24th of August 2022, Wednesday - DL, light squat and light OHP

 24.08.2022

Nice day. Slept for a long time. Good nutrition. Listening to more music, and playing as well. Weird dreams. First a random shocker that invaded my awake reality. Might have had too much sugar before I went to bed. Then, before waking up, a postapocalyptic dream where I had to protect some random child, first walking through a completely destroyed urban area, then a park near my home. Then I had a dream that I was student once again, thinking that I skipped all year, then forcing myself to realise I'm dreaming. If you can do this - you sure have some control over your mind! Doesn't always happen, of course.

Yesterday I managed to finish the scoreboard of the season in FO76 and even got one extra rank. It's the Meat Week. All players gather and cook meat with the friendly supermutant Grahm and his double headed cow Chally the Moo-Moo. Fun times. I played it normally last year. Now casually. Then I played GTA Online. It's so hard to find other players to do almost anything. I know there's a way to do it right. Without other players the game is dedinitely boring. And I'm not playing enough "fun" stuff, like stunt races etc. Mostly just grinding the various "business missions". Bought a mobile operations centers with my three days of earnings (ingame) and, to my disappointment, all the missions inside it require more than one player. I have joined the Russian gta discord server but I still haven't tried to join or invite people for various activities. I do have a mic and a good enough connection, I should just try.

Right now it's almost 9 o'clock. I'm having my second coffee. First was arabica, now robusta. It still cheers me up realising that this robusta isn't going to go to waste, now that I can make drinkable coffee from it with the help of a moka pot (geyser boiler).

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I'm a little pissed that I'm taking so much time with the fucking song. Bass done in june, guitar done in august. Main riff written in february. Actually, no, it wasn't. Only the base for it. It's a melodic heavily distorted song. With lots of low note low string harmonies. They are an acquired taste. Most people use synths for that. Manowar used organs and choirs. I like to use what I'm trying to get good at (guitar and bass). The overtones clash, of course. That's why I use low gain in some parts. Not low gain on the amp, but on the guitar and interface. Interface is a lot like a pedal, you know. You really can shape the tone with it. I'm gotten quite picky when it come to guitar tone. Which is funny, cause I was just playing my tiny Fender practice amp right now. My SG is in B Standard. I think i'll keep it this way for the next song. It'll have to be an EP of two songs, I reckon. I could have easily waken up earlier today and had more time to record stuff, such as my vocals. And now it's 9:23. Hmm.

I already have lyrics. The basis for them. They won't all be screaming. Naturally, it's not an intense song overall. But a singificant portion of the song is the chorus. And it implies a degree of extremity. Extreme-ness 😆

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I dno't know what to do today. Deadlift, obviously. How much? Less. Just less. I have potentially the heaviest workout in pushpress this saturday. I wish to save more energy than normal. That doesn't mean I'll go really light today. I just need to make right choices. Maybe just lower the volume and the session length.

Finished my last cup. Time to go. I'm inspired to deadlift.

Workout

First, all around bodyweight moves for warmup

My quick warmup

20 - 50 for 10

100 - 150 for 8 all overhand

Trying the cue to push my arms down, thus shortening the range. Kind of works?

Feeling inspired to try and record vocals. Let's see what happens.

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Recorded a mini bit. Getting an idea. Can't do it at night, I'm afraid.

190 for 4

230 - 2 sets of 4 - kinda casual. But I had to stop after 2 sets. Maybe cause it's too late. My recently tweaked knee was hurting.

Painted the guitar with the first layer of main paint. Looks very good and bright. Before that I sanded some sealer paint spills. I think I might have ran out of it already! After only three layers. Weird.

Squat - high bar!

50 for 10

100 - 2 sets of 10 - feels good. Knee doesn't hurt when I spread my thighs more. 

Overhead press - keeping up

Pressing a pair of 10 kg plates in each hand bottoms up - hard for pinch grip! Fun too.

50 - 4 sets of 8

After the first set I was like "I hate bench press!" cause my shoulders felt so weak and stretched. I realise it might have been my squat as well. Later I warmed up and OHP felt very normal.

And that's it. A lot of time had passed when I came back to my chambers. It's a good sign, that I'm not constantly coming back here. Not distracted or "distracted", ha ha.

Random picture of the day

This is a "random picture of the day, high quality, realistic, photography" from Stable Diffusion in AI Dungeon.

Photo of a statue of the Roman emperor Claudius in London, near Tower.