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HEY THERE! IF YOU THINK FASTING IS UNHEALTHY OR UNSAFE THEN DON'T PARTICIPATE IN THIS! Last minute challenge! Here in Michigan it is 10-17-14, 7:00 PM. I will be fasting as of midnight tonight for 48 hours. Anyone else interested in trying this, go ahead and post here. I will only be consuming water, black coffee, and water with crystal light in it until Monday morning. I'm carbing up with beans and lentils right now. Any and all participants get a stoic nod of appreciation and respect from yours truly. All those who complete this tiny challenge get an imaginary high five (you can't feel it, but if you close your eyes and concentrate, it's like I'm actually there smacking your hand with my hand, and it stings soooo good). Sorry for the late notice, I will probably do this again next weekend. Five hours to go!

*Presses Un-Pause Button* This is a challenge I started about 10 weeks ago but put on hold for a while. I'm still in recovery but I need to raise my game a bit. So back to the Donkey Kong Machine I go, to resume my goals with a little tweakage for post-op me. 1 Running Along Girders 1 long run and 2 short runs per week, looking again at technique and increasing speed. The long run will be less long but I'll keep this up and aim to work up to a full Tamsin trail distance (which is 11ish km, depending who you believe) by the end of the 6 weeks 2 Leaping Over Barrels At least 1 heavy squat/jump session per week. I kept this up for the first 3 weeks but in the post-op world I think it's pushing it a bit so I'll do stretches and deep core work daily instead 3 Climbing Ladders Keep working on "plups" - one test and general bodyweight/resistance work towards the elusive goal. I managed my first pullup in the crazy days before I went away and bloody glad I am of it too, but I won't work at increasing that for quite a while longer, so I will be looking at rebuilding my strength in non-traumatic work, doing full pilates sessions 2x per week, building up to sculling and b/w rows at the end of week 5 and slacklining in week 6. 4. Impressing Pixelated Babes at the Top of Towers ...and how else would I do that but by wowing them with my knowledge of the language of Camões, Saramago and Pessoa? So - another two chapters of L+D then. It worked well for me last time. Still another chapter and a bit to go on this one. I should be finishing a couple of short graphic novels too ("Astérix - O Domínio dos Deuses" and "Pessoa e Cia"). I kinda want to start another full novel instead of going back to the exercises but it's yin and yang baby, gotta keep the cosmic blancmange or the universe will crumble - these things are not to be trifled with. Is that enough pudding-related puns? Bonus Barrels: Get my weight down to 12 Stone (That's 168lb) by the end of this challenge. It's at 171 now. I'm hoping the fact that I'll be working harder will give my weight a solid nudge in the right direction.Keep my 3 streaks going: Daily Portuguese, Exercise and Teeth-flossing. In the last challenge I was counting walking as exercise but that was a special sitch. Walking is no longer a workout. I'm a mammal and walking is what mammals do: to qualify it has to be something that gets me out of breath. At least cycling, and even cycling is cheating.The Squeak project I didn't do during the Pac-Man challengeSome other items from my to-do list: finding out about time signatures in music; making lists of various tedious money-related things; tidying the 18ck bedroom And I'll be doing some other stuff too, but I will just keep the goals simple with these. Also, I seem not to have attached point values to these. Let's call it 1 - +4 STA 2 - +3 CON +1 STR 3 - +3 STR 4 - +1 WIS +1 CHA Bonus Barrels - +1 CHA +1 CON Here's Donkey Kong for those of you too young to remember. Now get off my lawn!