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7th Day; 7 Words

Family movie night: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

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Saturday Video: Avengers

7th Day; 7 Words

 
A fairly true adaptation though necessarily abridged.

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Saturday? Video

So,

I'm a couple hours late.  It's been a busy day.

Orgasm, Inc.

 
So,

Have you heard of the documentry Orgasm, Inc.?

Is it like Super Size Me?

Maybe.

Apparently, it's about pharmaceutical companies on the quest for the Holy Grail  female Viagra.

And that's all I have to say about that.

In fact, since I spent my whole day on the road, that's all I have to say . . . period.

Road Trip

Trans-Siberian Orchestra was absolutely amazing.  They always are but they always seem to find a way to top their last show.  This time was no exception.  This the sixth time that Tia and I have gone to see them and each time we leave, we vow to return.  Trey will be going with us next year.  We haven't taken him because the show is a bit over the top with noise, lights, fire, and fireworks.  This year was the first year that he really enjoyed the 4th of July and that celebration is timid compared to a TSO concert.

"It's called vacation.  You're supposed to sleep in," my wife said to me this morning.  I woke up at 5 as usual.  No need for alarm clocks for me, thankyouverymuch.  I actually did lay there until 5:45 pretending that I was sleeping in but it was eventually too much for me.

Hotels can certainly be a challenge for people where their natural schedules don't match.  Trey and I are morning people and Tia is a night owl.  It's hard to do anything without interfering with the sleep of the other.  I managed to be quiet enough to let Tia sleep until Trey woke up.  He must have been tired because he slept until 7.  Once he's up, the silence is broken.

Time to starting packing up.  More later . . .

And that's how my post started that was supposed to be completed that night.

That night, we stayed in a small motel that was apparently built before there was electricity.  There was one plug in the place that had a powerstrip attached to it to run the small fridge and small TV.  My wife sat on the bed to use her laptop to take a test for college.  I am not a laptop person, when it is literal.  I am barely a laptop person when I can put the laptop on a table. 

The room did have a table but there were no plugs anywhere near the table.  No chair either but I moved a chair over there (before I figured out that there was no electricity anywhere except in the immediate vicinity of the TV).  The power cord for the laptop wasn't long enough to reach so I bagged it and planned on catching up the next day where there would be tables, chairs, and electrical outlets.

The place we were staying did indeed have all of those things in good supply.

However, what I didn't have was any cell service so I couldn't connect to the Internet.  I shouldn't say that there wasn't any cell service.  What everyone found out was that if you went up to the second floor and leaned against the doors that opened onto the balcony and raised your left hand in the air and crossed the fingers of the hand holding your phone and said a quick prayer and waited until you saw the moon crest the horizon, you could get half a bar of service for 30 to 60 seconds. 

I also found a spot outside on the east side of the house in the snow where it was 20 degrees where I could maintain cell coverage for quite a while longer (but not connect to the 3G network) so I was able to make one important phone call while freezing my royal rastafarian nay-nays off.

None of this is to complain though but only to explain why there was a lapse in this blog.  The trip was absolutely wonderful and it was unfortunate that we had to cut it short because of the blizzard warning.

Now, I'm back, unpacked, and headed back toward my groove (after Thanksgiving/my birthday).

Here are a couple of pictures that I took from our balcony.

 
 
There was no snow when we arrived.  That night, the skies opened up and it showed hard for the entire night.  It was still snowing hard when I took these pictures but the camera wasn't able to really do it justice.

Tabata and The Expendables

Are they related?  Only within the time frame of this blog.

Let's start with Tabata even though it's going to be chronologically backwards. 

This morning, I changed up the class by running the exercises in Tabata intervals.  You pick an exercise and do it quickly for 20 seconds and then take a 10 second break.  You do this 8 times per exercise.  A common practice is to do this with 4 different exercises and call it a day.

That's what we did and I'm going to say it again, dude, am I out of shape  way off my peak.  I thought I would go full bore to start out with by doing body weight squats with a jump.  Squat down, touch the ground, jump up in the air a little bit, and then drop straight back into a squat.  I was able to do that for the first two rounds and then I had to stay earthbound for the rest of the intervals.  We did four exercises and my lungs were absolutely burning.  16 minutes of exercise and I was gasping for air.

It didn't help at all that I have had a massive headache for about a day now and I'm not sure what's up with that.  When we finished lunges, I sat down and pressed my hands against the sides of my heads to keep it from exploding.  This headache takes me back to the days when I used to get migraines.  I still have a headache as I type this now.  I can't think of what might be causing it unless it's plain old stress.  I have a lot on my mental plate right now.  Oh, and I haven't been sleeping for the last few days.  Nothing more than a few hours a night after you add up all the bits and pieces of sleep that I have been getting. 

Okay, and now that I'm writing this and digging deeper into possibilities, I just went off the last of my meds for the back/shoulder/neck thing that has been going on for the last 5 months.  I tapered off of all of them and not all at the same time so I figured that I was safe but my body could still be responding to that, I suppose.

My #1 guess is going to be sleep and I'm hoping to be able to get some tonight.

Now, back up to last night.  I went to a movie.  I know!  Weird!  In a theater, even.

The Expendables.

I had to do it even though I wasn't expecting to enjoy it much.  I was wrong.  It was a fun movie where all these action heroes seemed to be just playing around half the time.

Can you believe Sylvester Stallone is 62?  Dude!

The scene between him and Arnold was funny.

The fight scenes (well, pretty much the whole movie is a fight scene but anyway) were good too.  I liked Jason Statham's style in this movie.  Jet Li was in the movie too and he had a fight scene against Dolph Lundgren.  There's a size difference for you.  I don't know if it's because I can relate more to Statham's style than Li's but it really caught my eye in this movie.  Obviously, everything gets Hollywooded up but there was just something intriguing about it for me.  I may have to watch it again when it comes out on video to dissect it more.

I also may have to watch more of Statham's movies.  I've only seen a couple because I can't really get into the movie itself but I might be able to sit through them if I'm watching his fighting style.  Something to consider.

I don't delve into the world of politics much on this blog anymore because I really want to stay focused on the topics surrounding health/fitness/activities but tomorrow I am going to have to tell you about our mayor.  He made the front page of the paper this week because the police have a criminal investigation going on him.  People that don't know what the charges are, and that's not many in a small town, have taken guesses because the paper didn't list them.  They have all been wrong in their guesses.

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