Enlargement

[-TIM-]

Bizump! Stop worrying about women and start lifting.

Oh and chicks want you now that you're attached because you're giving off the, "I don't care about you" vibe, brought on by being mentally preoccupied with another piece of booty. Girls really aren't as complex as they would like us to think.

[Kiaran]

nice sessions in here man!

[TTT]

Tim: I think you're right. I'm trying.

Kiaran: Thanks dude. Except I haven't had a session for god knows how long...




My mind feels like a half-dead jockey beating a half-dead horse to death. If that makes sense. Probably not, because I'm delirious.

Anyway, I'm going to get a workout in this evening if it kills me. Squats are going to be good fun.

I told the girl from Japan about the girl here, and she seemed to not mind too much. I don't know, she told me all this weird stuff that I didn't really pick up, because I was stifling a yawn, wringing my hands, and staring out the window at the street to avoid eye contact all at the same time.
Anyway, the situation has potential to turn out for the best. At least I slept last night. 6 hours of unconscious bliss.

I found a pubic hair stuck by static electricity to the box of an MP3 player that a lady was returning at work today. I briefly considered informing her of its presence, and the fact that her daughter (for whom she bought the player) must have a dirty floor/desk/bedside table. But I didn't. It was probably for the best. Then I got bitched at because some of our microwaves have flimsy doors which are going to leak. And spread toxic microwave death rays throughout the neighbourhood, which instantly cause cancer on skin contact, and poison the waters for 10 years.

Enough of this.
If my next post isn't a workout, someone kick me in the nuts.

[-TIM-]

*Lines up to kick 3T in the nuts*

[getfit]

have a great new year T :)

[Coke]

have a great new year T :)

I wish you well too, you certainly deserve the best TTT be it in the gym, at work, or the romance department - ;)

[TTT]

This post doesn't count, so you can't e-kick me in the nuts, because I'm sick. I've got the mother****ing 'flu. Started getting all feverish and achy at work yesterday. Phoned in, and I tried to get someone to fill in for me today, but no one was answering their phones. So I worked today. ****ers. I'm a bit pissed about that, because I've filled in so many times in my 3 months there that I can't count them on two hands, and then I can't even get someone to cover for me a single time.
Anyway, some customers were getting all impatient because we were pretty busy and were short of staff, and telling us about it. One guy was at the counter while I was helping someone else out, and then I came back to put the other person's stuff through the till, and the guy starts on about "Excuse me, I was here first." So I told him I was helping the other people first, and didn't see him. Then he started going on about "Doesn't lining up in the queue mean anything, then?" and started getting really ******-ish, and spouting crap at me. I very nearly lost it right there and then. I would have done it, too. I really don't get paid enough to put up with **** like that.

I've probably given the 'flu to at least 40 people today. Oh well.

Maybe a workout will be in the works next year.

[TTT]

Cheers Coke, you too!

Edit: and Sylvia and Tim :)

[Kiaran]

Hey just tell yourself that by giving the flu to others, you are increasing their imune systems. Happy New year and hope you feel better soon...and get to the gym damnit!

[TTT]

Thanks! You too.




Managed to drag ass into the gym today. I give this session a B+ for effort, and an F- for performance.

DAY 1
================================================================

Ergo: 3':00" / 763m


STIFFIES:
45x6
135x6
225x4
225x4


SQUATS:
45x6
95x4
135x4
135x6


Still a bit phlegmy. This should be good for clearing up my chest, though.
I'm officially back to the level of strength I was at 6 months ago. Wow. I'm so happy.
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[Coke]

Good deal on bringing yourself around after being under the weather...stay on it to get to the next level this year.

[Matt04]

workouts looking good TTT, happy new year.

[getfit]

nice work T, hope all is well :)

[TTT]

Hehe, thanks people. All is indeed relatively well. I just need to get back on the bandwagon, so to speak. I fell off awhile ago, and I've been shrinking ever since.


DAY 2 (Delays in routine due to (a) sickness; (b) lack of sleep, some of which was rather enjoyable; and (c) being dragged around to do things with family, leading to part of (b) and also to (d) lack of time).
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DB FLAT BENCH:
20's x 12
40's x 8
65's x 5
65's x 5
65's x 4
[Insert rest of workout here]
45's x 10
45's x 7....speed style


CHINUPS:
BW x 5
BW x 5


UNSUPPORTED T-BARS:
2p x 8
2p x 8
Could have sworn I did another set of these, but it's unlisted.



I'm not happy about the strength decreases, but at the same time, it could have been a LOT worse. It's all rebuilding from here on in.

================================================================
Weigh-in: 195 with clothes on.

[Coke]

Any and every session counts imo, and it was a really cool effort TTT - ;)

[TTT]

Sweet Jesus, I haven't had a deadlift workout since the 23rd of December. That's got to be a record. This one today's going to be very interesting.

I got called at 9:50am to see if I could fill in at work. Again. **** that **** right out the window. I was still sleeping, too. Still catching up. Always catching up. I'll be catching up the day I'm on my deathbed. Or in a fatal car accident. Or being torn up by a wild bear.

Anyway, I'm going now. About damned time.

[TTT]

DAY 3 (More like day 14, if you count the gaps)...
================================================================


Ergo: 3':00" / 779m



DEADS:
45x7
135x6
225x4
275x2 (Mother****ing bitching ****ing bastard!! I couldn't even get a triple)
225x6
225x5
Well, I know where I stand now... and it's at the bottom of the ****pile.


LEG PRESS:
Skipped. I think I'll drop this from the routine; training legs twice a week kind of drained me before.


DB OH PRESS:
25's x 8
30's x 5
50's x 4
50's x 3
35's x 7


REAR DELT RAISES:
Skipped.



Don't ask me how two exercises managed to occupy almost 45 minutes of my time. It's the 'sleep-stoned' effect, I think. Or, the "getting called to go to work while you're sleeping in, and just did a fill-in shift the day before, and you got 2 hours' sleep the night before, and the weather's ****, and the days you were working, the weather was fine, and you don't have a life" effect. Except life is pretty sweet, but right now I'm too tired to appreciate it. :)

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[TTT]

Oh, and thanks for the post, Coke. :)

[Coke]

Life can indeed be sweet sometimes, and especially if you've got an answering machine, lol - :D

You may want to do numerous light sets on the deads like powerlifters do, just a thought - I may do that myself soon.

[Kiaran]

Ahhh, I see you finally started dragging your ass back into the gym. Don't be so hard on yourself, just dedicate for 1 month and your strength will return.

[TTT]

Coke: Hehe, well I don't, and somebody else would have picked the phone up and woken me up if I hadn't gotten it myself anyway. :) Thanks for the suggestion, and yeah, I'm thinking of doing just that. I've already started incorporating 'speed' sets into my benching at the end, so I might try it with other stuff.

Kiaran: That's the plan ;) Thanks for stopping in. In fact, I anticipate that it'll take less than a month of consistent training to surpass my previous strength and endurance. I kind of feel like I've recovered a bit already. I really need to sort out my diet and sleep as well though.


In addition, I'm going to start putting some arm exercises in the routine again, just like in the good old days last year when I was doing WBB1. My arms seem to be lagging quite a bit. I've realized this more since I lost most of the fat (what little there was). As much as I've grown to hate isolation exercises, I just don't think this routine is quite cutting it. In fact, I might just switch to one of the WBB routines. We'll see what's cooking tomorrow.

[getfit]

hey,i'm with Kiaran, you've very well for yourself T :)

[lilmase1153]

Ahhh, I see you finally started dragging your ass back into the gym. Don't be so hard on yourself, just dedicate for 1 month and your strength will return.
yeah man consistency is key.. ha I should take my own advice :(

[TTT]

Sylvia: I've.... { } very well for myself? Failed? ;)

Mase: Hehe, yes you should :)




OK well I'm starting WBB3 as of today. Except there're going to be a couple of modifications, since there's no dip bar, etc. in my gym.


DAY 1
================================================================

FLAT BB BENCH (should have been incline DB, but they were all in use):
45x10
95x5
135x6
135x6
105x11
Christ, I knew this wasn't going to go well as soon as I felt the 95 up in the air. I've lost a ****load of strength here. I haven't done this exercise in about 3 or 4 months, though.


FLAT FLYES:
I'm cutting this one out of the routine straight off. I don't think 3 chest exercises are necessary.


CABLE FLYES:
60x5
50x8


CG CHINUPS:
BW x 6
BW x 6
BW x 5
With 2-second pauses at bottom, dead-hang.


HIGH CABLE ROWS:
130x10
160x8
160x9
Oooh, these burned. I like them.


DEADLIFTS:
135x6
225x6
225x6
135x12



Session wasn't too bad, considering I was dead-tired. I'm still catching up on my goddamned sleep. Had to get up early today to go to a piano concert, which was pretty good, although I almost fell asleep. Maybe if everyone around me hasn't planned my life for tomorrow as well, I'll be able to sleep in. I doubt it, though. ****. I feel like a goddamned robot. It's good being with my family again, but sometimes they get wayy too controlling. Maybe I should live in the country again, and it's just city life which is ****ing me up. Who knows.
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[getfit]

nice, i was typing very fast and forgot to add "done" ;)

[Coke]

The piano concert sounds super...seems like the bench loses strength first and the push muscles all together imo.

[TTT]

Sylvia: ;)

Coke: Hehe, yeah, it was pretty good. I agree about the bench. However, my legs seem to be slipping away too... check out this session:


DAY 2
================================================================


SQUATS:
45x6
95x4
135x5 (failed on 6th rep! WTF is going on here? I used to be able to do about 20!)
135x6
95x10
Jee-Zus.


DB LUNGES:
50's x 3
30's x 6
30's x 6
First time I've done these. Had a bit of trouble balancing with my right foot forward, possibly because I'm used to waterskiing/skateboarding with my left foot forward. Who knows...


LEG EXTENSIONS:
Skipped. Machine too busy.


SEATED CALF RAISES:
90x9
135x7
135x7



Well, that's that. Can only get better, I suppose. There's not much room for regression, anyway!

Yesterday/last night I watched "Saw II" and "Match Point." Saw II was kind of terrible, I thought. I usually don't mind gore, but this was kind of gore-instead-of-a-decent-movie. Well, it was ok, but I didn't understand the end, since (SPOILER) the entire cop team knew where the cop was, so they could have easily gotten him out of there before the deadline. And they had guns. Matchpoint, however, was a pretty good movie, although some of the acting left a bit to be desired.

Today, I took my camera down to the waterfront around Kitsilano Beach, Vanier Park, Granville Island etc. and took lots of pictures (at least 24, anyway). We'll see just how limited that kit lens I got with it really is. I've never carried around an SLR before, and it was quite interesting to see what happens when you do. There were lots of other photographers down there, some of them with $5000 - $10000+ setups, and it's funny how they look at you and at each other's cameras when they pass you on the sidewalk. It's kind of like, "wow, my camera's better than yours, because I have this red stripe on my lens barrel, and an all-metal body." Penis envy. Must be an extension of that, surely. Anyway, I'm happy with my camera so far, even though it's an entry-level machine.



I'm off for some fun. I'm also working tomorrow at 9. :)
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[getfit]

nice one T lunges are brutal!

[TTT]

Thanks! Especially after squats! :)

[lilmase1153]

Lunges are brutal man, especially someone of your height.. Thank god im a midget

[Coke]

That must be a damn good camera 3T - U don't mess around with your gadgets, lol...the leg work will get better bro.

[TTT]

Mase: Yeah, they are. I think I'd still rather be tall and bad at weightlifting, though :D


Coke: It's just an entry-level SLR. It's worth a very small fraction of what some of those ones I saw were. But it takes pretty good pictures. The lens is the most important part on film cameras, anyway, and the lens I have is the cheapest one Canon makes. They cost about $60 or something.
Thanks, man. Yeah, it can only get better.



I've had the worst case of DOMS I've ever had in my life for the past two days. In my legs and ass. Yes, ass. Those lunges are a pretty good exercise, alright. Only problem is, I'm going to be walking around like a grandpa in the gym. Seriously.
Session coming up soon.

[getfit]

yeah for lunges :D i do them after squats as well, once i get back into my regular routine i'm going to blast my legs :D

[TTT]

I think they're just what I needed.

This is from yesterday.


WBB III; DAY 3:
================================================================


STANDING OH DB PRESS:
15's x 12
25's x 6
35's x 6
40's x 6
35's x 5
25's x 8


LATERAL RAISES:
20's x 6
20's x 6
10's x 10
10's x 10
Don't laugh.


TRI DB CG PRESS:
50's x 7
50's x 7
This is kind of an awkward, ******ed exercise. Kind of like, say, a nerdy kid trying to play tennis.


CABLE PRESSDOWNS:
80x7
90x6
60x10
60x10


EZ BB CURLS:
(+40) x 6
(+40) x 6
(+20) x 7


CONC CURLS:
Skipped. I was out of time. Damned work.




Everything in this session was done with absolutely perfect form.



Yesterday, the 'affectionate coworker' was hitting on me even more than before. She seems to have taken a liking to trying to pull my shirt untucked.
Life is ****ing weird.

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I'm going to weigh myself soon.

[MixmasterNash]

Yesterday, the 'affectionate coworker' was hitting on me even more than before. She seems to have taken a liking to trying to pull my shirt untucked.
Life is ****ing weird.

Sweet. This sounds like an episode of 'The Office.'

[Canadian Crippler]

You gonna pull that **** or what man?

[getfit]

oh no, episodes at work no good ;)

[galileo]

I agree with your Saw II conclusions.

If you ever eat a ginormous Chipotle burrito, I'd suggest skipping the gore-filled crapfest movies. Just a heads up.

[TTT]

Mix: Sure as hell does. And it's in a store, too, so everyone can see it.

Mitch: I've already got a girlfriend. If that's what you were talking about. I don't think the lady at work knows that, though.

Sylvia: Haha, but they're as funny as forty nuns at a stripclub. I'll have to figure out a way to get her back.

Xian: That's excellent. How big was this burrito? I think I was actually eating most of the way through the movie, largely out of boredom.




Tonight I worked 5-10pm in photos. For about 3 of those 5 hours (or more), there were absolutely no customers. Absolutely no one. There's only so much cleaning, putting things on shelves, facing, organizing the tills, etc. you can do.... so it got kind of boring. But I'd rather have that than the alternative, which I've also seen.
At least it gave me time to think.

[Teh BDK]

T, I was shooting video for a Mandarin wedding with Loveliness Mandarin Wedding Photography's 'Ricky'(not his real name, btw) one day a few years ago. He had a 10,000 dollar Leica setup.
He was putting Gold 400 in it...to shoot a wedding. Brilliant.

Now I know it was garbage because I was working at Wolf Camera on Potrero at the time and they would send their **** to be developed and printed there.

So Let's summarize. We've got mediocre film sent to a mediocre film processor to be printed en mass on mediocre paper in almost mediocre chemistry.

Now let me play devil's advocate here. Leica makes some of the best glass in the world, true. But if you're using a 10,000 dollar leica with a $1000+ 80mm portrait lens and then sending the lousy film you use to a commercial lab to be processed with all of the other cheap film and accidental motion picture stock and E-6 that gets sent, inevitably, through the C-41 machine, there's going to be a bottleneck in quality at some point down that road. You end up getting pictures that might as well have been taken with a fun snap. In fact, the fun snaps that were sitting on every table had the same film inside, and the only difference in quality was brought on by diffused flash on the Leica.

To their credit, however, I was told that if you go to a Chinese wedding and you're using a camera that costs less than 15,000 dollars total, they'll walk up to you and ask where the primary photographer is because your E0S must be used only for secondary coverage. Thats when you tell them that the primary photographer is running late, and you bow a lot, and activate your chameleon suit, blending into the surroundings.
Not easy when they had me standing onstage with the video camera. God, they really didn't give a ****. Talk about manufactured memories. I've heard of revisionist history but the wedding photography industry is about revising yesterday. Literally. Makes me sick. Its all a sham.

I took some still lifes today which I was going to take last night but my photoflood filament exploded and melted through the bulb, sending tiny molten globules of tungsten scattering across the carpet and finally resting and melting down halfway down through the carpet. Loverly. So's I went and bought a new daylight bulb today and did my dance, and developed them.

My only advice for you is that you should always ALWAYS stay away from a place that is either advertised as or known for being a great spot to take pictures. There's almost never anything interesting or new.

[Teh BDK]

Oh, and shoot Tmax.

[TTT]

Thanks man! It's always good to get some advice from other people. I generally try to shoot more 'interesting' stuff that hasn't had 1 million people take pics of it in the last 6 months, too. I like macro shots, and weird angles, and interesting composures and stuff like that.
That's pretty ****ed up about the wedding photographer. And I understand about all the bottlenecks, which is why I haven't rushed out and bought a $1000 or $3000 lens :) I think a $500 lens could improve things somewhat, though. This is what I've got right now: http://www.photographyreview.com/cat/cameras/film-cameras/35mm/canon/PRD_330375_3105crx.aspx . It came in a kit with the very cheapest lens Canon makes. It's ok if you don't open it right up, or use the highest/lowest focal lengths. So I don't think there's too much point using Tmax until I get a better lens...
But thanks for the advice, I appreciate it.

[Teh BDK]

Use Tmax 3200p and push it to 12,500 and the lens will be taken directly out of the equation. For the most part the major difference in more expensive lenses is their F/stop, being that a 1,000 dollar 80mm portrait lens will stop down to 2.8 or even 1.4 whereas a 200 dollar 80mm will probably stop down to, say, 5.6 or 8. So the expensive lens will have smoother action, be more sturdy, and have a max aperture or 2-3x wider than the cheapo lens. The glass will also be more clear, obviously, and will have a more precise focusing mechanism, with more lens elements inside. One of my favorite lenses is just a plain old Canon 50mm 2.8.
Oh, btw...fixed focal length is aaallllwaayyyss better than zoom.

REALLY cheap lenses, like the dismally constructed Quantaray lenses you get from Ritz Camera and Video, will have one element, and it all relies on the distance from that single piece of **** plastic element, or in really expensive models, the two pieces of plastic ****, to the film plane. It results in ****ty, cheap, totally plastic, lightweight garbage.

I say to shoot tmax because nothing will make you a better photographer like the physical interaction with your film of shaking, mixing chem, agitation, smelling the lung-burning fix, and rinsing, and seeing it all go from milky stock to image practically in front of your eyes. If you drop it off at a mini lab you remove yourself from the process completely and the invaluable experience of wet processing is lost. You will begin to experiment with times, formulations, agitation technique, developers and different brand combinations and dilutions, all of which will gradually be formed into an integral part of your individual style. This is the one thing that digital photography lacks that I don't think a computer program can ever ever reproduce. The labor of love of taking your film from latent to printed image. Photoshopping be damned. If you love photos, sweat a little bit. Sit in the darkroom swearing for a few hours about how you're going to be late to dinner because you can't get the burning right. It will imbed itself in your finger; your eyes take on that vision, and you shoot to print, you'll start taking better pictures because you know in the back of your head where the light is and you map the shadows and take note of tiny reflections and the placement of miniscule dirt specks without even thinking about it. Everything becomes instinctual, and yes, you'll lose most of your friends because you smell like chemicals and your fingers have turned purple and black and you'll go insane and die young from silver poisoning.

Its not hard to wet process. The hardest part of it is getting a truly light-tight and dust-free room. Once that is down, you're about 50-100 bucks away from having a home darkroom.
Look on ebay for stuff. So many people are switching to digital that they are stupidly selling all of their old darkroom equipment. Morons. Reap much good from their ignorance.

Geh. Gotta go.

[Kiaran]

Glad to see you're sticking with the routines, man. Some of your comments crack me up, lol :D

[TTT]

Hehe, thanks for all the info Budiak. I sell cameras at work, so I know most of the stuff about the lenses and cameras, but I've never gotten into development, so all the info on pushing the film, etc. is very much appreciated. Do you underexpose all of your stuff, though? As far as I understand, you only need to push film if you don't have enough available light, so you have more freedom with the aperture and shutter speed? I guess you do a lot of 'fine art' stuff, so you play around with it solely for effect. I've been considering getting a dark room setup, though. Sounds like an interesting hobby. Only problem is, I like colour too.


Kiaran: Sort of :D I should have been in the gym yesterday. I was absolutely rooted, though. Thanks for stopping in.




WBB3; Day 1
================================================================


INCLINE DB PRESS:
20's x 12
40's x 5
50's x 6
55's x 6
40's x 10
40's x 9
I would have gotten the last rep if I hadn't been distracted by this guy hanging out by the dumbell rack, waiting to pick one of them up.


CABLE FLYES:
60x6
40x10


CG CHINS:
BW x 6
BW x 6


HIGH CABLE ROWS:
160x10
160x10
160x6
The stack will soon be too light.


DEADLIFTS:
135x6
185x5
225x1
275x3
225x6



This was a pretty good, reasonably intense session. I got all of this done in just under 50 minutes.
This morning (afternoon), I slept in until 12:15. I was also called by my boss at 9:00am, to see if I could work a full shift from 1:30p until 10, instead of 5pm-10pm. I didn't hesitate to allow some of my annoyance to show in my voice. Then someone else called at around 10 or 11, so that part of the morning's sleep was basically a write-off. God damn it. Anyway, I feel a lot more rested than I did yesterday, when I got to sleep at around 5am, and got up at 9:30 for work. :D


================================================================

[Teh BDK]

You push film if there isn't enough light only if you have to because it is going to seriously effect the visual characteristics. I push most of my stuff, but not all. TMAX100 looks amazing when pushed to 400, and holds up even when printed at large sizes. I did a portfolio where everything was 100 to 400 and printed at 16x20 and the detail is still fantastic. Tmax 100 is the greatest film stock ever created, period, end of ****ing story. I can recognize Delta 400 or Tri-X from across the room solely on the basis of how ****ing ugly the halide structure is.

Basically you can get a gritty appearance and still maintain contrast and detail when you push T100, and still have the convenience of a fast film speed. As much fun as it is to **** around with, it is extraordinarily difficult to find a suitable subject on which you're going to use 3200 pushed past 6400. I did a series of images of animals in which I used 3200 pushed to 24,000, at which even my professors quickly balked, until I showed them a finished print, after which they equally as promptly shut the hell up. The hardest part about printing that film was finding the image on the strip.

I like color as well, its just that silver black and white is better in every measurable respect.

[galileo]

Good deadliftin, tripleT.

[getfit]

nice work T, looks like all is going well

[Coke]

Glad to see you're sticking with the routines, man. Some of your comments crack me up, lol :D

Ain't that the truth...dude has had me rollin a few times too, even named his journal "Come laugh with me" - ;)

Fine workout effort 3T.

[TTT]

Tony: Aha, so you're just overdeveloping, without underexposing... Interesting, I'll definitely have to try it one day. Once I get my own place and decide where the hell I'm going to live for awhile, I'll definitely look into setting up a dark room. Or at least a closet, haha.

Xian: Thanks man. It's getting better... I won't be happy at all until I can at least rep out 315.

Sylvia: Thanks! Sure is. Or will be, anyway.

Coke: Thanks dude.







Another boring, ****ty session from the one and only.....


WBB3 Day 2:
================================================================

Ergo: 3:00 / 784m

SQUATS:
45x8
95x5
135x6
135x6
95x6
95x10


DB LUNGES:
35's x 3
30's x 6
30's x 6


LEG EXTENSIONS:
80x8
80x8
80x10


SEATED CALF RAISES:
90x6
135x6
135x7



And that's it.


Slept like a sack of **** last night. Too much stuff going on in the house. I need to get my own place. If I do, I'm going to get a nice, soft mattress. I ****ing hate hate hate hate hard mattresses. I don't know how those 'specialists' could possibly recommend them to anyone. I'm not talking about something with the consistency of a bean bag, just something nice and fluffy and soft on top, with maybe a bit more firmness underneath. This thing I'm sleeping on is like a styrofoam packing block.

I'm off.

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[Teh BDK]

No. I either confused you with erratic wording or you've got your head up your ass; either is a distinct possibility.
I underexpose, absolutely, when I push my film. Overdeveloping normally exposed film should be a felony offense unless you're ordered to do it by the president... and I doubt he has time.

While we're criminilizing photographic processes we should also make the printing of color images on metallic paper at least a misdemeanor.


Uh, nice squatting. Or some ****.

I don't know.



Boobies.

[TTT]

No. I either confused you with erratic wording or you've got your head up your ass; either is a distinct possibility.
You're damned right about that. I need some sleep. Big time.


I underexpose, absolutely, when I push my film. Overdeveloping normally exposed film should be a felony offense unless you're ordered to do it by the president... and I doubt he has time.
Ok. Christ, that's a lot of stops of underexposure for that project you did. I don't even know if my camera has ISO settings that high. What kind of camera and lens are you using?
Oh, and screw the president. Not literally.


While we're criminilizing photographic processes we should also make the printing of color images on metallic paper at least a misdemeanor.
Is that possible? What does it turn out like?



The squats were pretty crappy. But I'll get back up there. I think I was doing about 175 for reps before. Which is still ridiculous.

[Teh BDK]

Metallic paper is what the criminally insane and rich guys alike use to print their photos because its more expensive and they think that metallic paper makes it look cutting edge and sharp. They're wrong, because metallic paper is the spinning hubcap of the photography world.

I was using a 2001 Canon Elan 7 with, mostly, a 70-300mm zoom lens (I still hate zoom; its just what I've got). Alas, the one thing lower end cameras cannot do is massive push/pull automation. Mine will automatically do a +/- 2 that you can set, so I set it to -2 and had to do the third stop to get it to 25,000 by underexposing manually, with the internal light meter indicator. Also, when you're developing film for such long periods you do tend to experience reciprocity failure, so development time for that film was over 35 minutes. THAT sucked.

[lilmase1153]

Well I always wondered what a sack of **** slept like and now I know.. You should be on myth busters :)

anyways way to be consistent with the w/os 3T it may take time but youll get where you wanna be..

[TTT]

Budiak: So you keep a journal of how each shot was exposed, or something? I thought people generally just set the ISO setting however many stops faster, and shot the whole roll that way, instead of having to track how each one was done by using the EV adjustment. Mine has +/-2 in halves, and ISO up to about 6400, I think.

Mase: It's not good. :) Thanks man. I hope so too.




Yesterday, I had another exciting and fun shift working in photos. I think I can now say with certainty that if I'd gotten that job instead of the one in cameras, I'd have left by now. At least I've learned how to take passport photos...
Anyway, I was accosted at work for not having stated a specific-enough message on the PA system, regarding a woman who wanted to pick up four more of these big storage bins after having paid for one of them, and needed assistance to get those four other big bins out of the store. Hmm, can anyone think of a concise message which gets that across? I didn't have time to call the department.
At the same time, they picked me up for not shaving. I didn't have time to shave. In fact, I haven't had time to shave for the past five days. :)
This morning, my own grandmother told me I looked like a 'dead-end kid.' Thanks, grandma.

Last night/this morning, I went to bed at 11pm, and got to sleep at around 2am.
Well, it's off to the gym I go. Hopefully, waking up earlier than normal might just reset the ****ed-up unit which passes for my body clock. It's beyond defective; it's like one of those consumer-product horror stories you read about on the internet, with the maggots crawling out of the can of Spam, or the potato chips infested with toenail clippings and the odd cockroach.
This session's going to be fun. Today will be a good day. I'm working the same shift in photos, how could it not be?

[TTT]

WBB3; DAY 3
================================================================


Ergo: 3:00/ ?metres (display was screwed up, I think the wires were loose).


STANDING OH DB PRESS:
20's x 8
30's x 5
40's x 6
40's x 6
20's x 10
20's x 10


LATERAL RAISES:
20's x 6
20's x 6


TRI CG DB PRESS:
50's x 7
50's x 6
30's x 12
30's x 10


CABLE PRESSDOWNS:
80x7
80x9
60x10
60x8
60x7


EZ BB CURLS:
(+40) x 6
(+40) x 6
(+20) x 10 (narrow)
(+20) x 10 (wide)



Cracker of a day, this one. Photos makes me feel stupid, like I've been smoking drugs all day or something. Every second thing that people have come up and asked for today, I've had to check the price for. Most of the time when I have to check, I end up having to ask someone. After awhile, it seems like I'm asking too many questions. But they want answers. The price book doesn't seem to have everything in it.
****. Oh well, maybe I'll actually sleep tonight.

================================================================

[TTT]

I actually got stuck with the detail of cleaning the gummy stuff left behind from tape, etc. on the battery signs today. I enjoyed it more than being at the counter, strangely enough. I didn't have to deal with people.

[Teh BDK]

No, I don't...where the hell are you getting these ideas?

[TTT]

Mine will automatically do a +/- 2 that you can set, so I set it to -2 and had to do the third stop to get it to 25,000 by underexposing manually, with the internal light meter indicator. Also, when you're developing film for such long periods you do tend to experience reciprocity failure, so development time for that film was over 35 minutes. THAT sucked.
That's not to say you're keeping notes on each one, but then how do you remember how much each shot was underexposed? Or do you just wing it when you're developing?
Or I guess you could just leave it at -2 for the whole roll.

[TTT]

My girlfriend just dumped me. Says she's too old for me. **** me, this day just keeps getting better.

[twcolabear]

sorry to hear that. it's her loss, so don't sweat it too much, just go and enjoy yourself

[getfit]

My girlfriend just dumped me. Says she's too old for me. **** me, this day just keeps getting better.
sorry to hear that T, i don't understand why she should would say something like that now and didn't bother her at the start

[Clifford Gillmore]

My girlfriend just dumped me. Says she's too old for me. **** me, this day just keeps getting better.


Put on a nice Colonge, a nice shirt and your best shoes. Go out. My last girl did the samething to me, I wish I had just gone out and had fun instead of wallowing.

[Teh BDK]

You have to shoot the whole roll underdeveloped at the same rate or else some of your exposures will be wildly misdeveloped. When I mentioned the auto exposure setting, I set it ti -2 and then manually exposed around the -1 mark on the lightmeter as if it were the 0 point, effectively underexposing another stop.

You really need to find a 4x5 view camera and make some real God damned photographs.

And stop referring to them as 'shots.' It cheapens photography as a skill and insults the art. Refer to them as 'exposures.' There is an impossibly complex process happening here that people tend to like but also love to not understand.
You'd never hear Hank Carter refer to his work as 'shots.'


As for your girlfriend, forget her. You are better off without her. My last girlfriend dumped me right out of the blue 4 years ago and I haven't been on a date since...and look at how ****ing happy I am NOW!!

[Coke]

As for your girlfriend, forget her. You are better off without her.

U are indeed better off now...look at it this way, she opened the door for new opportunities and a broadened horizon.

[Teh BDK]

No, **** that.

You were probably way too happy with her. Now you can be a miserable sack of **** and wipe that rose coloring off of your glasses and see the world how it really is.

Totally ****ED.

Welcome to reality. Bitch. Keep your hands inside the car at all times, lest you wanta get bit.

[KevinStarke]

Women are a dime a dozen man get back out there and have some fun

[Teh BDK]

Women are a dime a dozen, wow. Thats one I never heard. Plenty of fish in the sea, yes, but 12 chicks for a dime? That is some sketchy trim you're talking about.

[Sidior]

No, **** that.

You were probably way too happy with her. Now you can be a miserable sack of **** and wipe that rose coloring off of your glasses and see the world how it really is.

Totally ****ED.

Welcome to reality. Bitch. Keep your hands inside the car at all times, lest you wanta get bit.

someone's bitter.....

[Spartan936]

Hey TTT, nice journal, good stuff...

Don't let the little witch get to you. Based on her silly excuse she sounds childish anyways. Like these guys said, no wallowing. Eat, lift, go have fun, be happy. There's many a woman to be had.

ROFL @ Budiak, sounds like you could use similar advice.

[Teh BDK]

Bitter? No, bitter was a long time ago.

I'm at a point that is also way past angry as well.

[TTT]

I see this has become Counsel-Fest '06.
Anyway, I've blocked her on MSN, and I'm not going to talk to her or see her again. **** her. And that's that little chapter over and done with.



Today was yet another shift in photos. We had one crazy lady come up to the counter and start yelling at people because her photo CD (produced by our lab) contained photos out of chronological order. I hate that job. Yesterday, I forgot my nametag, and had to go back and get it, resulting in my being 2 minutes late. My boss caught me at the swipe-in, and got stuck into me for being 2 minutes late 'every day.' I'm thinking of quitting earlier in the year than planned. Maybe in a couple of months. Retail has entirely lost its appeal. I'd rather be sweating my ass off doing manual labour. Or gravedigging. Probably earn more that way than by getting a job using my degree, too.

Session coming up tomorrow. I've got two days off, let's see just how many hours of those two days I can waste.

[Coke]

Getting away from customer service is a good plan...that is the 3T I know, you completely blocked b$tch - :D

[TTT]

Thanks Coke. And thank you everyone for offering advice, I've just been in a ****ty mood these last few days.



WBB3 Day 1
=========================================================


Ergo: 3':00" / 813m I think this is the longest distance I've done for a 3 minute warmup yet.


INCLINE DB PRESS:
45x15 (BB warmup)
90x5 (BB warmup)
50's x 8
55's x 6
50's x 8
50's x 7


CABLE FLYES:
Skipped


CG CHINS:
6
4
Pullups:
5
5


T-BARS:
Skipped


DEADS:
135x6
225x5
245x6
245x6


Fueled by rage, but unfortunately not enough food.


=========================================================
Weight: 200lbs. Better eat.

[Coke]

In spite of the skipped moves, it was a good training day...hanging tough with the deads and incline db press.

[TTT]

Thanks Coke. I didn't have the energy. I'd probably only eaten about 800 or 1000 Cals by that stage.



Today, I was awoken by the *******s at work at 7am to see if I could fill in for someone who called in sick. 7am. **** them. That really pissed me off in a big way. I didn't get back to sleep, either.
My ex-girlfriend of 4 days is trying to play email head-games with me. **** her, too.
**** all of them.
And **** this ****ing crappy Vancouver weather. You can see why there're so many drug addicts in the city.

I'm going to yoga tonight.

[lilmase1153]

Peace be with you my friend......... :D



Hope you have a better night

[-TIM-]

Thanks Coke. I didn't have the energy. I'd probably only eaten about 800 or 1000 Cals by that stage.



Today, I was awoken by the *******s at work at 7am to see if I could fill in for someone who called in sick. 7am. **** them. That really pissed me off in a big way. I didn't get back to sleep, either.
My ex-girlfriend of 4 days is trying to play email head-games with me. **** her, too.
**** all of them.
And **** this ****ing crappy Vancouver weather. You can see why there're so many drug addicts in the city.

I'm going to yoga tonight.Oh **** TTT, don't even read the emails your ex is sending. Delete them ASAP. Just a word from the wise.

[TTT]

Thanks Mase and Tim. I actually sent the first email to her, so I replied. I'm still pretty ****ing pissed off, but I'm not one to hold grudges, so I hope she does well for herself. And all that ****. She was 8 years older than me, which is still no excuse for leading someone on and then deciding to dump them based solely on 'age difference,' but hey...


=========================================================

Yoga: 1.75 hours

Followed by Guinness and Hamburger and chips.

I feel as relaxed as is possible given the circumstances.

Yoga was filled with hot girls with hotter bodies. Maybe that instructor is still interested in me. We'll have to see.

I have another shift in photos tomorrow, which is going to be absolutely ****ing marvellous. Really, I can't wait. Get me in there, please! I'll pay you!
Maybe there'll be another obnoxious customer who I can make rude gestures to behind the counter, so they can't see it. That would be about the most entertaining part of that job.

Going to sleep early, so I can get up "early" (say, 8:00) and hit the gym.
=========================================================

[getfit]

T, i agree with what you've posted above,keep your head high my friend :)

[TTT]

Thanks Sylvia. My good nature has so far pretty much screwed me from behind and helped others, but it's hard to change it.


I got another wake-up call from my friendly neighbourhood alarm clock service, AKA work. Actually, two of them. This time, I was almost in disbelief. Firstly, they wanted me to come in earlier than scheduled. As if a week wasn't long enough for them to think about how I was timetabled. Then, I got another call 15 mins later, as I was almost back to sleep, asking if I in fact knew that I had a shift today. Unbelievable. I really enjoy being woken up on my days off AND my days on, thanks for the phonecall. I think I'm going to quit around the end of April sometime.

I'm ****ing tired. I didn't get back to sleep. That's why I probably sound like a whining, snivelling bitch.

Off to work. La de da de da.

[getfit]

well T, my good nature,sensitivity has only given me pain, but i understand where you're coming from.I cannot change who i am,but have learnt to let things go as is(if that makes sense) it's hard,but when you get older you'll see it's easier to deal with :)

[-TIM-]

Thanks Mase and Tim. I actually sent the first email to her, so I replied. I'm still pretty ****ing pissed off, but I'm not one to hold grudges, so I hope she does well for herself. And all that ****. She was 8 years older than me, which is still no excuse for leading someone on and then deciding to dump them based solely on 'age difference,' but hey...I'd punch her in the throat and kick her in the crotch if I were you. That'll learn her a good one.

[TTT]

Sylvia: You're right. I've always been more mature than most people my age, too.

Tim: .





Friendster blows. I was trolling on there for awhile, because some random 18-year-old girl who started sending me messages, and knows where I work because she saw me there once (scary?) got me to log on again. It's full of girls who list their primary hobby or interest as 'shopping' and 'chillin' wit my frendz l0L!!1'

I've been listening to a lot of angry music lately. See the correlation? I thought not.

Photos wasn't too bad today.

I think there're a whole ****load of parties coming up this weekend, which my cousin and sister want me to go to. I can't seem to shake this angry/negative mood, so it's either going to be a good way to get rid of it, or a very lame and boring weekend. I guess the decision is entirely up to me.
Might be a good way to meet some girls. Ha. **** the girls.

[Coke]

Music can be great at times, no matter what genre and good idea to mingle with others a little more, go party some 3T - you may very well be going pimp on us mate...step up the frequency of the sessions just a notch.

[Wikked1]

Sounds to me like someone at your work (whomever is calling you) wants to annoy you. Got caller ID? Next time answer the phone "Pandora's naughty escorts how can I help you?"
Angry music is good workout stuff!
Oh man shopping and chillin' those aren't interests those are goals in life,picture them at 30 ......what can I say? I hope things work out for you man and in the relationship area the end of one thing simply means the beginning of another.....enjoy your freedom!

[TTT]

Well I've been off lifting for 10 days. I'm convinced I have IBS. Guts went all ****ed-up on me again. Seems to happen any time I get depressed. So, I'll be trying not to do that again. Ain't that fun?

Hopefully there's a session coming up soon. Gotta love this yo-yo cycle of weight gain and loss....

I got a new cellphone a few days ago. I hadn't had one since June of last year, so it's kind of cool.
Work's been ok, nothing spectacular.
Took a few nice photos tonight and a few days ago. Might scan a couple of them and put them up here.

[getfit]

hope all is well T :)

[Coke]

With your personality the cell will be going off a lot, nice stuff...looking forward to some shots - put up some digital ones mate. I never told you this but I like your avatar, the bright color lightens things up - ;)...get a workout in.

[TTT]

Sylvia: Thanks, I think I'm almost back to normal. Hopefully.

Coke: Haha, thanks man... yeah the avatar's good :) Everything's slippery.





These are two of the pics I took. The scanning job was pretty crappy, because I don't have any decent software on the computer I did them on (it's about 10 years old), and the bed of the scanner was uncleanably dirty. But you get the idea.

[twcolabear]

wow these are great pictures! oh and here is some :spam:

[getfit]

awesome pics T :)

[Coke]

Cool shots 3T...getting to be quite artistic, lol.

[Wikked1]

Nice photos,hope you're feeling better!

[TTT]

Thanks everyone, yeah I'm pretty much fine now. I guess I'll see if this workout stirred it up again. For now, I'm hoping it's just a mental thing, rather than physical, otherwise I'm going to have to reconsider bodybuilding as a hobby.


WBB3 Day 1
=========================================================


INCLINE DB PRESS:
30's x 10
30's x 8
45's x 5
55's x 7
55's x 6


CABLE FLYES:
Skipped. Gym was too busy at the end. I'll have to go earlier in the day.


CG CHINS:
6
4


ONE-ARM DB ROWS:
60x8
60x9
30x10


STIFFIES:
45x8
135x6
225x4
225x5



Not too impressed with the figures, but obviously I'm still recovering. If this doesn't happen again, I should be back where I was by the start of next month. Fingers crossed.
=========================================================
Weight: 195-200 lbs.

[getfit]

still a good effort T :)

[TTT]

Thanks Sylvia.


I had an awesome, but really crazy, dream last night.
I was at work, but instead of having shelves filled with phones, cd players, stereos, cameras, mp3 players etc., we were having a book sale. All the books had to have something 'colourful' about them. I went outside, and instead of the regular streets and cars outside, there was a big, green, muddy field. At the far end of the field, there was a wall about as tall as a power pole. And this wall extended from one side of the field to the other, and was covered in those thin blue padded exercise mats you see at the gym. Anyway, I walked over there, and I noticed as I approached that people were riding horses around, and some were driving old beater cars. Some were also riding dogs. Some of the dogs were little fluffballs which probably had names like 'Poochie' and 'Tibbles.' And full-grown adults were riding them. Anyway, I made it up to the wall, which was on a small rise in the field, and there were hundreds of blue nylon ropes hanging from the top to the bottom, so I took a rope which I (unbeknownst to me) had in my pocket or something, and proceeded to climb the wall. I then went to attach the rope to the top of the wall, when some dude at the top informed me that I was doing it the wrong way. I had to put it UNDER the slit at the top of the wall, and OVER the bar which was conveniently inside the wall, and knot it. The top of the rope had this weird loop attachment which felt kind of like a hacksaw blade. I managed to do it without cutting my hands, despite the fact that the guy kept yanking it through my hands. And I was tying a knot with both hands, despite being five or six metres up in the air.
Anyway, I then descended to the bottom of the wall, and walked around one edge through a gate. There was a car up on axle jacks inside the [plaza? enclosure? town?]. Someone had spraypainted "Look - no wheels! HAHAHA" on the back of it. Somehow I knew that I had to get a car so I could enter the destruction derby which was by this stage taking place out on the field. I don't know how the horses and dogs figured into it. I think it was kind of like a war or something going on out on the field. This was confirmed when I was somehow magically teleported back into the store, and saw that, alongside the books on the shelves (one of which was entitled something like "Erry Pottle -" and then something I can't remember), there were microwave radiation detectors, and spaces for some kind of microwave weapons that had been sold out. My coworker had a bunch of books in his hand, and said to me "I'm going to take a break, you should grab some books before they all sell out, man! You're missing out on all the COLOUR!"
I personally couldn't see that there was that much colour in the books, they just looked like books.
And then I woke up.
Am I on permanent drugs? Not that I know of.

[TTT]

Yoga
=========================================================

1.75 hours
=========================================================


Got eyed up by one of the girls there as we were in the elevator, and also at a restaurant we (coincidentally) ended up at later. (No, I'm not a stalker).

[Canadian Crippler]

T x 3, the seagull pic is awesome. I was expecting something like a front double bi, but hey that works too. :D

[Canadian Crippler]

Wait... am I reading this correctly or is that a session above? You workout now?

[TTT]

You're a fine one to talk, little man.

[TTT]

Work was really, really dead.
I'm going to get a legs workout in tomorrow afternoon. For sure. And possibly a haircut.
What an exciting life. I need to find another hobby... one that doesn't take too much time.

[Canadian Crippler]

Take up getting laid. It'll be a new experience for you.

[lilmase1153]

Cool pics 3T, oh and I love the w/o man. all that matters is you showed up and put in the effort..

[twcolabear]

haircut is always a good idea. Go to the gym! :P

[TTT]

Mitch: That's a good idea. Shouldn't be too hard either - I found your mum's number in the toilets ;)

Mase: Which one were you talking about? Thanks dude.

Anna: I'm going, I'm going....



WBB3 Day 2
=========================================================


ATF SQUATS:
45x8
95x5
135x6
135x6
95x10


DB LUNGES:
30's x 5
30's x 6
30's x 10!


LEG EXTENSIONS:
80x8
80x10


SEATED CALF RAISE:
90x7
135x6
135x6



I was pleasantly surprised by this workout. I seem to perform better in the evenings.
Next stage is putting a couple more of the small plates on the squat bar, so I can get back to where I was.

Some random girl in red pants and a red singlet was staring at me. I liked her [ahem] pants.

Supposedly I'm going to another pub night with my sister and her coworkers and their band tomorrow night, and so there should be lots of nice students there.

Today was pretty decent at work. All the customers, and the staff, seemed to be happy. I don't know why. Maybe someone had a burnup in the back of the store. Now that would be pretty cool.
=========================================================

[twcolabear]

:thumbup: good job!
you liked the "pants" huh? and what's a singlet?

[getfit]

nice work T, red is my favorite color :D

[Coke]

Good day in the gym, training evenings does have its benefits - ;)

[galileo]

Some random girl in red pants and a red singlet was staring at me. I liked her [ahem] pants.

Why didn't you talk to her? You may have been able to get in said pants.

[MixmasterNash]

That is an awesome seagull.

[TTT]

Anna: http://www.nwsource.com/pphoto/nws_shop_lululemon.jpg
Except that one's more like a bra. But whatever. Thanks.

Sylvia: Thanks. I like red cars.

Coke: Cheers. Yeah, I think it's better for me.

Xian: I don't think I would have fit them, anyway. They'd make my ass look fat.

Mix: Thanks. It could have been better, even though it looks ten times better on the actual print than that scanned pic does. I was just playing around though.





Working in photos today. Just got back for a quick bite to eat before I have to head back. Didn't get to take a break for 5.5 hours. Kind of sucks, but it sure as hell beats working in those damned diamond mines.
But I get to put up with asshats all day. We haven't had any screamers yet. It's only a matter of time.
I can't wait for 9pm.

[TTT]

Well, it was a lucky night. We only had one whiner. No screamers.
The ******ed pricing system doesn't help with customer pacification.


Tonight was awesome. I went to the pub with my sister and her friend, and the band was playing, and I saw that everything was good. And then right at the end, I saw an opening, so I said "let there be chutzpa." And then I went over and started talking to a beautiful Turkish girl about photography. She seemed pretty happy to talk to me, and wants to see me tomorrow night at the same place.

Ha.
If I can still hear anything by the end of this month, I'll be the most pimpin' lanky insomniac this side of the Pacific.

[TTT]

I just realized something kind of ****ed-up. I have more than doubled my deadlift weights over the past year, but I don't think I've increased my bench by more than about 2%, or pullups, or any other upper-body stuff. Maybe shoulder press, a little bit. Squats are probably at about 120-150%. And yet, despite these strength anomalies, I don't think I look particularly imbalanced. My chest is lagging a bit, but it was lagging by the same amount when I started out. Same goes for arms and shoulders. I haven't gained much weight, which is probably the source of the problem. And is also a major piss-off. I went from about 160 or 170 to 195 or so in a few months last year and the year before, and then, since January of last year, I've put on 5lbs. 5lbs. 2.5 kg. In one year. ****. What an incredible waste of time. No more excuses. Going to the gym now.

[TTT]

WBB3 Day 3
=========================================================


STANDING OH DB PRESS:
20's x 8
30's x 5
40's x 6
40's x 6
30's x 8


LATERAL RAISES:
20's x 6
20's x 6
15's x 10


CG DB BENCH:
50's x 7


TRICEP DIPS:
BW x 8
BW x 5
These turned out to be more like normal dips, which was unintentional but unavoidable. A guy was fixing the mirror right in front of the bars, and I had to move a bike out of the way and stuff.


CABLE PRESSDOWNS (Rope):
80x6
80x6
50x10
50x8


EZ BB CURLS:
(+40) x 6
(+45) x 7!
(+20) x 10


Helped an old lady put a different attachment on one of the cable machines, and pull it down.


Despite the lack of sleep last night, I'm in a very good mood. Yesterday at work, I sold a voice recorder to a really cute girl who gave me an awesome (read: more-than-normal) smile when she left. We must have maintained eye contact for at least 2 seconds. Probably the last time I'll see her, but hey, it made the day that much more enjoyable. Today has been absolutely lazy as hell, but it's relaxing. Tomorrow, I don't have to work until 5pm.
I'm going to look at tripods later today, and then I'm going to a movie.
So, that's that. Life is good.
=========================================================
Weight: 200lbs

[getfit]

sweet,overall things are looking good T,keep everything consistent and results will appear.We all go through stalls i sure have and just build myself up again slowly :)

[Coke]

Life is bound to be good more often than not for such a fine cat like you 3T...you always manage to get things together to keep a nice stride. The workout is very nice. No doubt you'll be adding more size all over.

[Kiaran]

Pleased to see you're still hittin the iron, bro. Sounds like things with the ladies is picking up, just in time for Spring (assuming you live in the north hemisphere).

[TTT]

Sylvia: You're right. And consistency is my #1 priority right now.

Coke: Thanks. I hope so :) I think I'm looking better already.

Kiaran: It might be.... I'm trying. Next time I'll see her is probably this Friday/Saturday.




I'm cutting out all refined sugar, where possible, in my diet. No more desserts, no more cookies, no more muffins, no more chocolate. I'm beginning to think there may be a connection between this and the GI problems I've been having. I'll find out soon.

Today, I bought a new tripod. A nice, heavy, quality beast. Should last at least 50 years. It's a pretty sexy machine.

Then, I got this workout in:

WBB3 Day 1
=========================================================

ERGO: 3':00" / 808m


INCLINE DB PRESS:
30's x 9
55's x 6
55's x 6
40's x 10
40's x 8
These caused a rather enjoyable dull ache in my chest and front delts.


CABLE FLYS:
Skipped; felt they would be overkill


CG CHINS:
BW x 5
BW x 4
Still feeling the effects of the benching...


UNSUPPORTED T-BARS:
2p x 10
2p x 8


DEADS:
45x10
135x6
225x2
245x6
245x5



I liked this workout. It was relatively short, but intense. Had to do it in around 50 mins to make it back for a family dinner.

Working in photos tomorrow, should be interesting. It always is. The boss doesn't seem to be hitting on me as much anymore; she seems to have found this other guy who sometimes comes into the store.
No matter. I'll see what happens with this girl at the pub concert.

=========================================================
Weight: No idea. Probably the same.

[Coke]

Fine overall upper body work TTT.

[TTT]

Thanks, Coke.


Went to bed at about 11 or 11:30 last night, and I don't think I got to sleep until at least 1:30. My mind seems to race too much, and the bed's too hard. Anyway, I'm pretty tired. We'll see how a legs workout looks when I get back from work.

[TTT]

Didn't do the legs workout. ****. I'm going to get up tomorrow morning and get a workout in, despite the fact that I've been at a party tonight, and it's now 12:10am. I'll be tired, but I have to get my ass into gear instead of this slackass-ed-ness I've been falling into.
I went and took some pictures this afternoon. New tripod got its first outdoor use. I'm not expecting much from the ones I took today. Need a decent lens.

The Turkish girl's been emailing me, and wants to do something on Tuesday. I don't know what exactly she has in mind, because it's kind of hard to understand what she means because of her English. Could go either way.
But she's really nice, so she should be a good friend, anyway.

I need sleep like a starving kid needs food. I'd better go grab some.


I weighed myself on a good scale at the party (don't ask me why we were weighing ourselves, seemed like a fun party activity at the time)... and apparently, I weigh 206lbs. I don't know which scale is accurate, or if I'm somewhere in between.

[TTT]

There's a skunk somewhere outside, and my room smells like it.

[TTT]

WBB3 Day 2
=========================================================

Someone was using my beloved ergonometer.

ATC SQUATS:
45x12
95x5
135x6
145x6!
95x10


DB LUNGES:
30's x 6
30's x 7


LEG EXTENSIONS:
80x10
80x10
3-second eccentrics.


SEATED CALF RAISE:
135x4
145x5
95x12




Everything felt awesome today. I usually don't do too well on morning workouts, but this was great. Squat form felt pretty solid, and the weights flew up. I should be back on par with where I was pretty soon, somewhere around the 155-160 x 6 level. Ceteris Paribus.

Off to work in half an hour. Yesterday, our sub-manager called in sick, and the super forgot to organize things, so things got a bit messy from about 6-8.
Tomorrow I have the day off, and I'm picking up the Turkish girl after she finishes school, and we're going to do some kind of trip around one of the beaches or parks around here, assuming the weather holds up. I still haven't figured out if she's interested in me as a friend, or more than a friend, or what. I guess I'll see. Then we're going to yoga with my sister. Should be cool.

=========================================================

[twcolabear]

nice workout!
Good luck on your "date" and make sure to give us all the detail

[Coke]

Hope the date goes off well at the beach or the park, summer is about to end for you all, lol...nice day of leg work.

[Kiaran]

Nice workouts TTT. Hope the date goes well for you.

[TTT]

Things went pretty well. I'm not sure if it could be classified as a 'date,' as more than half of the time was spent with my sister also present, but it was fun. The girl and I walked around down by the harbour for awhile, and then we met up with my sister and went to yoga, and then out to dinner. She's pretty cool, really likeable and nice. But she's leaving for Turkey again in a month and a half, so I don't know if there's any point starting something up.




=========================================================

Yoga:
1.75 hours

Excellent session, I managed to pull off the 'crow' pose tonight, which is a first. For those with no idea of what I'm talking about, http://www.theyogaroom.ca/images/Crow.jpg should give you an idea.
I still need to work on hamstring and hip flexibility though, which wasn't helped by DOMS from yesterday's leg workout. :)

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[TTT]

Thanks for the replies!

[getfit]

nice T,as long you had a nice time,is she leaving for good?

[TTT]

Yeah, it was fun; thanks Sylvia. As far as I know, she's leaving for good. Her Visa's expiring soon anyway.

And Coke, I'm still in Canada, so the Summer is about to start, not finish :D




I had a strange dream the night before last, which I forgot to record. I was sitting around this table with maybe six or eight other people. It was a coffee-table type thing, so we were on the floor. On top of the table, and the same diameter, was this gigantic platter/bowl. Inside the bowl was an enormous quantity of meatballs and pieces of fried bacon. After contemplating this for some time, someone began 'organizing' the meatballs and bacon pieces, and somehow I came to understand that this meaty concoction was, in fact, a game of Sudoku. I've never played Sudoku in my life. He moved the bits around until a nice, neat grid was formed with the meatballs on top, and the bacon forming gridlines. I can't remember anything after that.
I don't know what these dreams mean, but they're sure as hell interesting to think about.

[TTT]

Guts are still ****ed up.
I'm going to take a few more days off lifting. I'm cutting out dairy completely to see if that's what's screwing me up. **** this ****. I've got a positive attitude, but this is starting to get to me. If it's not better in one week, I'll have to go to the doc. Not that they'll help, they'll probably just tell me I have some incurable disease, and then try to put me on a lifetime supply of drugs.
Here's hoping.

[TTT]

I went to a Canon seminar last night. Usual stuff. They gave everyone a coupon for 20% off dealer net price on video cameras, digital cams and some printers. Might be useful, although they're still not free.

Supposedly, I'm going to see this girl again tomorrow afternoon. We'll see how that goes. Should go well, if I don't feel like something is twisting and shredding my guts about 20% of the time. I think I've lost weight again.


Need some sleep.

[Coke]

There you go again with the dreams - supposedly we all have numerous dreams and are not aware of them, at least yours are vivid, lol. You have really gotten into the cameras and what not, this may very well lead to a career 3T.

[TTT]

Coke: Maybe, although I can't see that happening... probably just as likely as a career in science though. I mean, science?! Who the **** works in science?! :)



The 'date' went pretty well, although I seem to be a lot more quiet than she is. We went and caught a sunset down by the seawall, and took some photos. Then we went out for dinner, and then got some tea.

Guts didn't bother me the entire time. This morning, however, was another story. Had to get up twice in the middle of the night. **** this. Doesn't seem to make much, if any, difference that I'm not eating dairy, either.
So.... so far, I've ruled it down to a few possibilities:
1) Some bastard of a bacteria which should never have evolved on this planet;
2) Yeast overgrowth;
3) Irritable Bowel Syndrome;
4) Crohn's Disease.

If it's (4), I'm pretty much ****ed for life, but I'm hoping it's not. Hell, even if it's (3) I may as well give up bodybuilding, too.


Well, it's workie-time.

[getfit]

have you gotten yourself checked by a doc T?

[TTT]

Not yet. Thanks for the concern :)
Seems to be getting better, but we'll see. I'm going to give it till Thursday. I'm thinking it's probably psychologically-related, something like stress from the breakup manifesting itself. That was a long time ago, but I guess it takes awhile to heal GI problems. Seems like the most likely cause... the first time this happened to me was in 2001, shortly after a floor-mate at my university hall killed himself. Each subsequent time it's happened, I seem to be able to associate it with a stressful event. Looks like I'm going to have to avoid stresses more avidly. Or become a complete hippy and do more yoga. Or do more drugs.


So.....

Last night, I went out to a birthday party in honour of my cousin's friend, whom I met during a trip to Australia back in about June of last year (the 'road trip,' which is recorded in this very journal). Awesome party at a pub downtown, live music including jazz, rock and all kinds of stuff in between. Met a few new people, and had a great time. Probably just what I needed.

Things seem to be going well with the girl from Turkey - she seems to like me still, despite my lack of verbal profundity. Seems keen on the idea of travelling with me if I ever go over to the Middle East, or even around Australasia (if I go back there).


Christ, this journal has turned into a personal journal, rather than a lifting journal. I can't wait to get back into the weights, but I'm going to just relax for a few more days and try to heal up.

Looks like I've leaned out a fair bit, but I don't seem to have lost much muscle. I'd say I'm sitting around 12% bodyfat now, down from about 14. I can see ribs, and some abs, and some quad separation. In fact, dare I say it, this illness has made me look pretty good.

[Teh BDK]

Bull****.

I demand action from a journal if I'm to read it. You better sweeten this crapsheet, mister.

[TTT]

Which kind of action in particular?

[TTT]

And.... this journal is not required reading. Although I do greatly appreciate your help with photography. :)




Today, I got to do a bit of security work at work. They told me to put a company jacket on, and go keep an eye on this lady who was stealing stuff in cosmetics. She had a plastic bag stuffed with crumpled-up newspapers, and she was putting things in it. I watched her for awhile. Our goal was to intimidate her, not remain covert. She asked me if she should get a basket, and if she looked suspicious. And something about just getting back from the dollar store. A whole bunch of us watched her for awhile, and then she decided to go to the tills. She went up to customer service, and then they asked her to open her plastic bag. She ended up using the excuse that she'd 'over-shopped,' and that that was what she 'always did.'
Probably a drug addict. Felt a bit sorry for her, actually.
But I'm sure I looked cool in the jacket. And that's the main thing, of course.


Will probably be meeting up with the girl from Turkey again on Wednesday. Should be a good time.

Got some more photos developed today, and they turned out well. I might scan some more of them and put them up, if I can clean that damned scanner. Might even be worth it to invest in a new scanner, they're cheap these days.

[MixmasterNash]

Your journal title is more pornographic than photo. You are on the right track for Budiak.

[TTT]

Hehe, I'm on the right track for me, too. Maybe.


I haven't done this workout in.... 18 days. I think I did ok on it.

WBB3 Day 3
=========================================================

STANDING DB OH PRESS:
20's x 6
25's x 4
35's x 6
35's x 6
20's x 10


CG BENCH:
45x10
95x4
135x6
135x5


CABLE PRESSDOWNS:
80x8
90x8
70x6


EZ BB CURLS:
(+45) x 6
(+45) x 6
(+20) x 9


I finally seem to be better. I guess I'll see if this workout stirred things up again. It's funny, I woke up a few days ago, maybe a week ago, and something in my mind was different with regards to my ex-girlfriend - I just don't care at all anymore. Not one bit. If she phoned me up right now, it'd be like talking to a stranger.
It just happened overnight, just like something breaking. And now I seem to be fine. The mind plays games sometimes... and they're not nice ones. It plays them with me, anyway.

I don't think there's anything going on with the girl from Turkey, but she's really cool, so she'll be a good friend. And, you never know.

Might be going to Israel in May with my cousin, so I got my med cert today. Should be a great trip if it goes through.

Watched the movie "Crash" tonight. Frigging great movie, I highly recommend it.

=========================================================
Weight: 202lbs according to the nurse. With clothes on, of course.

[TTT]

Made it to page 3. Woohoo.

[getfit]

nice work T, Israel is beautiful,my dad goes often on business,i saw some pics looked incredible!

[Coke]

Just having good friends is super...nice to see the effort TTT - don't let no grass grow under you feet mate.

[TTT]

Sylvia: Excellent... hopefully I can take some good ones, too. :)

Coke: You've got that right. Thanks man, I'll try not to.



I'm getting into HIIT and other stuff starting from today. I need to increase my fitness for this trip. And it makes me feel better.
I'm not going to do crossfit workouts, I'm just going to do some sprinting, biking and whichever sports I can get my hands (& feet) into.
With that said:


Cycling
=========================================================
15 mins quick ride around a few back streets. Above-average pace.
=========================================================


Bought a pump and one of those little flashing red LED thingos for the bike.
Girl in the store was pretty fine.

Work today was excellent. Everyone was in a good mood. We got mobbed at lunchtime, and we were a person down, but everything seemed to flow.

Didn't do anything for St. Paddy's Day last night, so I'm considering making up for that tonight. We'll see.

[TTT]

Watched the movie "V For Vendetta" last night. Interesting premise; fairly good execution. Worth watching, I think... if a bit long. Also, Natalie Portman is always worth watching.

Then, we all went out and got a drink. One martini. I had one with tequila, vodka and lime juice. This drink must have been at least 3/4 straight tequila and vodka, and there was quite a bit of it. Almost got me drunk from a single drink. Anyway, I didn't get home til 2am, and so I don't have much time to do stuff today. Working from 4-8, and then I'm supposed to go to my cousins' place for 'dessert,' which is pretty stupid since I won't get there till about 9, and will have missed the family dinner and will probably leave at 9:30.
Good fun.

I've got tomorrow off, and I think I'm meeting up with the Turkish girl again.

[getfit]

looks like an intersting film,ohhhhhhh drinkin' night we love those but not in the morning :p

have fun :)

[getfit]

have you tried Turkish cuisine? :D

it's very similar to greek food

[TTT]

Can't say that I have.... I've had Greek food before, though.

Thanks, hopefully I'll have fun. I have to organize something first.

[twcolabear]

Hello :) How are things with the Turkish girl going?

[TTT]

Hey.... I think they're going ok, but I don't know if there's actually anything serious going on. It's hard to tell.



Did this workout in 0.5 hours. Nice and intense.
I'm altering WBB3 a bit. I think deads, pullups and bench are too much for one day, so I'm going to do GM's instead of deads, and shift them to legs day.


=========================================================

FLAT DB BENCH:
20's x 15
35's x 7
50's x 3
65's x 6
65's x 4


CG CHINS:
5
4


T-BARS:
2p x 8
2p x 8


CABLE FLYS:
60 x 6
50 x 7



I had a dream the other night that I was fat. I had big rolls of fat on my stomach, and I had to take my shirt off for some reason, and people were staring.

=========================================================

[twcolabear]

that's a horrible dream!:burger:

[getfit]

nice wotk T, weird dream :p

[Coke]

Nice short-n-sweet effort being done within a half hour, good stuff TTT...the dream was off the wall as always, lol.

[Canadian Crippler]

I'd say "and then you woke up", but this probably was just another day for you at the beach.

[TTT]

Anna: Yeah, it was a little disturbing.

Sylvia: Thanks!

Coke: Thanks man. I'm willing to bet that most people dream about weird **** like that, but they forget. I try to remember what I dream about whenever possible - I think it's a good way to assess your mental health and figure out what's troubling you.

Mitch: Quite possibly.





The 'date' went pretty well last night, walked around downtown a bit and then went and watched "Crash" again with the girl from Turkey. And then we went to Subway. A homeless guy came in and stood right beside me and asked if I was going to help him out. So I gave him a $2 coin from the change. The owner was trying to shoo him out.
I still haven't figured her out. I guess I will soon enough.

Work was kind of ****ty. Lots of returns and repairs.
I'm debating whether to quit and go on an extended trip around a bit of Europe and go and visit my friend in Turkey after I go to Israel, rather than just taking 2 weeks off (which is the maximum they'll give me). I probably should. I'll look into that tomorrow.
I'm kind of at another point of change in my life, I think. I have to work out what's important to me. I've been a drifter my whole life. I just aimlessly decide to do things or go places (or have it decided for me). Coming to Canada was an example of this, as was the trip around the South Island of NZ.
I listened to two people I met through my cousin on the bus the other day, talking about classes and assignments and labs at university. That really brought back some memories of boredom and loathing of being tied down to study. I can't see myself putting in two, three or four-plus years of extra study just for the sake of it, which is apparently what my family expects of me. I'm getting sick of hearing about career fairs which are on, which I "should go to." I guess I'd hear about it less if I got my own place, which I've been considering for a long time now, and should have done a long time ago. But it's still going to happen. Maybe I need to move somewhere remote, away from my family. Like.... Brazil. Or England. Or Spain. Or Turkey.

Legs day tomorrow.

[Coke]

Coke: Thanks man. I'm willing to bet that most people dream about weird **** like that, but they forget. I try to remember what I dream about whenever possible - I think it's a good way to assess your mental health and figure out what's troubling you.


You are absolutely right, from what I was hearing on TV, people don't have vivid dreams they can remember all the time…I had a dream the other day, there was a two headed miniature doberman pinscher - real awesome but freaky.

Traveling seems to be something you like or need to get out of your system, and that is cool - reminds me of what I said earlier about you when I sent that song 'I've been everywhere", lol.

I have yet to see that Crash movie, I hear it is real good.

[Wikked1]

I think when you look back one day you will be pleased with path you have chosen,you're doing what most of us dream about,following that little voice in your head. You are gaining experiences most of the world will never get,enjoy it!
Fat dreams ,hmmm wonder what that means? Usually something weird! Searches Google and.....To dream of being fat often means you are feeling guilty about having done something you shouldn't. If you dream of someone else getting fat, ...this was listed AFTER this: Lesbians, Being Fat, and Ass Jabbing. (yeah now there's a must see link "Ass jabbing and lesbians")

[TTT]

Coke: That sounds like a cool dream :D I usually wake up after each dream, and I purposefully remember key words to help me remember what they were about. Yeah, you should watch "Crash," it's pretty interesting.

Wikked: Maybe, and it's pretty cruisy. But I just don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything. As for the fat dream, well.... wait until you hear this one which I had last night:

I was somehow involved in an expedition into this mysterious cave, to take back some pictures or film or something. They were buried somewhere in the cave, and must have been stolen, or something like that (dreams never seem to produce valid reasons for most things). Anyway, I was with a group of a few people I knew, and we found the film or pictures or whatever they were. I think it was kind of fiery and hot in the cave. We were climbing up to the entrance of the cave again (which was kind of like a crevasse, but in rock, not ice) and we came upon this series of layers of tunnels we had to navigate in order to get out of the cave, up near the opening (which, mysteriously, I don't remember having to go through on the way down). They were arranged kind of like that original "Donkey Kong/Mario" game (you had to go from one side to the other, and then there were ladders or openings which let you go upwards into the next tunnel, and then you'd have to travel to the far side of that one, and go up the next ladder/opening, etc.) Anyway, we were climbing through these tunnels, and each one had a specific theme. I guess they were designed to trap people inside the cave. We went through such varied 'theme' tunnels as "gravel," "green slime," "fire" (I don't know how we made it out of there with any skin, but hey, it's a dream), "vagina" (what the ****!? - but yeah, that's what the interior surface was), etc. These tunnels were narrow enough that I had to wriggle and squirm to get through them. Finally, we got to the final tunnel. This one was a 'cold' tunnel. It was lined with steel pipes, and the light inside was blue. I touched one of the pipes, and my whole hand and arm got chilled. I realized that there was a good chance we would die going through this tunnel, since we had to have pretty much full-body contact with these pipes for the length of our passage through the tunnel. Somehow, we made it, but when we finally got to the surface, which looked kind of like a lunar landscape and looked like it was night time, we had to pull my friend's girlfriend out of the pipe, because she almost didn't make it. We walked away from the cave, victorious and happy. The mouth of it was black, with a faint blue glow from the cold tunnel, and there were rocks everywhere, and the ground was dusty. So, we were walking along normally... and then all of a sudden, this beast leaps out of the cave. It looks like red-hot molten rock in a humanoid form, with flames coming off of it. But it also looks kind of cartoonish. Somehow, I know in the back of my mind that this thing is connected to the cave by some legend. It leaps up in the air, probably a good few metres off the ground, and lands beside us. We start running. I look back, and see that it looks as if it could have been a cute kid's cartoon character in some TV program for 5-year-olds. Except for one problem - its eyes are the most evil, malicious-intent-filled orbs of fiery hatred I've ever seen. So we keep running. And then, I woke up.

And then, I went back to sleep, and had a great dream about bedding a hot medical intern (or maybe she was a nurse, I can't remember) I've never met.


Anyway, legs in about 15 mins.

[getfit]

interesting, enjoy the legs :D

[TTT]

Hehe, maybe I should write scripts for cartoons. I could scare the **** out of kids.


Legs session went well.


Modified WBB3; Day 2
=========================================================


Ergonometer:
3':00" / 810m
It'd be very interesting to see how fast someone who actually rows could do this.


ATC SQUATS:
45x10
95x4
135x5
135x6
145x5


GM's:
65x6
95x5
115x6
115x6
Could have gone heavier, but I haven't done these in about 8 months, so I took it easy. I like them.


DB LUNGES:
30's x 6
30's x 6


LEG EXTENSIONS:
80x10
80x10
60x12


SEATED CALF RAISES:
135x6
135x7
90x12



Nothing else to report. I'm going to go stock up on supplies.
=========================================================

[Coke]

Nice way to resume on those GM's, good job throughout to make for some productive leg work bro.

[TTT]

Thanks Coke.




Mod. WBB3; Day 3
=========================================================


Ergo: 3':00" / 796m


STANDING DB OH PRESS:
15's x 8
30's x 3
35's x 6
35's x 5
30's x 6


CG BENCH:
115x10
115x10


CABLE PRESSDOWN:
90 x 8
100 x 8


EZ BB CURLS:
(+40) x 6
(+40) x 6


DECLINE CRUNCHES:
(+10) x 8
(+25) x 8




Somehow, I feel like I haven't quite recovered from the legs day a couple of days ago. Seems like it affected my workout. Anyway, I just did lower weights and banged out as many reps as possible, without going to failure.
And oh, the pump! ;)
Vascularity is way up. I think the increased workout frequency is leading to further recomp. I don't know if I've gained anything though.

=========================================================

[getfit]

nice pump T ;)

have fun tonight

[Coke]

Fine training day for those delts and arms man, finished off with crunches for some nice abs.

[TTT]

Thanks guys.

Went to a party last night at my cousin's place, it was pretty cool. Met some new people, and my Turkish friend and her flatmate came along too.
Today's going to kick some major ass. I've got a few things lined up. The 'girl' and I are going downtown, because there's going to be a major pillowfight downtown, which has been set up by chain email. This should be very interesting. I'm going to take my camera.
Then, we might go bowling, or something. Then she's coming to a family dinner tonight.

[TTT]

The pillow fight was freaking awesome, there was a good turnout of maybe 200 or 300 people... and lots showed up (like us) just to take pictures and/or video. It left an enormous, feathery mess covering the entire sidewalk and plaza in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. I'm wondering how long it'll take to all blow away. I'll post some pictures if I can get some from my friend - I can't be bothered scanning, unless I get a really awesome one.

Then, my Turkish friend and I went 5-pin bowling, which was cool. Her contact lenses glowed eerily green in the UV lighting in the bowling place, which was kind of freaky, since it was like looking at a cat when you shine a flashlight at it. On the way to the bowling alley, this guy walked past us on the footpath, and turned around and said, "Sorry, but do you mind me asking how tall you are?" So, I told him. And then he said something like "Cool, sorry to interrupt you guys, but it really looked funny, kind of cartoonish, seeing you guys walking down here." I just laughed, and let him be on his merry way. I guess he was referring to me walking beside my friend, because she's probably around 5'5" or so. On further consideration, I don't know whether to be insulted about this comment or not.

Then, we went out for dinner with some of my family, which also went well. She left after that, and then my cousin and sister and I went and watched "The Inside Man," which I didn't think was that spectacular a movie, but it did have some good points. Plot wasn't one of them, in my opinion, since it was kind of a modified re-hash of Ocean's Eleven. Some of the twists were kind of nice, though.

Working at 10am tomorrow. It's late. Need sleep.
Diet has been pretty reasonable. I actually feel like I've gained some mass, which is a rare occasion indeed, and probably cause to celebrate by eating yet more food.

[TTT]

Today was kind of different.
Worked 9-5:30. All day we had insolent customers. One lady kept whinging about how it was taking '2 hours' to sort out a delivery for her microwave, despite the fact she wasn't in there for more than half an hour. An old guy came in and wanted me to change the cutters and foils on his shaver, claiming that "last time, someone from here did it for me." I didn't want to touch his razor, which looked like it hadn't been cleaned in about three years. He left a nice little mess of skin powder and whiskers on our bench.
It's kind of funny to think about, because I used to live on a farm, so I'm used to doing dirty work like burying 10-day-dead animals and lambing and treating fly-blown sheep, but I refused to fix this guy's razor. Maybe it's different with animals.
Then we had an old lady who claimed that Shaw Cable was exercising 'TYRANNY!' by forcing her to watch one channel, channel 10, only. This was because she hadn't programmed her remote control properly, and couldn't change the channel. Then she got stuck into us for not knowing exactly how to set an answering message on her answering machine, without referring to the instructions.

I told the staff manager I'm quitting in May. For mostly unrelated reasons.

Anyway, it was an eventful day.
Looks like I have another month and a half of work, and then I'm going to be drifting again.... I need to download some Johnny Cash, like Coke said. And I need a backpack.
It's going to be excellent.

[TTT]

And I need a ****ing shot of scotch, or a mojo upgrade, or something. Maybe a shot of good ol' KCL would be best.
The Turkish girl ain't interested. Time to find someone else, although that's pointless too. I won't be here for quite some time. Time to get some sleep, is what ****ing time it is. I need to clear my head.
I'm meeting up with her tomorrow, it's going to be a blast.

[Canadian Crippler]

You need game, sucka. :p

[lilmase1153]

Wow, everytime I come in here I get carried away in all of your fascinating stories...

Im with cripp, you just need to hold her hand and make her understand.. Do your thing tripple T

[TTT]

Crip and Mase: It's not a lack of game; I have enough of that. I think in this case it might stem from my not being Muslim, or something.
I seem to be able to pull all the girls I'm not really interested in. Some of them are hot, too. The ones I am interested in never seem to be interested in me, although I've only actually met a very few people in my life who I would say I was seriously interested in in the first place. Strange thing, that.

Anyway, I'm not wallowing or anything, I'm just pushing on. It'll all work out.



Mod. WBB3 Day 1
=========================================================

Ergo:
3':00" / 788m


FLAT DB BENCH:
20's x 8
50's x 4
65's x 6
65's x 5
45's x 10


CG CHINS:
BW x 6
BW x 4


T-BARS:
100x6
100x6
I'm just going to list the weights of the plates only, from now on. I can't be bothered writing out stuff like "(Bar + 100) x 6."


CABLE FLYS:
60x6
60x6



All in all, a B-grade workout. I didn't improve on bench at all. I attribute most of this to my chronic lack of sleep the last few days. My CNS feels kind of fried.
It'll recover. I'm a free man. Free of worry about job constraints, free of relationships, free of a permanent residence. Free of drugs, free of diseases, free of speech. Free of life.
=========================================================
According to the scale, I'm also down to 195lbs. But I've never looked bigger.

[getfit]

free! weeee :D

good effort sunshine, we all have out off days no worries :)

[Coke]

It'll all work out.

Great way to look at things, with that attitude you can touch the sky so to speak - ;) ...nice session 3T.

[-TIM-]

3T getting his mack on with the ladies. Err...sorta. Patience my good man. The right lady friend is right around the corner.

[TTT]

Sylvia: Thanks! :)

Coke: Yeah, I generally take that outlook. Beats being negative. Thanks dude.

Timbo: Hehe, I know.... and lots in between.... ;)






Cardio
=========================================================

1.25 hours biking up and down hills, and then a few laps around a distant park, and then back up and down the hills and home.
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[TTT]

I had to stay for an extra half hour at work, because this guy came up at closing and made me show him all this stuff on his camera which would have been obvious had he spent 10 mins reading the instruction manual. Then they pulled the tills, and I was stuck inside. Apparently, he tried to keep shopping even after he'd finished with me... some people are ****ed.
At least I sold him something.

[Coke]

Damn those last minute shoppers, at least he made a purchase though...awesome you spent plenty of time on the bike riding around, that is some good therapy and cardio, riding up the hills makes for hard work.

[TTT]

Not if you have a (borrowed :D) expensive mountain bike, with about twenty gazillion gears..... Man, I had it on the middle sprocket in front, and the easiest gear at the back, and I got so much torque, I was lifting the front wheel off the ground just pedalling normally! But I was only doing a walking pace up the hill :)


Last night I had another bizarre dream. This time, I was with some of the people I travelled around Australia with, who also live here, and also one dude from university in NZ. We were watching this live show in some building, which consisted of various short skits and dramas. The final act was some girl walking out into the room (the seating was arranged in basically a circle, so the performers walked into the centre). She had no top on, and had huge knockers. She was accompanied by guys playing some sort of old-fashioned instruments, probably lutes and wooden flutes, or something. Anyway, we watched this performance, and then we were leaving, when all of a sudden, some announcement came over the PA system. It told us to stay where we were, and to start preparations, or something like that. Somehow, I understood that we were all going to be taken hostage/abducted/kidnapped.
Basically, these instructions kept being relayed through the PA, and we were told to change into specific clothes, and anyone who was hurt was told to go to see someone in some room (although only one person from each group of friends was allowed this service, so we elected one of my friends, since he had a big blister on his heel from hiking).
Then, we descended into this kind of indoor plaza in the building. It had glass panels all around the ceiling and a huge part of the front wall, and I could see outside. I saw this flying-saucer-shaped thing descending towards the building, accompanied by a strange chirping/droning noise, which scared me. All of a sudden, it disappeared, and appeared INSIDE the building, right in the centre of the big atrium/plaza we were standing around. The strange thing was, it was shrunken in size to about a hundredth of its original size, making it about the size of my fist. It gradually started expanding, until it filled most of the room (and this room was BIG, probably the size of an olympic pool stadium, or something, except square). People started getting out, and they didn't look alien. They started telling us that we were going to be going with them, and that we had to comply with everything they said, otherwise we'd be punished by 'the senate.' We all just complied without resistance, since I guess it was assumed that they had some kind of crazy weaponry.
They gave us lunch. I started talking to one of the leaders from the ship about where we were going, and why they were kidnapping us. He seemed to laugh a lot, avoiding the point of most of my questions. Then I asked him about photography, and he said they had all the latest cameras where we were going, including "[ ]" (can't remember what it was called, but it sounded funny). Damned space cameras. I also talked to one guy who'd been taken from another planet/place, and he said you were only allowed to cut your hair once every six or so months, under this regime. And he said it sucked, because he didn't like his hair that long, so he was going to just grow it down to his ankles.
I don't remember anything after that, because I think I woke up around then.


Going to try to get a legs session in today.
Then I'm meeting up with my Turkish friend downtown in the afternoon, because it's her birthday. A whole bunch of us are going out to a pub.

[Coke]

U boys have got the toys with expensive mountain bikes, international travels, turkish women and what have U - ;)

[TTT]

Hehe, well I would never be able to buy a bike like that, but my uncle lent it to me. :) As for everything else.... well, I'm not paying for the girl ;)



I had another wacked-out dream last night.
For some reason, my dad and I had to bury someone in what I think may have been the backyard at the house I lived in up until about age 5. Anyway, that part was already done at the start of the dream. Then, he wanted to 'check' on this other coffin (!?) which had been in the ground since 1816. So, he dug it up, and was trying to show me the skeleton. I wouldn't have anything to do with it, but I looked at it, and it was pretty much your average old lady's skeleton. Also, the skeleton of a little boy had been buried with it in the same box, except this one was only about the size of a small banana, so it must have been a foetus, or something. I don't know.
Prior to all this, I think the dead person we had to bury may have had something to do with a playground I was looking at. This playground had been constructed on top of an excavator bucket which had been accidentally stuck and wedged under a large, horizontal steel pole. Some building expert was telling me that it would be "a hazard for the rest of the life of the playground," and that it would "just have to be built again soon." He also said something about this being a common problem with people who didn't know how to operate heavy machinery properly. Somehow, the person had managed to wedge this digger bucket under the pole in such a way that tons of accumulated tension were still present, years later... and then they had to abandon the bucket, because they couldn't get it out. Great place to build a playground.


I didn't get a legs session in yesterday. Hopefully after work today.
Went to this party at a backpacker's pub downtown with my friend and a whole bunch of her friends, and it was great. The pub's nachos were burnt, though. But we got replacements, and all was jolly. Then a few of us went to Starbucks afterwards. Then I got home around midnight, and now I'm up for work at 7am, starting at 8.

[getfit]

you have the wildest dream T, i hardly dream anymore,stress :(

[Kiaran]

Dreams are wierd. I get some bizzar ones myself sometimes. Get that legs session in, damnit!

[twcolabear]

what have you been doing that you have these wacky dreams? Where is your gym session?

[TTT]

Sylvia: You need to learn to relax. I think I've had crazy dreams since I was a kid.

Kiaran: Yep, they sure are. I'm trying, but I haven't had enough sleep for days...

Anna: I'd say it's a combination of sleep deprivation and intellectual stimulation deprivation. Mixed in with a bit of female deprivation. And a surfeit of lampreys.



Anyway...

I watched "Thank You For Smoking" with my sister tonight, and it was an interesting movie. Some good discussions, along with a few funny bits.

The Turkish girl and her flatmate and two of her friends are going to Victoria tomorrow, and I can't go because of work. I don't think I've ever felt so unhappy about not being able to go on a trip. It's two of her friends' birthdays tomorrow, so they'll be partying it up while I'm here, um, partying it up. With myself.
Actually, **** that right out the window. I'm going to go to the gym after work, and then I'm going to do something fun for once. There has to be something cheap and fun to do in this city at night. I'll find it.

[TTT]

I decided to skip the legs session, because I felt like I was going to fall asleep regardless of what I was doing, yesterday. I came home, had some dinner, and went to bed, where I passed out within minutes. I was so tired, my eyes were stinging at work.
I'm just going to do the arms/shoulder workout today (if the gym's open) and call it a week.


I slept for 12 hours.

I had one dream where I asked out one of my old friends. Despite the fact that, in real life, she's been with some other guy for a couple of years now, she said she thought it would work, because they 'hardly shared anything together,' or something like that. I asked her how many blades of grass they had shared, and brought out my case cutter from work, which I conveniently had in my pocket, and cut a handful of grass from a small tuft nearby. "Not many" was the answer.

Then I had a repeat of a dream I had a few days ago, where I was fighting with this guy who I knew from primary school, except we were adults. I was winning.

[TTT]

Mod. WBB3 Day 3
=========================================================


Ergo: 3':00" / 799m


STANDING DB OH PRESS:
15's x 9
30's x 3
35's x 8
35's x 5


LATERAL RAISES:
15's x 10


CG BENCH:
Skipped - someone was using the bench


BAR CABLE PRESSDOWNS:
110 x 10!
110 x 7
70 x 9


EZ BB CURLS:
(+40) x 8
(+40) x 6


DECLINE CRUNCHES:
(+25) x 5
Something didn't feel right with these. It felt like I still had DOMS in my abs. So I left it at this.



This was an awesome workout. I'd had (almost) enough sleep for the first time in quite a few workouts, and I felt like I could just rip through anything.

Now I'm off to check out hiking boots and backpacks for the impending trip.
More money down the gurgler. Funny how I've done so much travelling, and I still have never owned a backpack or a pair of hiking boots... I backpacked with my friends using a wheeled suitcase. :)
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[Coke]

Wow bro, gonna be going off on another excursion. You sound recharged, bout to tear some $hit up, lol.

[TTT]

I was feeling kind of recharged... then today hit me like a bus driven by an elderly lady.

I think I must have woken up at least 50 times last night. Maybe it was 75. **** knows. Seems like I was awake as much as I was asleep, anyway, which felt like every 5 minutes.

At work, we had a flyer opening day, so it was packed out. People kept me working overtime for half an hour without pay. It's harder to escape than you think, without being pretty rude about it. In the end, I had to leave a store supervisor working the tills while I left, which was funny in an ornery kind of way, which basically sums up my mood for the day: ornery.
If I'd said what was on my mind for about 80% of the day, I wouldn't have had to bother with organizing and sending in the requisite resignation forms in May.

Hopefully I'll sleep tonight, and get a good workout in tomorrow... because I have a ton of stuff to organize tomorrow, and it's going to suck if I have to restrain myself again all day.

[TTT]

I had another strange dream last night. I had a pet Iguana which I'd recently gotten, and for some reason, this was a very different Iguana (but in this dream, this was a normal Iguana). This one lived in a small bucket, kind of like a plant pot, filled with slimy, wet sand. My sister and cousin told me that Iguanas had recently won some internet competition for 'funniest-looking animal in the world,' because of the way they 'posed' in their little pots (one ear sticking up, one arm sticking sideways). I don't think Iguanas even have more than a hole in the side of their heads for ears, but that wasn't important. Anyway, this thing was submerged in the sandy stuff, and we had to shake the pot and push some of the sand aside just to see part of its head. It looked all pale and pasty and slimy, but the parts of it sticking out above the sand (one 'ear' and one 'arm') were kind of orangey-brown.



Today I might be getting some stuff for the trip. And hopefully, a workout.

[getfit]

hehe, sweet dream i think iguanas are interesting, where are you off to? did i miss something?

[TTT]

Well, this was one ****ed-up Iguana. It looked more like a foetus, with an Iguana face, and Rabbit ears.

I'm heading to Israel, Turkey and probably Greece and Italy and maybe further West and North.

I haven't worked out in days, I've been flat out organizing **** for this trip and my grandma's birthday and god knows what else.... people here are crazy. There's always something you have to do. I actually need to write a schedule down, otherwise I'll never get everything done. I've never kept a schedule in my life....
Anyway, tonight's my grandma's birthday dinner. Today, I'm supposed to be going to an 'open day' at BCIT, and I have to go exchange one of my new hiking boots to see if it makes any difference, because one of the seams is rubbing against my ankle bone, which won't be good if I'm walking for 8 hours a day. I also have to organize booster shots, tours, visas, etc. :) Before all this, though, I'm going to go to the gym, damnit.

[getfit]

wow, sounds like an amazing trip, you'll love Greece ;)

[TTT]

I hope so! ;) I'll have to get some gym, food etc. recommendations from you before I go...


WBB3 Day 1
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FLAT DB BENCH:
25's x 12
40's x 6
65's x 6
65's x 4
40's x 12 (speed)


CG CHINS:
BW x 7
BW x 5


OA DB ROWS:
60x8
60x7


CABLE FLYS:
60x8



Rather a short session, took about 25-30 mins. I need to get moving.
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Weight: Still sitting at 195. Pretty lean, though.

[getfit]

T, are you staying in Athens?

[Coke]

There is a friend of mine at the gym who went to Greece with his wife, they loved it - he said he would drop anything at a moments notice to go back there. I am looking forward to hearing what you will have to say about those stops you plan to make. I suspect taking any trips are good enough reason to skip workouts, lol.

[TTT]

Sylvia: Probably, but I'm not sure yet. At this point, I haven't planned anything. I'm debating whether it's better to book some tours from here, or just wing it like I have on other trips. I've heard that in Italy, it's often hard to get accommodation, so I'll probably book tours for there... but as for Greece, well... it's up in the air. I'm not sure whether it's better to go on a tour so I get to see all the things I'm 'supposed' to see, or whether I should just go and see a whole bunch of stuff that people on tours don't get to see.
:)

Coke: The problem is, I always lose weight on these trips. And I'm not big now.... so I need to get my ass into the gym and gain as much as possible before the trip, hehe :)



Yesterday, I bought the new lens. It's awesome. It feels indestructible. I'm going to drop it out the window tonight and see if it is :D

[getfit]

i thought this might be to some use for you :)

http://www.athensguide.com/

[TTT]

Thanks for the link, Sylvia. I appreciate it.





There's something depressing about hanging around taking photos with, having coffee with and watching a movie with someone you are exceptionally keen on, and knowing that they see you as nothing more than another person. It's one of those no-win situations. If I stop doing stuff with her, I won't get to see her, and I'll look like an immature bastard. If I keep seeing her, well, I get to see her. And nothing more.

Today I went to the dentist at 8:20am, precisely 26.2 hours before I was due to wake up in order to catch up on the sleep I'm missing, which probably only includes the sleep I've missed over the last few weeks. Factor in my whole life, and it's probably closer to 26.2 months. I tried to sleep after I got back, but there's construction work (including drilling) which manages to make it through my earphones and music, so no cigar.
Which probably explains the depressing tone of this post.
I'm going to try to remedy this situation right now. It may take a few days.

[Coke]

You don't seem depressed but more focused on reality, the truth can hurt some...the trip will work wonders 3T.

[Kiaran]

Keep your head up, bro. Hanging out with the ladies you like so much, but the feelings aren't mutual, can mess with a person's mind. Your trip sounds like a big one. Get those workouts in.

[TTT]

Coke: I hope so. Yeah, I'm pretty realistic. Sometimes, it just pisses me off.

Kiaran: Thanks, man. It is going to be a big one, although I'm not quite sure just how big yet.



I've been thinking about whether I should take this lens/camera on this trip after all. I can't decide if it's going to cause more hassle than the amount of use I'll get out of it.


Last night, I had this strange nightmare. I was on my computer, but I think I was in the flat I was staying at in either Christchurch or Hamilton in NZ. And I was using the laptop I'm using now, which I didn't have in NZ. It was sometime late at night. Anyway, I was surfing the web, and I pulled up WBB (I know, pretty crazy that I think about WBB even while I'm asleep, haha). But when it loaded, the page was hacked (kind of like when there was that attack by "Hellrazor" or whatever they called themselves, last year). It brought up a screen which showed a knight in armour, with some kind of sword or something, all in monochrome grey. It looked kind of evil. The image started slowly fading out, and the screen started turning black. Then this super-creepy music (it wasn't even music, it was more like discordant bashing) faded in, and got louder and louder and louder.... it was so loud, it would surely be waking up everyone in my flat, despite the fact it was coming through my laptop speakers. I started cursing and slammed my laptop shut, trying to stop the sound (I couldn't close the browser, it was locked up)... and I was as scared as ****. REALLY ****ing scared. Take the feeling you get from the first time you saw one of those pranks on the internet with the screaming face, in the dark at 3am, and multiply by 100,000. I don't even know why - it must have been the music and the picture, and the fact that my whole flat was woken up by this crazy sound, all combined. I woke up, and I was cold and sweating.... and the even stranger part was, my eyes wouldn't stop watering. It was like I was crying, but I wasn't. It didn't stop for a good few minutes, despite the fact that I wasn't sad or scared anymore or anything. ****ed.

Then, at 8am, I was awoken by a wrong-number call.

[TTT]

=========================================================

Ergo: 3':00" / 784m

ATC SQUATS:
45x10
115x6
135x5
135x5
135x5


GM's:
65x6
85x3
115x6


SEATED CALF RAISES:
135x8
135x10


LEG EXTENSIONS:
80x12
80x10

0.5 hours.




My sister just sent me an MSN saying that one of the girls I met at the pub concert on Saturday said she 'almost fell in love' with me. **** this. It only confirms what I said a few posts ago. Although I don't know who she was, and I probably didn't talk to her, so I can't make that judgement yet.
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[getfit]

just popped in fast to say sesh looking good T, nice talking to you on MSN :)

[TTT]

Thanks! You too :)



Today was crap. Upon waking, I felt like my face was going to implode in a mass of wrinkles while my eyes simultaneously dried up and shrivelled into little gel-filled raisins. I had to go to a family dinner last night, which kept me up pretty late. Anyway, I'm going to bed now. Had about twenty thousand and one returns and repair jobs to sort out at work. But somehow, I managed to stay pretty positive. Even lifting a small microwave felt heavy, and I have DOMS in my legs like the next polio epidemic, but it didn't seem to bother me too much.
If I'm not too ****ed tomorrow, I'll do an arms/shoulders workout. The weather's supposed to be ****house all weekend, which is always fun. I was going to take my new lens up into the mountains, but I'll have to see what happens.
The coworker who stopped hitting on me for awhile is kind of doing it again. I don't know what her deal is.
Three people are quitting at work, all of us at around the same time. They're going to have fun over there in about a month.
My cousins' dog is ****ing crazy. She was on psychiatric medication for awhile, and seemed to be better, so she's not on it anymore. Tonight, she seemed to be trying to dig through a hardwood floor, and staring at the base of a lampstand.
There's too much random stuff going on right now to even list. So I'm not going to bother. Suffice it to say that, through the filtering dim haze of insomnia, life is.... ... ....... .. bananas. With ice cream, chocolate sauce, and caviar. And a big, fat clove of garlic on top.

[TTT]

Last night, I went to my Turkish friend's place and watched sappy movies with her and her flatmate and friend until 3:30am. I was going to leave and catch the last bus, which I thought was at around 1am, but it was actually at 12:46. We decided to watch another movie. So, I slept on the couch. I slept till around 10, at which point I left. I feel more rested today than I normally do when I sleep on my bed, which may say something about my bed. Particularly because I was right next to a furnace at this place, which kept blasting on and off all night.
The final movie we watched was "Just Friends," which was rather painful because it almost exactly mirrored my situation, except I'm not fat. How ironic.

Then I bussed back home, which took me through Hastings & Main, which was alive and kicking on a cloudy, rainy Easter morning of 5 degrees C. I saw a guy with no arms and one leg on a wheelchair, wheeling himself along using one leg. I saw tens of drug addicts, their heads lolling around as they stumbled along the sidewalks looking for change. I saw people wrapped up in filthy rags and sleeping bags, with bottle-filled trolleys as their only possessions. And it really made me think again.

[TTT]

=========================================================

STANDING DB OH PRESS:
15's x 10
30's x 8
40's x 6
40's x 5


LATERAL RAISES:
15's x 10
15's x 12


CG BENCH:
Skipped


EZ SKULLCRUSHERS:
(+20) x 6
(+40) x 5
(+30) x 6


HAMMER CURLS:
25's x 8
25's x 7
25's x 8



The gym was as packed as a mother****er. I don't know why everyone chose to workout on Easter Sunday, what a bunch of losers.

Going for yet another family dinner tonight, which has nothing to do with any religious holiday whatsoever. We seem to have more family dinners than anyone I know. I guess I should appreciate it while I have my family. But it's starting to get to the point where it's just an obligation.

Tomorrow, I'm going to do something fun with the girl again, if the weather clears up. Maybe, um,..... walk around town. Again. Deciding what to do for the morning.
=========================================================

[getfit]

nice T, i guess they felt guilty eating all the chocolate bunnies and wanted to burn of the extra calories :D

[Coke]

I hear what you're saying about the family dinners, they have their place and can be real nice at times.

I'm surprised your gym was even open, good work hitting up them delts and arms that way bro.

[TTT]

Sylvia: Thanks, and yeah, you're right. Either that, or they were pissed off with all the festivities.

Coke: Yeah, I should be happy to go to them while all of my family's still here. It's a community centre gym, so I guess they're open most of the time. They have some strange hours sometimes, though. Thanks man.





Went to North Van with my friend today. Took some pictures. Getting some experience with the lens.
Jesus, I'm going to miss her when she's gone.
Now it's work time, from 6-10pm. What an odd shift. I get to close with my boss. It's going to be fun :D

[twcolabear]

:hello: it has been a long time since I last talked to you or read your journal.



ok, ok it was only a week, but it feels longer considering you've been going to the gym, hanging otu with Turkish girls, taking pics......

Glad you are having fun and working tonight, because I am at work too and will be here until past midnight for sure.
Have fun with the girl tomorrow

[TTT]

Christ, does your old man drive a chariot and wear leather armour? :D Sounds like you need a break.



Tonight was hilarious. My boss was actually kind of fun to work with. We were giving each other **** the whole time about being stupid and missing signs that we were supposed to pull down.
To top it all off, I caught this other lady standing in a queue having a full-on perv at me while I was bending over to help find a battery for another guy. Not even discreetly. I looked up, and she was staring at my ass. Then she smiled at me. Then, three minutes later, I was over at our counter, and she walked over, like she was thinking, and then walked away. It was kind of funny.

[Kiaran]

Man, you got ladies coming out of the walls for you, lol. See what consistent workouts can do for you? :D BTW, your analogies kill me man.

[getfit]

LOL. women pftt;)

[TTT]

Kiaran: Not really. I've got strange women coming out of the walls. And the ones I actually like aren't going anywhere.

Sylvia: I'd appreciate it if you'd refrain from releasing that in my journal, the air's clean here.





Today, the boss got angry because we couldn't activate cellphones. I hadn't even been given an activation ID and password. Hell, I wasn't even given a locker, or access to the employee computer system, when I started work. I'm kind of like one of those 'ghost' employees, whose names aren't on the list. All I need is a red stapler.

Other than that, it was a good day. It's pretty sweet being able to lift a chest freezer onto a cart without someone else's help.

Last night, I asked my friend why she wasn't interested in any kind of relationship. Turns out it's because she doesn't want to start anything with someone in another country. Kind of a shame, because she actually likes me, but it's probably for the best.
So anyway, I was thinking about that all day. And about the price of oil, and how many steps the soles on my hiking boots will last for, and during which situations I'll regret bringing my camera along during this trip, and what it was like being three years old and innocent, and why it is that old people can't understand technology, and the nature of personality, and how to pack in as much food as possible during lunch time, and where I'm going to move to when I leave my grandparents' place after I get back from this trip, and how I'm probably going to keep a diary written exclusively in pencil in a nice book during the trip and write in it at night time using a flashlight held in my mouth, and what it must be like for someone 6'5" to have sex with someone 5'0", and how dependent people are on their cellphones these days, and whether I should stay in this city or not, and why the guy standing outside the door at work every day begging doesn't have a job since he looks normal but I don't really know anything about him so I can't judge him, and whether the universe is infinite and if it's not then what the boundary of it looks like, and about whether I'd rather lose my sense of eyesight or my hearing, and how long it would take for me to be bored and pissed off again if I went back to school, and about the ****er who left dog**** on the sidewalk, and about what I'll be doing on April 18th, 2050 at 8:40pm, if I'm still breathing.

[TTT]

=========================================================

Ergonometer:
Approx. 2 mins - display is still broken.


FLAT DB BENCH:
30's x 10
50's x 3
65's x 6
65's x 6
40's x 9


CG CHINS:
BWx5
BWx2
Got distracted.


LAT PD:
90x6
120x10
120x9


LOW FACE PULLS (Rope):
60x12
70x8
80x10
At my height, these work my traps more than anything. But it hit my rear delts, etc. a bit too.


CABLE FLYS:
60x7
60x7



An Asian girl with perhaps the most amazing body I've seen in my life was doing squats with good form in the gym tonight. Some guy decided that, because I told him he could use the squat rack while I was resting from pullups, he'd use the squat rack... and not leave it. Anyway, I finally got back in there for the second set of pullups, and then the girl walked up behind me, and the guy was putting plates on the bar in the rack, and I got distracted. So I only did two.
While doing the lat pulldowns, some lady started using the machine between my sets, and kept on using it, too. I asked her if I could work in, pointing to the machine, and my towel and shirt and book which were resting right beside it, and she said she just had one more set. Which wasn't so bad, now that I think about it. But I've written it out now, so I'm not going to go back and delete it.


I've just been informed that apparently, my mother has gone missing. Her and dad have obviously broken it off again, and now my sister tried to call them in Australia, and my dad's drunk (as usual) and mother is nowhere to be found. Bit of a worry, but I guess everything will turn out.
=========================================================

[Canadian Crippler]

Gym pussy! That's happened to me once. I had my water bottle there and I said "Hey man, I was kinda using that...". He goes "I have 3 more sets bro". You would have walked away. But I told him "That's nice, I was here though so I'm gonna work in.". His reply was "......ok."

Conclusion: Stop being teh gym pussy!



(nice workout :p)

[getfit]

nice T, women in general doing squats is something nice to watch ;) as you don't see many doing them

[lilmase1153]

Seriously I love coming in here and just reading, you articulate your words very well here in cyber space... I myself sound like an ass, I find its hard to convey my feelings on the net.. Anyways this is besides the point, I kinda agree with cripp (I know I hate to say that :) ) stop being sooo damned nice..

Oh and nice looking w/os btw

[TTT]

I'm not a pussy.
Yes, girls performing exercises you don't normally see them performing is pretty cool.
Thanks.




Went to a laser show tonight at the planetarium with my friend and her flatmate. It was 'Laser Green Day.' I normally don't like Green Day too much, but the show was awesome, and they played some of their older stuff as well. We got to lie on our backs and look up at the ceiling for an hour, while being bombarded by blinding flashes and images of George Bush flying around the sky. Some of the flashes were literally blinding. I had to put my arm around my friend as we walked back to the bus, as I think she was a bit stunned. But it was cool. I thought to myself as I watched those lights zipping across the ceiling. I thought, "Here I am, at 22 years old, watching this show with a friend I may or may not have in another 20 years.... and I'll never see this exact show with this same person again, in this same exact spot." And I thought about what I'm going to do in those next 20 years. And I wondered about how a person can become so attached to another person in such a short few months, and whether it's worth it to persist in trying to form some kind of relationship with her, or whether I should just accept the fact that the odds are a hundred thousand to one, and try to find another person whose interests, personality, philosophy and psyche are so closely matched to mine that it feels like I've known her since before we were conceived.
Looking at the planets and galaxies on the screen, I realized again (for the thousandth time) that it doesn't even ****ing matter. Not one bit, in the general schema.
I was so lost in thought on the bus ride home, I totally ignored a girl I knew from another branch of my work store, and from yoga. I was staring at her feet. Then, she got off the bus, and I looked out the window and saw her. She probably thinks I'm a ******.
It's as cold as it was three months ago right now. ****ing Vancouver.
Christ, I'm tired.

[TTT]

=========================================================

Cardio:
Biking. 45 mins, medium pace, all around back streets. Some of the streets look amazing right now. Lots of trees in bloom, most of them really old. Also, it's the first really sunny day we've had in ages. It's still only about 10 or 12 degrees, though.


Work in 0.5 hours.
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[TTT]

My mum's still missing. My sister and I are debating what to do about that.

My dad called me at 2 in the morning, wondering if we'd heard anything. I had to tell him I was going back to sleep, because he kept on talking. ****er.

[Canadian Crippler]

Has anyone ever told you that you look like R.J. Umberger of Philadelphia Flyers?

[getfit]

My mum's still missing. My sister and I are debating what to do about that.

My dad called me at 2 in the morning, wondering if we'd heard anything. I had to tell him I was going back to sleep, because he kept on talking. ****er.
oh dear, i hope everythings ok :(

[-TIM-]

Good reads all around 3T. Workouts look good, and there never seems to be a dull moment in your life.

[TTT]

Mitch: No. I have, however, been told I looked like Todd Bertuzzi. When I was at work training, a whole bunch of the girls said I did. **** knows. Crazy Canadian hockey fanatics.
I'm much better looking than either.

Sylvia: Thanks.

Tim: Thanks. Nope, never a dull moment, except the vast majority of time which occupies my life, which doesn't count as a 'moment' as much as 'life.' It's just interspersed with a lot of random things, most of which are kind of ****ed up. The difference with me is, I try to turn '****ed up' into 'fun and ****ed up.'






My sister just got a call from my mum, and she's fine. She took a trip and then went home. Which is good.

Work was ok, I got drilled on cellphone activation procedure shortly after walking in the door, and then all was calm.
I think I'll actually miss the people at work when I leave, they're kind of cool. They have ads up for job positions already.

I don't know if I'll get to see my friend again before she leaves. She's going to be busy packing and sorting things out tomorrow, and then she's leaving on Sunday. I'm going to be shooting pictures at the Sun Run on Sunday, which is the 4th largest organized run in the world, or something like that. I think there're almost 50,000 people registered this year.
I hope things will be the same when I see her in Turkey, but I doubt they will. She said she had a boyfriend there before she left, and the relationship apparently degraded while she was over here, but I think things will still be a little awkward.
I guess that's what Europe exists for.

[TTT]

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Cardio:
Cycling. About 3.5 - 4 hours. The seawall was closed, so we had to go back the way we came. Oh well.
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[TTT]

Said goodbye to my friend last night after we had a group dinner. She's leaving today at around 4pm.
Was going to take my camera downtown and get some photos of the Sun Run this morning, but I slept so ****ing badly that I literally couldn't. I think I was awake about 50% of last night. I must be thinking about my friend. And my bed is a block of ****ing wood.

Working from 2-7 tonight.

[Coke]

It should be an interesting visit when you make it over there to Turkey, if she is a real friend then it will show in the future imo. Crazy day of scenic cycling TTT, I bet you had to have a good appetite after all that.

[TTT]

Yeah, I guess you're right.



Today's been ****ing crazy. I got about 4 hours' sleep, because I ended up just lying awake in bed again. I don't know what the hell's wrong with me.
Either the bed's getting harder, or I'm just becoming more of an insomniac. It's not lack of exercise.
The last time I looked over at the clock, it was after 2am, and I got up at 7 for work.
At work, I got a speaking to from the manager for not arranging the microwaves properly, and he said I should have asked for help if I needed it. I guess when people here ask you if you're going to be fine by yourself, they take the reply, "um, I think so...... {pause}" literally.

During the morning, we've had about 70% repairs/returns, and 10% purchases. And then 20% of just plain random ****, like irate customers, or people who seem like they're getting towards the end of their lithium prescription.
This old lady kept going on (for the second day in a row) about how her microwave is impossible to use, because none of the 'auto' settings work, because you can't set the time on them. I kept telling her to just use the 'time' setting and ignore the 'auto' modes, but she wouldn't listen.
As I was walking out for my lunch break, I smacked right into the back of some guy who decided to turn on his heels on the way to the door.
As I was walking along the outside of the store, two teenaged girls ogled me.
My sandwich just fell apart. And it took me three attempts to type 'sandwich.'

[getfit]

:birthday: :birthday: happy birthday hon, hope you have a great one :)

[TTT]

Thanks! It wasn't half bad.... I had to work, but that was ok.
Then we had a family dinner.

Then, my cousin and sister and I got on the piss with my grandparents.

Then we went out and watched 'Scary Movie 4,' because apparently the beach party wasn't happening. It was ok, nothing amazing, but it did still manage to make me laugh quite a bit.

Then I took a different bus home, so I just got back from a 25-minute walk at 1am. Kind of interesting. I like walking the streets at night, it's kind of peaceful.

Better get some sleep. Big day tomorrow.

[lilmase1153]

Happy belated Bday 3T, its good to hear your mum came back but it sucks to hear about the ****ty day at work..

Thats life though and it is what you make it... At least thats what everyone keeps telling me :confused:

[TTT]

Cheers Mase, and keep your head up dude. You're about due for an awesome turn of events, judging by what you've been through.



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PUSH PRESS:
45x10
65x4
95x6
105x4
95x5
95x4
95x3
First time I've tried these, and I'm happy with what I can move. Damn, do they ever fry your delts fast.


EZ SKULLCRUSHERS:
(+30) x 7
(+30) x 10
(+30) x 7


CABLE PRESSDOWNS:
100x10
120x8


LATERAL RAISES:
15's x 10
15's x 10


HAMMER CURLS:
40's x 5
40's x 4
25's x 8




Pretty good session. I like the push presses, I think I'll keep them for awhile. I need to tighten up the form, but I think I've pretty much got it. Maybe I'll learn to c & j one day.
Today I've done absolutely nothing except go to the gym. For a change. I need to get my booster shots, and a camera bag, and a backpack tomorrow. And see about booking some tours.
I don't think it's hit me yet that I'm going to be off in about two weeks. It's kind of starting to get a bit exciting, but it's more like the ride up when you're skydiving - you don't get scared until you're at the open hatch, with your feet dangling above the clouds, and the wind whipping at your shoes.
I haven't quite gotten into the spirit of adventure yet. It'll happen, but it takes that little kick in the ass you get when you're in the airport and waving goodbye to the people you know, and beginning the journey into unknown territory. Kind of like when you're at a friend of a friend's place at a party, and you need to use the toilet, but you don't want to ask, and you only have 1 minute before you're supposed to leave. Or when you're going to the first game of a new team sport, and don't know how good the players will expect you to be. Or when you started high school, and you had to go on a week-long camp, and they made you wade into muddy ponds, and then you didn't know what to do with your rank, fetid clothes/sandals/underwear, so you just put them in a plastic bag for the week, and then brought them home. Taking care to hide them deep in your bag first, so that those sons-of-bitches camping with you didn't decide to grab them out of there and parade them around the campsite for all the girls.
That feeling.


It's great, isn't it?


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[TTT]

I remember bits from a dream I had last night.
I was at my cousins' place, except their house was different, and had a whole bunch of added rooms and stuff, kind of like a strange mansion. There were zombie aliens running around, super fast. They looked exactly like the aliens from "Alien," except a little more.... dead. But they were just as fast. Anyway, it turned out that anyone bitten by these things turned into a zombie alien. Very cliche.
One by one, my family succumbed to the zombie alien disease. I remember sprinting through a lot of rooms, and slamming a lot of doors, in order to escape them. I woke up before I died. I think it was just my grandma and one of my cousins left with me.

There were a whole bunch of other ****ed-up dreams too, but I didn't remember any key words so I could remember them. I'll have to work on that.

[getfit]

aren't push presses great? nice work T:)

[Coke]

Nice stuff TTT, you'll be on your way soon with your famous travels - ;)

[KevinStarke]

Pushpresses are alot of fun, i'd love to start doin em again. Solid workout man.

[-TIM-]

At work, I got a speaking to from the manager for not arranging the microwaves properly, and he said I should have asked for help if I needed it. I guess when people here ask you if you're going to be fine by yourself, they take the reply, "um, I think so...... {pause}" literally.

During the morning, we've had about 70% repairs/returns, and 10% purchases. And then 20% of just plain random ****, like irate customers, or people who seem like they're getting towards the end of their lithium prescription.
This old lady kept going on (for the second day in a row) about how her microwave is impossible to use, because none of the 'auto' settings work, because you can't set the time on them. I kept telling her to just use the 'time' setting and ignore the 'auto' modes, but she wouldn't listen.
As I was walking out for my lunch break, I smacked right into the back of some guy who decided to turn on his heels on the way to the door.
As I was walking along the outside of the store, two teenaged girls ogled me.
My sandwich just fell apart. And it took me three attempts to type 'sandwich.'This reminds me of 40 Year Old Virgin for some reason. Sorry to hear about your sandwich.

[TTT]

Thanks Getfit, Coke, Kevin and Tim. And **** you too, Tim. :)


I went to the store to get a backpack that I'd tried on before, and they were out of stock. So, I'll have to wait. I guess they don't carry too many in my size.
I did manage to pick up a bag that's going to work very well for my camera for twenty bucks, though. That's a significantly better price than the $120 or so that most actual camera bags of that style go for. It's just missing dividers, and looks kind of like a sporty purse, but that shouldn't matter too much. Especially when I'm lying in a pool of blood in an alleyway, sans said bag.

I made an appointment for injections, and they're going to cost $150!! I'm usually not so concerned with money, but I'm going travelling, so I have to budget. And what the hell do we pay for care cards for if they don't cover this? I'd better get a lot of holes in my arms for that kind of money.

I handed in my letter of resignation to work today. The bosses weren't there, so I had to give it to the department sub-manager. I think they were kind of sad to see it. I think. Or maybe they wish I'd handed it in about 6 months ago. Who knows?

Tomorrow's going to be a good day. Something momentous is going to happen. I don't know why exactly, I can just feel it.

[TTT]

Today, I went for a walk and took some pictures. The only ones I ended up taking were of a Canada Goose which I managed to entice with some bread. I got some nice frame-filling closeups. Then, the goose wanted more bread. They really seem to be quite intelligent, but also fairly aggressive. So I threw some more bread away from myself so it'd piss off. It came back for more, but I left.

I went and got some brochures for tours in Europe and the Middle East. Some look interesting. My sister's given me a couple of Lonely Planets to take.
While I was waiting for the bus back to get changed, a drunk/stoned/generally ****ed homeless guy was walking right in the middle of a busy street, yelling untranslatable, gutteral sounds at people in the restaurants and on sidewalks nearby.
On the bus, a guy with Tourette's or some other syndrome kept going on about "she doesn't know me very well." x 100.

Now I'm heading off to some concert or live music thing with my sister and her friend, who's my age. Should be interesting.

[getfit]

have fun,i know the trip is coming soon lucky you :)

[TTT]

I just got back from "Five Alarm Funk." They were pretty cool, good dancing/background music, although nothing I'd probably listen to for actually listening to.
My sister's friend poured me a drink that'd scare a sailor. It was about 75% vodka, and the rest orange juice. And it was a big glass. I downed most of that bastard before I left. Also, there was enough skunk floating around in the venue to keep the buzz going.
On the way back in the taxi, a black cat bolted across the street, and we almost ran it over. That was about the most momentous thing that happened today/tomorrow.

Christ, I need some sleep.

[TTT]

Wow, what are you doing up at this time?

[Clifford Gillmore]

There was enough skunk floating around in the venue to keep the buzz going.



Feeelin' hungry?

[-TIM-]

Thanks Getfit, Coke, Kevin and Tim. And **** you too, Tim. :)Ahh haha. I was thinking more of the microwave sales over the not getting laid when it made me think of that movie. But I guess they're both fitting.

:ninja:

[TTT]

Risk: Actually, before we even got to the place, we ended up grabbing some pizza...

Tim: I haven't seen the movie, and.... **** you. Again. From behind. By a big ex-con named Bubba.




Today was pretty ****ing weird. I didn't get to sleep til around 4, and then I had to work at 12:30. I staggered into work unshaven, with a mild hangover. When I got back from my lunch break, I learned that one of my coworkers had gotten into a fight with my boss, which was kind of funny. Then, him and I had the last two shifts, and we ended up discussing the girls who work in our store.

My mother phoned me 20 minutes ago, interrupting my thought process while typing an email to my friend in Japan. Our conversation consisted of her talking at me for 10 minutes, and me saying things like "yeah" and "uh" and "no" and "right." She gave up. The scary thing is, I hardly even care. Now my dad and some other people are trying to talk to me on MSN, and I can't be bothered there, either.
I need some sleep, for the hundred thousandth time. I'm going to seriously try to get a workout in tomorrow. In between work, and... you guessed it... another family dinner! Hooray for ****ing dinner.
At least I can see the final day of work on this fortnight's work schedule. I can cross the days off. I decided today that I hate retail. Too many ******* customers.

I'm so ornery.

[Clifford Gillmore]

Heh, I hate retail to man. 600+ Customers a week drives me loopy.

If you need the sleep, get the sleep man!

[TTT]

Hehe, the word I actually put in there was '*******,' not '****ing.' But since you can't read the two words I just typed, that doesn't matter. Suffice it to say, it's not a quantity issue, it's the type of customers we get.
I'm going to try to catch up on some sleep tonight.

Today was kind of cool, because we didn't have any bosses for most of the morning, and we got to crank one of the many stereos in the shop enough to overpower the insanely annoying, repetitive satellite radio station that plays every single ****ing day in the store. It's gotten to the point where I can tell which song it's going to be from the very first note, let alone bar, of each song.
Then, I got back home. Then, I considered having a nap, but I thought "**** this, I'm going to the gym." So I watched the dude in 'Ong Bak' plough his way through hordes of miscreants, unfortunates and crack addicts, and psyched myself up.


April 30th, 2006.
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FLAT DB BENCH:
30's x 10
50's x 4
65's x 6
65's x 5
40's x 10


CG CHINS:
BW x 5
BW x 5


LAT PD:
120x8
120x6


LOW FACE PULLS:
80x9
90x7
70x10


CABLE FLYS:
60x7
60x7


Not a shockingly bad workout, but not too impressive. I guess it could have been worse, with the amount of sleep I've had. I'll give it a B+.


I saw that lady who stared at my ass again in the store today.
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