Day: February 20, 2021

20 Feb workout and visit

Well, my new “Boneyard Barbell” came; stainless steel shaft and it was less than 300 dollars WITH both taxes and shipping ..not a bad deal (Rogue)

I love it; nice knurling..good for deadlifts if I wanted to do that.

So the lifting workout:

pull ups: 3 sets of 10 (ok, singles here and there), 4 sets of 5 (usual hip hikes, rotator cuff)

bench press: 10 x 134, 3 x 184 (sloppy), 1 x 184 (solid), 3 x 174 (very solid), 4 x 170, 5 x 165

shoulder press: 2 sets of 10 x 94, 1 set of 10 x 99 (couldn’t budge 110?)
rows: 3 sets of 10 x 134

push ups: 20, 30, 20, 10

Then a socially distant visit with Tracy and cats.

Photos: new barbell, very well packed for shipping. Then Tracy with Billy Jean, and an interesting icicle in her bush.

Early set

Wide set then chins:

Final set:

First set with the new barbell!

Rough set of 3 with 184; red light on 3’rd rep.

Now the old Olympic bar is used for shoulder presses.

And it drones on

Another boring 5K treadmill walk; injury…well…it is there…static.

Consistent; so so effort, no…enthusiasm or pep.

I did get home for lunch to find my new Rogue “boneyard” bar (stainless steel shaft) waiting for me:

But before I could savor the joy…”Honey, we have a bat…”

She told me where it was so I got it with a towel and soft basket. Took it outside..tried to keep it off of the snow..and it flew away eventually.

Interesting: had the situation been reversed (she had gone away and I had found it), well, I would have taken it out.

Probably it is not good to bring that up.

Events of the day: Ok, Rush Limbaugh died. I never heard much of his show; my one time I tuned in I was driving, getting bored and thought he would piss me off.
Whole segment: tree on the golf course; course wanted to cut it down; some group didn’t want it cut down, but the course did. Then minutes of power saw noises and his yelling “timber” and then going to commercial to hawk his merchandise.

I was so bored I switched the channel lest I get sleepier.

Nevertheless, he did outrage others and this article is amusing: the article purports to claim that Limbaugh tried to bully feminism. That is one thing with the woke; they want to claim the mantle of “victim” and “hero/heroine”.

In my opinion, he wasn’t doing anything to try to change feminism; he was mocking those that his listeners dearly wanted to be able to mock but couldn’t for fear or retribution; you might say he was a Trump like figure of the airwaves.

And there was the OMG, he is “punching down” claim:

Well, he did attack Bill and Hillary Clinton; that certainly wasn’t “punching down.” But as far as everyone else: I saw it more as mocking the ridiculous stuff that some make WRT their favorite causes and/or victims, or at least attempting to.

Yes, he was superficial, juvenile and dreadfully boring. Yes, IMHO, his loyal followers were probably not at the top of the heap, in terms of professional success. They certainly aren’t anyone I’d be interesting in socializing with ..and the reverse was true.

But…well, he was getting digs into the “hey, you can’t say that” crowd.

Frankly, I found him to be uninteresting and stupid.

Mitch McConnell gets under my skin way more than he ever could.