Category: General

Going mobile

(This is another of the quick personal notes. Just a FYI to the universe.)

Trying out the experience of updating the blog on the phone. Previously everything has been at the desk, but that is pretty constrictive about when I can make a post, so hopefully this experiment will allow more regular posting.

Working through injury

Life update; feel free to scroll.

Tweaked my shoulder about three weeks ago, and it’s been causing some issues. Was working out, and just felt it go “ping!” during the second set of reps on the bench press. And since then it hasn’t been the same.

It’s been a real challenge, as it limits me not only in the gym, but also in daily life. I can rest it for a week, but then a little housework, or having to shovel the snow (because we got a whole lot), and it flares right up again. So I’m limited to some lower-body cardio or body-weight leg exercises.

This is starting to have negative effects overall, most notably in discouraging me from hitting the gym as regularly as I need to, to help maintain overall health.

So I’m looking for solutions, and will consult the advice of some professionals on this.

But working on the challenge of staying motivated.

I think that’s why I’ve been posting so much more on the podcast lately; I’m channelling the motivation there. Which has had positive results, but now I need to get back into the gym too.

Learning to build

I was asked today what my first Lego set was, and I sent them a link to the image shown above: Lego set 375, the original yellow Castle set. A classic, a collector’s item, if I still had it, or all it’s pieces, or even a fraction of it.

Now it wasn’t 100% my first, as we had other sets without the figures before that, boxes of colored blocks and shapes that we would have to figure out how to put together in ways we wanted, using our imagination as best we could.

We did okay; of course we did, we were kids.

But the Castle set was the first set I got, that felt like a whole thing, and I still remember it fondly.

The reason this came up today is that someone I care about built their first set ever today, at the age of 39.

And it was magical!

And I hope they remember it as long as I’ve remembered the Castle. 🙂