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TopNotch
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10k punches Day 12
Posture Day 12
Calves of Steel Day 12
Tricep Dips Day 12
Daily Walk Day 12
Bed on Time Day 9
Daily Push-ups Day 3
Morning supplements
Posture Day 12
Calves of Steel Day 12
Tricep Dips Day 12
Daily Walk Day 12
Bed on Time Day 9
Daily Push-ups Day 3
Morning supplements
TopNotch
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10k punches Day 13
Posture Day 13
Calves of Steel Day 13
Tricep Dips Day 13
Daily Walk Day 13
Bed on Time Day 10
Daily Push-ups Day 4
Dead Hang Day 1 - one of my favourites
Morning supplements
Posture Day 13
Calves of Steel Day 13
Tricep Dips Day 13
Daily Walk Day 13
Bed on Time Day 10
Daily Push-ups Day 4
Dead Hang Day 1 - one of my favourites
Morning supplements
TopNotch
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10k punches Day 14
Posture Day 14
Calves of Steel Day 14
Tricep Dips Day 14
Daily Walk Day 14
Bed on Time Day 11
Daily Push-ups Day 5
Dead Hang Day 2
Chest Press 3 x 10 - because I had to test that Marcy was cabled up correctly!
Morning supplements
I have plans for my little house but I acknowledge that the bigger (aka more expensive) will be a way down the track. I think of one thing and decide that's the way to go and then a little later I think of something else and decide that it's a better way to go. I'm not really in a hurry so I'll just let thoughts percolate. So today I decided that Marcy had to be reconstructed in my dining room. Only there wasn't enough room in my dining room - she'd project too much across the back door and Creed would be forever crashing into her. I found she would fit in a corner of my lounge room instead - if I moved out my heater. I shouldn't need it until next year and by then I hope to have a split system installed. So I got to work and when my hands got tired of using the spanner or allen key, I allowed myself to go do some real work as a break. As a result, ended up writing nearly 4500 words today. The worst bit was ensuring that the cables were all connected correctly and over or under the right wheels. That was a mite tedious. But in the end, Marcy got rebuilt.
I didn't even need to shift his bed but Creed might consider moving when I'm doing leg extensions.
And one day I'll get a chair to replace the Kloudsac.
Posture Day 14
Calves of Steel Day 14
Tricep Dips Day 14
Daily Walk Day 14
Bed on Time Day 11
Daily Push-ups Day 5
Dead Hang Day 2
Chest Press 3 x 10 - because I had to test that Marcy was cabled up correctly!
Morning supplementsI have plans for my little house but I acknowledge that the bigger (aka more expensive) will be a way down the track. I think of one thing and decide that's the way to go and then a little later I think of something else and decide that it's a better way to go. I'm not really in a hurry so I'll just let thoughts percolate. So today I decided that Marcy had to be reconstructed in my dining room. Only there wasn't enough room in my dining room - she'd project too much across the back door and Creed would be forever crashing into her. I found she would fit in a corner of my lounge room instead - if I moved out my heater. I shouldn't need it until next year and by then I hope to have a split system installed. So I got to work and when my hands got tired of using the spanner or allen key, I allowed myself to go do some real work as a break. As a result, ended up writing nearly 4500 words today. The worst bit was ensuring that the cables were all connected correctly and over or under the right wheels. That was a mite tedious. But in the end, Marcy got rebuilt.
I didn't even need to shift his bed but Creed might consider moving when I'm doing leg extensions.
And one day I'll get a chair to replace the Kloudsac.
TopNotch
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10k punches Day 15
Posture Day 15
Calves of Steel Day 15
Tricep Dips Day 15
Daily Walk Day 15
Bed on Time - nope. Was doing something last night that I hoped would end before bedtime but things didn't work out as hoped so - oh well.
Daily Push-ups Day 6
Dead Hang Day 3
Lat Pull-downs 3 x 10
Morning supplements - I think I've got this nicely scheduled now.
Posture Day 15
Calves of Steel Day 15
Tricep Dips Day 15
Daily Walk Day 15
Bed on Time - nope. Was doing something last night that I hoped would end before bedtime but things didn't work out as hoped so - oh well.
Daily Push-ups Day 6
Dead Hang Day 3
Lat Pull-downs 3 x 10
Morning supplements - I think I've got this nicely scheduled now.
Glad to see Creed and Marcy are getting along so well! He looks completely unfazed by the new interloper in his space.
TopNotch
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10k punches Day 16
Posture Day 16
Calves of Steel Day 16
Tricep Dips Day 16
Daily Walk Day 16
Daily Push-ups Day 7
Dead Hang Day 4
Been really slow with NaNo this year. Previous two years I think I was done by around now - or perhaps by tomorrow. But so far I'm only at 75% and that's because I've just been very slack, mooching around doing other stuff. And then I get stuck on a point and it takes me half the day to work it through. Like today I couldn't decide how we'd break into the building - go in through the window SAS-style or perhaps use a breaching charge on the roof - so I told myself I'd just mull it over for a bit and I did, really. For a bit. For a lot, I did something else even though I'd come up with the solution. Then I started writing but it all just got too hard for this little black duck today so I watched a DVD instead. That's my problem, you know. Since I got a tv, I've been wasting time watching it! Anyway, as a result, got only another 1800 words down today. I'll pull out my finger tomorrow.
Posture Day 16
Calves of Steel Day 16
Tricep Dips Day 16
Daily Walk Day 16
Daily Push-ups Day 7
Dead Hang Day 4
Been really slow with NaNo this year. Previous two years I think I was done by around now - or perhaps by tomorrow. But so far I'm only at 75% and that's because I've just been very slack, mooching around doing other stuff. And then I get stuck on a point and it takes me half the day to work it through. Like today I couldn't decide how we'd break into the building - go in through the window SAS-style or perhaps use a breaching charge on the roof - so I told myself I'd just mull it over for a bit and I did, really. For a bit. For a lot, I did something else even though I'd come up with the solution. Then I started writing but it all just got too hard for this little black duck today so I watched a DVD instead. That's my problem, you know. Since I got a tv, I've been wasting time watching it! Anyway, as a result, got only another 1800 words down today. I'll pull out my finger tomorrow.
I get the wanting to do more, the not being happy with the procrastination. But 75% done when the month is only half over is still great progress! Good work!
TopNotch
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Thanks. I know it might sounds silly complaining, but I compare myself to the myself of last year and the year before and find myself coming up wanting.
TopNotch
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10k punches Day 17
Posture Day 17
Calves of Steel Day 17
Tricep Dips Day 17
Daily Walk Day 17
Daily Push-ups Day 8
Dead Hang Day 5
I didn't let myself get (very) distracted today but it was raining and I love watching the rain. I blame my childhood. Rain was a rare thing and I don't recollect that it drizzled much (though it probably did - I just don't recollect). What I recollect is that when it did rain, it came down like a deluge. The ground would be so dry that the water couldn't sink in and we'd have floods. I remember that one time we wanted to go to the cinema but we couldn't even get out of the street! Each end was flooded so badly. Good thing we didn't get to the cinema because there was a power failure so it would have been a bust anyway. Ah, the pleasures of growing up in a semi-arid region. I can't wait to get a water tank so I can watch the rain and think happily that it's filling my tank, but that's not to be yet. I sat me at my little table with my laptop open before me and found my head turning to the window so I could watch the rain. But I wrote too. Unfortunately because we had rain and a spot of thunder (and maybe lightning but I didn't see any), the internet went down which was inconvenient today because I actually had to do some research for this chapter. So instead I have "[discussion of xxx to go here]" just so I could keep going with the rest of the chapter. I could work around it. I finished the scene I began yesterday. It's...meh. But it's a first draft and so long as I get the general gist down, that's good enough right now. All in all, today I clocked up 3404 words and stopped because I was five minutes late for the beasties' dinners and they were complaining.
Posture Day 17
Calves of Steel Day 17
Tricep Dips Day 17
Daily Walk Day 17
Daily Push-ups Day 8
Dead Hang Day 5
I didn't let myself get (very) distracted today but it was raining and I love watching the rain. I blame my childhood. Rain was a rare thing and I don't recollect that it drizzled much (though it probably did - I just don't recollect). What I recollect is that when it did rain, it came down like a deluge. The ground would be so dry that the water couldn't sink in and we'd have floods. I remember that one time we wanted to go to the cinema but we couldn't even get out of the street! Each end was flooded so badly. Good thing we didn't get to the cinema because there was a power failure so it would have been a bust anyway. Ah, the pleasures of growing up in a semi-arid region. I can't wait to get a water tank so I can watch the rain and think happily that it's filling my tank, but that's not to be yet. I sat me at my little table with my laptop open before me and found my head turning to the window so I could watch the rain. But I wrote too. Unfortunately because we had rain and a spot of thunder (and maybe lightning but I didn't see any), the internet went down which was inconvenient today because I actually had to do some research for this chapter. So instead I have "[discussion of xxx to go here]" just so I could keep going with the rest of the chapter. I could work around it. I finished the scene I began yesterday. It's...meh. But it's a first draft and so long as I get the general gist down, that's good enough right now. All in all, today I clocked up 3404 words and stopped because I was five minutes late for the beasties' dinners and they were complaining.
TopNotch
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10k punches Day 18
Posture Day 18
Calves of Steel Day 18
Tricep Dips Day 18
Daily Walk Day 18
Daily Push-ups Day 9
Dead Hang Day 6
Since I totally bombed out with the GTBOT challenge, I've been getting worse. This morning I finally got to be at 2:15. And for some inexplicable reason woke at 7:45. Dozed for a while longer until Creed started licking my armpit.
My brain had been buzzing when I went to bed so this morning, even before breakfast (but after everything else), I wrote 1200 words before I went out to the shops. I had no food in the house apart from some tins of herring in sauce (yum) and loads of tomatoes. So food had to be bought. And petrol, and other stuff. While I was at the shops, it seemed almost half of what I wanted was represented by an empty shelf! My expression of disgust at not finding something prompted an older man who was wheeling his trolley toward me to stop and have a chat. And could he chat! Complained about inflation and the Liberals and well, must confess I faded in and out a bit but really couldn't get away. After (was it only?) about 10 minutes, he finally started moving past me, then stopped and stuck out his hand and introduced himself and his wife (John and Lynne). Why did he do that? Chances are we'll never meet again, and our conversation was over. Why would you introduce yourself to someone as you're leaving??
So it was late afternoon by the time I was at my computer again. Then there was a tussle trying to get my laptop to reconnect to the internet after yesterday's outage. It said it was connected but I couldn't get anything up and Nord kept saying I wasn't on the internet. Aargh!
And then suddenly everything was behaving properly again, so that's nice. Stopped at dinner time and I'd written a total of 2500 words today.
Posture Day 18
Calves of Steel Day 18
Tricep Dips Day 18
Daily Walk Day 18
Daily Push-ups Day 9
Dead Hang Day 6
Since I totally bombed out with the GTBOT challenge, I've been getting worse. This morning I finally got to be at 2:15. And for some inexplicable reason woke at 7:45. Dozed for a while longer until Creed started licking my armpit.
My brain had been buzzing when I went to bed so this morning, even before breakfast (but after everything else), I wrote 1200 words before I went out to the shops. I had no food in the house apart from some tins of herring in sauce (yum) and loads of tomatoes. So food had to be bought. And petrol, and other stuff. While I was at the shops, it seemed almost half of what I wanted was represented by an empty shelf! My expression of disgust at not finding something prompted an older man who was wheeling his trolley toward me to stop and have a chat. And could he chat! Complained about inflation and the Liberals and well, must confess I faded in and out a bit but really couldn't get away. After (was it only?) about 10 minutes, he finally started moving past me, then stopped and stuck out his hand and introduced himself and his wife (John and Lynne). Why did he do that? Chances are we'll never meet again, and our conversation was over. Why would you introduce yourself to someone as you're leaving??
So it was late afternoon by the time I was at my computer again. Then there was a tussle trying to get my laptop to reconnect to the internet after yesterday's outage. It said it was connected but I couldn't get anything up and Nord kept saying I wasn't on the internet. Aargh!
And then suddenly everything was behaving properly again, so that's nice. Stopped at dinner time and I'd written a total of 2500 words today.
Congrats on your duolingo streak!
aku-chan
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That's one heck of a Duolingo streak!
PetiteSheWolf
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bravo for your owly feat! 
MadamMeow
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Congrats for your streak! 
NancyTree
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Congrats on your DuoLingo streak! 
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Congrats on your Duolingo streak! 
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TopNotch
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10k punches Day 19
Posture Day 19
Calves of Steel Day 19
Tricep Dips Day 19
Daily Walk Day 19
Daily Push-ups Day 10
Dead Hang Day 7
I have been called 'obsessive' re Duolingo. I prefer to think 'dedicated'.
This morning I went out to a petshop to get a muzzle for Creed, a nice open box-type. Not because he's a vicious dog but because I don't want him to eat any of those little fluffy dogs as he'd probably get fur-balls - I mean, their owners wouldn't like it. Anyway, he was in the car when I went into the shop and then the lady from the shop came out with me to try the muzzle of Creed. He was remarkably well-behaved with her, sat relatively quietly, so I ventured to take him into the shop (they allow dogs if they're on leashes) and got him fitted for a harness with a handle. There is little delineation between the size of his neck and the size of his head, so his collar has once slipped off him and I wanted something that I could grab that I knew wouldn't come off. And everyone said how lovely and handsome he was. He was so well-behaved that I decided it was time for us to venture to a dog-park. The nearest was not far away at all (when driving) and on the edge of Lake Tuggeranong. I'd never been to one before so I don't know if they are all like this. There were two enclosures, one for small and old dogs, the other for big dogs. Fortunately there were no dogs in the big dogs part but I kept Creed on his leash. He went wild when he came near the small dogs and they barked furiously at him (which made him even more reactive, etc etc). Finally, the littlest yappy thing walked away and a dog whose head would probably have reached my knee remained. It got so that Creed actually wagged his tail at him while they sniffed and had the fence between them. Creed had leapt and pulled at his leash and once nearly got me over by tangling the leash around me but I managed to retain my feet - and the leash. We stayed there about 15 minutes, but then someone wanted to run her greyhound off-leash and it was time for us to go. Baby steps. He's not at all well-socialised and this was the first time he 'met' other dogs (other, I suppose, than when he was in the Pound), and he did quite well. We'll got again and I'll have to hope that there will be no big dogs in the enclosure, only little dogs on the other side so he can start to get used to them.
Posture Day 19
Calves of Steel Day 19
Tricep Dips Day 19
Daily Walk Day 19
Daily Push-ups Day 10
Dead Hang Day 7
I have been called 'obsessive' re Duolingo. I prefer to think 'dedicated'.
This morning I went out to a petshop to get a muzzle for Creed, a nice open box-type. Not because he's a vicious dog but because I don't want him to eat any of those little fluffy dogs as he'd probably get fur-balls - I mean, their owners wouldn't like it. Anyway, he was in the car when I went into the shop and then the lady from the shop came out with me to try the muzzle of Creed. He was remarkably well-behaved with her, sat relatively quietly, so I ventured to take him into the shop (they allow dogs if they're on leashes) and got him fitted for a harness with a handle. There is little delineation between the size of his neck and the size of his head, so his collar has once slipped off him and I wanted something that I could grab that I knew wouldn't come off. And everyone said how lovely and handsome he was. He was so well-behaved that I decided it was time for us to venture to a dog-park. The nearest was not far away at all (when driving) and on the edge of Lake Tuggeranong. I'd never been to one before so I don't know if they are all like this. There were two enclosures, one for small and old dogs, the other for big dogs. Fortunately there were no dogs in the big dogs part but I kept Creed on his leash. He went wild when he came near the small dogs and they barked furiously at him (which made him even more reactive, etc etc). Finally, the littlest yappy thing walked away and a dog whose head would probably have reached my knee remained. It got so that Creed actually wagged his tail at him while they sniffed and had the fence between them. Creed had leapt and pulled at his leash and once nearly got me over by tangling the leash around me but I managed to retain my feet - and the leash. We stayed there about 15 minutes, but then someone wanted to run her greyhound off-leash and it was time for us to go. Baby steps. He's not at all well-socialised and this was the first time he 'met' other dogs (other, I suppose, than when he was in the Pound), and he did quite well. We'll got again and I'll have to hope that there will be no big dogs in the enclosure, only little dogs on the other side so he can start to get used to them.
Aw. Well done, Creed!
If you are keeping him on leash for now, would it not be possible to walk him outside the enclosures, so he can greet the other dogs through the fence that way?
My local dog park also has a separate enclosure for "small, senior, and disabled" dogs. I take Shelby in the big dog area though. At 13-years-old, she definitely qualifies as a senior. And she does not run anymore, or appreciate being jumped on--which I assume is why older dogs are allowed in the small dog area. But if the worst thing that happens in the dog park is some big puppy slamming into her, we'll be fine. Shelby just gives one warning bark, and the puppies accept her dominance and back off. A small dog that is intimidated by a larger dog though can be very aggressive. Shelby has some small-breed dog friends who do just fine with her. Even one neighbour pup who is very timid and whose human thought her dog did not do well with larger dogs made friends with Shelby. But there are others who snap and snarl and bark incessantly and strain at the end of their leash when we walk past. We definitely keep our distance from them!
Where we used to live--well, there wasn't a DOLRA in that town, but in the closest town that did have one--there was only one enclosure for everyone. But there were a lot of calls to get a corner of it sectioned off for the small dogs. I think the idea of separating them is becoming more popular here.
If you are keeping him on leash for now, would it not be possible to walk him outside the enclosures, so he can greet the other dogs through the fence that way?
My local dog park also has a separate enclosure for "small, senior, and disabled" dogs. I take Shelby in the big dog area though. At 13-years-old, she definitely qualifies as a senior. And she does not run anymore, or appreciate being jumped on--which I assume is why older dogs are allowed in the small dog area. But if the worst thing that happens in the dog park is some big puppy slamming into her, we'll be fine. Shelby just gives one warning bark, and the puppies accept her dominance and back off. A small dog that is intimidated by a larger dog though can be very aggressive. Shelby has some small-breed dog friends who do just fine with her. Even one neighbour pup who is very timid and whose human thought her dog did not do well with larger dogs made friends with Shelby. But there are others who snap and snarl and bark incessantly and strain at the end of their leash when we walk past. We definitely keep our distance from them!
Where we used to live--well, there wasn't a DOLRA in that town, but in the closest town that did have one--there was only one enclosure for everyone. But there were a lot of calls to get a corner of it sectioned off for the small dogs. I think the idea of separating them is becoming more popular here.
TopNotch
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@Laura Rainbow Dragon Not sure. If he sees other dogs running around, that might make him wild. Besides, the enclosure is big enough that they might never even come near him outside it.
10k punches Day 20
Posture Day 20
Calves of Steel Day 20
Tricep Dips Day 20
Daily Walk Day 20
Daily Push-ups Day 11
Dead Hang Day 8
Lat pull-downs 3 x 10
Indoor cycling 80mins, 37.5km. Watched two episodes.
A couple of days ago I bought a couple of kilos of bananas. Today they were ready for me to peel, break in half, shove in little bags and pop into the freezer to be added to smoothies. 26 smoothies-worth of bananas. I add bananas to give a bit of thickness to the smoothies, and for the potassium. And, let's face it, bananas are just yummy. Aldi has bags of frozen cherries and frozen pineapple atm, so I added cherries to my breakfast (rather than any other berries) and also, yum. Though I think the chocolate protein powder with cherries rather than the vanilla.
Things have been getting out of hand, and it's time to take things back into hand! Went to bed this morning just after 2:30 and that's just too late. Or early. Whatever. Especially considering I wake at 8. Wake, not am woken. Don't know why this is but I need to get to bed earlier. It's 11:48 right now and once I hit the Post button, I'm off, so goodnight!
10k punches Day 20
Posture Day 20
Calves of Steel Day 20
Tricep Dips Day 20
Daily Walk Day 20
Daily Push-ups Day 11
Dead Hang Day 8
Lat pull-downs 3 x 10
Indoor cycling 80mins, 37.5km. Watched two episodes.
A couple of days ago I bought a couple of kilos of bananas. Today they were ready for me to peel, break in half, shove in little bags and pop into the freezer to be added to smoothies. 26 smoothies-worth of bananas. I add bananas to give a bit of thickness to the smoothies, and for the potassium. And, let's face it, bananas are just yummy. Aldi has bags of frozen cherries and frozen pineapple atm, so I added cherries to my breakfast (rather than any other berries) and also, yum. Though I think the chocolate protein powder with cherries rather than the vanilla.
Things have been getting out of hand, and it's time to take things back into hand! Went to bed this morning just after 2:30 and that's just too late. Or early. Whatever. Especially considering I wake at 8. Wake, not am woken. Don't know why this is but I need to get to bed earlier. It's 11:48 right now and once I hit the Post button, I'm off, so goodnight!
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Could you set an alarm for bedtime?
TopNotch
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I could. I'd just ignore it.
TopNotch
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10k punches Day 21
Posture Day 21
Calves of Steel Day 21
Tricep Dips Day 21
Daily Walk Day 21
Daily Push-ups Day 12
Dead Hang Day 9
Took Creed to the dog park again today. So many references to snow but here it's just getting hot. And the flies! Let me just say that small plastic bag containing dog poo + heat = flies. Not pleasant. Next time, must remember the Aeroguard! Anyway, not many at the park today. There was a woman in the small dog part who asked if I wanted her dog to come over and say hello to Creed. Since no-one was barking (I was behaving myself!) Creed was fine. A Ridgeback is a scent hound, so I let him have a good ol' sniffing around in the park before we left. Oh, and there's my car in the background!
I love his curly tail - except that it strikes like a whip!
Posture Day 21
Calves of Steel Day 21
Tricep Dips Day 21
Daily Walk Day 21
Daily Push-ups Day 12
Dead Hang Day 9
Took Creed to the dog park again today. So many references to snow but here it's just getting hot. And the flies! Let me just say that small plastic bag containing dog poo + heat = flies. Not pleasant. Next time, must remember the Aeroguard! Anyway, not many at the park today. There was a woman in the small dog part who asked if I wanted her dog to come over and say hello to Creed. Since no-one was barking (I was behaving myself!) Creed was fine. A Ridgeback is a scent hound, so I let him have a good ol' sniffing around in the park before we left. Oh, and there's my car in the background!
I love his curly tail - except that it strikes like a whip!