Strongman Saturday morning was pretty good!! Also humbling!
1. Circus dumbbell -- successful at 30lbs.
35lbs I need to work more on form but I did practice getting it to my shoulder and dipping. ... I did not use the "Real" circus dumbbells, but we found some with a wide edges to emulate it a bit.
It's a gorgeous and befuddling morning here. Fast-moving clouds with the sun shining above them. About an inch of snow that's being managed. A balmy 31F/-1C, albeit with a slight wind chill..
This past week it's gotten down to windchill of -4F. Tomorrow it'll be -2F before wind chil I think. So it feels remarkably pleasant. My winter gear kept me warm. I was happy to enjoy a leisurely dog walk.
It's wild to think of the vast uncertainty that's coming.
Hey y'all, just a little encouragement -- cleaning is one of those tasks that can be done at all kinds of scales and is comparatively forgiving. So just getting a counter and not a floor is an improvement. Or just putting away a few things.
And while it can be overwhelming as a whole, most things will be just as clean in the end whether you did them weekly or haven't for a month.
If that helps you make 5 or 15 min to get your space a little friendlier, I'm cheering for you.
Past me did math and set present me up with the reminder that my mother was this many days old when I was born.
She had already lived this much life when I met her. A Midwestern childhood in the 40s or 50s, traveling on buses across Ohio to visit family in the summers. A couple years in the Philippines of the late 60s. A PhD at MIT in the 70s, a trip to the USSR, working in the same dept as Chomsky. Spending time at Alkali Lake on indigenous language preservation in the 70s/early 80s.
Itโs a volume PR and Iโd love to try my 1 rep max sometime when my foot is a smidge more healed. But that felt really solid! (It was also fatigued because Iโd done 95x3, 100x3, 105x3, and 107x3, not looking for the PR but telling my coach I wasnโt quite challenged enough)
Iโve been using Joplin as a note taking app for just over a year now and Iโve found it super helpful. Itโs fairly autonomous, it is transferring data through my own Dropbox subscription via API. Nothing โAIโ shoved into it.
TIL that Idaho Fish & Game relocated beavers in 1948 via parachute drop (which apparently worked well in comparison to long, jostly rides).
The promo video is a bit surreal in a 1948 way but one can parse out that fur trappers destroyed populations in the areas being repopulated. Skip to about 7 min for the air drop.
@FlashMobOfOne I've got some projects that are closer to completion. I'm also hoping to participate in my first powerlifting competition! Mostly would just be competing with myself/doing a thing to do a thing.
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