Lifting Journal

WorkoutJournal

This is a very crappy picture of my workout journal from last year. Approx 180 pages of trips to the gym, some pages with two or three different workouts. I started last year barely able to deadlift 135 lbs with wrist wraps, and ended up being able to lift 350 barehanded.

I missed nearly a month of gym time due to shoulder surgery, but I tried to be in the best possible shape going into the procedure. Over the summer I did nearly two months of two-a-day workouts and lifted up until the day of getting sliced (8/10/07). Just about a month later (9/6/07) I was ok’d to go back to the gym, and went in 20 lbs lighter and much weaker. During the month out of the gym I walked with my arm in a sling and did rehab exercises 3-5 times a day, but it was nothing compared to having 300 lbs on the bar.

It helps to look back and see progress. It’s easy to frustrated, and let the ego get in the way when I feel like I’m not progressing fast enough. I’m pretty happy with the fact that during the entire time in school, I missed maybe 1-2 weeks of workouts. Five weeks left of class, and I’m ready hit the gym even harder. It’s the one thing in life that keeps me sane, its the one activity that gives back exactly what you put into it.

April 27, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment 

simplify

Thinking of how to keep my life in sync b/w work and home. Normally everything lives in a DevonThink database so all of my research is with me all the time. I’ve been trying to put more of my day-to-day notes and calendar stuff into .txt files and run the risk of forgetting to copy things back and forth to my USB key.

What I really want is for my /home to live on my iPod, so I can plug in and work, but that hasn’t happened yet.

I’m looking into either using github or projectlocker and write a script to  sync up when I log off/on multiple workstations. If my handwriting wasn’t so slow (and illegible), I could probably go back to living in a notebook.

April 23, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off 

Baby Huey

Been listening to a lot of funk and soul music. I like digging up artists from obscure areas of the US where I never imagined funk to emerge. Listening to ‘The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend ‘ right now. Nice touch, James “Baby Huey” Rame was born in Richmond, IN (which if I remember correctly became the home for one of the Graham Brothers) and moved to Chicago at nineteen.

Baby Huey was 400 pounds of soul, with a great voice and apparently impressive stage presence. The horn lines, particularly in ‘Listen to Me’, remind me of some horn work from Frank Zappa. The cover of ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ is probably unnecessary, it’s pretty hard to match the original.

I’ve been collecting a big list of funk/soul compilations lately and have another 15 or so queued up for purchase.

April 6, 2008 | Filed Under music | Comments Off