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DRAGON KAAAAAHN!
Things were complicated at DragonCon last year. It was my first attendance, which was awesome and amazing, but things were starting to go south in my triad and I didn’t know how to escape, even at an event as large as DragonCon. For all that the con was fascinating and exhausting in its own right, the relationship stuff cast a shadow on it. So with the triad dissolved, I dragged my feet on signing up for DragonCon 2013. If Greg and I roomed with Deana (major question #1), we’d be persons 7 and 8 in the room. Eight people. In one room. (Last year we were 5th and 6th, and…
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Months of 5’s, 3’s, and 1’s
I’ve been lifting via the 5/3/1 program since December 2011. In the last year, I’ve completed 8 months of lifting. Consistent, not so much, but I was stalling enough in the last couple of months that I decided to recalculate my maxes last week. When I started last December, I was still doing shoulder rehab (at home) thrice weekly. My shoulder hurt every day. Even trying to do an assisted pull-up would cause days’ worth of escalation of shoulder pain. It’s hard to make a true assessment of my upper-body strength at the time, because so much is driven by the ability to strongly and painlessly rotate ones shoulders: pushups,…