[Salinger]

Wow that’s a lot of swimming  brilliant well done 

 

and go your daughter haha wonderful!!!! Xx

[Shello]

I do really like that version of Mad World.  

 

On 3/25/2023 at 5:34 AM, TimovieMan said:

Got some game time in AND went to bed at a very acceptable hour for a Friday. Balance! 😎

Score!

 

On 3/25/2023 at 5:34 AM, TimovieMan said:

TimovieDaughter watched the 1979 Muppet Movie again.

Classic!  That's the one I grew up on and always loved it.  

[TimovieMan]

2 hours ago, Salinger said:

Wow that’s a lot of swimming  brilliant well done 

According to my Fitbit, walking burns more calories than swimming does... 😲

Maybe because I'm not supporting my own weight in the water? 🤔

 

2 hours ago, Salinger said:

and go your daughter haha wonderful!!!! Xx

I was technically beaten by a 9-year old girl, and now I'm telling everybody! 😁

So proud of her. And very happy that she has found a sport she really likes!

Ballet and judo were less successful in the past. Ballet was mostly because she wanted to spend time with her friends, rather than the ballet itself, and she grew to dislike judo after getting her yellow belt - and no longer having the basic exercises.

It's telling that in those other sports, we often had to get her motivation up before going to the class or training, and with swimming, she's jumping at the opportunity each time.

Heck, she suggested going to the pool on Saturday afternoon, knowing full well that this would be immediately after her regular swimming class. But my son suggested the pool as well, so the choice was *very* easy... 😅

 

 

Sunday was a slow day. TimovieSon had a football match in the morning. Our team won, but it was a very close-fought match. Was 0-0 for a long time, then we quickly got 0-4 ahead, but the home team got back in the match at 3-6 and got to 6-7 and even 8-8. In the last quarter, my son was out of the goal and onto the pitch. He scored both winning goals. 8-10! He even exploited his strength in a duel, which he rarely does as he's generally too nice to go into a duel with another player. 😀

 

Mrs. Movieman also came back from her weekend with the friends in Amsterdam.

Their motto was "what happens in Amsterdam, stays in Amsterdam", but all three still came back with matching tattoos. 🤣

 

 

I didn't have an accident with my coffee mugs in 6 years at the office, but in February, I accidentally broke two of my mugs in just 3 weeks. My "My job is TOP SECRET! I don't even know what I'm doing myself!" mug, and my Yoda mug.

So the missus got back from Amsterdam with a new Star Wars mug for me:

 

Guess I'll be leaving my "Superdad" mug at home again now... 😅

 

 

 

 

Effed up in the evening a little: no gaming and got in bed far too late because I had gone down the YouTube rabbit hole again. Slightly more educational this time, though. I got lost in Athlean-X videos, which is actually one of the better, more informative strength training channels out there (the only one on par with Steve's blog, imo).

 

 

Sunday, March 26th

 

Movement:

- none

 

Self-care:

- Ate sensibly

- Intermittent fasting: 17 hours

- Blood pressure meds: ??? (not sure if I took them or not)

- Elbow care: stretched

- Sleep: 7h 25m*

 

* Despite losing an hour because of daylight savings!

 

Gaming:

- solved 3 nonograms

 

 

 

 

Weekly weigh-in

 

Weight: 98.35 kg (+0.5)

Body fat: 23.7% (-0.1)

Visceral fat: 10.0% (-)

 

Blood pressure: 117/84

 

 

Not gonna fret about the weight. I'm chalking it up to variance unless proven otherwise. As long as it's down again next week, no worries.

[Harriet]

Nice mug. Same design on the tattoos?

[Shello]

It sounds like the whole TimovieClan is on winning streak!  

[TimovieMan]

Week 0 summary

 

Self-care:

Intermittent fasting: 7x

Ate sensibly: 6x - 1 minor snack binge

Blood pressure meds: 6x (7x???) - 1 uncertain

Elbow care: iced 3x, stretched 7x

Average sleep: 6h 40m

 

Movement:

Distance walked / swam: 37.23 km (23.1 miles)

Walk to Mordor: total 126 miles - Hobbiton to Rivendell - Day 7 - Passed the former boundary of Cardolan, part of the North Kingdom of Arnor. Still in presence of Tom Bombadil.

Training: 2 full bodyweight workout

4x DailyDare (with 3 to go)

 

Gaming:

- 20 nonograms solved

- 3.5 hours of The Crew 2 (PS4) - did the weekly summit

- 6 hours of The Black Mirror (PC) - was 2 days late with the Chapter I deadline at AG, but am on schedule for the Chapter II deadline

 

Balance:

		Week
		0	1	2	3	4	5
	Monday
	Tuesday
	Wednesday
	Thursday
	Friday
	Saturday
	Sunday

 

Red = bad day (no gaming & sleep sacrificed)

Yellow = gaming won over sleep

Blue = sleep won over gaming

Green = balance!

[TimovieMan]

3 hours ago, Harriet said:

Nice mug. Same design on the tattoos?

Yup. 🙂

 

 

So today I officially got the news that I'm on temporary unemployment due to unforeseen circumstances these next weeks.

I missed the meeting on Friday because I had a day off, but I saw the mail on Saturday, so I already knew about it before the second meeting this morning.

IT thinks it'll still be three weeks before the main system will be fully up and running. That means that I won't be getting my regular pay these next weeks, but an unemployment compensation from the government (which is 65% of my pay). Thank goodness Belgium has a great social safety net in these situations. My employer has also said they'll compensate for the missing 35% of our pay (at least for this week - April is still to be budgeted).

I already sent in the paperwork this morning, and then went for a 90-minute walk.

Did my workout in the afternoon.

 

Spoiler

- Warm-up:

60 seconds toe tap hops (DailyDare)
30 plank jump-ins (DailyDare) - in two parts, half before the incline push-ups, half after
10 incline push-ups

40 plank step-outs (DailyDare) - 20 each side, with a small break after 15 because I couldn't hold a plank that long

 

- Workout (2 circuits):
2x10 one-leg calf raises
2 chin-ups
10 leg-assisted chin-ups

2 shrimp squats (DailyDare) - failed the dare, didn't get low enough on the first without losing my balance, tried my other leg and it felt really uncomfortable on my lats before I lost my balance there as well, noped out of the entire exercise
20 squats
10 push-ups
2x10 one-leg Romanian deadlifts
10 scapular pull-ups
10 hanging knee raises
20 wall slides
15 reverse crunch swipers

 

Of course, not needing to work puts this challenge on "easy" mode, as I've got 40 additional hours to complete my objectives. So be it.

Gotta take advantage of it while I can. 😇

 

 

 

 

How about some Austrian darkwave?

 

 

[Shello]

Part of me is like, damn, that sucks, but the other part is like now you have more time for sleep AND gaming!  

[RhiaWolfe]

On 3/26/2023 at 4:14 PM, TimovieMan said:

 

I highly recommend the movie. It's mind-bending and thought-provoking, and was rightfully the breakthrough role for Jake Gyllenhaal...

 

 

I actually didn't like the movie at all until I looked it up online. I had no idea what the heck was going on. When I watch it to this day I still have to look it up to remember what everything means. 

 

It's awesome that your kids are athletic and found something they enjoy! 

 

I am not competitive so I can relate to your daughter in that way. lol. 

 

33 minutes ago, TimovieMan said:

 

So today I officially got the news that I'm on temporary unemployment due to unforeseen circumstances these next weeks.

I missed the meeting on Friday because I had a day off, but I saw the mail on Saturday, so I already knew about it before the second meeting this morning.

IT thinks it'll still be three weeks before the main system will be fully up and running. That means that I won't be getting my regular pay these next weeks, but an unemployment compensation from the government (which is 65% of my pay). Thank goodness Belgium has a great social safety net in these situations. 

 

One of the many reasons I want to emigrate from the US. 

[Sovalis]

Oof, sorry about the temporary unemployment. I am glad you have a safety net. Now you must be green squares in the tracker as you have all kinds of time!

[Harriet]

11 hours ago, TimovieMan said:

Yup. 🙂

 

 

No, I was asking if the tattoos are the same design as the mugs. I'm a little disappointed. I mean, it's fine! Butterflies are fine.

[Salinger]

Hey Timo, hoping your Tuesday is good. Its pouring down here, hope it is better over there xx

[KB Girl]

It's actually maybe a little bit like a paid vacation? If you're feeling secure about being able to return to your job then I'm almost inclined to be happy for you instead of sorry? Hope you can make the best of it

 

[TimovieMan]

22 hours ago, Shello said:

Part of me is like, damn, that sucks, but the other part is like now you have more time for sleep AND gaming!  

Not having to work does not suck for me. More time for sleep AND gaming it is!!! 😇

 

21 hours ago, RhiaWolfe said:

I actually didn't like the movie at all until I looked it up online. I had no idea what the heck was going on. When I watch it to this day I still have to look it up to remember what everything means. 

Actually, the Director's Cut - which is over 20 minutes longer - explains the writer/director's original view of what's going on in detail.

But I very much prefer the far more ambiguous original cut. I got to make sense of it in my mind, and I like my theory better than the convoluted one the director had - which is why I prefer the original version over the Director's Cut.

 

21 hours ago, RhiaWolfe said:

It's awesome that your kids are athletic and found something they enjoy! 

Athletic is a big word. They can both eat like I can, so they don't look all that athletic. But they definitely found something they enjoy.

 

21 hours ago, RhiaWolfe said:

One of the many reasons I want to emigrate from the US. 

Our social safety net is why we pay such high taxes, but it's so good to have the safety net and the good health care... 🙂

 

18 hours ago, Sovalis said:

Oof, sorry about the temporary unemployment. I am glad you have a safety net. Now you must be green squares in the tracker as you have all kinds of time!

I'm also doing some additional chores around the house, though. But yeah, the challenge became a lot easier...

 

10 hours ago, Harriet said:

No, I was asking if the tattoos are the same design as the mugs. I'm a little disappointed. I mean, it's fine! Butterflies are fine.

I totally misinterpreted that. Sorry about ruining the joke... 😅

 

9 hours ago, Salinger said:

Hey Timo, hoping your Tuesday is good. Its pouring down here, hope it is better over there xx

It was mostly cloudy and windy but dry today. Only started drizzling at 5 pm, and that only lasted for an hour and a half.

 

10 minutes ago, KB Girl said:

It's actually maybe a little bit like a paid vacation? If you're feeling secure about being able to return to your job then I'm almost inclined to be happy for you instead of sorry? Hope you can make the best of it

I'm 100% certain of being able to return in a few weeks. It's a big company and we've literally got hundreds of open vacancies. This is now basically just a big IT problem.

So yeah, it's closer to a paid vacation (especially if they'll keep topping up the wage amount we'll otherwise lose on the unemployment system).

[Salinger]

Also the directors cut has a shit song at the beginning !!!!!

[KB Girl]

33 minutes ago, TimovieMan said:

I'm 100% certain of being able to return in a few weeks. It's a big company and we've literally got hundreds of open vacancies. This is now basically just a big IT problem.

So yeah, it's closer to a paid vacation (especially if they'll keep topping up the wage amount we'll otherwise lose on the unemployment system).

Good, I'm glad! Then enjoy

 

[TimovieMan]

Monday, March 27th

 

Movement:

- 90-minute walk

- full bodyweight workout

 

Self-care:

- Ate sensibly

- Intermittent fasting: 19 hours

- Blood pressure meds: taken

- Elbow care: iced & stretched

- Sleep: 5h 16m*

 

* The YouTube rabbit hole I mentioned...

 

Gaming:

- solved 1 nonogram*

 

* But I went through a bit of backlog on the forums, so while there was minimal gaming, I'm still calling this a balanced day. Got into bed at a good hour this time.

 

 

 

44 minutes ago, Salinger said:

Also the directors cut has a shit song at the beginning !!!!!

I wouldn't necessarily call "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS a shit song, but Echo and the Bunnymen's "Killing Moon" was the far superior choice for the film and added to the mysterious atmosphere - which is the opposite of what INXS did. INXS didn't fit. Killing Moon was perfect.

 

 

 

 

Got a reasonable night's sleep today. Got the kids ready and walked them to school, and then I got right back into bed for a few hours of additional sleep. 😇

Did some minor chores around the house, and then went for a two-hour walk.

Vacuumed downstairs, got the kids back from school, helped with homework, made dinner, and now I'm watching footy - Germany v Belgium. The first 20 minutes were the best I've seen from our Red Devils in years. If that's how Tedesco wants us to play, I'm going to like him very much as the trainer. 😁

 

 

 

 

Here's my ringtone (and second alarm in the morning) - as someone who never used ringtones before this.

I first heard this in the trailer for the (very solid) animation movie "9". Was sold immediately.

Took me a while to get used to the high-pitched singing voice (which reminds me of Rush's Geddy Lee a little), but damn, the build-up in the intro is fantastic!

 

Coheed and Cambria - "Welcome Home"

 

[Kishi]

Coheed and Cambria takes me back to my Rockband days in college. We used to get together at my place and we'd basically just jam out on the gaming peripherals. Good times then, and good music here and now!

[Shello]

18 hours ago, TimovieMan said:

Got a reasonable night's sleep today. Got the kids ready and walked them to school, and then I got right back into bed for a few hours of additional sleep. 😇

#Winning

[TimovieMan]

Tuesday, March 28th

 

Movement:

- 2-hour walk

- picking the kids up from school registered as a 14-minute walk

 

Self-care:

- Ate reasonably sensibly - had some chocolates, but overall calorie count for the day was good

- Intermittent fasting: 17 hours

- Blood pressure meds: taken

- Elbow care: stretched

- Sleep: 9h 40m

 

Gaming:

- solved 3 nonograms

- played 1 hour of The Black Mirror (PC)

 

And watched the football game. And got to bed at an acceptable hour. *

 

 

* Too bad it was still a poor night. Took a while to fall asleep, but was woken two hours early because of infighting cats who took their quarrel to our bedroom and kept being annoying for a good long while. I love my cats, but I really wanted to dropkick these two at 5.45 am.

 

 

Today was a day with little activity. Did the grocery shopping when the kids were at school, made lunch, and then drove TimovieDaughter to her music class. Because TimovieSon had a birthday party for a classmate to go to, I couldn't go on a walk during that music class. And with an additional rush of picking him back up before TimovieDaughter's swimming class and his football training, meant that a 30-to-40 minute walk during the swimming class was out of the question. So I made do with a 15-minute walk and "only" 9000 steps for the day.

We do what we can?

 

 

 

 

For this next band, I may be in the minority among the band's fans.

Paradise Lost is a band that pretty much invented the death/doom metal genre, and named the gothic metal genre. One of the most influential bands in metal in the (early) 90s.

In the late 90s they made a couple of "softer" albums. The guttural growling had lessened after two albums and was gone by then, but their transition to more synth-rock / industrial metal is considered their "lesser" period. They returned to gothic/death/doom in later outings. Their albums "One Second", "Host", "Believe in Nothing" and "Symbol of Life" are their least liked among their fans...

I, however, loved this period in their discography. I consider "One Second" and "Symbol of Life" their best two albums.

I saw them live back in October. They only played two songs off "One Second" and none of "Symbol of Life", but it was a great concert. They've got a large discography so plenty of great songs to choose from.

 

My personal favourite is the opening track of "Symbol of Life".

 

Paradise Lost - "Isolate"

 

[shaar]

I have never heard of Paradise Lost but that is a sick track!! 

[Salinger]

Brilliant, once again!!!!! x

[TimovieMan]

Wednesday, March 29th

 

Movement:

- 20-minute walk during my daughter's swim training

 

Self-care:

- Ate sensibly

- Intermittent fasting: 17 hours

- Blood pressure meds: taken

- Elbow care: stretched

- Sleep: 5h 04m*

 

* Sometimes having cats is bad for you

 

Gaming:

- solved 5 nonograms

- played 45 minutes of The Crew 2 (PS4)

- played 1 hour of The Black Mirror (PC)

 

 

 

Did the same as Tuesday today. Got to bed at a reasonable hour last night. Slept well. Got up, got the kids ready and walked them to school, and then went back to bed for a couple of hours. 😁

 

Mistimed my workout a little. Had planned on doing 3 circuits of my workout this time, but started a little too late. I had a physio appointment for my elbow this afternoon, and wanted to shave and shower first, so had to cut 1 circuit from the workout to get everything done on time.

Good news, though. Managed 2x 2 full chin-ups with better form than the previous ones, my grip strength has improved for the scapular pull-ups and hanging knee raises, and the post-workout pump was nice to see in the mirror. 😇

I also did the DailyDare exercises I didn't do the past two days.

 

Spoiler

- Warm-up:

40 jumping jacks

10 incline push-ups

 

2x 1 minute of side planks (DailyDare)
50 calf raises (DailyDare)

2x 25 single-leg bridges (DailyDare)

 

- Workout (2 circuits):
2x 10 one-leg calf raises
2 chin-ups
10 leg-assisted chin-ups
20 squats
10 push-ups
2x 10 one-leg Romanian deadlifts
10 scapular pull-ups
10 hanging knee raises
20 wall slides
15 reverse crunch swipers

 

Had a 30-minute walk to the physio's, and a 30-minute walk back. And went on a 30-minute walk during my son's goalkeeper training.

 

Oh, and my tub of "extreme dark chocolate" whey protein was finally empty. I've got three smaller packs now, as a way of finding out which taste is best. "Delicious strawberry", "vanilla ice cream" and "double rich chocolate".

The "delicious strawberry" is definitely tasty, if a little syrupy - but perhaps I just didn't use enough milk.

 

 

 

Here's my highest-ranked song that I haven't posted before (it's my #6).

It's an absolute masterpiece of Southern rock music, from the iconic guitar intro to the soaring vocal performance, every element of this is executed to perfection. The way the stunning instrumental solos come together make this a timeless anthem. It's simply one of the greatest songs ever recorded. And it's one of those songs that make me want to hop on a motorcycle and go for a ride - which is odd since I have no affinity with motorcycles... 😁

And this was a joy to play (albeit extremely hard) on Guitar Hero II. Well, the first 5 minutes were. The last 4 were impossible. 😇🤣

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free Bird"

 

[RES]

1 hour ago, TimovieMan said:

And it's one of those songs that make me want to hop on a motorcycle and go for a ride

Can attest it's as incredible as you think it is  

[shaar]

Oh my gosh Lynyrd Skynyrd!!!!  My parents lovedddd Southern Rock and I grew up listening to lots of this on old cassette tapes in the 80s 😆  A classic for SURE!!