Murphy's Roommate

W00t! Great job! - Murphy's Roommate

A giant cave with a hidden lake... I've worked there. Multimillion gallon reservoirs qualifies as a lake, right? I really liked working there. 2018 is a year of change. Changing where I live, changing parts of how I live, not changing who I am. - Murphy's Roommate

Had a great day yesterday, and pretty solid today. Yesterday I sorted out some conflation I had between various tai chi related things, and I expect I will be testing shortly. Yes, American school, they want to progress people rapidly, I get it. I'd prefer to work one form for a few years, own it, internalize it, then worry about the next step, but I am atypical in this culture. Been eating pretty well the last few days, and will be hitting the bod pod on Friday or Monday. Work perk, open walk in! - Murphy's Roommate

Awesomesauce! I'm working on Tai Chi as well (I'm not sure how many spellings I've seen) and it certainly has my interest. Very much a newbie at it. There seem to be a lot of variants that have the same fundamentals. Solving my clutter problem by moving for work. Time for a max purge. House to a dorm room. Some rare days work makes life easier, not harder! - Murphy's Roommate

I've had a lot of success in fighting my soda/redbull addiction with some of the more obnoxiously caffeinated brands out there. Deathwish coffee springs to mind. Rich black coffee, mmmm... We also have a coffee maker at work, so that helps. I used to chainsmoke Redbull at mu old job - when I switched to Spike I knew I had a problem. Actually GOOD coffee (Deathwish!) helps make the change easier. Looking forward to you crushing this challenge! - Murphy's Roommate

You recognized room for improvement and you're doing it - good luck on the challenge! Inch by inch! - Murphy's Roommate

Jakkals - When my ankle was hurt, I found some exercises that could be done without bothering it. Pushups - kneeling or balancing on one foot. Flutter kicks as well. Holding the plank position, on your hands or elbows, one footed. Pullups, or assisted pullups. Looking forward to the challenge! - Murphy's Roommate

Yep - Asia - Korea in specific. Looks like a year and change - lots of opportunity to work hard and still take time to explore. I hear the food is amazing, the people are great, and the country is beautiful, so I'm looking forward to it. Working to get my HAM radio license accepted over there, and finding out what I need to do for drivers license as well. I'll also be living about 5 minutes (walking) from work, food, and the gym. Might not even bother with a car, a simpler life is appealing right now. - Murphy's Roommate

Well, color me surprised. This little rock we call home made it around the thermonuclear death star (cause of, and possible solution to, all our problems - eventually when it goes nova) yet another time. On the bright side, I get to carry on carrying on Tai Chi and getting cold. On the awesome opportunity side, I need to move to the other side of this rock in 3 months, drop body fat (family wager - good opportunity for entertainment), get serious about internalizing Pose Running, and start deadlifting again. Sigh. Paring this down for this challenge my goals are simple. Get an appointment with a bod pod and find out my starting point. I've finished reading the Pose Running books, time to get coaching - so that is an appointment to set and keep. Lastly, take some warmup lifting days then get to where I can take a safe run at my one rep max. From there, develop a plan to work forward. I've been thinking of the meme to capture this, and the best I can do is some Blacklist. That about captures it. Adventure time. - Murphy's Roommate

A decent bed time is always a win. I am a strong believer in that! Do you run shortwave, or UHF/VHF? Sorry for the nerdery when you are listening to the fate of your country, but I'm a radio nerd. I spent about 30 minutes figuring one of my radios out tonight. It wasn't doing what I thought it should - wrong mode. One stupid button press gave me half an hour of interneting and button pushing to find an answer. I love HAM radio... - Murphy's Roommate

Rey - Professionally, I've run into similar issues. There are things you can control, and things you can't. Same for me. What I can control, I control. Think death grip. Think massive OCD memorizing checklists on an elliptical machine. What I can't, it is hard to let go, and I still try to influence what I can't control, in the end I do what I can and then, you have to let go. Great work figuring out to learn to let go. Not easy, not intuitive, important to your well being. My hairline and overall health wishes I learned that ten years ago. Rock on! - Murphy's Roommate

Great! Keep trucking! - Murphy's Roommate

I wish I had that level of knowledge into where my money went this year. That is impressive! When you have to do smart work, 2 hours of planning and ten minutes of doing is far better than the opposite. Abraham Lincoln once (perhaps) said "If I were given 8 hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend two hours sharpening the axe." Having cut down a tree with a dull axe, I completely agree. Time to start shuffling again on Monday. I wonder if the Colorado weather will try to freeze me or not. Enjoy the New Years! - Murphy's Roommate

Not dead yet! Had a lovely trip to the panhandle of Florida, was on sketchy hotel internets, so no posting. Need to put an aggressive anti-virus on my laptop - any suggestions? The last week was a wash fitness wise. Personal happiness - I drank Yuengling every night, which is a great beer I cannot get out here, played Xcom 2, and work was awesome. On the relevant side, I'm past the plague, and getting back on track. Goodness abounds. It was really good to professionally touch base for a week and refocus. Life is good. - Murphy's Roommate

Went to bed last night at 8. Was awake by 11. Until about 3 a.m. - because my body thought it was on night shift. Awesome. Tried to go into work today, that was a mistake. Sigh. You'd think I would learn. Felt like re-hammered dog crap. Starting to get better I think. Or maybe I'm just an optimist. Another day. - Murphy's Roommate

Got annoyed with just sitting around the house, hoping to get better, so I grabbed a power drill and mounted some lights on my hybrid. They still need to be properly tightened down, and I need to drill a hole through the firewall, and um, yeah, it is pretty sketchy right now, but I did something instead of staring at Netflix. Then I went back and stared at Netflix some more. I am mostly proud that I only drilled one extra hole, and lost one crush washer. And didn't electrocute myself, or start any fires by accident. Or short anything out. I've had some woopsies when using tools. I've seen or heard of some really big whoopsies. So anytime they are avoided, that is a win. - Murphy's Roommate

Aaaand... I went to work. Now I'm back home. That was not the smartest thing I have ever done. Being sick is miserable. - Murphy's Roommate

I don't follow many forums. One is filled with people who use other people as targets for a living. Not as nice and benign as this forum, but equally filled with knowledge. I can't contribute much, as my skill set is more strategic, but still serious people. Same here, my skill set is not directly applicable to us. That forum, posted by a man who has had many deployments, made many real choices, and had has many injuries, was on soft tissue recovery. I thought I was looking at this forum. I've worn hard armor for long trips, I've done bad things to my back, I am, honestly, a mess. When it comes to my body, I'm a mess. I gave, and I give, and compared to others who have given so much more than me, I feel like garbage even thinking about what is wrong with me. Others died, and I didn't, others lost limbs, and I didn't. How can I complain about aches and pains when they gave so much? So complaining is bs for me, my job is to get better and be awesome. I can rehab a limb, they have to ask a engineer to make a better limb for them. Well, that is real. It is real that I did that Bataan Memorial Death March with 4 perfectly good limbs and someone, wearing a gas mask, with 3 prosthetic limbs, as part of a formation caught up with me at mile twenty something, and wouldn't take off his mask or quit. Him, maybe her, missing their limbs, taught me more about life in an instant than anything outside of life or death. Go ahead, put on a gas mask and PT. Tell me about it. I can do more with what I still have, as those who gave a lot more are giving a lot more than me. I hold back a lot here. I try to be positive and uplifting. The post on the other forum reminds me that we are all people, trying to not hurt anymore. I'll hold you from that, this what he linked to, and I think everyone reading this will say "Oh yeah, how didn't he know that?" The answer is, because he was in the Army, and this wasn't what he was taught. https://www.t-nation.com/training/soft-tissue-work-for-tough-guys This? This for us all. We want to be better. One of us is all of use. I don't care if your fight with depression, anxiety, PTSD, injuries, the struggle is real and we all strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Stand shoulder to shoulder, we don't let a someone struggle alone. Everyone struggles, everyone sacrifices, we chose. We chose, it is our choice. Our suckey, miserable, choice. Misery just means companionship. That is all - Murphy's Roommate

Progress is progress! Keep rocking! - Murphy's Roommate

Redbeard - you are lucky. Most people get nicknames they hate and are stuck with them until all their friends die. I'm stuck with Scarlett due to my last name, I know another guy who's last name is Master, so he is stuck with Bates... Another gal stepped out of the car (passenger) after a night of hard drinking, fell down, and wet herself, so she is now Vitamin P forever... The list goes on and on. And then you have Redbeard. Sigh... Keep fighting the good fight, there is always another dawn. - Murphy's Roommate

Ankle injuries are the worst. Well, right up there with shins and knees, and shoulders, and elbows, and wrists... Yeah. Never fun being injured, safely healing up then not re-injuring yourself is always the trick. Have a safe rest then reload and reset once your ankle is better! - Murphy's Roommate

Whenever I play computer games, I loose most of my lives to falling off of things as well. I'm pretty okay in real life, I just don't spend exp on using my thumbs to navigate the world. This will come back to bite me, I am sure, when I have to drive a car using a console controller, for some unknown reason, someday. Mark's Daily Apple is awesome - great food, great mindset. Positive all the way around! - Murphy's Roommate

Aaaand... Not so much. The Plague continues. Very well, challenge accepted! I shall destroy this cold, scorch the ground it lived on, salt the earth! Oh, wait, I live there to... Okay, maybe a slightly more holistic approach of simply purging this cold like a Soviet Dictatorship. Back to the getting better mines! - Murphy's Roommate

I am getting better - sleep, rest, hot showers, and now, my new anti-cold battle buddy, hot sauce! are helping me show improvement. I expect to go to work tomorrow. - Murphy's Roommate

Rought Rough Raggy - the Pose running book showed up in the mail. Also a new helmet (my Black Friday buy - only been planning that one for a year!). The mailman was good to me today! - Murphy's Roommate