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Although I've been faithfully lifting every other day (weights got to heavy to skip rest days without impacting performance), I've not been posting so faithfully.

Squat is doing well, although I've observed that I hesitate to go to full depth at 27.5kg, probably because of past bad experiences with ankles/knees. Noticing this, I added a slightly lighter set as a confidence booster at the end, getting all the way down. That'll go in as part of my warm-up sets in future.

Bench is currently stuck at 26kg. 27.5kg was too much. Maybe try 27kg next session.

Rows are rows. I've added glute bridges, which I currently have at 27.5 kg - any heavier and I'll need bar padding. Think I have some pipe lagging somewhere that I can maybe appropriate.

In recent days, I've listed to Endtime Signals a lot and it's really grown on me. (I also established that Bad Religion's Against the Grain is better than Recipe for Hate, in an inversion of a long-held opinion that I'm not sure how I acquired.)

Today I went back to Dark Tranquillity's peak gothic metal phase with Projector (I'm still on my original CD copy, so it ends with On Your Time).

I had forgotten how slow this record is compared to most of the band's output, and how thoughtful it gets with both lyrics and songwriting compared to the directness of previous albums.

Still plenty of characteristic riff-loading. It's the one that gets most play, but if you're looking to drop in on the album in a single track, you probably still cannot do better than:

Dark Tranquillity - Therein
https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/track/therein