Yasha92 Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Oh I’m sorry, there’s a picture of your god in there? Do you mean the black void of darkness you seem to have captured??? XD Workouts, rugs, running into a headwind and still rocking the dry jan. boom! Mini | | Jan 16 || Feb 16 || Mar 16 || April 16 || July-Aug 16 || Aug-Sep 16 . || Sep-Oct 16 || Oct-Nov 16 || Dec 16 || Jan 17 || March 17 || April 17 || May 17 || August 17 || Sep 17 || Oct 17 || Grind it out || Jan 18 || Feb 18 || April 18 || May June 18 || Nov 18 || Oct 19 || Early 2020 || Halfway thru 2020 || Current Challenge: Yasha High-5s herself Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 21 hours ago, Yasha92 said: Do you mean the black void of darkness you seem to have captured??? XD Somewhere this week, or maybe the weekend i saw some stuff about super dark paint, which was pretty cool. The stuff you can do with that. They painted an apple black on one side, and if they held it right, it was like you were looking at a shadow of an apple, unreal. That was the first thing i had to think about when i saw that pic. 21 hours ago, Yasha92 said: Workouts, rugs, running into a headwind and still rocking the dry jan. boom! ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
cn3wton Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Been seeing Alice in Borderlands on my netflix suggestions for a while now but have always passed it up. Might give it a try later. Was skimming through your challenge and are you in a PVP with Raider? Thats certainly a choice... LOL 2 "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R Tolkien "Progress, not perfection." "Persist, Pivot, or Concede." - Matthew McConaughey "Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't." Currently Posting in -->Battle Log | The Return Arc - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Link to comment
Jarric Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 8 hours ago, Mr_Willes said: Hide contents 575kg bench press! Now that's impressive I've got max pullups session coming up soon though, so I'll see if I can give you something to aim for there! Great job on the weight loss man. Level 16 Wood Elf Ranger STR: 3 - CON: 0 - CHA: 0 - SAN: 1 - INT: 0 IAgreeWithTank™ "Shit is going down, but I am not." - iatetheyeti Don't say "I don't have enough time", say instead "that's not a priority right now" and see how that makes you feel. Current Challenge: Anatomy of an Orc External: Epic Quest - Instagram - Strava Spoiler Previous Challenges: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Old Stuff: Battle Log - My Introduction - 2017 Road Map - 2018 Road Map - 2019 Road Map - 2021 Road Map Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Jarric said: 575kg bench press! Now that's impressive 1 hour ago, Jarric said: I've got max pullups session coming up soon though, so I'll see if I can give you something to aim for there! Oow yes, i should also be nudging @iatetheyeti for the competition!!! 1 hour ago, Jarric said: Great job on the weight loss man. 2 hours ago, cn3wton said: Been seeing Alice in Borderlands on my netflix suggestions for a while now but have always passed it up. Might give it a try later. Good idea, i really liked it! 2 hours ago, cn3wton said: Was skimming through your challenge and are you in a PVP with Raider? Thats certainly a choice... LOL I'm slow from the start, but gaining momentum now. Besides i heard someone mentioning hitting a possible plateau! 3 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
cn3wton Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, Mr_Willes said: I'm slow from the start, but gaining momentum now. Besides i heard someone mentioning hitting a possible plateau! "Back in my day" I had some run ins with Raider regarding PVP's. The man is nuts. I look forward to the point where I'm back in shape to challenge him! 1 "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R Tolkien "Progress, not perfection." "Persist, Pivot, or Concede." - Matthew McConaughey "Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't." Currently Posting in -->Battle Log | The Return Arc - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Week 3 / Day 3 (Wed Jan 20th): Consecutive pullups: 2 Weekly Lifting sessions (3): 1 Weekly Running sessions (2): 1 Weekly Training Pullups: 0 Morning weight: 79 Dryjan days streak: 20 No Cookies/Candy days: 3 No Inbetween days: 3 No Binge Days: 3 Extra: Full day at work. Wife was home so i could start work early. Tried to tackle a problem in the morning, and figured out most of it, but just the final step was not happening. So i worked the rest of the day on other stuff with this thing in the back of my head, and finally 15 minutes before i wanted to go home So i checked some stuff, figured it out, and got it working just in time to go home. Which made me leave work in a great mood. Picked up new parts for our new shower at my mom's (we like to deliver there cause NL has much better webshops in comparison to BE and the whole delivering across the border thing). Wife cooked up a super yummy pasta dish (spaghetti with creamy spinach) and it took TO NOT BINGE Like i said on Discord, i'm going to have so much DOMS in my willpower muscle today. But. i did not binge. I DID put all the leftovers in one pan, and i'm gonna eat it for lunch, right after my lunch lifting session . So yeah. Had some interesting conversations on Discord yesterday, and wrapped up watching some GUNDAM on Netflix as i was done with Alice in Borderland and remembered i stopped halfway the second season. Weight was pretty good this morning, not too much higher after yesterday's ridiculously low weigh in (i was fearing my, big plate of pasta, on top of the rebound of the low weigh in would cause a spike). So yeah i feel 4 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 14 hours ago, cn3wton said: "Back in my day" I had some run ins with Raider regarding PVP's. The man is nuts. Oow in this day and age, he's still nuts! 1 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
cn3wton Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 6 hours ago, Mr_Willes said: Oow in this day and age, he's still nuts! I am not surprised! Good job with the willpower to not eat all the pasta! 1 "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R Tolkien "Progress, not perfection." "Persist, Pivot, or Concede." - Matthew McConaughey "Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't." Currently Posting in -->Battle Log | The Return Arc - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Link to comment
starpuck Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Omg, I caught up! So much glorious ESO news. @shaar Welcome to the cult club! This is so exciting. Seriously you guys. If you are into it, I will get a NF guild going so we can invite peeps in as they make the jump to play. Also for those wanting to enjoy the RP elements of seeing the quests as you do them, (especially in four man dungeons) I will GLADLY offer my services to join you guys for group content in a manner that will appeal to you. As a vet player, I have all roles available to help (tank, healer, dps) and know all the base game dungeons forward and backward. Seriously this would be so cool. Oh, uh Willes. Also, good job on the other stuff! As you can tell, I have my focus totally honed in on the important bits 1 1 Level 77 ~*~ Ranger Deviant Art Gallery || YouTube Channel Current Challenge "It is difficult. All things worth keeping are." Thane Krios - Mass Effect 2 "Maybe it's not as simple as you imagined, Seeker." Varric Tethras Dragon Age 2 "Staying within your limits is no fun, Ryder." Vetra Nyx - ME: Andromeda Spoiler ::PAST CHALLENGES:: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 43 | 44 | NEIN | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48| 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 21, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 22 minutes ago, Starpuck said: Omg, I caught up! So much glorious ESO news. @shaar Welcome to the cult club! This is so exciting. Seriously you guys. If you are into it, I will get a NF guild going so we can invite peeps in as they make the jump to play. Also for those wanting to enjoy the RP elements of seeing the quests as you do them, (especially in four man dungeons) I will GLADLY offer my services to join you guys for group content in a manner that will appeal to you. As a vet player, I have all roles available to help (tank, healer, dps) and know all the base game dungeons forward and backward. Seriously this would be so cool. Oh, uh Willes. Also, good job on the other stuff! As you can tell, I have my focus totally honed in on the important bits So much to do, figuring out stuff, with nicknames and friendcodes, and nickcodes and friendnames, and visiting Latin sites!!!! Cause ESO wasn't overwhelming enough to start with! Okay, so yes to the RP part! But hmm, i need a new character to hang out with NF peeps.... But what should i make... You sure i can't transfer my Khajiit Radagast the Brown wannabe from EU to NA, i think he's cool... ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
starpuck Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Mr_Willes said: You sure i can't transfer my Khajiit Radagast the Brown wannabe from EU to NA, i think he's cool... There is no server transfers for ESO. Also, best to have two... because, I have heard some folks say the ping trying to play on a 'not your own' server can be not great. Hopefully that is not the case for you / us. Level 77 ~*~ Ranger Deviant Art Gallery || YouTube Channel Current Challenge "It is difficult. All things worth keeping are." Thane Krios - Mass Effect 2 "Maybe it's not as simple as you imagined, Seeker." Varric Tethras Dragon Age 2 "Staying within your limits is no fun, Ryder." Vetra Nyx - ME: Andromeda Spoiler ::PAST CHALLENGES:: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 43 | 44 | NEIN | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48| 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 Link to comment
juliebarkley Posted January 22, 2021 Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 I hope you can pull together a NF team on ESO! I won't be joining in (I know that I'd either be bored by the lack of story or get so hooked I'd have to sell my soul to escape and neither of those seem like good outcomes), but please do regale us with your adventures. Congrats on the poker win! You may have no poker face, but neither does anyone else in the game it seems. (Except maybe me, and I don't even play.) Congrats on the second pullup too! Think you can make three soon? Challenge: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 Week 3 / Day 4 (Thu Jan 21th): Consecutive pullups: 2 Weekly Lifting sessions (3): 2 Weekly Running sessions (2): 1 Weekly Training Pullups: 0 Morning weight: 79,5 Dryjan days streak: 21 No Cookies/Candy days: 4 No Inbetween days: 4 No Binge Days: 4 Spoiler Extra: Work from home day, which was kinda slow. Did a lunch/lifting workout. Since work was slow i started a little project of calculating the impact of having a home battery connected to my solar panel system. I work in the solar energy business, so it is kinda related to work. I love the insight it gives me and i have been able to supply R&D with some useful information (real life use cases) doing stuff like this. Found out my excel-fu is enough to get some basic stuff going but some things are just too hard (easier to do by hand). Now i just have to wait to see what our government and the electricity companies come up with to see what i can do best. In the evening i did some ESO. But i was also keeping an eye on Discord FB messenger and looking some stuff up on google, so it wasn't a very useful session. By the time the kids went to bed i just parked my character in a place so next time i will know where i left off and joined the wife watching some TV. That didn't took too long as i fell asleep on the couch rather early. My weight was a little higher than i wanted though completely as i expected. Having a dinner for lunch (leftover spaghetti) and a dinner on a day with a lifting workout i figured i would be higher. No biggy, as i think today's run will make for a lower weigh in tomorrow. Ah, we'll see. It's Friday today, i have decided to only work in the morning and start the weekend of this afternoon with a lunch/run Still need to think up what we are having for dinner tonight... 3 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 12 hours ago, Starpuck said: There is no server transfers for ESO. Also, best to have two... because, I have heard some folks say the ping trying to play on a 'not your own' server can be not great. Hopefully that is not the case for you / us. Well i'm not sure, but the internet connection between US and EU is pretty good, i have not had any problems yet, but that doesn't mean things will work flawlessly. We'll just see. 5 hours ago, juliebarkley said: I hope you can pull together a NF team on ESO! I won't be joining in (I know that I'd either be bored by the lack of story or get so hooked I'd have to sell my soul to escape and neither of those seem like good outcomes), but please do regale us with your adventures. Are you sure, we want all the people to join up!!! Quote Congrats on the poker win! You may have no poker face, but neither does anyone else in the game it seems. (Except maybe me, and I don't even play.) Yeah, i was a bit more reserved in comparison to the previous time, and that seem to work better in this setting. Also the first time i was accompanied by some beers, they get me in a less competitional mood. Now with Dryjan this wasn't a problem! Quote Congrats on the second pullup too! Think you can make three soon? I'm not sure, but i am thinking about how i can move my (simple) pullup bar from the homegym to the attic, so there is more room to try out. 1 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 22, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2021 I just want you to lose 10 minutes of your life (first 10 minutes of this vid). But you get some funny moments back for it... 1 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 Just put up the pullup bar in my home office (attic) I am now at 2.7 consecutive pullups! Already 10 practice pullups today! 6 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
cn3wton Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 Are clamps the only thing holding that to that beam? Your a brave man! Get after those pullups my dude. Love that your putting the bar in a place that is conducive to getting some extra reps in. "Back in the day" the entrance to my main room had a pullup bar hanging in it. Whenever I went through it I did pull ups. Thats the kind of stuff that gets you results! "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R Tolkien "Progress, not perfection." "Persist, Pivot, or Concede." - Matthew McConaughey "Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't." Currently Posting in -->Battle Log | The Return Arc - [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 19 minutes ago, cn3wton said: Are clamps the only thing holding that to that beam? Your a brave man! Yes they are the only thing No i'm not that brave Those are heavy duty clamps (legacy from my father who was a welder) and i put them on TIGHT, I have all the confidence in the world! 19 minutes ago, cn3wton said: Get after those pullups my dude. Love that your putting the bar in a place that is conducive to getting some extra reps in. That's the point. I already did more today than i did since i thought about doing them more regularly! 19 minutes ago, cn3wton said: "Back in the day" the entrance to my main room had a pullup bar hanging in it. Whenever I went through it I did pull ups. Thats the kind of stuff that gets you results! Yeah i don't have a single entrance at home or at work where i could pull that off! ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
T2sarahconnor Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Mr_Willes said: I am now at 2.7 consecutive pullups! You are as awesome as ever! I hope to be you one day when I grow up! (Or not grow up) I am back and can’t wait to catch up. How’s the family? 1 Level 36 Ranger Sorcerer Current challenge Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 You BACK!!!!!! 9 minutes ago, T2sarahconnor said: I hope to be you one day when I grow up! (Or not grow up) I AM SO GLAD YOU BACK!!!! 10 minutes ago, T2sarahconnor said: How’s the family? Family's good. Adapting to plague got me a little bit down. The kids seem pretty much unaffected by it. Wife is a nurse and needs to keep working, so life is mostly the same for her. I'm pretty done with it, had a lengthy conversation with @deftona about it. It's probably the lack of things to look forward to as we seem to be slipping from one wave into another and stuff just keeps on getting cancelled! How you been? 1 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
Yasha92 Posted January 25, 2021 Report Share Posted January 25, 2021 Omg the flamingo shirt is the best in that video XD Yaaaaah! 2.7 chin-ups!!! Killin it 1 Mini | | Jan 16 || Feb 16 || Mar 16 || April 16 || July-Aug 16 || Aug-Sep 16 . || Sep-Oct 16 || Oct-Nov 16 || Dec 16 || Jan 17 || March 17 || April 17 || May 17 || August 17 || Sep 17 || Oct 17 || Grind it out || Jan 18 || Feb 18 || April 18 || May June 18 || Nov 18 || Oct 19 || Early 2020 || Halfway thru 2020 || Current Challenge: Yasha High-5s herself Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2021 And fast forward to today: Week 4 / Day 1 (Mon Jan 25th): Consecutive pullups: 2 Weekly Lifting sessions (3): 0 Weekly Running sessions (2): 0 Weekly Training Pullups: 15 Morning weight: 79,2 Dryjan days streak: 25 No Cookies/Candy days: 1 No Inbetween days: 1 No Binge Days: 1 I planned on doing a lifting workout during lunchtime. But we got snow again, which means my homegym is just above freezing temperature. So instead i used the lunchtime to get my pullup bar up in the attic. (See pics a few posts back). And during the afternoon i did a few pullups on them. It feels like pullup #3 is within reach! (It is i did it this morning, but that is for tomorrow's check in!) Kept clean on all other goals so a pretty good but boring day. In the evening i made sure Mrs_Willes didn't had that much to do as she had been working all day. So i made dinner and cleaned up. Watched some Netflix with my son till he had to go to bed. And started watching Locke and Key on NF after that, with a pretty interesting first episode. 2 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
deftona Posted January 26, 2021 Report Share Posted January 26, 2021 A solid day there Mr_WIilles! Sounds like you've.... got the feelin' It's the hyperman set Profile picture credit : NF's resident super artist - NinjaKitten Link to comment
Mr_Willes Posted January 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2021 2 hours ago, deftona said: A solid day there Mr_WIilles! Sounds like you've.... got the feelin' Love da tune! 1 ... a little odd in the head ... Link to comment
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