It has been a bit of a blur recently. Much of what I do at work boils down to reading, writing and editing. I get up and read and write - and sometimes edit - here. And recently I was asked to write two beer related bits, one 500 words and one 5000, which means I have been pretty much writing for a few weeks from getting up to going to bed. It is a very blobbifying gig. So I bought weights. The place we just left had a pool and that was grand. Swimming is the opposite of writing. It takes more effort than you feel like you are giving. You can dive under and contemplate for a few seconds what it would be like to be a fish. Writing does not give you that - with its incessant clatter and the need for others to receive the printed word. I suspect hoisting weights will not be like pretending to be a fish either.
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- Articles for the sister station, A Good Beer Blog.
- Pick any day's tunes as heard on CBC Ottawa's All in a Day hosted by my personal emailing buddy, Brent Bambury. You won't find a better music selection on radio anywhere - certainly not on the deeply dowdy CBC.
- Another plume catches my eye.
- Stuff less serious than Stuff.
- From Jan to March 2006, I tried a group humour blog with others on the subject of Canadian politics. It did not last but the posts were worth keeping. #16 was banned. There were no comments. It was at www.shadowcabinet.ca.
- Some writings and other junk of little real interest unless you like law or are a Crow.
- A display of hideous graphics focused on the goal of figuring out where the smokestack I can see to the south is sitting.
Comments
Flea - August 31, 2006 11:38 am
Free weights would be inconvenient for Flea Towers so I picked up an Shadow Boxing & Resistance Tubing kit. I started out lackadaisically doing thirty or so repetitions with the starter yellow tube and decided the whole thing was a waste of time and I should get a gym membership. Then I took it up again and am now doing 1000, 1500 or 2000 reps a day with the manly black tubing (no smart remarks, people!). As a consequence, my arms are much firmer and I am convinced the process is assisting my slimming regimen to no end.
Flea - August 31, 2006 11:39 am
The "an" was for Everlast.
PIMF!
Alan - August 31, 2006 12:03 pm
But you are lean and sinewy by all reports - how else would you get in the black crimefighter's suit? I plan to simply be massive - a disorganized rippling ball of pure muscle, obscenely removed from the natural human form. I expect my ten pound dumbells to get me there in under three weeks.
Flea - August 31, 2006 12:35 pm
Lean and sinewy is more of an aspiration, nay, <i>an expectation</i>, than an actually-existing fact. Per se. But I will get there.
Gordo - August 31, 2006 12:38 pm
You COULD be a disorganized rippling ball of somethign in a few hours, but it would involve your wife severly beating you with those dumbbells .. ;-)
I, like most mortals, have issues with maintaining any kind of exercise regimen. Cottage constructions helps, but it's not enough and I simply don't have the will power to do much more. :-(
Alan - August 31, 2006 12:59 pm
Might I suggest...the Kingston Society for Playing Catch? <p>By the way, did you know George Washington used catch to maintain the health of the troops and also that the British committed what would now be a war crime by shooting a number of soldiers over a dispute over a lost ball in an internment camp in either the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812? I have to consult with my Cooperstown Symposium texts to get this right.
Flea - August 31, 2006 5:35 pm
A war crime? Hardly. I have certainly shot men for less.