I often wonder what Ted is thinking…
Lego Geek 2
Test number three…
Hangover
Have spent the whole day on the sofa rotating between the following:
1. Dozing;
2. Complaining about my head/tummy ache, and;
3. Running to the bathroom.
Missed out on Running Club with BMF, a lot of glorious sunshine and a lot of stuff on TV due to items 1 and 3 above.
Total waste of a day.
BOOM!
via youtube.com
Had one of them sessions at BMF tonight. 15 burpees into a hill sprint x4 sets. Lots of running, tricep dips on the parallel bars in the park (I can’t do them) and with a set of tabata squats thrown in at the end of the session.
Sat in the car barely able to work the pedals with my shaking, wobbly legs.
And then this song (courtesy of Matt) came on the stereo. BOOM!
Random act of kindness
via vimeo.com
30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney. A few words from the film maker:
Hello! My name is Lucas and I’m Brazilian. Since I arrived in Australia a lot of beautiful things happened in my life, so on the day I turned 30 I decided to celebrate in a special way, being grateful to the people of Sydney. :)
Just wonderful.
9/11
I remember very clearly the events of September 11th 2011 from my point of view. I was in work and it was a pretty quiet day. A friend of mine was unemployed at the time and therefore at home sent me a text along the lines of “Oh my God, have you seen what has happened”, so the few of us in the office that day, headed to the internet and specifically CNN.com which we figured would be a good news source to start with.
If you look at CNN you’ll see that much like the familiar BBC news website it contains a multitude of stories, links, features etc. On that day however, presumably overwhelmed by traffic, the whole site had been pulled and replaced with a quickly put together page of basic code, free from any stye sheet or corporate branding said:
CNN.com
BREAKING NEWS: America under attack, airliner strikes World Trade Center.
Below it was a photo of the burning building
MORE TO FOLLOW.
That was all there was. And even that took nearly 5 minutes to load.
So, in addition to what we were getting from the various texts and phone calls, we watched and waited as the CNN site sluggishly refreshed.
It was so far away, but it didn’t make it feel any less real, or less scary. Sad times.
Boxing WOD
We were working in pairs; each time there is an asterisk, I was resting and/or wearing the pads while the other was punching. Onwards…
Warm up:
Seated double overhead punches 1min
Seated left/right overhead punches 1min
*
Left/right jabs 2min
Star jumps to tyre
20 overhead tyre presses
20 30cm hurdle jumps
20 press ups
Star jumps back to start
*
Left/right jabs 1min
Left/right body hooks 1min
Star jumps to tyre
20 overhead tyre presses
30 30cm hurdle jumps
25 press ups
Star jumps back to start
*
Left/right uppercuts 1min
Left/right body hooks 1min
Left/right jabs 1min
Star jumps to tyre
20 overhead tyre presses
40 30cm hurdle jumps
40 star jumps
25 press ups
20 burpees
*
Sit-up to double punch 1min
Sit-up to left/right hook 1min
*
Warm down and try to regain breath.
A good swap
It was probably sometime in the year 2000 that Mark and I discovered the simple joys of going for a few drinks in Belgo's in Bristol. They had an enviable Belgian restaurant, but downstairs, in the basement, they had an even more enviable bar, which boasted close to a hundred different types of bottled beer.
Never afraid of a bit of 'drinking adventure' Mark and I, over time, whittled down the list of beers to a select few what we particularly liked and made it our job to catch up and put a few drinks away occasionally.
As we were often there on work nights, the bar was pretty quiet and one evening, Mark had with him a copy of a CD (I've since paid for and bought an original copy before you say anything) of Richard Cheese's first album 'Lounge Against the Machine' which he had made for me. It was (and still is) a fantastic compilation of lounge covers of rock, pre-dating the mass marketed stuff that Paul Anka did a few years later.
So as we were sat in the bar, it occurred to us that we should maybe see whether the lone barman (who we were chatting to, on and off) would be interested in hearing the 'lounge stylings' of Mr Cheese. Turns out he did. Quite a lot. So much so that he offered us a couple of shots on the house in exchange for the CD after it was barely five tracks in. The thing was with Belgo's, that they had wooden racks to put shot glasses in (the first bar I'd ever seen such things) with slots for 4, 8, 12, 16 or 32 glasses, depending on how much you wanted to spend.
Wide eyed, we watched the guy pick up the 12 rack, then put it down, before picking up the 16 and filling it for us. A damn fine trade for a CD I reckon.
The next day at work was somewhat quieter than usual…
Mark died a year ago today.
It still feels weird knowing one of my best mates is dead.