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Ex-mercenary, wannabe hero, and accomplisher of impossible things.
Will rescue you from your own particular dire situation for money or a trade of services.
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At the risk of sounding sappy, one* does note that one’s days are devoid of light and happiness when a certain someone** isn’t accessible due to wind or rain or flood or tropical hijinks.
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Fitness Notes
When I redesigned my workout recently, I decided to base part of it on an old workout my mercenay buddy Hector and I used to do in Iraq. The premise was simple: design something that one could assemble anywhere, make it punish transient laziness, and make it work just about anywhere.
Basically, the idea goes like this:
1. Pick a handful of body weight exercises.
2. Determine how many of each of them you want to be able to do consecutively.
Got it? Okay. Now, do that many. Go.
…okay, okay. I realize that you’ll not be able to do them all right away. Clearly not. But you WILL do that many during every workout. Here’s how.
Do a set of the exercise until you can’t do any more. Record that number. Subtract it from the nuber you want to be able to do. Rest. Do another set. Subtract it from the remainder. Repeat until you hit zero.
Example? Say I want to do 200 sit-ups. My first set, I manage 75. I write down 75 (125) and rest. I manage 60 on the second set, so I write 60 (65). I rest, do 50, so 50 (15). rest once more, wrap up with 15, and move on to the next exercise.
That’s the basic workout. You can’t NOT hit your goal… and laziness just means you’ll be working longer.
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…oh and epic fit too. Forgot that one.
I am reminded, at times, that I’ve had a very late start on the life I wanted to lead. As an irresponsible teenager and twenty-something, I wasted a good deal of time on pretty much nothing at all, preferring to live in the fantasies of role-playing games instead of the realities of life. I’d like to think that I’ve made a pretty remarkable turn-around these past 10 years, though. I’ve got my AS in Social Science, I’ve got more computer training than I really care to use (MCSE, MCITP SA & EA, A+, Network+, Security+, Server+,GCIH, ITILv3, etc) and I’ve in pretty reasonable shape to boot. I’m a world traveler, I have an awesome girlfriend, and I am relatively smart (or so I’d like to think.)
But, I’m still feeling a bit… behind.
But then, 2012 is a good year for me if all pans out. I’ll have graduated with my BS in Psychology. I’ll have the CISSP, which is likely going to be my final computer certification. I’ll be halfway to funding law school, and… should my plans pan out perfectly… I’ll have an excellent LSAT score and a number of offers for real live in person law schools. Heck, maybe I’ll even go Ivy if they take my GPA and my convoluted path to law school at all seriously.
Should that happen, I’ll feel… like I’m where I ought to be.
Well, I lie. When I get that law degree, prove myself in a real college, and study something that suits the intellect I believe I MAY have, then I’ll be where I feel like I ought to be. When I’ve lived overseas as a student and actually had a chance to experience the culture, I’ll perhaps feel properly legit.
So, all I need now is:
- 24 college credit hours (to graduate with my BS in Psychology)
- An awesome LSAT score (October)
- Time to study for the CISSP (Uh, probably Aug 6th to Aug 20th. Summer Break.)
- A means to secure funding for law school. (200K should work.)
- A 3.93 GPA
- Admittance to an awesome law school to study international law.
- A means to work all of this from isolation and/or on a small budget.Let’s see if I can accomplish these 7 impossible things before my New Year’s Morning breakfast in 2013. ;-)
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