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Thought this was great. First known description of a skunk.

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I just found out that Springsteen is playing at the Olympic Stadium here in Helsinki tomorrow night. Everything is completely sold out except for front field standing area and obstructed view seats in the stands.

I’m not sure that I’m up again for standing for 5 or more hours crowded amongst thousands of fellow fans again after doing so in Oslo a year ago.
 
Yeah, I feel you on that
 
I'm getting to the age where it's gotta be a really good show for me to deal with crowds and long lines.
 
I would go if I could get a decent SEAT. I seriously doubt the show would be any different from a year ago anyway outside of a different set list.
 
Nailed it.

Not. Too. Shabby.
 
Wave goodbye to your investment accounts this morning. 😥👋
 
Very exited today.

backstory: since settling down with my wife (15ish years ago) I quit taking care of my body. Got away with it for a long time, but it caught up with me the last few years. But as 40 started to approach I decided my goal was to be in the best shape of my life when I hit 40 - now only a few months away. That began by putting on 20lbs with weight lifting, going from 170 to 190 (I’m 6 feet tall) and getting my mile time down to under 8 minutes. I actually started running what is a 5k (3.2 miles) in 30 minutes twice a week.

Anyways - looking at the community board at my kids piano lessons, saw a flyer for a BJJ gym. Decided that was next. Started researching and decided BJJ wasn’t for me, I wrestled through high school, I get it’s different but it’s so similar I decided to pass. Instead, I started up Muay Thai.

Funny aside - I misread the schedule and showed up to the last day of the August unit instead of the first day of the September unit. August’s unit was defensive tactics. Coach says hey you’ve wrestled, it’s just defensive tactics, you’ll be fine. I get on the mat and he starts class and announces we’re doing sweeps. 60 minutes of fucking sweeps. For day 1.

( if that doesn’t mean anything to you, here’s a YouTube video of what I went through on day one as a 39 year old…
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Anyways. I was instantly in love with it. Reminded me of the wrestling environment. After a couple sessions I decided I’m hooked. Ordered some gloves, shin guards, a Muay Thai heavy bag and a heavy bag rail system to install in my basement gym, and some odds and ends to maintain everything. And it all showed up today :) no more borrowing equipment.

Can’t wait to install this tonight after practice or tomorrow, and start practicing 30-45 minutes a night in the basement. It’ll also help me teach both kids. And give me something to do at night.

Super stoked. It’s also nice my kids finally get to see one of their parents commit to something like we’ve been forcing on them with sports and things like music lessons. They used to complain when it was practice time. But since I started, and they’ve seen how I’m exited to go to practice, and I come home so happy and excited afterwards, they’ve started doing the same with their practices. :)

Seriously doubt I’ll ever get into the competitive fighting scene, I’m a bit old for that… but definitely sparing sessions and traveling with the group to other gyms for open sparring sessions. But it’s fun and exciting nonetheless.
 
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That’s awesome brother, thanks for sharing! It’s so important to take care of ourselves … both for mental and physical reasons, and as you will find out it will only get harder as you get older. It’s a lot easier if we aren’t having to do a massive ‘reclamation project’ every decade or two, but stay fit by building into our daily lives.

Anyway, congrats on finding something you love to do - have at it and keep it up :cheers:
 
Nice looking set up
 
It needs to come down like 8”, but that’ll wait until I’m going to the hardware store and I’ll grab a chain
 
Very cool - and I know that was quite a bit of work to install! Why the long beam? I assume the bag can be repositioned down the length of it? Or does it just take that length a mount to distribute the load without ripping your ceiling out?

Regardless, way cool.


I considered one of these awhile back as boxing is such an incredible workout, but don't really have the room for it now that I've converted my sunroom to a golf sim room but always thought it would be fun....
 
I think it helps distribute the load and the spring/swivel thing I bought to lower it will also help.

But it’s really so I can slide it up against the wall when it’s not in use.

It’s not a big area. I have to roll the peloton and my bench out to open the space up to use it.

The 3rd and 4th picture show it out, where it can be used. The last picture shows it put away with the peloton and bench back in their places
 
Welcome home brother!
 
Boone
Believe it was you, and maybe Neophyte ?, that was into brewing :)

Well, I got one of those as brew tech 7 gallon fermenters. The fancy one with all the attachments. Got a glycol chiller and everything to go with it.

And then never brewed again.

Well. Fixing that. Found an oatmeal stout recipe I’m gonna run, should be ready in 6-8 weeks which will be perfect timing seasonally. It’ll give me a few weeks to finish my new keezer. And since it ages for a month it’ll allow me to run a session ipa as a follow up and have them both ready about the same time :)

Super glad to be getting back into it. I haven’t brewed a real beer since 2017. I did one shortly after getting my fermenter but I totally screwed up (cold brewing, added more water to compensate for evaporation, then stupid used the lid so it didn’t evaporate 🤦🏼‍♂️) and wound up with like a 1% FG so I just dumped it.
 
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