450 Pushups

Ur Big boi set the 2021 and all-time record for pushups in a day: 450. 

50 also for the single attempt (2021, all-time).

Today, little lord fontlerME hasn’t picked a record to chase. Thinking…thinking…

That’s the problem isn’t it? All the thinking.

Forearms. Core. 

We shall see. 

Quarantine: Day ?

Set a rowing record, a couple of 2020 juggling records, & a 2020 squatting record.

Did some jogging. No records. This quarantine is a rollercoaster. Some really good days & some stinkers. Feeling weird & sick today so just happy to get something done.

This post feels low energy. Probably because it is low energy.

Resenting the Gamified Life

I resent writing this blog every day.
But that's because I'm a recovering degenerate.

it could be the keystone of this writing hobby/profession.

& so it has gone from being pure fun to a mixture of fun & resistance,
the resistance that is always with most of us.

Anyway, this is easy.
I need to exercise to be able to write.

So we're building good habits here.
Or trying to, at least.

Set a rowing record today, left-handed juggling, speed skater reps (22/40).

& my favorite, I set more records today than I did yesterday.

Two Days is a Streak

Today I celebrate two days in a row of doing this, posting a personal record.

Just being proactive enough to do something that takes willpower. THAT is something I haven't had consistently for a long time.

#2: Single, alt mountain climbers (32).

#3: 2020 Rowing Single & Total records. (4m 18; 10 min 14 seconds total.)

#4 (oops): Wanted to set a record in "free" writing, also known as "automatic writing." Failed to attempt.

A bunch of 2020 juggling records. First time really juggling in a while. All-time record 60 minutes flat.

Started 100 pushup streak.

Total of 4 streaks, and 8 separate records.

Personal Bests in a Time of Coronavirus

April 9, 2020

I set two records today.

Modest af records.

2020 longest continuous row (machine):
4minutes, 11 seconds.

💪

Also:
Alternate side Mountain Climbers, continuous:
30 reps at once
and total.

Nothing special. But this quarantine has been going on for 3+ weeks and it took me that long to "get with the program," which is to say -- a lot of people are doing a lot of self-improvement in this time, and I have been lacking.

Hopefully, this is the start of a new trend/streak.

Cheers.

Share your quarantined personal bests below.

Quitting Things is More About the Replacement Habits Than the Quitting

Sick brag in 3...2...I have only purchased 4 packs of cigarettes in 2015.

I do vape, though. 

Trying to wean myself off that. 

I want to look into the literature and therapy out there for cigarette smoking cessation.

I never gave it much credit; I still don't.

But I need to know if they at least address my two major problems with the very question of cessation.

1.) Do groups like Smokers' Anonymous (or whatever the major groups are) admit the obvious value of the cigarette, of smoking, even beyond the nicotine?

2.) Do groups like that (and I also mean, the books, the doctors that speak on the issue, etc) ever explain that quitting is never a complete definition of the problem at hand? This is to say, quitting is part of the problem, but the easier of the two parts. Do they ever deal with the more difficult part of the problem: the filling in with new habits?

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THURSDAY - FEB 25 - 2010 (Journal entry.)

Peeling back addictions is or feels like becoming "purer"
?
I'll take it
(?)
So much to do so much to do
cigarettes just aren't going to work for me
I'll take it
working hard is becoming more fun
I'll
Barthes gives me mental boner
total asshole & wrong in the end (I think) but
mmm post-structuralism
the rustle of language makes me feel like I'm doing god's work
thinking the right thoughts making similar connections it's times like these I get the (false) hope that there is anything resembling an answer to any of the big metaphysical questions

Psychic Vampirism (Journal: February 24, 2010)

I found a bit of an indirect progress report. Which is to say, an old journal entry displaying some troubles from five years ago, some of which have been dealt with, some others not so much...

Dave P has been here a lot. Sometimes I blame my own lack of productivity on PSYCHIC VAMPIRISM -- his negative energy and laziness have become mine, &c.

Guess I shouldn't do that.

Lately been asking myself, "What's wrong with me?" -- again with the negativity -- I live with the knowledge that I have made certain beds and that I must lie in them --

Yet -- in the end there really is so much work to be done, so much work that isn't getting finished, for myriad reasons --

I can only work hard and stay out of people's way -- play nice as they say --

I just want to get my work on and whoever wants to work hard alongside me is more than welcome.