Give 'em a little bit of vodka in a cherry coke
We're going to Oklahoma to the family reunion for the first time in years
It's up at uncle Slayton's cause he's getting on in years
You know he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry
He's not much on talking and he's just too mean to die
And they'll be comin' down from Kansas
and from west Arkansas
It'll be one great big old party like you never saw."
James McMurtry, Choctaw Bingo
Really; he is. @jasonisbell is touring with him and tweets a lot; recently my favorite line from Hurricane Party: "I don't want another drink I only want the last one again." We are headed to the holidays. Need to place family gatherings in proper perspective and James can help with that.
Good sub for Pradeep Friday. 90 minutes of only the second class of the week, it's strong.
Saturday
Long dog walk with two teenagers. Should have done bells but back not good so lay back.
Sunday
B and I head in for Ericka's class. B is totally pumped and rocks it out in his barryness way. It's 90 minutes and a really good class; he loves the one foot stuff and I love the weight of him in assisting, working to get him square; dropping the hip, turning the shoulder. Doing the scrub and shave thing after, Barry strutting about the @equinox locker room in his towel, drying the hair, rockin' the gel.
Monday
I am so fucking busy. Spend the day scrambling to close, to keep up, to catch up.
Bail to gym. Want to try @giryagirl's double workout. Have not eaten well, push:
10+10x3 16kg swing warm up.
30 seconds double kettlebell swings, 30 seconds rest
30 seconds double kettlebell clean and press, 30 seconds rest
30 seconds push ups, 30 seconds rest
30 seconds renegade rows, 30 seconds rest
30 seconds double kettlebell front squats, 30 seconds rest
30 seconds double kettlebell snatches*, 30 seconds rest
30 seconds L-sit (using handles of kettlebells), 30 seconds rest
20's except for clean and press and rows, up to 24's. Want to do 4; front squats drop to 3. Planks. 45 rkc front, same sides x 2.
Home to dog farts and coconut curry.
Tuesday
Nothing but work
Wednesday
Bad back last two days. Head to mh 5:15 and realize my hamstrings are so tight it's nuts. We do an hour of hamstring work and walk out a new person.
Barry, Robert Plant and I are fan photo of the day on HSB. By end of it we have 100 likes and some nice comments. Robert is fucking awesome; Choctaw Bingo is epic and I roll off the boat while James sings and I fantasize about RuthAnn and Lynn. No one should know anything about the mind of a man wearing earbuds and listening to James McMurtry.
Thursday
Another off day. Hamstring releases helped but back still hinky. Day of rolling disappointments, no EH at noon, want to get to CT for like the first time in two months at 6:45 but no, work and conference calls until 7:00; fucking race to the ferry to listen to Just Us Kids and We Can't Make It Here and home where I go upstairs immediately because I don't want to watch Close Encounters for the 47th time. Rose hops on the bed and I curse fucking Vista cause the sound is dead and I can't stream Freeway View and it really sucks. The @girlsgoneSTRONG crew are together in Baltimore and looking forward to awesomeness on social media; those ladies are seriously bad ass.
Friday
Back much better. Rose looks hopeful as I pull on the jeans but her hopes are dashed as I gotta roll out and be special master starting at at 8:45; fortunately the folks who've hired me won't see me at 8:45 in old turtleneck and ragged levis. Listen to Memorial Day, and then Choctaw Bingo once again . . .
Write off lunch kbells just to give back a little more time and opt for 38 minutes on elliptical. There is no cell service in the dungeon gym and listen to to Europe 72, hitting 180 strides per minute for some time as Jerry streams molten silver on I Know You Rider and the gang flies along like that northbound train in the song.
100 minutes of Pradeep starting at 5:00, which is the best way ever to end the week. He runs us through a plank series, 30 seconds on forearms and then up and hold it. lift one leg, then the other, then one arm, other, and finishes it off with bird dog in plank. CT has helped here and I lock down the lats and delts, draw in the tricep and its rock solid. Yeah I'm old but . . .
Saturday
Long dog walk, back tight. Leave it at that. Take Ian to BATS 25th anniversary and giggle with him.
Sunday
Football and plotting for major clean up next weekend. Go out at half:
10+10 16kg one arm swings x 3
1-5+1-5 press ladder, 24kg
10 24kg goblet squats
5+5 36kg rows to same, 32
5-1+5-1 25kg single arm swing ladder
X 5
Nice circuit, 75 each side, more than 28k in volume in about 40 minutes.
"Bought a SKS rifle and a couple a full cases of that steel core ammo
With the berdan primers from some East bloc nation that no longer needs 'em
And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol
I mean .50 caliber made by badass Hebrews
And some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slayton's
Soon as it gets dark we're gonna have us a time "
I guess that's the way you write when Dad is a Pulitzer prize winner; Ian's pretty good anyway . . .
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