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So it's 3:30 and I've been up for an hour again. However, this is the 2nd night in a row I did not hear my pet rats in the ceiling. Not sure why since I haven't done a thing about them other than jamming an efficient light in the ceiling.
(wrong, 4am and I can hear the buggers again)

Stopped by and did that weird going through stuff last night. I took some of my dad's things: his cashmere coat, raincoat fit me and are perfect for going to clubs. They'll replace my second-hand stuff that I've worn to clubs for years, which is more than a little neat. And kinda sad. I also took his marine corp marathon shirt and aids marathon group training shirt.

That looked like a lot to say until I wrote it down.

Had fun in the gym though. I did squats again, and found instead of 8-6-6 to the floor with 185 I could do 10-10-8. Funny thing was when I did that I was next to a guy much bigger than me doing the same weight, only to 90 deg. I'm sure he was doing much more or was injured or something, but it was a little fun. My legs look FIERCE when I do those things, but then when I'm done I walk like I've been getting' some brokeback. Speaking of, the Rosslyn Golds (gay Golds) is all remade and stuff. It actually looks a lot more professional even with mostly the same equipment. The place was full of smokin hotties last night - perhaps it's less cute when I go during off hours than the after work crowd. I also did 70lb dumbbell bench - it's odd, I can press the weight but it's kinda hard to maneuver it on top of me to start with. I'm trying to keep the intensity high (the longer I'm there, the longer the rest breaks I've noticed) which does leave me a sweaty gym boy.

Sore muskles II

Ha! I did work out despite my 2-day still sore muskles, and it was awesome. Ok, I know you're not supposed to compare, but I'm an idiot and I couldn't help but enjoy that when I went to the squat cage the guy on the squat rack beside me was chuckling to himself when I started my ass-to-the-grass squats with just the bare bar. He was grunting with his 90 deg knee squats with 185. He got quiet when I put the weight to 95, 135, and then the non warm-up wieght of 185. I've only just started back on squats, and this is my first venture into ass-grass squats - so I'm pretty happy that at 185 I went from 8-6-6 a short time ago to 10-10-8 today. That a guy started with a polite subtle chuckle at my weight only to be shown up (and I was about 6" shorter and 50lbs lighter than his stocky ass) later was funny. Sure, for all I know he's working from an injury or just did double that amount and was cooling down, but it was a short-term shallow charge in my day. Not that I could really walk when I was done.

However, when I was hitting those last ones my legs were shaking. I'm used to working to exhaustion on upper body, so I think I'm a pretty decent judge of my abilities and failure points. Still, this is new and far more risky - even with a cage to catch the bar if I get in trouble. Think I should be concerned or back off when I push to shaky-legs? What is a strong sign that I'm about to fail or fall?

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Geeks - good deal on a new computer? $500 for what appear to be reasonable specs, but it is an acer. clicky.