Minty Fresh

(Title Note: Recently recovered my preference for Linux, on the Ubuntu-based Mint distro. All it really took was having my graphics card driver work NEARLY out-of-the-box for me to come back. Ubuntu was a good run, and Windows 7 went as I expected: nice at first, barely-passable pig-disgusting towards the end. Ah, Windows. Predictable user experience.)

So, I’ve yo-yo’d back once again to pursue strength goals in favor over physique.

There won’t be any dirty-bulking, this time around, however.

According to a trusted source, my present weight at a lower body fat percentage is my genetic muscular potential. This seems to suggest a call for a recomposition: lose fat AND gain muscle.

So because I seem to be behaviorally disinclined to cooperate with my own “lose fat as fast as fucking possible” regimens, I’ve decided instead to focus on increasing my bench and deadlift scores while maintaining vaguely the same amount of weight. I’ll still be keeping composition scores… but I won’t be expecting any radical changes any time soon.

I’m also considering changing my routine more than will be described in this post, but some of the changes will be apparent here and is mostly the reason I’m even logging this workout. I also slightly edged past my 1RM tested earlier, even though this wasn’t a true test for that purpose. Just a failed 10lbs. jump, really.

The biggest change to my routine (meaning the one that will stick even if all the other changes I’m considering do not) is that I’ve moved my incline benching and chinning to the shoulder day I tend to do between deadlift workouts when I have that much time to work out. I actually have a job now, so I get to make excuses.

On to the workout for 5/11/11:

Deadlift

1. 135lbs. x 5 (double-overhand)
2. 155 x 3 (d-o)
3. 220 x 2 (d-o)
4. 260 x miss (straps+left hand over)
5. 260 x miss (s+lhu)
6. 250 x 2 (s+lho)
7. 215 x 1 (s+lhu)

I considered making a third 260lbs. attempt, but I kind of wanted to maintain my hand-switching for top sets… kind of dumb, but not as dumb as throwing out my back. My form was pretty terrible. I could just tell it was. I wasn’t “all there,” due to poor sleep quality. I’m going to try to make the jump to 260 next session, but if I miss it again I’m moving down to 5lbs. jumps.

Bench Press

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 45 x 5
3. 55 x 5
4. 80 x 3
5. 100 x 2
6. 115 x 2 (no change)
7. 105 x 5 (bottom of range)
8. 90 x 2 (stopped because weight felt weird, as though I’d misloaded. I had not.)
9. 90 x 7 (wanted to get at least 8 reps at this weight)

Because of the slightly-pinchy shoulder issue on my first warm-up last time I benched, I possibly over-warmed for this: doing dynamic stretching before most sets, especially the first. Spent five minutes warming up before my first set. The should-have-been-last set caused me to consider doing the dumbbell variation of this exercise to balance out my strength on both sides. It’s something I’ll have to look into: how much total weight ought I drop down to, how to kick up the dumbbells properly, and so on.

Low Cable Rows (narrow grips)

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 45 x 5
3. 60 x 5
4. 75 x 3
5. 105 x 2
6. 120 x 5
7. 120 x 5
8. 120 x 5

I was ready to call it a day by the time I started these, some combination of CNS and “I DINT SLEP SO GUD” fatigue. Going by my last row session (in my notebooks, I’ve been lax about updating on here) I should have ramped up to 150lbs. for a top set of 3. I’m very glad I did not. I’ll just be doing simple straight sets of five here to support my benching efforts, so I’ll be bumping this to 135lbs. x 5 next session. I don’t expect to make all the reps next time, but I’ll just stay at that weight and try to get at least 2 more reps per workout until I get my 3×5 before bumping again.

START: 9AM
STOP: 11:25AM

WEIGHT: 165.5lbs. – 168lbs.*

*I weigh myself before and after my workout.

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Entry-Level Hipster

This post is a follow-up.

Here are the albums I enjoyed. They are sub-headed by row, and prioritized by how much I dug it. Unless otherwise noted:

-core-

Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Airplane Over the Sea
Radiohead- Kid A
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Radiohead- OK Computer (barely made it)

-pork1-

Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (prioritized, as I didn’t listen to it until way after the rest of this list)
Daft Punk- Discovery
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Godspeed You Black Emperor- FA8

-pork2-

Aphex Twin- Richard D. James Album
Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children
Weezer- Blue (got a lot of points on nostalgia)
Radiohead – The Bends (might be my favorite Radiohead album yet)
Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise (good album, if creatively stifling for me)
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights

-pork3-

Sigur Ros- Agaetis byrjun
The Strokes- Is This It
The White Stripes- White Blood Cells
TV On The Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
Panda Bear- Person Pitch
TV On the Radio- Dear Science

-pork4-

Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
The National- Alligator
Radiohead- In Raindbows
The Mars Volta- De-Loused in The Comatorium

-pork5-

Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Atlas Sound- Logos
The Mountain Goats- The Sunset Tree
Beck- Odelay
Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca
The Hold Steady- Separation Sunday

-class1-

The Who- Who’s Next
Slint- Spiderland
David Bowie- Low
Neil Young- After the Gold Rush

-class2-

Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
Beatles- Rubber Soul
The Replacements- Let It Be
Kraftwerk- The Man Machine
Pixies- Doolittle
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
Michael Jackson- Thriller

-class3-

The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
Prince- Purple Rain
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (nearly got axed, but retained for Lucy… for now.)

-class4-

Led Zeppelin- Led Zepplein IV
The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed
The Velvet Underground- Loaded
Beatles- Revolver
Pixies- Surfer Rosa

-class5-

Pink Floyd- Tommy (listened after the list)
Fleetwood Mac- Rumors
David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Pink Floyd- Animals

-class6-

Iggy Pop- Lust for Life
The Ramones- The Ramones
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited
The Stooges- Raw Power

-class7-

Bob Dylan- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
King Crimson- Red (finally an album by them I enjoy!)

-class8-

Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
The Doors- The Doors
The Beatles- Abbey Road
The Kinks- The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin II
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
Neil Young- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Lou Reed- Transformer

-hip1-

Genius/GZA- Liquid Swords
A Tribe Called Quest- The Low End Theory
Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang
Notorious BIG- Ready to Die
Kanye West- The College Dropout

-hip2-

Kanye West- Late Registration
Mos Def- Black on Both Sides
Jay-Z- The Blueprint

-hip3-

Dr. Dre- 2001
NWA- Straight Outta Compton
Eric B. & Rakin- Paid in Full
Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
Run DMC- Raising Hell

-metal1-

Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Burzum- Burzum
Burzum- Filosofem
Mastodon- Leviathan

-metal2-

Opeth- Blackwater Park
Mastodon- Crack the Skye
Burzum- Det som engang var
Mastodon- Blood Mountain
Morbid Saint- Spectrum of Death
Windir- 1184

Some More Notes:

• Of the 190 albums counted (some were skipped due to length or unavailability), I liked 99 of them, or 52%.
• I didn’t care to weigh my percentage of albums enjoyed by genre.
  • 67% of /mu/-core
  • 62% of pitchfork-core
  • 51% of classics
  • 43% of hipster-hop
  • 50% of heavy /mu/tal

Conclusion: I will like just about anything half of the time, and thus wasted quite a bit of time listening to many albums.

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Sick Lifts

Been sick since Thursday of last week; was really surprised to get all my lifts yesterday. I’m starting a new notebook today though (old one is getting unwieldy, and I want to tool around in sci-fi land rather than fantasy and would rather not get my streams crossed.)

Here’s Wednesday:

Another Workout – 4/13/11

START: 10AM
Body Weight: 161.5lbs.

Deadlift

1. 135lbs. x 3 (double-overhand)
2. 195 x 2 (d-o)
3. 230 x 2 (third rep failed at half; left hand under, straps)
4. 205 x 2 (left hand over, felt form weakening so didn’t go for a third rep)

I was incredibly surprised on the top set here just flying up at me.

Incline Bench

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 45 x 5
3. 50 x 5
4. 70 x 3
5. 90 x 2
6. 105 x 4
7. 95 x 6
8. 85 x 7
9. 75 x 8

This required a lot more “GRAHH!” on the last rep of everything, but it felt good to hit the top of the rep range on all the sets.

Chin Assist

1. 33lbs. x 5
2. 33 x 5
3. 53 x 5
4. 73 x 3
5. 93 x 2
6. 113 x 5
7. 83 x 5

The thing I like about pulldowns is that the weight being lifted is a little easier to negotiate. I had the workout prescribed at 125lbs. for the top set and I somehow managed to mess up the math between sets. Oh well.

STOP: 12:33PM
BW: 164.5lbs.

I didn’t really eat anywhere near enough post-workout, as I still was feeling pretty appetite-less from illness. I had a giant smoothie and went to bed immediately when I got home.

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B Variant

My back is still a little tingly-tender from deadlifts, so I skipped the squats I was initially planning to front-load. I considered doing leg presses or calf raises, but when I got to cardio I was much relieved to have not done any of those three. I thought my back was going to be irritated by the rows, but I must have actually activated the correct muscles for once, because no such problem was had.

B Workout

START: 11AM
Weight: 167lbs.

Flat Bench

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 45 x 5
3. 50 x 5
4. 70 x 3
5. 90 x 2
6. 100 x 8 (+)
7. 90 x 9 (+)
8. 80 x 10 (+)

The (+) is going to be my shorthand that these sets need to be increased next workout. The rep range, respectively, for these sets are: 5-8; 6-9; 7-10

Row

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 45 x 5
3. 60 x 5
4. 75 x 3
5. 105 x 2
6. 120 x 8 (+)
7. 105 x 9 (+)
8. 90 x 10 (+)

Same rep set-up as the bench. I used a different sort of handle today: close-grip, smooth handles. Black. Didn’t agitate my calluses any, will be using it again.

Lateral Raise

1. 35lbs. x 5
2. 45 x 3
3. 55 x 2
4. 65 x 10 (+)
5. 55 x 11 (+)
6. 50 x 12 (+)

Rep set-up: 8-10; 9-11; 10-12

STOP: 1:30PM
Weight: 173.5lbs.

Cardio

1. Treadmill warm-up: 5 minutes of 2.0 mph/ 2.0 incline for the first two minutes, then 3.0 for the rest.
2. Treadmill intervals: 1′ walk / 1′ run, so that I got off the treadmill immediately after a run. 3.0 incline.
   1. x2 @ 2.0mph/6.0mph
   2. x3 @ 2.0mph/4.0mph
3. 6 minute rest in the locker room.
4. Stationary cycle: 5.52 miles in 37 minutes

Notes:

• I want to replace at least one of the 4.0mph runs with a 6.0, until they’re all 2.0/6.0mph. Then I’ll work on increasing the sprinting speed.
• The slow-and-steady cycling at the end will be increased in terms of duration only.
  • I don’t really have any idea as to how much to increase cardio duration by. I’m tentatively just saying “anything that is more, even just one minute.”
  • Another idea is mileage: I’d like to log 42 miles a week, as in real life I tend to have gone distances of about 20 miles and back.

Diet

Stuff I have to remember:

Maintenance Intake

At Body Weight 169lbs. = 2800kcal.

I’d really like my weigh-ins to be three consecutive days, but that probably isn’t going to happen.

I’m going to recalculate maintenance (for proper deficit purposes) weekly.

I would like to achieve a 1000kcal deficit on rest days, training days are allowed to be at maintenance/slightly over.

Fasting Period

Fast starts: 8-10PM
Feeding begins: 1PM on rest days; as soon as I can after training otherwise.

Protein Multiplier

• Lean Body Mass x 0.9 = Protein on rest days
• LBM x 1.1 = Protein on cardio-only days (not sure if I’m going to have these or not, yet)
• LBM x 1.5 = Protein on weight-training days (if cardio is done after weight training, still use this number)

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First Day Fast

The first two weeks of dieting always suck.

The first day doesn’t, but it’ll never be perfect. Can’t let it get to me. Gotta stay loose.

At exactly the same time yesterday as I’m writing this, I took the photos for this:

I didn’t have all the data yet (weight and lifts were measured the same day, just five hours later) but I made a flattened version just to get an idea of what the final image might look like. Then my .psd got corrupted ¹ so I just filled in the information on top of it. That’s why there’s a discrepancy in the font even though the font is technically the same.

Cool story, I know.

My goal is to be doing daily fasts, from 9PM to 1PM the following day. This was fucked by a hypoglycemic episode (80mg/dL), so I had a bagel around 7:20AM and took 50mg/200mg ephedrine/caffeine at 8AM. Both pre-workout.

I tested immediately pre-workout at 219mg/dL, and I stayed pretty high (I’m talking 400 range) until just an hour before I began my fast.

Pre-workout: Bagel with peanut butter

Post-workout: Cup of tea at Teavana (Zingiber Ginger + Strawberry Lemonade + 4tsp German Rock Sugar); followed immediately by a Strawberry Hulk from Smoothie King (made skinny, sub ice cream with fat free yogurt.)

Dinner: Bowl of chicken with rice. It was crap. I was disappoint.

Last Meal: 238g 2% expired cottage cheese (I actually weigh everything I eat at home, but this was specific to make up my protein requirement for today); 5 Babe Ruth minis (just had a taste for it.)

After the fast started I took some psyllium husk fiber. I wanna poop.

A Workout

All sets are singles unless noted; I’m testing rough 1RM to set up the rest of the workout. Pretty much just adding 5lbs. to the top sets and calculating downward from there.

Body Weight: 169lbs.

Start: 9:08AM

Deadlift

1. 150lbs. (double-overhand)
2. 175 (d-o)
3. 195 (d-o)
4. 220 (d-o)
5. 245 (left hand-over; started using straps)
6. 250 (l-u)
7. 255 – FAILED, passed ankles (l-o)
8. 225 (l-u)

Time Check: 10AM

Incline Bench

1. 50lbs. x 3
2. 60 x 2
3. 75
4. 85
5. 100
6. 110
7. 115
8. 120
9. 105 x 3

Chin Assist (total weight: 180lbs.)

1. 30lbs. x 5
2. 40 x 3
3. 50 x 3
4. 60
5. 70
6. 80
7. 90
8. 95
9. 100
10. 105
11. 110
12. 125
13. 140
14. 155 – FAILED

Time Check: Noon

Lateral Raise

1. 20lbs. x 2
2. 25
3. 30
4. 35
5. 40
6. 45
7. 50
8. 55 (5 minute rest after this, started doing tri-sets)
9. 60
10. 65
11. 70 (rest)
12. 75
13. 80
14. 85 (rest)
15. 90
16. 95 – FAILED (about half-way)

Stop: 12:53PM

For the next ‘A Workout’:

Deadlift: estimate 3RM based on 1RM = 255lbs.
Incline Bench:  estimate 5RM based on 1RM = 125lbs.
Chin Assist: estimate 5RM based on 1RM = 145
Lateral Raise: estimate 8RM based on 1RM = 90

Rep ranges for each exercise, respectively: 1-3; 3-5; 3-5; 5-8

Just going to do a basic progressive overload style workout for the next eight weeks, at which point I’ll test 1RM based on estimates from the most recent relevant workout. I don’t know if I will include drop sets in future workouts, it might just be a feel thing: today it was easy to include them due to lack of fatigue and sufficient, em, “fed-ness,” having been eating at maintenance and such.

So I’m probably looking at, for next time:

Deadlift (1-3) @ 230lbs.
Incline Bench (3-5) @ 105lbs.
Chin Assist (3-5) @  125lbs.
Lateral Raise (5-8) @ 70lbs.

If I get to the top of the rep range, bump it five pounds next workout. Fairly basic.

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/mu/fasa

It’s 1AM or thereabouts and I’m getting all geared-up for a bad-ass 8-week diet regimen.

I hear my access to Adderall, still a juvenile introduction to my habits, is going to be cut short.

I need something to help me focus. Music might work, as I’ve been intending to “catch up” and have a damn opinion as to what I actually like.

No idea where to start. I find this:

I'm a non-Kanye kinda guy.

I’m just going to listen through it. I see some familiar albums in there, and I don’t intend to skip them.

Not very far at all right now: on Loveless.

I was quite surprised by Neutral Milk Hotel. I wasn’t blown away by what I heard, but I didn’t feel trolled for having listened to it. Both were expectations I had going into it. I might listen to it again.

So far, with My Bloody Valentine, I’m more impressed by how I feel when it’s taken away. I had to take a break mid-album to watch a deadlift video and I felt surprisingly cold for it. While I’m listening it just feels like a new sort of normal.

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Aprun

While I have been keeping a log of my meals and general intake, today I’ve actually plugged those figures into a proper calorie count to see where I stand.

5-Day Average

Calories: 2826
Fat: 98g
CHO: 390g
Protein: 120g

The craziest thing to me: if I were to reduce my average carbohydrate intake by 250g (so, down to 140g) I’d lose 2lbs. of fat that week.

I really just wanted a relevant snapshot to see how much of a fuck-up I’ve been since I’ve stopped being incredibly anal as to what goes into my mouth. I’m just assuming that this is my maintenance intake. If I come in somewhere around 167-173lbs. at tomorrow’s pre-workout weigh-in, then it definitely is. ¹

A pretty fabulous fuck-up, it looks like! I even managed to get weaker, way to go!

I’m pretty much at my last-call to looking good for this summer. I have a convention to attend in June to look my best for. Odds are, if I can’t manage to look cut and inspire envy in the otaku of Texas, I’m going to give up on this venture entirely and fully focus on strength gains for a few years. ²

I’m not entirely sure how I want to set up my workout, though. I’m fairly convinced I want to do “Deadlift + Incline Bench” ONLY, but I want a little more frequency than what that would demand.

I want to work out roughly every four days, but also wouldn’t mind making the “B” workout optional/droppable in the event of a suddenly-busy schedule. I can usually find ONE day a week to exercise, and if I have only that one day I’ll deadlift it.

Initially considering something along the lines of:

A
Deadlift – 1 x 1-3
Incline Bench – 1 x 3-5
[Chin Assist - 1 x 3-5]
[Lateral Raise - 1 x 5-8]

B
Squat – 1 x 3-5
Flat Bench – 1 x 5-8
[Low Row - 1 x 5-8]
[Lateral Raise - 1 x 8-10]

Deadlift + some kind of press is pretty much a full-body workout. If I didn’t have any benches to work with I’d just do a basic military press.

I suspect someday I’ll have such a situation ³ as the incline bench is a vertical push, I feel it has enough synergistic benefit to be applicable. It’s also easy to “save” myself from it if I fail, using my legs.

The bracketed movements are “optional for this workout,” and I chose chin assist as it’s another vertical pull. It’s also something I want to get stronger at, which is the theme here anyway.

The second workout is a little trickier for me. I wanted it to be a lighter workout, one that didn’t demand as much of a strain on CNS but would still force me to focus (this has been a problem for me with the high-rep routines I’ve been trolling myself with lately.)

For the first two movements, I simply threw in the remainder of the Big Three. I’m sure RDLs or power cleans would be more supportive of my deadlifting, but I feel that performing RDLs degrades my DL TECHNIQUE, which I sweat, and that power cleans are too technical for me if I’m to be dieting. If I could achieve passable form of complex moves, I’d be doing Olympic lifts.

And I’m sure it’s weird to be lifting less on Flat Bench than on Incline Bench, but it’ll probably catch-up/exceed it eventually anyway. I don’t mind.

The rows are the plane-opposite of flat benching, so there that is.

I saw no reason to replace Lateral Raises. They’re already optional. If I’m too burnt-out to do lateral raises it’s not as though I’m going to be able/willing to do much anything else. Abs? Curls? Fuck that noise.

Maybe calf raises.

MAYBE.

Probably not.

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Twitter Updates for 2011-04-01

• Hooray for much-easier font-installing. The first thing about Windows since I've installed it to make me happy. #
• SEND ME LINKS TO YOUR FAVORITE ALBUM ART? #
• The 'Higher Evolutionary'? Is that the High Evolutionary's older, more evolutionaried big brother? #
• #100factsaboutme 81. I say "nunchucks" because I feel like "nunchaku" would be the Asian plural, and I feel weeaboo saying it #
• I consider AvP to be a Predator movie, not an Alien movie, so it didn't have as far to fall. #
• Variously fucking considering watching the X-men anime. #likes #thingsthatgo #horriblyhorriblywrong #
• #100factsaboutme 82. I think white jeans or black leather pants would be the only sort of pants I'd wear if I lacked the gut. #
• #100factsaboutme 83. I cannot fucking wait for Kaiji Season 2. #anime #exweeaboo #hardcore #thuglife #
• Not watching Kaiji? Then you don't know SHIT about anime. #fuck #moe #
• #100factsaboutme 84. I cry like a bitch. #
• #100factsaboutme 85. I've never cried because someone beat me up, but then again I usually get knocked-out first. #
• #100factsaboutme 86. I don't think that being new at something means I am exempt from being told I suck. #noryou #
• #sole #food #dinner #tonight #
• I WROTE POETRY FOR THE FIRST TIME GUYS! #good4you #
• Strokes her penis on camera and is adored by 4chan. #namethatrapper #
• There was a small bone in my fish. After he pulled out we went for a movie. #
• My only SUPER musical compatibility user in this thread: nkisbestkorea #bestkorea #danorf #
• #100factsaboutme 87. I'm not only an idiot, I'm an asshole. #
• Usher, go back to R&B. #sincewebeinghonest #noonecares #
• I've gotten to thinking about mashing up Dragon Quest and Nickelodeon instead. Green slime from both = U JELLY #kingdomhearts #
• New blog post…: Uguu Jelly~ http://www.personalitysucks.com/blog/2011/04/uguu-jelly/ #
• I'm actually finding music I dig. #aprilfools #
• QUIET! THIS IS A LI-BERRY! #noonecares #
• Account unavailable. It's not #aprilfools unless it was something I wasn't expecting, #facebook #
• I don't think The Room is "So Bad It's Good." It's worse than that. #sincewebeinghonest #Why #Johnny #Why #Johnny #Why #Why #
• Gmail Motion? But, I already #fap to the porn in my box… #sincewebeinghonest #
• I don't see how #noonecares could ever NOT be trending #sincewebeinghonest #
• I usually swap #aprilfools and #valentines You know… #forthelulz #
• #100factsaboutme 86. I grew up thinking Are You Afraid of the Dark? was better than Goosebumps. #thatsright #isaidit #
• #100factsaboutme 87. Clarissa > Alex Mack > Amanda Show. #dealwithit #sincewebeinghonest #ladderskills #
• #100factsaboutme 88. Pete & Pete > Kenan&Kel > Drake&Josh >>>>>> The Nick Cannon Show #searchyourfeelings #sincewebeinghonest #
• #100factsaboutme 89. I've been telling furfags to yiff in hell since 1998. #animorphs #sincewebeinghonest #
• #100factsaboutme 90. My favorite shows as a child were about (nearly) teenage girls soliloquying it up at the camera. List forthcoming. #
• #mychildhood As Told By Ginger, Caitlin's Way, Daria, Felicity, Freaks & Geeks, My So-Called Life #
• A woman once told me she was jealous of me because I was more likely to have sucked my dad's cock. #notsureifwant #
• I assured her that while that may be true, I could not have had my father's children. Unlike her. #imeanlookatthem #sincewebeinghonest #
• I liked Joan of Arcadia, but I'm not about to put it on a list of any sort. I didn't like it THAT much. #
• Accepting prompts. Possibly propositions. Probably not. #no #drive #
• Considering Pokemon White nuzlocke~ #
• Female house centipedes roll in semen on the floor to reproduce. I am so fucked. #whereismymind #
• House Centipede > Spiders > Earwigs > Silverfish #buggy #motherfuckers #
• I once swallowed a fly. I sent a spider in after it, then I realized I eat both of those fuckers anyway. #centipede #epiphany #
• I gotta go to bed. Sun's coming up soon. I hate that shit. #
• Girl posts a picture of a GLOCK: "FUCK WITH ME NOW!" = "Pretty sure that's implied." + "A bit redundant isn't it hun?" #lol #
• Aikido efficient in self-defense? Are you kidding? #

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Uguu Jelly~

I’ve gotten to thinking about mashing up Dragon Quest and Nickelodeon instead of Final Fantasy/Disney.

They both have GREEN SLIME.

JELLY QUEST

You are Anon, a neophag with slime stuck to his/her head. You attack by sliming people in a barflike fashion. You are joined in your quest by Daggett Beaver and Arnold.

The Pool of Elders (Aaahh!! Real Monsters) have initiated an invasion, through their avatars within The Midnight Society. It began with the abduction of two Petes and a Doug, taking them over with Yeerks (Animorphs.)

Competing with the forces of fear while simultaneously the rival of Anon is a short, angry/incompetent Irken agent placed amongst the people of Earth for the purposes of conquer/not-bothering-the-Tallest. While not quite an ally, he seems to see eye-to-eye with Daggett.

Other characters appear in cameo roles, some as side-quests such as locating all of the missing Rugrats.

Summons include: The Fairly OddParents, CatDog, Powdered Toast Man, Alex Mack, Gary, and Lori Beth Denberg.

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Strength Test 2

Roughly 17 days ago I tested my Deadlift 1-rep max and my Incline Bench 3-rep max.

03.04.2011
Bodyweight: 173.5lbs.

Deadlift: 245 x 1
Incline Bench: 110 x 3

03.21.2011
Bodyweight: 165.5lbs.

Deadlift: 245 x 1 (used straps for the first time)
Incline Bench: 110 x 3

Not going to bother filling in the warm-up sets. There were far less today than there were the first time, because I wasn’t blindly feeling for a benchmark.

Also, today I did 30+60 minutes on the stationary cycle for a “distance” of 14.92 miles. My goal is to do roughly 21 miles each workout; I simply did not have the time today as I was being picked up earlier.

First day of shooting for Mediocracy tomorrow! Can’t wait!

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