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My Workout For Sunday April 21

I earned 200 points for my workout on Fitocracy!


  • Spark Circuit (Bodyweight) +200 pts

    • 8 reps || 5 reps || 15 sec || 15 reps || 6 reps || 10 reps (+50 pts)
    • 8 reps || 5 reps || 15 sec || 15 reps || 6 reps || 10 reps (+50 pts)
    • 8 reps || 5 reps || 15 sec || 15 reps || 6 reps || 10 reps (+50 pts)
    • 8 reps || 5 reps || 15 sec || 15 reps || 6 reps || 10 reps (+50 pts)
    • 30 sec rest between each activity. 90 sec rest between each circuit

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My Workout For Friday April 19

I earned 7 points for my workout on Fitocracy!


  • Light Walking (secondary e.g. commute, on the job, etc) +7 pts

    • 0:30:00 (+7 pts)
    • Evening walk with Axel

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2013 … so far not so great.

Rang in the new year with a fractured hand, then developed a viral respiratory illness. Not even two weeks into January! I just hope that I’m getting all the bad stuff out of the way with the rest of the year being sunshine and rainbows.

Underneath the Purple Rain

I’ve always said that I enjoy being miserable, mostly because happiness is so fleeting - even though it feels good. I can always make myself miserable, but not happy … well at least not as much as I can make myself miserable.

Today though I ended up feeling great while reminiscing on the drive back home. My iPod was on shuffle and I started remembering that one person I ‘danced’ with a while back and started to miss being able to get together for a movie night. Movies and wine … 

If anything I miss being able to let lose, be myself, talk about anything, and having someone who understood my babbling … and gave me some great advice. Here’s to hoping that we can catch up sometime this year … 

Something Found …

You and I were dancing upon the sandy beaches of memory.  Our toes drew bisecting circle that intertwined moments of our lives. And in one of those whirlwinds of creation, as the sun began to hide behind the serene sea, you lost your hold on me.  The waves then crashed upon the glittering shore, bringing forth the realization that no longer were we inside the vacuum of our passion.  The hourglass had shattered because of your lies, and the whole of us was like shattered glass across the beach.  The pain of memory sifted through my palms, and signaled that this night was to be the last, for no longer would we turn over the hourglass of time to give birth to another day of dancing.  And you retreated as I walked towards you and bled across time.  My eyes pooled with tears, imitating the raging sea so I could draw down the moon and keep you forever in this night.  But she shone bright and full and drew you to her.  So you swam out to sea and dove into her center, disappearing from view.  So now this silent darkness is my home, and I keep still.  I keep deathly still and listen for the ominously entrancing …

On the Eve

I’ve already started on some resolutions, but here’s hoping the momentum carries into 2012. Here’s to the new year, may it be better than 2011.

Bye Bye 2011

Well this year is ending on an interesting note, and I’m hoping to be better about posting from this point on.

Too many sacrifices have been made for me not to be kicking major ass now. The coming year will be one for renewal and living up to expectations … possibly even growing up … finally.

Here’s to a fantastic 2012! Now off to train for that half marathon in January.

Boogeyman

Being that Halloween is around the corner, along with my habit of listening to talk radio, there truly is nothing scarier than reality.

“I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they’re both right. First you get the new world state [Brave New World] and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell’s 1984.”

That’s NY Times journalist Chris Hedges in an interview with The Progressive. He keeps going:

That’s precisely the process that’s happened. We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self—an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself.

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(via utnereader)

Food for thought …