Date: 2026-01-12
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Da Vinci ,
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Big Mac, Jolly, Da Vinci, DQ, Tortuga, Treebeard, SAGA, T-bone, Manhole, Panhandle FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR: Follow the Leader to Weather with You
Fresh new mix of 80s and 90s music throughout beatdown
The Thang:
TICKET TO ROLL: 60 curls, 50 merkens, 40 shoulder press, 30 BBSU, 20 skull crushers, 10 thrusters).
DIE OF DEATH COUPON. Spring up Hill between rounds
1. Curls and BBSU
2. Skull crushers and Box cutters
3. Derkens and flutters
4. Shoulder press and Outlaws
5. One arm rows and American hammers
6. Goblet squats and Oblique V ups
7. Derkens and Leg lifts
8. Hodors and Freddie Mercuries 9. BLOCKESS FOR THE WHOLE SONG 10. WILD CARD (pick two) 11. Curls and BBSU 12. Skull crushers and Box cutters
13. Derkens and flutters
14. Shoulder press and Outlaws
15. One arm rows and American hammers
16. Goblet squats and Oblique V ups
17. Derkens and Leg lifts
18. Hodors and Freddie Mercuries 19. BLOCKESS FOR THE WHOLE SONG 20. WILD CARD (pick two)
Moleskine:
A man we were praying for last year has died.
Nebraska Senator (from 2015-2023) Ben Saase is dying. As he said on X: “I’m https://x.com/hashtag/NotDeadYet?src=hashtag_click (hat tip: Monty Python), and he asked for prayer “That I will be able – to borrow the old Puritan phrase – to “redeem the time.” That is, to try to serve and love our neighbors with little bits of work — or writing and speaking projects here and there. Time is the great equalizer, but not all time is equal — you can play a lot of basketball in the last 60 seconds. We’re going to give cancer a run for its money and see what can be learned in the process.”
There are no explanations, but if we were forced to give one, perhaps God is taking the best of us so that the rest of us will step up. To that end, I want to explore John Henry Newman’s https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/The_definition_of_a_gentleman_%28IA_definitionofgent00newm%29.pdf this year. The first part is:
“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His benefits may be considered as parallel to what are called comforts or conveniences in arrangements of a personal nature: like an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue, though nature provides both means of rest and animal heat without them. The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast; — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at their ease and at home.”
COT: Prayers for Manhole’s friend Ray, for new semester.
Tags: Tar Pit, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Big Mac, Jolly, Da Vinci, DQ, Tortuga, Treebeard, SAGA, T-bone, Manhole, Panhandle
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