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Ah, a Serenity/Firefly themed challenge... My 14 year old daughter is more knowledgeable than I am as she's watched it more recently, but maybe I should take the opportunity to catch up. (She has just asked for a brown coat she can wear to school -- unfortunately http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/14c4/ is both impractical and out of my budget but we'll find something.) I get Mal in that character quiz. I can see that -- especially at work. I have a team and I'd like to think I take care of them the same way Mal takes care of his crew. There's taking care of my family as well, though that has a different dynamic. Main quest Build strength. My long term goal is to do a pull up. I've never done one in my life. I'm still a long way away, and from experience it'll take a long time, but that's okay. Three goals towards that quest: (Captain Hammer rather than Mal Reynolds, sorry....) Complete You Are Your Own Gym (YAYOG) basic 10 week program. I'm on the third week now so I won't actually finish this in six weeks, so the goal is just to stick to the program. YAYOG is the main thing and it's pretty challenging, so don't want to take on anything else really ambitious. If I have to pick another two goals here, they'll be: Eat protein. Have 25g extra protein on workout days. Get sleep. At least 7 hours a night, ideally more. The tricky bit here is that I might need to reshuffle my schedule so that I can do workouts in the morning, which means getting up earlier. Life quest Raise the next generation of browncoats. The plan for this is to teach my daughters some kickboxing/striking drills and/or basic Krav Maga. I've taught them a few things and they're both interested, but generally when I do this I find myself just trying to remember striking sequences I learned in classes rather than having any kind of plan. Over the challenge, I want to put together six lesson plans/short workouts and try them out with my girls.

Here's how it is: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths. Some rich and flush with the new technologies, some not so much. The Central Planets, thems formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. She's a transport ship; Firefly class. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher for some reason, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, took his genius sister outta some Alliance camp, so they're keepin' a low profile. You understand. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is. Right. Dunno iff'n y'all noticed, but a couple of the GLs had the idea that we should do a Firefly-themed challenge. And by had the idea, I mean that we laughed and thought and laughed, and now we're doing it. Here's how this is gonna work. The Challenge goes like normally does, but we're gonna but a slight twist on it. You have a background theme to use if you want to. You can base it on a character, on an episode, on a planet, on the setting itself, whatever. It just has to tie back to Firefly somehow. There is no limit on how many people can share a character or an episode or what have you. If anything, it'd actually be fascinating to see lots of different riffs on a theme. If you're having some trouble figuring it out, I've thrown in a Character Quiz to give you some starting points. So, there you have it, guys. Have fun! (NOTE: Just so we're clear: you don't have to do this if you don't want to. We just thought it'd be fun to shake things up a little bit and play around some. But believe me, I know better than anyone: martial arts is srs bzns).