October 1st, Wednesday - Bench and Squat, medium-light day

 01.10.2025

So apparently I'm not allowed to use WordWeb app if I fly more than 2 commercial flights per year. And I don't! Still, I think that's kind of a stupid thing to do, even if you got an agenda that matters to you. Telling you that as a customer. Manowar got my money even though I never ever had to buy their albums. But I bought their albums, CDs and online - remember Google Music? Lord Of Steel (Hammer Edition) is still on my youtube music - and I went to two concerts - and I never had to, I always had full access to their primary product. I didn't have to pay but I paid! That's what good capitalism is like. I paid cause the product is so good. And a lot of other bands too, of course. Some bands I bought cause they were popular enough to have their CDs everywhere and I liked them just enough to wanna spend a little bit. That's good capitalism too.

Now, the fact that they're shutting a perfectly functional and very normal and simple, lightweight DAW - Cakewalk by Bandlanb (as opposed to Sonar) - now that infuriates me. If you wanna provide a free product then provide it. If you wanna hook me to the bank and then stomp on my gills - you bet your ass I'll be pirating shit. Fuck you and fuck your stupid greed. That's the bad form of capitalism. Or, better yet, I'll simply switch to Reaper like a normal person would, cause Reaper is like Winrar except people DO buy it, they simply gently remind you they want your money instead of splattering you over the dock like really bad fishermen. Tsk tsk!

Really enjoying writing, although it is pretty generic stuff. I had really popped eye and face veins on my face yesterday, like an actual zombie - probably cause I didn't warm up enough to do the curls, was generally sleepy. That sort of helped me fall asleep, even after a couple cups of instant brown.

Own up! Do it, force it, hammer down, MANY nail down!

Workout

Bench

20 for 20

50

100 for 10

120 for 10 real easy; short break

150 for 5 kinda hard but well overall

150 for 5 done as 4+1 - I'm doing the fucking matt vena "lat pull" and it's not working out for me that well now; it's not bad, but I don't feel like I'm the right groove. So I just did 4 then had a quick reset; took it an inch narrower - with pinkies rather than ring fingers on the outer markings - and not doing so much "elbow down"; it was a better rep. Upstairs I took off the thermal top; I keep thinking it's not good for bench.

150 for 5 again 4+1

I have bigweight-itis in my bench, nood shit. Time to relax. I'm super distracted today though, I gotta tell you.

123 - 3 sets of 8 - nice, smooth and strict, just the perfect feeling, accumulating energy.

Squat

50 for 10

100 for 10 - 2 sets

100 for 20 - lovely, very easy. Just some high rep quick work. Some standing pullovers - pretty great exercise, hands on the bar in the rack.

I've been overworking just a little. I should probably not have been curling yesterday, especially given the weird vein episode. Well I'm glad I have the gusto every day! Heh heh. God please save me! Please keep praying for me, for all the good reasons. Hallelujah!

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RPotD - Cathedral of St. Francis, Santa Fe, New Mexico