Ahh, shin splints...my old friend

The wifey asked me about yesterday's blog title... funny I thought she would remember it since it was a reference to the Fall Out Boy Concert we went to... but she doesn't remember so good.

Before the song "I don't care" they played what I call Church music and one of the guys said that the band wasn't just here to play music. They wanted to bring healing into our troubled lives.  One of the guys asked people what their biggest problem in life was. After the person told him he said he could solve their problem and shouted "I don't care!".  He did this a few times "solving" each person's problems with "I don't care!".  So I figured I would give it a shot and see if it would help my work situation.  And I think it has.

Today...well what a day.  If you look to the right you will see that I did a lot today.  My new rule in regards to the gym. The only way I am allowed to get there is to run there.  If I am fortunate enough to get a ride back then so be it, but I have to run to the gym if I want to go in it. Why catch a ride back? Too much running will cause me to get hurt.  And running 2.5 miles isn't that bad. Running 5 miles can be. And lastly if I run to the gym I get sweaty but I have time to cool down while I am there. When I run back to work I get sweaty but I have no real cool down period. Once back at work it is time to shower and change.  Cold showers help cooling the core temperature but not well enough. It is common for guys to still be sweating for like an hour after they stop running. I don't want to be sitting at my desk dripping sweat. Gross.

Anyways, while running to the gym today I noticed that friendly pain creeping back into my shins.  I need to ice it and relax some, but isn't that why God made the weekend? I will take the weekend off of running and try to ice my shins some. 

Anyways, pain usually is a sign of injury so tonight's question is what is the worst injury you have had? Mine, umm nothing serious just a lot of small things over my life time.  I've been: dropped on my head (big sis aka: goes on runs), hit in the head with a metal bat, punched in the face...more than I can count, kicked/hit/punched in the groin numerous times; I have recieved: concussions...yes, scars...you bet, stress fractures...yes but that sounds really wimpy compared to the rest of my list, brusied bones...that too; I have: cut a finger off, stabbed my self in the foot with a knife,  used the top of my head to break bricks and cinder blocks;  the wifey says I spontaneously bleed at night... but... with all that I have never been in a hospital over night (not counting being a baby) and I have never broken a bone in my body.  (knock on wood)

Fall Out Boy's Evangelical Spiritual Healing: I DON'T CARE!!!

Well today at work I got fed up with not really doing anything.  I still don't really have a job. Hopefully that will change next week but for now, still nothing. I seriously don't do anything. I don't enjoy what I am doing so there is no real push to work on my self paced acquisition courses.  So today I decided I just don't care anymore. My new professional goal is to get into really good shape. I feel like I am back on a navy ship again. No real purpose in life except to eat, sleep and workout.  So today I changed in PT clothes around 1015, left work to go workout around 1030 returned around 1245, stayed in PT clothes and hung around the office until about 1345, then showered and changed back into my cammies. I am going to start leaving work at 1030 and not return until 1300.  I used to leave a bit (15-30mins) after 1100 and returned with enough time to shower and change and to be back at my desk by 1300.  Now... who cares when I return and if I am even dressed in a uniform or not.  Not Me!!!

So today, I ran to the gym (2.5 miles), went swimming for 50 mins (1800 m) and then ran back to work (2.5 miles).  Why only 50 mins and not complete the full hour you say? Good question. By the time I left ever lane was filled with dudes swimming and they all were faster than me.  They even did the "feet over head" flip turn when they got to the wall.  I just tap the wall and turn around. These guys were like real swimmers.  The water in the pool got rough with all this turbulence plus I got tired of being lapped.  Anyways, I figured 50 mins was better than nothing and I was pretty tired too.  So I got out and ran back to work.

That's all I got.  The brother-in-law (wifey side) was at the Grand Canyon yesterday. How cool is that? So that brings me to today's question:

Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon and if so when was it, who did you go with and what did you do there.

Me: I say I have never been although that may not be true.  If I have been I was too little to remember so I don't count it. I guess I went with the family and we probably just stopped, looked at it, dad took a video documentary of it, we got back in the car and left.  But that is just a guess. I don't know...

This one has no name... I just call it blog

Well my "wear-it-for-2 weeks" heart monitor showed up today.  Considering the monitor is like the size of a PDA it came in a huge box.  Like 2 shoe boxes taped together, size.  Anyways, they also had to call me and tell me how to set it up.  And as I type this a guy from the monitoring company keeps calling me to tell me to "move the black sensor 1 inch down and 1 inch closer to your sternum".  How does he know that? Big brother is totally watching now.  I should code my blogs for the next two weeks just in case.

The bird flew west at dawn and landed on the edge of the window.  Green Mini-van and 5621...

If you don't know what that means then don't worry. As long as big brother doesn't know, we are all ok...

Snap back to reality (but make believe is so much more fun) oh there goes gravity, oh there goes rabbit (9 Mile reference)... anyways...the heart monitor.

So it is hooked up and it is very fancy.  It can send me text messages from the company and I can send them info on me.  (I should practice my text typing...lol, gr8, rotfl, 4NR, 2nite, INADBIPOOTV, NE14KFC... I promise you those are all real text message shorthands...  http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php) Anyways...The last monitor only had me hit an "event" button when I felt something, but this one lets me enter how I feel and at what activity level the feeling occurred at.  So, if my heart rate starts beating 198 bmp when I am bench pressing (as it did today) I can tell them that my activity level was moderate even thought my pulse was very high.  So for the next two weeks I will wear this piece of advanced technology (you can thank the space program for it) and we will see what develops.  

Today I went for a run and whenever my heart rate got too high I would stop and let it slow down then keep running. I was running at an 8:30 pace which isn't that fast. More of a jog if you will.  So when the heart rate monitor hit 180 I would stop.  The weird thing is, when I was doing pull-ups and stuff after I stopped running my heart rate was still like 175ish... it was like I never even stopped running.  Who has a heart rate of 177 while doing pull-ups?  Even better question...who has a heart rate of 198 while lifting weights?  Huh?  For a good description of what I think is up with my heart read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpitation#The_heart_.22stops.22

Anyways, today's question is...

what was the coolest place you have ever traveled to?

I would say the island of Kauai was the coolest place I have been to.  The Na Pali coast line hike was so cool.  My fav place i've been so far in life.  What say you?

- ARSM out

Just got bored and left...

Work was so boring today that I just up and went home... it is nice to have a job that I can just leave when I want to.  Capt Cueball is playing supermom at home and was a no show at work.  Capt Ponch was there but he actually works every now and again.  

Hit the gym today, tried to keep the cardio low and easy until I hear more from the Dr about the ticker.  So until then I will keep on keeping on.

ARSM out-

A project completed...finally

Ok, the garage project started ummm... Jan 1st and I finally finished it today.  No one ever said I was fast.  Here are the pics of the man garage.

Publish Post

Work bench extraordinaire

Work bench from the other side.

This is a cabinet that I filled with Marine Corps stuff

Over the car storage cabinets

The 3rd row of seats to the wifey's car, now hanging on the wall

Last pic of the work bench but you can see the overhead cabinets better

Special thanks to Marmie and Mr Dennis.