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Last night, I did not sleep all that great. It was hot in here, but not hot enough to go in the attic and get the air conditioner and put it in. I did bring it down into the bedroom after doing my squats. It wasn’t hot, really. Just uncomfortable to me. This was the first warm night of the spring, so that is a factor. Once it cooled off outside, the fan helped. With the incoming heat this afternoon, in the middle 90s, I wanted to get my squats in before it warmed up too much. We don’t have the…

Today was an extremely nice day. It was a chilly start, but the temperature rose quickly enough. We got some things done around the yard that we have been meaning to do. The humidity stayed low, making it an extra pleasant day with bright sunshine and a nice breeze. Later in the afternoon we decided to walk over to Harvey’s BBQ for supper. We go there a lot because we like it. They have beer for me, and drinks that my girlfriend likes too! As we were walking up, we noticed quite a few people…

Later on this afternoon I was feeling pretty good. I was thinking of doing a WOD and finally decided to get off my ass and do one. I didn’t want something long and complicated today. Instead, what I wanted to find was something fairly quick. Another idea I had in my mind was that I wanted to do something heavier. This morning I saw the 50-pound dumbbells when I moved the rower against them to do my deadlifts. The sun was shining on them, and they were begging for me to pick them up and use…

I have continued with my 5/3/1 this week. It’s the second week in this first rather light cycle, but it is still feeling pretty good. On Monday I got in my squats. That day I was feeling tired and run down, but I still was able to get my reps in with the bar. I took my time working up through the weights but enjoyed myself in the process. I love squatting! The final set, well, even the one before that felt a bit heavier than it should have, but I still got it done. The 3 reps at 250 pounds felt…

I posted about it earlier in the week, but I have gotten back on the wagon with my strength work. For this first cycle I took all of my lifts way lighter than I needed to, but that is just my common-sense kicking in. I’d rather go lighter now and keep moving up than get frustrated or, worse yet, get myself injured because I jumped into things too quickly. All my lifts felt great. Even the presses and bench press. Both are my weaknesses, and I’m not really concerned with how much I can bench.…

I know it has been a while, and when I am lifting, I post about it a lot. I do that because I enjoy lifting. After about half a year off, I feel like I am finally getting my consistency back with it. I really have missed it, but life has been so hectic I just didn’t have the focus. I did my squats two days ago, and that was nice. Yesterday I got my bench press in, and those felt better than they have in a long time. Yes, the weight was light, but that is just a lift I am really not into. Today…

I took a break from my strength last December when my sister was visiting. I wanted to max out after that, but then one thing led to another, and I did not do that. The intention was there to restart it in January to get a benchmark, but my mind wasn’t into it with planning our trip to see her. I had every intention of getting back to lifting after that trip, but as I have mentioned here and there this year, shit has hit the fan in multiple ways and over and over. That trip was significant to…

Last week I switched this site over to the new version of Zola since I had gotten all my templates working as I wanted them to work. Of course I knew there would be things that I had overlooked while doing that. As I notice these things, I have been fixing them. There have been a few typos in the text that I either corrected or wanted to change to make things a little clearer. I did some of that this morning while drinking my coffee. I also noticed a glitch with the weather times on my weather…

Today has been an extremely nice weather day. It started off chilly with a low in the upper 30s, but it warmed up nicely this morning. I even thought about bringing the D-ball outside this afternoon or taking the sled out. My stomach has been feeling a little off, though, so I wound up just sitting on the chair with my feet up. I did do a WOD in the garage early this morning, but I want to bump the intensity. There is time for that later. Earlier this afternoon when I was out there before my…

I can’t wait to watch the Flyers game tonight! They are in the second round of the playoffs. This team is pretty fun to watch. They are young and fast, and I think hungry to win. I have always loved hockey. It was on TV a lot when I was very young. My dad, who we now know really isn’t, always watched the Flyers. My one brother is named after a player, actually. I fully expect that the Flyers will get eliminated this round. I am so happy that Crosby the crybaby and the dirty Penguins got knocked…

This season it is no secret that the Phillies have been awful. I thought they could fall off some from last year, of course. Age is catching up with them, but no way did I anticipate them being in last place. There is too much talent there for them to be so bad. The whole situation is weird. Something seems off in general with baseball this year. The Mets are even worse, and that shouldn’t be the case either. Trust me, it pains me to admit that. The Phillies starting pitching was supposed to be…

I posted about it last week, I think, but I have been slowly getting my templates ready for the next version of Zola. It would have been much quicker if I didn’t have the complex weather stuff, but it is worth it to have that taken care of. With the new version of Tera, it is in plenty of ways easier to deal with that stuff since I can create maps and pass those. There have been some glitches, but I am doing this without any real documentation. I have peeked at the Rust code, which I am not…

I had been at least a little disappointed to not really see any glow from the Firefly petunias that I grew from the seeds I collected last fall. The ones that germinated have been growing well. The first one is really growing now. Last night I noticed the stems have a glow to them. Seeing the glow was a nice surprise after I had written it off. By being disappointed, I don’t mean I was upset that they didn’t glow. I was just hopeful that they would. There was never a guarantee. The pink ones I…

I have no clue when it will be released, but the next version of Zola at least seems to be functional but has breaking changes with the switchover to Tera 2. The breaks are significant, but over the long run it will be worth it. The additions will make the templates much cleaner, I think, and more manageable. If I didn’t have all the trickery with the weather-related CSV files, it would already be done, but that stuff has been relatively time-consuming. I like the changes in the templating a…