Things today which did not suck:

[digitaldiscipline]

- Pulling 485# in my deadlift self-test (only 20# off my PR from last year)
- Trying out the new safety squat bar (even accidentally using it backwards, it's looking like a smart purchase)
- NEW KITTENS NEW KITTENS NEW KITTENS NEW KITTENS (for those not on the bookface, Mayday has turned out to be female, and has a litter of four that I caught lounging on my front steps this evening; the runt is a tuxedo with white spats on each foot, there's a mini-Magellan, a black and white holstein splotched one, and a brown and white one... they look to be three or four weeks old, putting their birthday right around May Day as well... so I will be endeavoring to name and socialize them as things progress. fortunately, a weekend is coming up so I may have an opportunity to get this ball rolling well, and without interference from outside parties)

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[i-renovated.livejournal.com]

You know Mayday brings out all the communists and labor fighters. Stalin, Lennin, Trotsky? Or is it more a Mother Jones litter?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Still haven't decided.

[bathalamus.livejournal.com]

How the hell do you use a SS Yoke bar backwards?

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

Yay for lifting!

Kitten photos are CUTE!!

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

don't forget to put up a sign on the care and feeding of kittens so helpful old ladies don't act so helpful? :P

and yay, deadlift! that's something!

safety squat bar?

now that my knee is better, i need exercises to strengthen my knees... esp my MCLs...

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

you know how the handles with stick off at a 45 degree angle downward? i had them pointing into my rack, and lift facing outward... so the bar wanted to rotate itself through my cervical spine to return to the correct camber alignment.

(brute forcing against this with two plates on each end, while not trivial, isn't heinous (it was essentially unnoticeable with one plate)... but i wouldn't want to do it with three. once i unloaded the bar after realizing what was going on, it was much more comfortable... will see what my 1rm is with that this evening)

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New kittens make everything better. I can't wait for the pics.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

safety squat bar: http://www.flexcart.com/members/elitefts/default.asp?cid=183&m=PD&pid=4636

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

that's kind of need looking :)

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

how the hell have we not cross pollinated each other on the bookface?

hopefully, there will be less blurry pix captured this weekend. i am hopeful of getting hands on the little fuzzbutts.