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Oct. 5th, 2015 06:03 amI was skeptical when the doc noted I may have injured myself with my weightlifting belt, but squatting Sat I realized it pressed right into the sore area. My new guess is I had it too tight for deadlifting, and let it sit too high as you need to bring it up more when you bend to the floor. Getting much better now, already stopped wearing the girldle...I mean giant ace bandage chest brace. Wait...was the doctor just calling me fat?
This week I travel and I'm less eager to maintain my program on the trip...so I better gym-search now and come up with options. I did an odd split workout Sat, trying to make up for lost work without completely wrecking myself or re-injuring the area. I think I did ok; I'm less sore and almost out of prednisone.
Moving is a far bigger question mark than I expected. So I did bid out the job, and got bids for professionals from $900-1650 (admittedly rough and probably high-side) while Henry's company was kinda a neat alternative for $50/hr with a minimum, they literally send 2 guys and a truck...but they had bad reviews, stunningly so, even for yelp. I realize I wasn't going to get $400 or $500. The thing is - unlike most folks, I really am strong, I can run up and down the stairs a lot, even renting a truck 2 times is less than paying professionals.
My situation is also different as I don't have an in-stone move day, I'm only 10-15 minutes' drive away, I previously moved in there enough to sleep-shower etc. on my own in my car (futon, clothes, linens, cosmetics), my gf's place is 5 mins away...I don't _have_ to move on any particular day. I _could_ move in stages and I'm not convinced I'll lose money if I do. I've taken off Columbus Day weekend-following-week, and it super-sucks that I can't be here this week to watch the "final" wind-up to the end of the alleged move-in ready date. For instance, I don't have a brick stain color, which means I don't have a hall-living room paint color. Ohmigawd I also don't have a final trim color either...I do have a pocket of paint chips to play with. So many decisions I have to live with for a long time...
Some day I'll just leave work, hit the gym, and go the fuck home. And sit there.
My appliance shopping was a disaster. Contractor didn't return my text to confirm appliance day, the Bray and Scarff place was empty and far more expensive than I hoped, while the Silver Spring Sears was mostly well stocked, but sucked kiester in terms of service. I literally went in there to buy my appliances and came out empty-handed just based on service. The staff were all about 18-24 at the most, were overwhelmed, it took over 30 minutes to get help, and then the kid who helped me (he was the youngest and had no identifying store employee indication at all) didn't know the answers to most of my questions...though he did try a bit of upsell. That said, he also noted their delivery days are Tu/Th, so I may have been there on a less than idea Sun. But I've seen dishwashers for $3-400, they had them at $600. They had no well-priced fridges, and no vent hoods. I will say one thing about bray and scarff - each piece had very detailed notes by service personnel noting the reason for the return and repairs made in response; sears was just...sitting there.
It only occurred to me as I was looking at moving in later that I don't _need_ (to underline so much?) to get all the appliances at once. I've settled on getting refurb/scratched appliances because at a cost of $5-15k, half price matters a lot. Sure, they might break sooner...but I won't be in the middle of disasters or cash poor by that time we hope. For now I'm only moving into the top floors though.
This week I travel and I'm less eager to maintain my program on the trip...so I better gym-search now and come up with options. I did an odd split workout Sat, trying to make up for lost work without completely wrecking myself or re-injuring the area. I think I did ok; I'm less sore and almost out of prednisone.
Moving is a far bigger question mark than I expected. So I did bid out the job, and got bids for professionals from $900-1650 (admittedly rough and probably high-side) while Henry's company was kinda a neat alternative for $50/hr with a minimum, they literally send 2 guys and a truck...but they had bad reviews, stunningly so, even for yelp. I realize I wasn't going to get $400 or $500. The thing is - unlike most folks, I really am strong, I can run up and down the stairs a lot, even renting a truck 2 times is less than paying professionals.
My situation is also different as I don't have an in-stone move day, I'm only 10-15 minutes' drive away, I previously moved in there enough to sleep-shower etc. on my own in my car (futon, clothes, linens, cosmetics), my gf's place is 5 mins away...I don't _have_ to move on any particular day. I _could_ move in stages and I'm not convinced I'll lose money if I do. I've taken off Columbus Day weekend-following-week, and it super-sucks that I can't be here this week to watch the "final" wind-up to the end of the alleged move-in ready date. For instance, I don't have a brick stain color, which means I don't have a hall-living room paint color. Ohmigawd I also don't have a final trim color either...I do have a pocket of paint chips to play with. So many decisions I have to live with for a long time...
Some day I'll just leave work, hit the gym, and go the fuck home. And sit there.
My appliance shopping was a disaster. Contractor didn't return my text to confirm appliance day, the Bray and Scarff place was empty and far more expensive than I hoped, while the Silver Spring Sears was mostly well stocked, but sucked kiester in terms of service. I literally went in there to buy my appliances and came out empty-handed just based on service. The staff were all about 18-24 at the most, were overwhelmed, it took over 30 minutes to get help, and then the kid who helped me (he was the youngest and had no identifying store employee indication at all) didn't know the answers to most of my questions...though he did try a bit of upsell. That said, he also noted their delivery days are Tu/Th, so I may have been there on a less than idea Sun. But I've seen dishwashers for $3-400, they had them at $600. They had no well-priced fridges, and no vent hoods. I will say one thing about bray and scarff - each piece had very detailed notes by service personnel noting the reason for the return and repairs made in response; sears was just...sitting there.
It only occurred to me as I was looking at moving in later that I don't _need_ (to underline so much?) to get all the appliances at once. I've settled on getting refurb/scratched appliances because at a cost of $5-15k, half price matters a lot. Sure, they might break sooner...but I won't be in the middle of disasters or cash poor by that time we hope. For now I'm only moving into the top floors though.
