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[Jul. 10th, 2009|10:58 pm] |
So what have I been up to for the past month?
( Being awesome ) |
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| Trying to stay positive, but it's so hard |
[May. 20th, 2009|04:01 pm] |
Phone broke.
Cable broke.
Xbox 360 broke.
All in pretty much the same 24 hours. Sure, it's not important stuff (except the phone), but the universe is slowly chipping away at me. |
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| New PRs and trying to stay positive |
[May. 18th, 2009|08:21 pm] |
pull-ups: 21 (not a PR, but I finally broke my 20-rep plateau)
deadlift: 485
bench: 295
pull-ups, I'm happy with 21, and I can do 3/4 of a single-arm pull-up with my right arm (and a full, slow negative). deadlift, pft, 500lbs, you're so gonna get lifted. The 485 felt real strong. I felt I could have done a second, but I didn't want to push my luck. Bench has always been my worst exercise because I never do it, but I'm making it a goal to put up at least 315 by summer's end. Also, I tried a really wide stance(?) with my feet to try and add some leg drive with bench, and it WORKS. The rep I did at 275 just zoomed up. I was really amazed. And I AM a slouch on the bench, but, man, leg drive works. Now I just need a squat PR. Damn you, not-having-a-proper-squat-rack!
Oh yeah, I'm down to 202 lbs now, which is great. I was about 205 when we moved here, went all the way up to about 228. I figure I'll be down to 185 by summer's end, and that's my ideal weight. I'm changing my routine up this summer to increase speed and explosiveness through drills and skills. I'm going to keep lifting, but I'm going to add in specific exercises and drills for football.
I'm trying to make this summer a positive one. Hopefully I'll get to visit my friends and family back home in NJ, this new job will be a learning experience, and we'll find a great place to live and our kids will end up in a great school. Trying to stay positive. |
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| All good things. Hopefully. |
[May. 6th, 2009|08:41 am] |
Yesterday I deadlifted 465lbs for 2 reps. I did another set of 2 once more just to make sure it wasn't a fluke. And speaking of fluke, my legs were so doing the fish dance on the last rep. Shooting for 500 on May 29th. I think if I'm fresh and stress-free the 500 should be doable. I felt pretty weak yesterday from being stressed about my job situation. Although those 2 rep sets of PRs may have been all anger. Who knows.
I also have an interview tomorrow with the company buying the place I work at now. Hopefully I'll get a position and make at least what I'm making now, no less.
I start swimming as part of my workouts this Monday. Should be fun. |
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| I am jack's incredibly horrible Bad Luck. |
[May. 4th, 2009|11:18 pm] |
I had it all planned out - I WAS going to NJ for a vacation this July, with or without my family. I had everything set, told everyone I would be there no matter what; told my wife I was going to give my boss the heads up today that I would be out for a bit in July. So I get to work today and when my boss comes in, he asks to speak to me in his office. No big deal.
Turns out the company is being sold. That means I'm pretty much going to be unemployed. I have a chance at being hired by the company buying us, but I wasn't given any information on whom I should contact or if it's even viable that they'd hire me. I mean, of course I'm hoping to be hired, but hey, who are we talking about here? Me. Ol' faithful fuck'em ups.
The timing couldn't have been more prefect (or more of a fuckin cluster fuck). First off, no NJ trip. AGAIN (what is this, the 4th time?). It gets worse and worse every time in regards to the reasons I can't make it. Next is physical handicap. Ok, so no trip. But of course they had to decide to sell the company now, when COLLEGE GETS OUT and all these design students will work internships for free. So those limited design positions, pretty much gone.
I could go back to working title, but then it's a double whammy fuckover. Plus, as we all know, the real estate industry isn't doing too hot right now.
I figure I'll end up working the night shift at Walmart or something. You know, something to really cap-off my enjoyment of this pisshole state.
So if anyone has any hook-ups in regard to a semi-well-paying job that I could maybe support my family with, I'm up for it. The pay scale in this state sucks, of course, so I figure I'll probably be taking yet another pay cut. I mean, rock bottom's the limit, huh? And then the universe throws me a shovel and says, 'dig'.
Oh, happy day! |
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| Update |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|07:50 am] |
We had a family cook-off this weekend, in which Abi and I took first place. We made bacon wrapped scallops for the appetizer (although prosciutto may have been a better choice), a lemon sorbet for the intermezzo, rack of lamb with potatoes and white wine asparagus for the entre, and a warm lava fudge cake ala mode for the dessert. Of course there was crazy seasonings and marinades, but I don't feel like listing everything. The rest of the food there was good, but I think we took it on presentation alone; our plating was artwork. The scallops won the best appetizer. But I think the lamb was the biggest hit of the meats. But my personal fave of all the foods was the lemon sorbet. It was served in a chilled lemon skin, and it was perfect; not too sweet, and not to tart. The lava cake everyone liked, but I'm not a huge fan of chocolate, so it was a bit too much for me. I would have taken pics, but I didn't feel like lugging around a camera with all that food.
And for even more awesome news, I'm growing a summer beard. Not the wild and untamed winter beard I usually grow, but a neat and trim beard. |
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| Yesterday's workout KILLED me. |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|08:41 am] |
Relay style, no rest between sets except to drink water and then say, "Oh man, I think I'm gonna puke."
90lb sled pull (40 yards)
agility ladder [14 rungs] (deadleg hops, in and outs, lateral movement)
broad jumps (40 yards)
snatch 5 reps each arm (40lbs) / 10 pull-ups (we alternated snatch one set, then pull-ups the next and so on and so forth)
8 rounds of that. I did 8, my cousin did 6.
Then 100-yard sprint, walk back 100 yards and start over. The walk back is the rest portion.
5 rounds of that.
Then some more agility ladder work, which at that point, I had almost nothing left in my legs, so I was just jello-legging it.
And oh yeah, I built an agility ladder this week for about 10 bucks and 3 hour's worth of time. Sewing the thing together took the longest. Other than that, it was a piece of cake. 100ft of nylon rope (7 bucks) 2 10-foot pvc pipes (the thinnest circumference home depot carried, I forget what it was) 1.20 each. It looks easy when you see people do it, but when you try and do the complex stuff, it feels like someone tied your shoelaces together.
Muay thai today. And serious muay thai; I broke out my fight shorts AND my mouthpiece.
p.s. I'm deadlifting 485 now for 2 reps. I'm saving the 500 for my birthday. May 29th. My pull-ups are almost back in the 20's; I'm stuck at 19. I think it's mental. My bench has taken a nosedive, but that's because I don't focus much on it. Oh well. Squat is slowly increasing, but once we get a cage to squat in, we can really go for it. Right now we're still using the not-bolted-to-the-floor dip station as our squat rack... |
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| P.S. we've been married 6 years today |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|07:45 am] |
Client on the phone: "Yeah, I used to be a graphic designer. It's hard work! Haha. But anyway, I sent the file in MICROSOFT WORD."
Because, you know, mirco fuckin soft word is the ILL graphics program that ALL the graphic designers be using, son. I'm saaaaayyyyyin. |
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| Best move ever. |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|07:40 am] |
No spoilers, but this is the best kick ever. This is up there with the Andy Hug spin kick to the shin.
But as cool as that Anderson kick is, this is what makes it ice cold:
( Putting on the Ritz Kick ) |
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| Hi, I'm Richie Rich |
[Apr. 15th, 2009|07:45 am] |
Well, according to the government, my family makes just too much damn money. I mean, considering I took a huge pay cut moving to Texas, and we have two kids to support, we still make too much money. Because you know, I be pimpin' all over the world. Except NJ, where I won't be going this summer because we didn't get a tax refund.
Is it even a surprise anymore? Why do I plan these trips? |
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| MTV mash-up |
[Apr. 14th, 2009|11:12 am] |
CT from the Duel show on Mtv needs to be on Bully Beatdown. He's always picking on smaller guys.
Mayhem, make it happen, you crazy bastard. |
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| New stuff |
[Apr. 13th, 2009|12:23 pm] |
I'm making posters for my cousins; one for a housewarming and one for a birthday. They both are totally into street fighter right now, so I figured I'd drop a poster on them.
Here's one. It's not 100% done, but this is the main idea. There's a few things I want to change about it, but this is probably going to the main layout, with a few spacing shifts.
yes, no?
The other is going to be of dhalsim.
Also, the color sometimes gets tweeked when I upload to photobucket. But whatever. It's not going to be this vibrant. |
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| HAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|08:44 pm] |
Oh motherfucker. I was just looking through my photobucket account and saw these gems:
Good times. Good times. |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2009|08:57 am] |
I know I said I wouldn't complain once I had an art job, but this is just too funny/frustrating not to complain about.
I started doing hand-drawn designs for this company because I'm a designer that can actually draw. I figured, why not, it'll be fun. Biggest mistake ever. Anyway, I had a talk with my boss about cooling out with the hand-drawn stuff for awhile because I was doing the corporate logos and then these church camp shirts and crap all day and taking the hand-drawn work home to do. So essentially, the only time I wasn't doing work during the day was when I was working out and sleeping.
After our talk everything seemed cool. They gave me a little less work a few days ago so I could get a hand-drawn design done. They loved the design when it was done, because I had time to put into it. So today I get an order for a hand-drawn design (more complex than the last) with 15 other art orders. That's kind of a lot. 10-15 is a whole day's work. (More like 10, but I can squeak out 15. I've even done 20 in a day, which is ridiculous) But on the art order, it says I have until the 6th to complete it. The 6th is Monday. So I look at tomorrow's schedule and it's a full day's work. So the joke here is, they want me to do this over the weekend...
I see what you did there.
Within a week's time the cycle has started again. |
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[Mar. 19th, 2009|08:10 am] |
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One thing I don't like about my job is the cap they put on creativity. |
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| Sweet |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|01:45 pm] |
How badass is snakeeyes, really?
THIS badass:
He shoots at hi-tech planes that shoot lasers with nothing more than a pistol and a nonchalant stance. Also, I know he's disfigured, but isn't he supposed to be blind? That, again, is testament to his sheer badassery - he just shoots guns in the gernal direction of things and they blow up (but not before the pilot jumps out split seconds before the vehicle explodes and is never burned, caused trauma by the shockwave of said explosion and happens to avoid all shrapnel.). |
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| The stuff dreams are made of. |
[Mar. 9th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
see here:
a ninja, on a harley, sliding, with 20 tons of swords on his back, into the face of some huge monster with only one action that needs to happen by pressing the X button: ATTACK! there's no jump button, no retreat, no magic, just fuckin attack. Whether by jumpkick or sword or just by having zero regard and sliding your motorcycle while still on it into the face of said monster.
Sorry, but all the video games in the world can suck it compared to this game.
The game, I think, is called, "SHIT YOUR PANTS AWESOME", and it's rated A for AHH MAN, I SHIT MY PANTS! (also, Awesome) |
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