Daily Recap (with exerbabble!) for 3-31-6

I’d almost reached Cliff’s house, driving him and Liz.

Liz: “You had a romantic walk around a pond, you saw a movie, you even had dinner together. And you’re playing board games with him [me] tomorrow! What about me?”

Me: “You can have sex?”

Cliff: “You know, the sex is pretty good.”

Liz: “I’m tired of orgasming every night! What about my needs? I want to play board games!”

Paraphrasing, but you get the idea.

I would have done good doing a DITL of today, if it was the day for it. I didn’t get up until a little after 7 AM. I did wake up at 6 AM, but it didn’t feel right, so I rolled over and had that dream that I posted about. Decided it was time to get up, created photo documentation of my morning wood, and went about my water/bread digestive priming.

Posted my DITL. Well, submitted. When I got back, The Modinator stated that she loves my Timmy-ness, but to remove actual photographic evidence of urine. *shrugs* Okay. I thought it was creative, at the very least. I wasn’t aware people emulate me, but so be it. Sraedi totally beat me to can-sitting, anyway.

Had Lifetime Wellness. *twirls finger* Asked my teach whether Weight Training was over, or whether there’s one more Monday. The schedule says it ends April 3rd. He said he doesn’t like to end courses at the beginning of the week, so it’s over. Thought about how I wanted my next week to do, and decided I did NOT want to work out Monday. I couldn’t see how I’d fit it in this week. I deserve to relax Monday morning and show up early for C++. Relax between classes, and go home after Child Psych. Maybe another week I’ll figure out how to work out on Mondays. I reckoned I’d do a full-body today, Sunday, then split Tuesday/Wednesday, and Friday/Saturday.

Oh right, today’s workout. :: gets workout from pants pocket ::

Squat: 3×8 @ 155 lbs
BB Shoulder Press: 4×6 @ 75 lbs
Wide-Grip Pull-up: 5,5,3 @ -25 lbs
Standing Calf Raise: 3×10 @ 280 lbs
BB Bench Press: 3×7 @ 95 lbs
Bent-Over Rows: 3×8 @ 70 lbs
Deadlift: 6 @ 135 lbs
Decline Sit-ups: 3×17 @ 10 lbs
Seated Calf-Raises: 3×10 @ 70 lbs (+40)

Matched my squat effort from two days ago. I felt really in control of the weight. I think I’ll increase weight in two days.

I don’t like how I finished my shoulder press or my bench press. I’ll either increase weight for one session, then bring it back down the next, or.. something. I did finish the bent-over rows, but I noticed I wasn’t bumping my chest towards the end of the sets. I’ll repeat that until I get that range of motion.

I did not feel comfortable about the deadlift today at all. I probably shouldn’t have done it when I wasn’t feeling right about the weight increase. I should respect what feels right for my body. I’ll scale back to 115 and keep doing that. You have to feel like you’re in control of the weight, not just struggling to apply force.

I’ve lost interest in shrugs, I think. Having balanced traps is a good idea, but not a major physical objective.

If I haven’t stated it before, doing calf raises while your knee is straight activations the gastrocnemius more, while calf raises while the knee is bent (say 90 degrees) actives the soleus more. I like the idea of having nice calves, so I think I’ll start using that little device. I’m not sure how much weight it is by itself, but I added forty? I’m guessing the device is 30 by itself. It’s a guess.

Hit up the diner. Had a gyro, which wasn’t that good. I’ve had a gyro once before at an actual greek place, and it was FANTASTIC. This was… a little too greasy?

From there, drove through back roads to Cliff’s. Absolutely fantastic weather. I had the window down, and good songs kept coming up on the radio. “Keep On Rocking In The Free World” (Neil Young) Then “I Wanna Be Sedated.” (Ramones) And later with Cliff, “Big Balls” (AC/DC) came on, and I sang along.

Cliff hadn’t been having as a good a day, so I quietly inquired, then pointed out that we could do something other than perpetuate suckage! I pointed out the Nice Weather, and knew we couldn’t just stay indoors. I know, crazy concept? There’s a park nearby, so we went for a walk around there. Including around a pond, sharing childhood memories. That killed some time, so we went to the theatre and killed more time.

We saw V For Vendetta. It was exactly what I was expecting it to be, and more. I liked it through and through. It brought out enthusiasm in me, humor, disgust, and near-crying. You can’t help but see the commentary on our current administration.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November.

It’s seriously one of the best movie-movies I’ve seen in the theatre in a long time. I usually prefer movies that don’t take themselves seriously, because serious films tend to disappoint me. Some points reminded me of Equilibrium. But I can’t compare it to any other film. The V character, his speech mannerisms, reminded me of Cliff at first.

We were going to hit up a local pizza joint afterwards, but we noticed it was filled with teenyboppers, so we made a quick u-turn. Cliff suggested picking up Liz, I thought it would be a nice gesture, so we went to fetch her.

…That ended up failing, so we went to a Pizza Hut within local distance. Hey, I don’t GOTO Pizza Hut for dinner much these days. Oh, and I’m turning into my dad. I asked for Water. *gasps* Hey, cheaper than soda, and it hydrates you. It was fantastic pizza.

We had a wonderful discussion about how one of his uncles said years ago that I should be a Porn King. Was that the official title? Maybe Porn Writer. Ha ha.

All I know is that I do not want to be stuck in a dead-end Career Job. I think stability would be the worst thing for me. I’d settle for whatever I ended up with, and not motivate myself to think of better. No, that’s not the path for me. Cliff and I bitched about our dads. *laughs* I deserve to get out there and live, rather than settling down and dying. Oh, and maybe make enough to make ends meet. That would be more than enough experience.

My dad can’t see past me being him. I don’t think that’s something that could be explained to him without professional help.

We finished most of the pizza (and cinnamon sticks) and saved the rest for Liz. They happened to say something about him dropping her off at 10 AM. So I asked him if he’d like to stop by tomorrow afterwards and play board games. I’ll be up. My dad’s in Japan, so I’m finally free of that goddamn saturday routine. I gave myself tomorrow off from working out. (I’ll work out Sunday.) So I’ll be quite free tomorrow, and I deserve to do something cool.

I’m thirsty. I think I’ll fetch some form of jews now.

Addendum: DITL is up.