CrossFit Open: Round 1 of 5

Every Friday for 5 weeks I am in a global Crossfit competition.  Today the workout was as many burpees as possible in 7 minutes.  I managed to do 77, which put me right at 6311 out of 7300 competitors.  Pretty sad.  The current global leader did 158.  Burpees are my worst exercise – a burpee is basically laying flat on the floor, standing up and jumping 6 inches in the air then laying back down – that’s one rep.… read more “CrossFit Open: Round 1 of 5”

Evil

Read this: http://meanderthal.typepad.com/meanderthal/2005/01/the_unbeliever_.html

What is evil?

I am beginning to think it is simple disregard for others. I was talking to a friend recently and we were discussing that our asshole humor was not understood by others, but that we were still genuinely nice guys inside. Then i realized that my “kidding” style when used by other people to me made me hate them.… read more “Evil”

Nfl.com Streaming Super Bowl Run by Clowns

The same three crappy commercials repeated over and over. I watched those three commercials so often I now hate everything about the companies that ran them. Halftime show was two no-names saying obvious remarks “in the belly of Lucas Field”. Really poorly done. Shockingly bad considering this is the biggest television event of the year.

Tactical Weapons Training and Sandy Hill

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Interesting day today. I went to a tactical weapons training class in Azusa. Learned rapid reload, emergency reload, room clearing, quick draw, multiple assailants, and more. Spent from 930 am to 3pm shooting live 9mm ammo and going through different setups. Quite fun.

My driver an hour out there and back was Sandy Hill, a well-known mountaineer who has famously summitted the tallest peaks on all 7 continents… and infamously brought a french press on the 1996 everest climb where there were multiple fatalities (though none in her expedition).… read more “Tactical Weapons Training and Sandy Hill”