepected.) But by Wednesday, it was clear I was also sick. booo.
So all week I did nothing other than some stretching/yoga-esque recovery work. (In addition to moving and reassembling the scaf on my patio.) All week I was sore, achy, and just felt like there was “no gas in the tank”.
By friday, it was pretty warm(-ish) and I was getting cabin crazy with the new scaf setup still unused. So I tried to go out and do one of the full workouts. It was a planned workout, just now about a week behind schedule. It called for 70s of everything. Well, my right forearm didn’t feel up to it, and I was just really low on energy. (I’m pretty confident the forearm pain is in the muscle, very close to the tendon, but not the actual tendon nor the attachment point.) So instead I made it into a really low intensity workout of just 40 reps… Just enough to put some numbers up on the board. I also mixed in some light work, like moving firewood (in small arm loads) and cleaning up the patio just to move around and get my heart rate up.
I’m feeling better today, so I’ll see what plays out. Some friends are coming over this afternoon to play on the scaf.
In my worksheet, I’ve just been “pushing” the workout numbers forward rather than spend time juggling all the rows in the future. Once I have some idea how long it’ll take to get back up to speed, then I’ll rework the schedule. So I’m not actually going to try to do all those every-day workouts that seem to be scheduled for next week. (All the columns are identical now, so I just snapped the pushups.)
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Good and bad →
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both charity and love.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Scaf v2 →
Thanks Kristen! We finished the assembly. Now I have rails, corners, and more.
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Hellebore →
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Reset →
Had to completely break it down to get it back to my patio. I was going to just reassemble what I had before, but now I’m wondering what new shenanigans I can set up… I recall some cool railing-esque stuff I wanted to work on.
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Choices →
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; It is expressed in the choices one makes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Couples knitting →
Idea plus knitting guru leads to an experiment. knit 7 purl 2 knit 11 purl 3 . . .
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