Notices by Kat (kat@stareinto.space)

@lxo rice crispies treats, with various kinds of fruit leather and flavored licorice as "fish"!

Every week someone is responsible for bringing a snack to my choir rehearsal. I was so glad no one beat me to signing up for April Fool's Day:

@CosmicTraveler I end up with a lot of bruises in baffling places, yeah...

(Offered by the pole studio I go to--where I've been taking classes for several years and I pretty much never mention it because people have *thoughts* about pole. But I love spinning.)

Did a beginner aerial hoop workshop yesterday.

(I am extremely mid at anything dance-adjacent but we don't have to be good at all the things we like.)

Unicorn sighting in my driveway:

@theresnotime I have my laptop stickers on a (blue) case, so if I need to replace mine without losing the stickers I just need to get the same model... this plan will definitely work indefinitely.

Aside: while powerlifting is still the thing I train for competitively, somewhere along the line I fell into being a regular at Crossfit. I did not expect to like it but it turns out I am just competitive enough to enjoy that every day is a little competition but not so much that it kills me when I lose. (Also the people at my gym are cool and I enjoy suffering with them.)

Posts behind a CW because, well, everyone else got tired of people talking about Crossfit 10 years ago. 😄

I was disappointed when on minute 4 I had to drop back and take the outer plates off on my turn, figured I was tired.

You might guess faster than I did that it was not 170, because I didn't figure out until the 8 minutes were over that it was actually 180kg, or about 98% of the 1 rep max I posted last week, and I am pretty happy to have done that 3 times in 3 minutes!

Blooper/victory: strength portion of Crossfit workout was 1 deadlift/min for 8 min, aiming for heavy but not a max out. Class was super crowded today so literally every plate in the gym was in use and people were sharing bars. I started off working in with someone aiming for 170kg, but after warming up we reconfigured and both jumped in with a third person. The bar was loaded with an absolutely chaos mix of 25s, 10s, 15s, and 5s so I couldn't easily tell what was on it; looked like 170?

@aram I do not have one, but I do have a harmonium that I would give away free to good home. (It was a rescue that I do not play enough to justify keeping. Sadly, local pickup only.)

Went to the Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area and Viewed Fish.

(It is salmon spawning season.)

@cathygellis sadly not! As a New Yorker by birth I think I'm not allowed to own one but it would in fact be the perfect complement.

My Red Hat socks are festive, right?

(Also they are the only red socks I have and I needed something to wear with shiny red leggings.)

*places phone on charger in dark room, causing its screen to light up indicating connection*

Partner: Ugh, why is your phone so bright?
Me: Because it's a smart phone.

Got roped in to sub 1st bassoon in a local orchestra for a performance of the Nutcracker tonight. I know I've heard it many times but it's amazing how much music is in there I don't remember at all...

(P.S. in case you followed me for law content, you have also signed up for lifting, music, and very bad jokes.)

Santa came early and gave me a deadlift PR for Christmas; 405 lbs. (A very small improvement over my last one, but finally broke the 4-plate barrier. Even if plate #4 was made up of smaller increments because all the other 45s were in use.)

@lzg I bought a large steamer pot from a surplus shop for this purpose (actually two, one for food purposes; they are clearly labeled :-P)

Left for a bit but I see there's a party over here now so I guess it's a good time to come back! Fortunately nothing interesting has happened in the world in the interim so it will be easy to catch up,.