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Over the weekend I did my first longer row at 5k, and I posted about it. My plan is to get at least a couple of these longer rows in a week and slowly ramp up the time/distance and the pace. At the same time I am trying to get stronger pulls, which, in my experience, will certainly come with time as my body finds efficiency. A side effect of that is the stroke rate will drop. My original plan when I got changed and went downstairs was to do the five thousand meters again. I was going to push it…

Last evening I was on the couch watching the Phillies. Andrew Painter I am happy with. I thought he should settle down like he has but was never sure. The bats, on the other hand, have been back to their atrocious ways. The bats are why they keep on losing in the playoffs. While watching the game, you could see they had a neat sunset. Shortly after that I noticed a glow coming in the windows and the front door, so I had to go check it out. This was more of the area of clouds with an afterglow a…

This morning I woke up feeling pretty tired. I thought I slept well, but I guess maybe just not enough. My brain and body both were feeling tired and as if they didn’t feel like going. Yesterday I did my deadlifts pretty early in the morning and didn’t feel like it then either. Those felt pretty good. Even the moderately heavy final set at 270 pounds felt good. I grabbed a shower after that and lounged around hoping to get the gumption up to get an actual WOD in. I hadn’t slept enough or that…

This site for me is a hobby, so I like tweaking things from time to time. It started when I noticed some cruft in the metal section of the pages, and I decided to get rid of it. In the process I worked with an if... then... else because of old habits. Just after I did that, I remembered that Tera now has a ternary function, which is actually perfect for what I wanted to do in this situation. It’s a lot shorter and cleaner-looking. That should help me a lot with the misplaced endif that I…

This morning while I was doing my morning routine of drinking my coffee. That routine is setting up the weather page for the current day. Sure, I could automate it, but it takes little time to do it by hand, and I’d have to edit the markdown file anyway to put in the summary. I actually do glance at it, and today I glanced at it out of curiosity to see what yesterday’s rain total was. Normally I would have looked at the Ambient app, but I had this page open, so I scrolled down to look. I…

This summer was long, and it was hot with persistent humidity. Finally, that seems to be breaking as we get towards fall. Actually, I guess autumn begins today! The days are getting noticeably shorter! Last night we had a nice rainy night. The rain wasn’t heavy, so we left the fan in the window, which brought in the damp and cool rain-filled air. Between the white noise of the fan and the sound of the rain dripping, it was really relaxing. This morning, when I got up, I could hear it on the…

They released a few new printed swoveralls. Many of them I see and think I like, but not enough to buy them. I was feeling too cheap to buy them. The ones that grabbed my attention were the ones with galaxies and planets and other space things printed all over them. At first glance I was like, I like them, but I’m not sure if I wanted them bad enough to buy them. They had a contest, and I really like the ones that won. Who knows when that print will be available? I have credit on my account…

Last week, most, if not all, of the week I had some sort of a bug in me. At first I thought it was pollen, but I just felt off in general. Really stuffy head and weak with low energy. For my lifts, I did them, but I did the bare minimum effort, and actually squats felt the worst. Finally I am feeling better, starting over the weekend. Go figure; I feel better when Molly’s vacation is over. We weren’t able to do anything anyway for ourselves, so I guess it didn’t really matter. This morning I…

One thing I have been wanting to do is work up to rowing a half marathon again this winter. It has been a while. I was planning on it in 2024, but I got very sick, and that stuck with me for a bit, then other things came up. All summer long I have been itching to sit down on the Concept2, though, and just get some longer pieces in. WODs are great, and I will continue doing them along with my lifting, but there can be something entirely different about getting into a longer row. A variety in…

It just dawned on me that my first post on here recently turned 20 years old. Who’d have thunk I’d still be at it? If anything, I am much more active now than when I used WordPress. The website itself did exist in one form or another for years before I started blogging, although I did do something like blogging by hand-coded HTML at one point. Switching from WordPress to Hugo and then Zola with a few quick stops in between has been one of the major changes here. For the most part the content is…

Late last week I thought I was seeing flower buds on our hardy hibiscus plant, but then I thought they might just be old ones from the flowers earlier in the summer. This plant gets numerous large flowers but burns out pretty quickly. If we got more sun out where it is planted, I think it might do a bit better. That said, I can’t complain about how the plant is doing, and it comes back each year. Even after the extreme cold last winter, it came back, which really surprised me. Not to mention…

This morning I noticed a fairly nice sunrise, so me being the person I am, I had to go grab a quick picture of it. Molly is on vacation, so I hope this is a sign of starting things right. It would be great to go geocaching or something fun. Well, technically not on vacation yet because she normally has Saturday off, but we’ll count it. The sunrise was pretty nice to see and made me feel a little better with the stuffy head I have been having. I am not sure if I have a bug or if it is pollen.…

I woke up this morning feeling much better. My head was not nearly as stuffy, and what was in it seems to be breaking up now. My eyes were water but nearly as mch as yesterday and I didn’t have is strong of a sensitivy to light either. We slept with the air on last night because it was pretty humid. I wonder if maybe that helped some. The windows are open now, and I feel better still, so possibly it’s just passing. I was feeling a bit better last night. While I was drinking my coffee I was…

I woke up this morning feeling a lot better in the head at least. My eyes were still pretty irritated, but it was manageable. Just a lot of very watery tears. I drank and enjoyed my coffee, but while I was doing that, I was thinking about getting out into the garage to do my bench press very early. As early as was reasonable to not be a dick to the neighbors was what I was thinking. Also, it needed to be light out. Shortly after sunrise I decided to get changed and slowly work on the bench…

I did not feel good at all when I woke up this morning. My head was very stuffy, and my eyes were more watery than I can remember. I was just feeling really off in the head. I don’t believe I am getting sick, but one never knows. Then again, on Friday I was just around Braves fans a couple of days ago, and that is, in itself, a sickness. I was a bit back and forth while drinking my coffee about whether I wanted to give this week’s squats a try or deadlifts a try. I decided on the squats since I…

Today we intended to go to the Phillies game. We were very excited about it and that chance to see Luzardo pitch again. To plenty of people it would have been a boring game; I think most people just want home runs. A blowout with plenty of home runs is absolutely fun too! It wasn’t boring for me, though. I love a good pitchers’ duel. The same goes with a nice defensive battle in football or even hockey. The way Jesus has been throwing it, it was just a matter of time until he had a complete…

We wanted to get another Phillies game in this fall before we couldn’t. My girlfriend’s work schedule has not been as conducive to getting to day games this year. We like going to them because we can just catch the train home and not have to pay to stay overnight. The day games are a little cheaper too. I do really like the night games though! The original plan was that we were going to go to a game or two next week, but I happened to notice on the calendar that she’s working and this vacation…

This morning we had a drizzly, dark start, but it cleared up by midmorning. By late this morning it was off to the races with the temperature. It also got very humid, with the dew point getting up near 80. It was miserable, but we did end up with a good shot of thunderstorms forming, and they did. The earlier of which missed us, but we were rewarded with a good show. I don’t recall seeing one illuminated like this by the setting sun. Normally around here there are plenty of clouds around…

I slept ok last night, but I am not sure my brain was ready to wake up when I did. It is much warmer and more humid today, continuing the pattern of most of this summer. My legs still feel like absolute dead weight after the sled this weekend. I am sure that using the D-ball helped wear them out. They feel dead in the best of ways, though. For that reason I convinced myself to forgo on the squats today and do my deadlifts instead. I know it sounds crazy. I expected this week’s deadlifts to be…

I slept ok last night. My brain woke up around 2:00 AM, but I was able to eventually fall back to sleep after almost giving up on the prospect of getting a little more shuteye. While I drank my coffee on this cooler, less humid morning and was feeling pretty good. I was eager to get out into the garage and do a WOD. I was thinking I’d do something a little more intense later in the day, so I took that a little lighter. Just air squats and hang power cleans are what that workout involved. The…

I did not sleep well last night. Things kept waking me up. Thunder, my girlfriend messing with the air conditioner, and eventually my watch got a notification this morning. That one was annoying. It was some junk notification that interrupted me in the middle of a dream. I was dreaming that I was getting ready to do the final very heavy set of back squats. That pissed me off because I did not get to find out how I did. I think I had to do 3 reps at 295 pounds in the dream. Oh well. I guess I…

This morning we had a couple of light showers, then a few flashes of lightning with a passing cluster of showers and storms. That occurred just a little before dawn. The rain didn’t amount to much here in Mount Joy, but it was nice to listen to the rain and thunder. The delightful bonus of this was come dawn with had faIrly bright and colorfor skies. I was unable to get a great picture of it, as it was fading by the time I got back outside with my phone. Their sky had scattered low clouds with…

Last night I fell asleep quickly, then something woke me up. I was just there in bed wide awake for a little, and then I remembered the Phillies game was on. So I figured if I am awake, why not just get up and watch it? The game was disappointing, but it occupied my noisy mind. It seems the Phillies forgot how to hit again. They always do terrible in Seattle for some reason, though. I slept in until 5 today after being up until after midnight, so needless to say, I was feeling tired. It was…

Last evening I was messing around and decided I might try to update the firmware on my Keychron Q6 keyboard. I grabbed the wrong firmware because I am an idiot. I think I downloaded the firmware for the pro version accidentally. That was the one I was going to buy when I got it but then decided the wireless wasn’t worth the price since I wouldn’t use it. Every so often I do this kind of thing so absentmindedly without thinking. When it was done flashing, there were no lights. No keyboard…

This morning I woke up feeling pretty good. It was much less humid, and it was nice to hear some light rain outside as I was drinking my coffee. It would have been enjoyable to sleep with the window open last night since it was cooler and less humid, but the fire pit half a block away was smoking us out yet again. I did my normal bit of browsing on the web while I drank my coffee, but I was very eager to get out into the garage and do my squats. Today they are light since I had lowered the…

Last night I slept well except for being woken up by a thunderstorm and having to get up to take the fan out of the window. Luckily, I was able to fall back to sleep pretty quickly after it passed. Had a few pretty close lightning strikes! I have been wanting to get some longer WODs in, but it hasn’t been happening. We have had mostly relentless heat and very high dew points this summer. The breaks we have had from that crap have been brief and not that helpful. I have had minor tweaks from the…

Recently the Phillies have been fun to watch again. They are suddenly hitting and being patient rather than either swinging at junk pitches way out of the zone or watching strike 3 right down the middle. Their defense has been better too. Today they went most of the game without hitting and were down by 4 with 2 outs in the 9th inning. I was just hoping they would score one so it’s not a shutout. Instead, they kept getting hits with 2 outs and 2 strikes and eventually tied it. Schwarber came up…

Yesterday it was getting progressively more humid as the day went on. The morning showers basically missed us, and the radar was not looking all that promising until later in the afternoon when a cluster of storms started to slowly strengthen out in, like, Adams County. When they got into York County, they really blew up. The one had strong rotation signatures in York County but wasn’t warned yet. I looked like they had significant building damage over there from an apparent tornado. They got a…

Early this morning I was stretched out in bed scrolling on my tablet a bit when the glowing sky caught my attention. It was glowing pink and orange brightly, so I had to go get my pants on to go outside and check it out. I went in the bathroom to grab my shorts, but they were in the other room, so that took time. These bright sunrises fade so quickly. I also had to find my phone since I left it lying somewhere I normally don’t. I guess that is how this day is going to go. While I didn’t get a…

Last night I did not sleep long enough because I stayed up to watch the Phillies. These past several games have been fun to watch them again. They remembered how to hit without solely relying on home runs. When I woke up this morning, I felt pretty tired. I tried to go back to sleep but kept rolling over. I had to piss but did not feel like getting up. I knew that once I got up, I was awake. Finally I caved and got up. I may have smelled coffee. It was much less humid in here today, so that…