Category: Uncategorized

Date: 2025-04-24
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Samsonite
PAX: Ankles, Da Vinci, Archive, Falsetto, Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Happy Feet, TBTF, Stock boy, DQ, Cheese, Samsonite FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WOR: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Mosey ’round the Lot, Copperhead Squats

Trivia: What year was Footloose released? (1984)

The Thang: Rifle carry the :coupon: to Hoffa, then over to the Shop for Musical Dora with Table Raises & Run Around the Baseball Diamond Followed by BBS & Run Around the Baseball Diamond.

Music: Let’s Hear it for the Boy :notes: & Holding Out for a Hero :notes:

Trivia: Who sang the title song to Footloose? (Kenny Loggins)
What was the name of the town where dancing was forbidden? (Bomont) NERD POINT: In what state is Bomont located? (Georgia)

Then back to Hoffa for Musical Dora with Curls & Bernie Up Hoffa, followed by Flutter Kicks & Run Up Hoffa

Music: Almost Paradise :notes: & Never :notes:

Trivia: From what city did Ren live before moving to the small town of Bomont, Georgia? (Chicago)

Then to Cooties for Musical Dora with Merkins & Run Around Hoffa, followed by Leg Raises & Run Around Hoffa

Music: Dancing in the Sheets :notes: & The Girl gets Around :notes:

Trivia: Although the soundtrack is packed with hits, only two of those songs made it to #1 on the Billboard charts. Footloose was one. What was the other? (Let’s Hear it for the Boy)

Back to the flag for a bit of Mary

Music: (I’ve Had) The Time of my Life :notes: (no one puts baby in a corner!)

Moleskine: tl;dr. Learn to let things go. The buddhists teach that desire is the root of suffering. They say that because we desire things we become attached to them and then when we get them they let us down, or we don’t get them at all, or we lose them. Their impermanence or our failure to achieve them makes us unhappy. I think they get this partly right, but desire isn’t bad. It’s just that we desire the wrong things. If we desire only God, then we will never be disappointed, but too often we desire other things: success in work, happy obedient children, affirmation from other humans. And those things fade, disappoint, fail to appear. We become attached to them and they do cause us suffering. But if we stay attached to God; if our desire is only for God, then we can love those others things without being attached. When they disappoint, or fade, or we never get them, we won’t suffer because our desire – and attachment – are only in God.

COT: Prayers for Spielberg’s green card interview, for Mr Roboto’s relationship with his brother, Jailbreak’s recovery.

Tags: ao_mastodon, Ankles, Da Vinci, Archive, Falsetto, Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Happy Feet, TBTF, Stock boy, DQ, Cheese, Samsonite

Date: 2025-04-23
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: SAGA, Stock boy, Dumpster Fire (F3 Naperville), Tortuga, Panhandle, The wet burrito, Da Vinci, Panda Express FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Warmorama: to, what else, “Oh Yeah”

Rest of the workout happens to different songs in the Ferris Bueller soundtrack

The Thang:

Mozy to March of the Swivel Heads

Partner Up: 2 TOWERS OF POWER (while your partner power squats) until you’re done Skull crushers and PAX choice abs
Squeeze Curls and PAX choice abs

Mozy to March of the Swivel Heads

Thumb hold curls and PAX choice abs
Around the worlds and Pax choice abs
One arm rows and Pax choice abs
(around the Worlds to Around the World)

Mozy to March of the Swivel Heads

FULL Coupon squats and Pax choice abs
Derkens and Pax choice abs
Saltshakers and Pax Choice abs

Moleskin:

Wes Hill’s new book on Easter shows how sophisticated denial of the resurrection from liberal Protestants comes from privilege. “For those unshielded by safety and comfort, vague notions of love without concrete, bodily restoration aren’t enough.”

John Updike, “Seven Stanzas as Easter” (1960)

Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,
Each soft spring recurrent;
It was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the Eleven apostles;
It was as His flesh; ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes
The same valved heart
That—pierced—died, withered, paused, and then regathered
Out of enduring Might
New strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence,
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded
Credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
Not a stone in a story,
But the vast rock of materiality that in the slow grinding of Time will eclipse for each of us
The wide light of day.

And if we have an angel at the tomb,
Make it a real angel,
Weighty with Max Planck’s quanta, vivid with hair, opaque in The dawn light, robed in real linen
Spun on a definite loom.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
For our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
Lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed
By the miracle,
And crushed by remonstrance.

TAPS: Jailbreak health Spielberg Green card interview Tortuga M’s travel to Santiago

Tags: ao_tar_pit, SAGA, Stock boy, Dumpster Fire (F3 Naperville), Tortuga, Panhandle, The wet burrito, Da Vinci, Panda Express

Date: 2025-04-22
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Beaker
PAX: Panhandle, Sparrow, Samsonite, Ankles, Stock boy, Mr Roboto FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: Mosey, high knees, butt kickers, side shuffles, tappy taps, bat wings, moroccan night clubs, 5 T-bone burpees

The Thang: BOMBS
Taking the short mile on the path, stop at each light pole and do a single exercise, switching in order of BOMBS, rinsing and repeating every 5 light poles. The exercises and reps are as follows:

5 Burpees
10 Outlaws
15 Merkins
20 Big boi sit ups
25 Squats

When you get to a bridge, cross it with your feet on the railing and your hands on the ground.

Everyone made it to COOTIES in time.

15 hanging knee raises, oyo

1 minute of low plank at the flag

Moleskine:
We will inevitably get old and lose our abilities, physical and mental. We need to develop or “asking for help” and “depending on others” muscles now. They are good now; they will be essential later.

COT: Mr Roboto, bombing in Yemen

Tags: ao_mastodon, Panhandle, Sparrow, Samsonite, Ankles, Stock boy, Mr Roboto

Date: 2025-04-03
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Big Mac
PAX: Samsonite, Linc, Archive, Jailbreak, Ankles, Da Vinci
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: SSH, Copper Head Squats, Copper Head Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Picked Daisies and Arm Circles.

The Thang: The Wee Men in search of the most beautiful sunrise have retaken Hoffa. The PAX engage in the endless struggle. Three battles of which took place this morning.

First Battle: The Wee Men surprise attack the PAX. In each round of the battle, PAX attempted to knock down the wee men before they could shower the PAX with arrows of exercise. For each wee man standing, they struck the PAX with 10 reps of a harder exercise. For each wee man fallen, the hard exercise was transformed to easy.

Round 1: Blockees for Hard, OH Press for Easy
Round 2: Thrusters with Coupon for hard, Thrusters W/O coupon for easy Round 3: Coupon merkins for hard (alternate side), regular merkins for easy.

Battle 2: The PAX launch a counter attack. 10 of an exercise to earn a throw, defeat all the wee men to advance on hoffa and to the next round.

Round 1: Burpees,
Round 2: Thrusters
Round 3: BBSU

Final Battle: The PAX having surrounded the wee men, launch their final offensive. They risk everything by accumulating enough artillery to complete the offensive. 7 wee men remain, one for each PAX. The PAX complete as many coupon swings without stopping as they can/want. For every 10 swings they earn 1 piece of artillery. If they knock down at least 4, the wee men are defeated, if they knock down all 7 the wee men agree to leave the grounds for good.

The PAX are fully victorious. They magnanimously permit the wee men one last look at the Hoffa Sunrise after which the wee men are thrown into a duffel bag and removed from the premises.

Moleskine- Man desires not just to be loved but to be lovely. The first you can get by faking it, but the second is judged by Smith’s “the impartial observer or the man within the breast” he’ll know whether you deserve the praise or whether you’ve taken a shortcut.

COT:

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Samsonite, Linc, Archive, Jailbreak, Ankles, Da Vinci

Date: 2025-04-22
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Lakers
PAX: Manhole, Toto, Framed
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR:
– SSH
– Arm Circles
– Leg Stretches

The Thang:
Mosey to Heartbreak Ridge with coupons

– 22’s (11’s by counting by twos)
Chest press at bottom of the hill
Run BACKWARDS up the hill
Merkins on top
Run forward to the bottom

– Lunges heard round the world

– Squats

Mosey to playground

– Hero Worship on the playground

Moleskine: The barriers and boundaries we set up in front of us are in our minds and able to be overcome. Looking back at my two year Man-iversary, I would never have been imagining I could do what I do now. Push through. Overcome!

COT: IYKYK

Tags: ao_dark_room, Manhole, Toto, Framed

Date: 2025-04-22
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Tortuga
PAX: Banks, Spielberg, Candyland, DQ, Cheese, Bloomer, LeMond, Panda Express, BigBlue, Jack, Lib, Krampus, Dewey, Oompa, Guppy, White Noise, TBTF, Velveeta FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WOR: yes

The Thang: 10v9 drubbing by the 9

Moleskine: Make the lazy choice the better choice: put those Oreos on a top shelf in the basement and the nut mix in the pantry. When you’re craving a quick snack we usually default to the easier option. You might go downstairs, get out the step stool and get some oreos, but you’ll probably settle for the convenient nut mix.

COT: Spielberg’s green card interview Thursday, Lib’s family adjusting to life divorced and reconciliation.

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Banks, Spielberg, Candyland, DQ, Cheese, Bloomer, LeMond, Panda Express, BigBlue, Jack, Lib, Krampus, Dewey, Oompa, Guppy, White Noise, TBTF, Velveeta

Date: 2025-04-21
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: DQ
PAX: Panhandle, Tortuga, Oompa, Big Mac, LeMond
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WOR:
– SSH
– Goofballs
– Arm circles
– Abe VIgodas
– Copperhead squats
– Copperhead merkins

Thang 1:
PAX compete against each other, finishing a set of exercises as fast as possible. Once one PAX finished, everyone else stopped and reported their rep count. In general the first to finish was rewarded with 10 sandees and the PAX with the lowest rep count earned 5 sandees (towards the end, we’d take one extra guy to work on the sandees). Everyone else ran the hamster wheel. Repeat with the next exercise. The PAX performed this pattern with the following exercises: – 40 burpees
– 40 hand release merkins
– 40 block jump squats
– 30 burpees
– 30 hand release merkins
– 30 block jump squats
– 20 burpees
– 20 hand release merkins
– 20 block jump squats

Thang 2
Sandbag relays and EMOMS. PAX split into two teams for a relay-ish event. One PAX from each team starts at the top of the hill with a sandbag and completes the following – Carry sandbag down the hill
– 5 sandees
– Carry sandbag back up the hill
– Drop sandbag and run down the hill
– 10 burpees
– Sprint back up the hill

While that is happening, the remaining PAX are doing an EMOM workout. We rotated through the following minute routines which all included 5 burpees (which quickly went down for most PAX) and 12 reps of an exercise: – 5 burpees / 12 thrusters
– 5 burpees / 12 uneven merkins
– 5 burpees / 12 2-is-1 bonnie blairs
– 5 burpees / 12 coupon swings
– 50s plank
:
When a PAX finishes their relay portion, they swap out with a team member doing the EMOM. WInners and losers of the relay didn’t really matter because my team lost. However, we were able to get 15 minutes of EMOM work in and finished all together with planks.

Moleskine:
Pray that your kids would be surrounded by leaders and friends who would encourage them towards a life that honors God.

COT:

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Panhandle, Tortuga, Oompa, Big Mac, LeMond

Date: 2025-04-19
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Falsetto
PAX: Bloomer, White Noise, Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Dumpster
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WOR:
– SSH ICx15
– Goofballs ICx15
– Abe Vigodas IC x10
– Tin Soldiers ICx10
– Arm Circles, foreward/backward IC x10
– Seal Claps ICx10, Overhead Claps ICx10
– Moroccan Nightclubs IC x10
– Mountain Man Poopers ICx10
– Michael Phelps OYO, triceps stretch OYO

The Thang:
Thang 1: HardCORE workout
**2 rounds
20 Windshield Wipers IC
20 McGill crunch (10 each leg)
30 sec side plank both sides
20 bird dogs

Coupons to Hoffa for Thang 2
Thang 2: Tabata 20s work 10s rest
4min-8 exercises= 1round(3 rounds)
**Manrise after each round!

Blockees
Overhead Press
Merkins w/ coupon
BBSU
Squats w/ coupon
Mountain Climbers
American Hammers
Dips

Scout run around short loop with last PAX completing 5 SSH before sprint to front.

Ring of Fire and Mary to finish the hour

Moleskine: Deal with situations where a wrong has occurred. Be humble enough to listen if it’s you committing the wrong. Confront people who have wronged you with love and a desire for them to grow in character and be better in the future. Your own kids, co-workers, spouse. Issues are an opportunity for everyone to get better.

COT: Mr Roboto situation Stock boy friends dealing with cancer Jailbreak recent procedure and for quick and full recovery

Tags: ao_mastodon, Bloomer, White Noise, Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Dumpster

Date: 2025-04-19
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: LeMond, Homie, Archive, Panhandle, Portage, Beaker, T-bone, Krampus, Lakers, Toto, Da Vinci FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
Warmorama: Stretch with burpee for every time the Boss says “I’m Goin’ Down

(set list is a series of songs with a downward theme, including Freddie King, Maren Morris, Allman Brothers, Howlin’ Wolf, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Woody Guthrie, Grateful Dead, Aretha Franklin, Matt Maher, Garth Brooks)

The Thang: Around the lake with sets of 40 down exercises in cadence. 40 squats
40 dips (2 is 1)
40 merkens
40 BBSU
40 Squats

Murder bunnies to top of school, perfect form or return to stop. WAIT! Load coupons into the Dodge Ram instead. (image of what Christ did for us)

At the top

Partner Up: 2 TOWERS OF POWER (while your partner squats)
Partner Block Swing
DOWN AND SPRINT UP!
Squeeze Curls and BBSU
40 around the worlds and Leg lift
DOWN AND SPRINT UP!
Regular curls and LBCs
Gravediggers and Outlaws
DOWN AND SPRINT UP!
Skull crushers and box cutters
(Also featuring a Lakers mortuary story during one exercise.)

Moleskin
“In the mysteries of Isis, the Mysteries at Samothrace, the Mysteries at Eleusis, in all of those you had the descent into the underworld. The descent was both symbolic and real. Christ descended as well. What did Christ bring into the underworld that was different than what the earlier Mysteries had been able to do? It’s really quite a central question because something changed in the very nature of the underworld. Christ’s descent was not like an Orpheus or or others who have descended and then came back – Christ overcame. That reality is often not considered at all. It wasn’t just a pivot to the underworld, it was an overcoming and a changing of its nature.” -Robert Faas

Tags: ao_tar_pit, LeMond, Homie, Archive, Panhandle, Portage, Beaker, T-bone, Krampus, Lakers, Toto, Da Vinci

Date: 2025-04-18
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Candyland
PAX: Banks, Cheese, LeMond, Manhole, Jolly, Spielberg, Bloomer, Shiplap, DQ, White Noise, Gummi Bear, Dewey, TBTF, T.B., Tortuga, Pitch Pipe, Velveeta, Fiona FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WOR: UnCadenced SSH, Down and Back

The Thang: 10v9 Ultimate Frisbee

Moleskine: Do hard things, make sacrifices for others

COT: Spielberg’s Green Card Interview, Hancock (and Family)’s loss

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Banks, Cheese, LeMond, Manhole, Jolly, Spielberg, Bloomer, Shiplap, DQ, White Noise, Gummi Bear, Dewey, TBTF, T.B., Tortuga, Pitch Pipe, Velveeta, Fiona