theodinspire and the End of Summer

[theodinspire]

Alright. I'm kinda miffed at myself for only half-assing the past two challenges.

 

Fitness:

• A: Physical Activity 3+ times a week. Pass/Fail. I've got two and a half weeks of summer break before grad school kicks back up again. Though I'll be out of state for a good five days in that period. But for the next week and a half, I can definitely go to all four swords classes. I need to get back into my body weight routine. Once school starts, I'll have class Mondays and Wednesdays, which means I'll be missing out on two of three sword classes, so I will definitely have to stick to the body weight. Also I kinda wanna get into rugby shape because I have become rugby trash/my father but with rugby instead of hockey.
• P: 60 pull ups a week. Grade scale. Well, I should be getting at least 45 a week from the BWF routine alone. But I really need to get in shape for that ring muscle up that is my goal for the year. That rapier class I took really got in the way there. But this should make me post each day, and keep on the rest.

Life:

• T: At least one big home task a week. Pass/Fail. Hey, I changed the kitchen faucet today; so that's this week ;D Some projects:
  • Finish that cardigan that I was knitting for my wife.
  • Replace the kitchen faucet.
  • Bag and board all the comics
  • TBD
• D: Get that blasted Django server running. Grade scale for effort (C for concerted effort but no advancement. B for running. A for checked in code) I've been struggling with this OpenWorm project I've been working on for ten days now and while I can get the server to run, I can't seem to get any pages to load. I've got a feeling that the structure of it is off on my computer, so I've put the call for help to the group to see what they have to say.

[theodinspire]

A: 0/3 P: 12/60 T: 1/1

D: Waiting to hear back from team for help.

[theodinspire]

A: 1/3 P: 17/60 T: 1/1

D: Got a smidge of feedback but it didn't really get me anywhere. I gist'd my file structure and error dump to one of the engineers. He's in South Asia, so we have nearly opposite schedules. This might be a game of phone tag.

 

And, I

 

I kinda did a muscle up. Kinda. I got pulled up, threw my elbows on the bar, hoisted myself up, and only didn't do a dip because I was already at the ceiling. The squat rack at the sala is in a low ceiling'd room. Hah.

[Solunaria]

1 hour ago, theodinspire said:

I kinda did a muscle up. Kinda. 

 

Hah! Been there. Keep going!

[theodinspire]

A: 2/3 P: 37/60 T: 1/1

D: There was a meeting today regarding the ion channel simulations and the muscle simulations, and the next push is to combine the two. I need to earn a couple badges on the Hodgkin-Huxley model and modeling muscles.

 

I found out that there are pick-up rugby league games in Chicago. I'm spinning down the loo of becoming a sportsball person. My muscle-up goal and my sword training and school and family and work and getting programming experience must take precedence but I want so much to give this a go.

 

Also, I only got 14 pull-ups in my work out (it's pretty amazing how exhausting planks and handstand practice are), so I did another six after I'd been home for a while.

[RisenPhoenix]

On 8/21/2016 at 7:59 PM, theodinspire said:

Alright. I'm kinda miffed at myself for only half-assing the past two challenges.

 

Eh, we all have slow stint for challenges.  One thing I've gotten out of the habit of is trying to get people to pull some lesson from their challenge.  Because not-amazing-half-assed challenges can still teach you something.  So keep that in mind and don't let the miffed-ness bog you down.

[theodinspire]

7 hours ago, RisenPhoenix said:

Eh, we all have slow stint for challenges.  One thing I've gotten out of the habit of is trying to get people to pull some lesson from their challenge.  Because not-amazing-half-assed challenges can still teach you something.  So keep that in mind and don't let the miffed-ness bog you down.

 

They taught me that I still had too much on my plate. And boy is that not really gonna change any time soon. DX

[theodinspire]

A: 3/3 P: 45/60 T: 1/1

D: Working on that Hodgkin-Huxley tutorial.

 

Two of those pull-ups were muscle ups, though I'm still on the get my collarbone to the bar, toss my elbows on and hoist myself up kind. But practice makes perfect, right? So exhausted from swords though.

[theodinspire]

A: 3/3 P: 50/60 T: 1/1

D: No progress today.

 

Actually, mostly posting right now because I'm kinda panicking and wish I allowed myself to bother my friends enough to hang out with me because I need a friend rn. I actually probably need a therapist more right now, but you can't really get those on demand. This week at work's been rough. Or maybe it just feels rougher. And with all the stuff on my plate, I'm probably only panicking right now because I don't have anything to do tonight. Except dishes. Ugh.

[theodinspire]

Okay. I was reminded by someone's thread here to do some meditation and that's helped quite a bit. Gonna have to get back to doing that daily.

[sarakingdom]

Meditation is stupid but good for you.  (I've also been avoiding it lately, and bad at it when I try.)

 

Bother one of your friends.  They won't mind.  Go for a walk, or bag comics together, or watch a damn movie, you've earned it.

[theodinspire]

A: 4/3 P: 65/60 T: 2/1

D: No progress yesterday.

 

Since I'm headed out of town next week, I'm counting my big task number two (filling out the FAFSA) as next week's task. This makes the difficult thing for next week getting all my pull-ups in. Oh, and working on the Django. Eeep.

[theodinspire]

A: 5/3 P: 65/60 T: 2/1

D: Sent gists of my install logs to one of the other developers.

[theodinspire]

Weekly Grade Breakdown:

A: Pass P: S T: Pass

 

Other news, I thought I had missed enough points early on to not get an A in my GIS class this summer, but surprise surprise. I got another A. Now I'm gonna remain overly concerned about keeping that 4.0

[Kishi]

Hey, at least you got a 4.0 to keep. Nothing wrong with that, yeah?

 

Also, hi! Looks like you passed everything on the first week! Good job!

[theodinspire]

On 8/27/2016 at 5:03 PM, Kishi said:

Hey, at least you got a 4.0 to keep. Nothing wrong with that, yeah?

 

I'm a bit worried about maintaining it. It's the first time in my life that I've had a 4.0, and after two of three years. I'm just concerned that it's making me overly concerned about keeping it, and especially with the bairn on the way, I don't want to have that additional stress.

[theodinspire]

A: 0.5/3 P: 15/60 T: 1/1

D: More troubleshooting, started trying to get the programming together for the badge, but didn't have much success.

 

The half workout session is because I didn't have enough energy to do my full workout. I put in the pull ups at home later, but my tris weren't having any dips or handstands

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

Just keep plugging away. Could be worse, you could be lecturing on T-SQL and relational databases all day. I would rather be dealing with Python and Django.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

[theodinspire]

A: 1.5/3 P: 20/60 T: 1/1
D: Was trying to get the development branch installed when my connection failed. 

 

I'm panicking a little because I have four months to get a ring muscle up.

[Kishi]

A ring muscle up? Oooh. Good luck, buddy.

[theodinspire]

Vacation over. Much fun.

 

Here's last week

A: 4/3 P: 60*/60 T: 1/1

D: Didn't get a chance to remote into my home computer to give it another go.

* The gym at my parents' didn't have a pull-up bar, so I had to use the lat pull down cable machine. Since I'm working on a muscle-up, I worked the exercise to throw the bar below my chest, at a fairly challenging level. 3×10, but since it was easier than a pull up, I'm taking a 1/6 penalty on them. I'm counting all the extra walking I did at the Minnesota State Fair and Minnesota Renaissance Festival as a quarter activity each.

 

This week:

A: 1/3 P: 25/60 T: 0/1

D: Vacation

 

On 9/3/2016 at 11:21 PM, Kishi said:

A ring muscle up? Oooh. Good luck, buddy.

 

I'll probably need it.

[theodinspire]

Uffda, school started tonight and boy am I tired.

 

A: 3/3 P: 51 T: 0/1

D: Frell, gotta make time for this at some point

 

Started Zombies Run 5k today and uffda, am I not in cardio shape. I remember the first time I tried it, I was actually doing pretty well at it, and hitting 5k on most of my times out, but now, it was a bit of jogging and a lot of walking for a half hour. But if I want to do rugby I've gotta be able to run forever.

 

I miss swords

[sarakingdom]

I have the free version of Zombies Run, might do a once-a-week in the woods next challenge.  Not really a runner for joint safety reasons, but it might be good for a speedy hike of the longer sort.

 

I have not yet done swords this challenge, and they're on my challenge.

[theodinspire]

I'll be able to go to swords tomorrow, but because I am also expecting a delivery of furniture, I'll have to sit in my house in my gear for up to two hours.

 

A: 4/3 P: 69/60 T: 0/1

D: …

[Draegon (Liam P Boyle)]

How much gear, and what brand?