D.J. Coffman - Sequential Artist, Thinker

It’s been a tough week so far, my kids have been off school and a minor distraction around the house for 4 days or so. It’s the small price to pay for working from home, so I can’t complain at all. Plus, haven’t been getting much sleep, when I can actually fall asleep, my dog seems to like to wake me up half hour before my alarm goes off, which is fantastic. Today my alarm was set for 6am, dog started wimpering about 5:30. I’m beginning to think he does this on purpose. Instead of going back to bed, I got up, had a cup of coffee and jammed out to the gym for the routine.

I won’t lie… the gym is annoying. I’m only doing it because I’m forcing myself to do it and be disciplined. Even if I feel like I’ve been halfassing it there, at least I’m there trying. I just snuck a peek at other people’s workout forms and I see they fill them out differently. The trainer who showed me the equipment, I swear she said you pretty much like, do 12 reps of a set weight, then the next time you come, you increase it a little when you’re comfortable lifting said weight, so that’s what I’ve been doing. My wife and everyone else will lift 3 different weights it looks like starting say for example, 60lbs, then a set of 50, then 40.  So I did that today kinda, but on a few machines it’s not practical. Efh it, I really don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m moving around and lifting heavy stuff, so that’s gotta be an improvement at least. I’m about a milisecond from ditching the stupid sheet and just going with my gut on stuff– but I want to try to follow the program to see if I see any results in 16 weeks or whatever.  So far, the result is, I’m tired and sore. Hooray!

Gotta drop the one vehicle off for inspection and oil change today. I’m crossing my fingers they don’t try to pull the “we can’t pass it unless you get this  this and this fixed.” — which would be BS, because we just bought it from this place a year ago. We might need new tires soon, but the ones on the damn thing are fine. We’ve had bad experiences with this sort of thing in the past, so we always sort of look at each other here and groan thinking they’re going to give us a proposed checklist of 800 bucks. Today, I’ll strangle a man. So… fingers crossed. Something HAS to go right financially here, i mean, the law of averages would dictate that.

Workwise… just sent my kids off to school.. so hopefully today will be a productive day. I may skip the gym tomorrow, but get up super early and get cracking before the buttcrack of dawn. Seacrest, out!