Why not post about my keister?

As it’s now warm and sometimes even uncomfortably so, I’ve started making cold/room temp brew coffee. I leave it out 36-48 hours, and have experimented with same-as-regular mix vs. double the water. I’m not sure I’m getting the same caffeine from my cold brew - particularly when it’s made with less coffee overall. I tend to think it’s a tad bitter - but it’s so smooth and not-bitter to start with that I forget to put sugar in it. Really driving the point home was a desperate run to starbucks last week where I got an iced coffee like normal people drink...holy god that swill was bad. I think it was so burnt I sort of enjoyed the pain in my nose like from straight liquor.

I’m excited about my ass! This past week in the gym I did 280 for a good deep ass to grass squat for 5 reps, which per my internet masters compute to a 1-time lift of 315. My old max was 315, but I think when I did that weight I was doing it “to parallel,” though looking back I’m not sure I was fully parallel. This may mean that despite my glute injury I have compensated and worked so much I’m stronger now - even with a physical defect.

More exciting mybutt news though was last night, when I was doing my roller work while watching mythbusters. Did I mention Kari in a skeleton bathing suit, or that she only weighed...maybe she’s short but 127 in a full racecar suit seems mighty tiny. I digress - so I have this stupid way-deep stabbing pain in my right butt that I can’t seem to really replicate except when I do heavy deep squats or deadlifts. Last night for the first time I may have found the problem - in a different place. I have no problems high on the hip, but rolling last night I found a tense and sensitive area on the right outside part of the glute. I've been doing all this roller work to increase external rotation, and try to access the muscle tissue deep in the glute (yeah baby) where I feel the pain (yeah baby). I am SO HOPING that is the location of the soft tissue damage - not where I feel it, but it would totally make sense that if I have an unhealed tear in the upper muscle, that the piriformus is kicking in to compensate! It's tiny so the load could make it and me scream in pain as it exceeds it's ability. That could mean with roller, stretching, and focused strength work I could finally recover from this debilitating (and stupid) injury! I could return and pass the 315 squat, the 405 DL, and get back to setting new goals and personal bests.

To me this stuff is interesting. I live with no illusions that others would or should.

Exhausted politics - brief tired poorly written post

1. Disappointed that our board has been unable to get sufficient votes to change our bylaws to get people who pay late or not at all to be charged late fees, collection fees, and attorney fees - that the condo has been paying. In short the people whining about condo fees will be paying higher fees because they were too lazy or stupid to vote.

2. Just came from a civic association annual meeting, where Senator Tim Kaine spoke. He reminded me or Moran in the sense that he easily tackled any subject thrown at him, and those subjects were diverse, while citing logical arguments and known public data to support his points. I wouldn't identify as a democrat if I heard better dialog from anyone else.

I already forgot #3. A room full of strangers is really exhausting.