Monday, October 24th - Nice bench press, changed the pickup selector in G310

 24.10.2022

Feeling weird. My dreams have been strangely awesome. Way too awesome. Very intense. A lot of flying, as per usual. Perhaps I should try to fly in real life. On a plane, that is. Maybe not. Hands are shaky.

Nice day today. Slept at night and in the morning. Gave lessons. Had a nice breakfast. Started having coffee. Have been experencing intense joint paint in a variety of places. I think it's not from bench press. It's from me lying on my side. Just crushing my arm and cutting bloodflow. Weird. Must related to the season as well. Also, sneezing way too much. Might have some weak respiratory disease.

Played guitar. A variety of things. My SQOE is tuned to D Standard, so I played Death on the Ice Lake for a while. Then I picked up my SG and came to conclude that it has much better, stronger pickups. Well, SQOE's pickups are easier to control, tighter sound, you could argue, which is not that bad. But SG creates and enjoyable sound for real.

Also, I got delivered a new pickup switch. I should solder it. After my workout today. Shouldn't be too complicated. But it'll take a lot of patience.

Today I packed my ground coffee loosely. It brewed quickly but tasted bad. The third one I packed densely. It jerked a lot, took a while, but tasted good. When you use cheap coffee it's the opposite. You don't want a strong one, but a quickly brewed one. I had three coffees today. I wanna do bench. I think it should be powerful. All the pressing moves might have contributed to the weakness in my shoulder. And another factor I'm forgetting about is my pants. They are not comfortable to wear for squats. Maybe that's why my hips hurted. Anyway, I finished my last coffee.

More intrusive thoughts. I wanna go on an adventure. I just do. There is still a pathway for me. Or at least I can find out about it and satisfy my curiosity. I don't really care about glory, but I also do. Confusing. Everything feels wrong.

I'm high on caffeine. Dopamine, they say, makes us want to do something. It's making me wanna go. Even though I've already been on a spiritual journey. Hmm.

Workout

Some overall warmup

Pushups - 15 reps. My left shoulder hurts way too much. What is this? What did I do to it? I can't believe it's just from sleeping. But, seeing how there is not a point when I realised I got injured it's the most likely outcome. More importantly, I have been sleeping a little too much in my depressed state. Second set of pushups - 15 reps as well. Okay. A little better. Might not be able to lift big weights today, but I should be able to do something. After all, the scales did show my weight to be 111 kg in clothing, after I moved it around for a while. That means I'm not in my worst possible shape.

Perhaps I should follow my own suggestions and become more fit - endurance wise - if I really wanna go on an adventure.

Of course, I know, it's the caffeine talking, forcing me to go on an adventure. Yet, I might. I still want to. I dreamed I went back to the place I visited. But that pathway is closed, and it's not rewarding in a way that I want.

Bench press

20

50 for 10

90 for 5 - I think I just don't need as much warmup as I'm used to doing. More working sets is what I need.

130 for 5 - nice, pretty easy. My suspicions forced me to tuck my elbows a lot more, like in OHP. Although in OHP widening your elbows is not as bad. Man, I have to tuck my elbows in OHP too!

135 for 5

137 for 5 nice, pretty easy

140 for 5 okay. RPE 7-8. A little creaky, but really ncie overall. It's easy for me to do it paused. Maybe cause I have weaker pecs and stronger delts.

140 for 5 with reverse rubber - RPE around 6, not much lighter. The video turned out funny, because I could have gotten slapped in the face if the rope got unbound.

Nice volume. I wish to squat. Hips don't feel great. I discussed my potential departure onto adventure with them of my own household. I told I am compelled to go again. "Misses are just warmups", you know. My reasons are rational. I not worse or better than my brothers. And I'm also in need of a social escalator, if you will. Maybe not in need, but in want.

Wish to walk and do cardio. Maybe a tiny bit. I know it can be very harmful to my immune system in this weather, especially considering I am ill already. I'll try to make it alright. Coffee. Hmm. You know. Starting to ramble, ha ha. Nice bench today, yes, and volume is great too. And I filmed it as well! Just cool down then do some walking.

My shoulder feel better. The pain is now in my trap rather than the shoulder. It hyad to have been flared repping. Tuck your elbows!

I have horrendous guitar lust. I can't stop looking at guitars online. Oh my. I better get to fixing the one I have, and making another one.

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Spent a few late night hours fiddling with the guitar. Changed the pickup switch. It works, but the neck pickup still doesn't work. Out of sheer "curiosity" I took off the pickguard and the neck and then I took apart the neck pickup to realise I can't identify any problems with it. Put it back together and realised the neck is loose. Did it two more times and I think I loosened one of the screwholes - the one that the belt knob goes onto. Should look into it again later. At this point I'm willing to give it to a fixer upper.

Nice workout today. Thank God for that.

Wanna play Skyrim again. Haven't played it since the first day I installed it. Got bored way too quickly. Let's see what happens today.

Rescrewed the guitar neck once again... Still loose. Well, I'm going to console myself by saying it probably was loose before I unscrewed it today, I just didn't notice.

Played Skyrim for a while. Man, that's a really slow game. But it makes you feel good, so that's good. I used to love Elder Scrolls so much more in the past. It's still my most played franchise. Still waiting for Starfield, TES6 and Fallout 5. There'll probably be one more unexpected title fitting among them.