Saturday, 20th

 20.11.2021

Today feels a bit more orderful. Slept from 2 to 7, did some stuff, slept again for like three hours. Finally returned the bashed up guitar. Played it through the amp yesterday - it kinda sounds bad. Do I even need one of those pickups, since they're just overglorified mics? They look kinda ugly too. Maybe I should buy that special unique Epiphone that's both electroacoustic and semihollow. Too expensive though. I should probably just stick to cheaper gear, cause why do I even need expensive stuff? My lil SG Vintage edition is great and simple, black wood body, simply slick and natural looking. It's not the cheapest of them all, but it's one of the cheaper Epiphones.

Not gonna lie, I don't wanna give my money to Gibson though. Just don't.

Actually, it's not even Epiphone, it's Cort. This one - Cort CJ Retro VSM

I'm moving my sessions around, so monday I'm gonna press again. Too often? Well, not this time. If I had three heavy sessions a week, then it would be too often. So, today I wokred my pushpress for technique. 90 kgs - it's supposed to be only 60% of my max.

Overhead press

Warmup

50

70*5

Push press

50*2

70*2

90 - 5 sets of 2 - felt great. Stretched my arms and shoulders in place, evened out my arms again. I keep forgetting my right arms doesn't bend as much as my left - left is way more flexible. That's why I just have to take away some weight from the left side, by moving my hand 0.5 cms to the left.

Bench press - so my pecs don't slack, only sets of 12

50 - 70 - 80 - 90 nice. Got better. Wrist feels okay.

Drummed a little bit during PPs - felt nice today. You know what I oughta do? Not use the mechanical metronome as much. Phone metronome is much easier to hear! Used it today after a very long time.

Played a cool beat. Felt some pain in my CNS later. Gotta live for it, am I right? Old nice uncle is gone. He's retired, waiting to become an old nice granpa - who still got something sharp about him, at least. Nice unkle ain't here. A lil baddie who just wanna do something right is here. I ain't letting em give me sheize. No, no, no. I'm a "nice guy", the nicest there is. But please, don't give me sheize, for everyone's sake. Sure, I might not get too lucky, like what happened before. But it ain't guaranteed, is it? So let us all chill (and I'm gonna stay sharp).

No one tells you how much Olympic-style weightlifting loads your back, ha ha. Mice is all cramped up heavily. In fact, I've been having way too many cramps. Probably a side effects of not taking nitroglycerine after taking it regularly. Or just poor diet. Ain't got a big brain right here. Not a small one either, I guess. Gotta be able to think.

Speaking of some other news - my internet connection (on my PC) has gotten so bad. I realised I can beraly remember last time I had it work well. Was it in october? Sigh. And I'm gonna pay for one more year of USB internet soon. Maybe I should literally just buy a newer modem. I kept trying to buy one of these online, but been failing.

Random picture of the day - a rare Ibanez of some kind, picture taken from ibanezrules.com/ - an ancient site. After taking a look through it I caught myself thinking that Ibanez can look much less generic that what I'm used to. But I guess we're limited by regional markets. I kinda wanna go to different music shops and touch guitars now. How weird. And I ain't that great of a player. Is there a chance I'm gonna return the cheap guitar that I ordered? I hope not. Cheap has to be better.






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