5-22-13 Feeling the pain.

3x5 Deadlift @ 315
3x8 Dirty Curls @ 60
3x12 Tricep extend @ 180
Triple superset: Concentration curls, Inverse tricep extend, close grip tricep extend. 3 sets 10 each @ 35, 90 and 90.

Didnt run.

Clif bar for bfast
lunch was a bit of snacking
dinner was half tub of greek yogurt and tons of granola.

5-21-13 Back attack

Breakfast:2 pc toast, musclemilk

Snack: small muscle milk shake

lunch: Burger King, Texas doubly whopper

Snack: peanuts

Dinner: potatoes, almond chicken, broccoli.

Workout: 

Pre exhaust: db row 110s for 8 reps

Strict pull ups, wide grip 3x6

OHP 115, 3x6

Db presses

Db raises.

1.5 mile run

Starting to puss out a little. Need to get a real plan going this next week to keep me focused. Food is still strong though.

5/20/13 squatz and sprintz

Breakfast: 2 eggs, two slices toast. Almond milk w/muscle milk.

Lunch: 2 hot dogs.

Dinner: 2 burgers, half corn cob, banana pudding.

Workout:

2x5 warmup and warm down squats @ 135

3x5 ATG squats @ 185

3x8 calf raises @ 300

100 pike sit-ups.

3x8 ab rollouts.

Mile run w/ one sprint towards the end.

Good workout. Good day, just going to go up from here. Hopefully not too sore in the morning. Need to do this workout more often.

On my novel in progress

I don't want to give away too much, so as to keep most of the idea untouched by foreign minds. Just as a safety in case I actually have something amazing. I am incredibly confident about my ideas for this book, last night as ideas raced through my mind I felt an overwhelming sense of euphoria when I stumbled upon an idea. I will pitch it to you now, without spoiling too much at all.

Dystopian future set in America 2300's. Genetic modification has become the new premiere science after a nuclear accident wiped out huge swaths of land all over the globe. People fear death, use GMO's, Organ/Limb transplants and advances in cosmetic surgery to live significantly longer lives, being able to appear 20 even until death at 130-150. Additionally, there have been advances in   technology such that utility modifications can be made that can do a variety of useful things. However, despite man's ability to look like or be whatever he wants, there is widespread unspoken fear and unhappiness. A rebellious group called the Apostate take a stand opposing this lifestyle, an under ground, mystical reputation, all members are hairless and unaltered in anyway. 

This only covers half of the novels theme, the more material of the primary two. Among with many other subthemes raised by the idea of genetic engineering.

If you are interested, leave a comment and I can post more information.

5/18/2013 turning into a real bro

Breakfast: banana

Lunch: 3 eggs 2 pc toast slice of pizza, protein juice

Dinner: family barbecue, burger and hotdog. Dr pepper, sour cream and onion.

Snack: popcorn @ Star Trek showing.

Today I got more serious about volume in my weight training. Arms only though.

Hammer curls dirty 3x8 @ 65

Tricep extensions dirty 3x8 @ 180

Hammer curls clean 3x15 @ 30

Tricep extension clean 3x 12 @ 80

Incline curls, double ROM 3x10 @ 17.5

Tricep extensions, inverse angled to close grip superset. 3x20 (10 each).

Need to diversify my arms a little.

5/17/2013 Getting back in the weights game

Breakfast: clif bar

Lunch: 4 eggs, 3 pieces of bread

Snack: peanuts

Dinner: 2 slices of pizza and watermelon

3x5 bench @ 185

Pussed out of squatting and other workouts. Need to get headphones and definite plan and goals. Only thing I am doing okay at is food.

Today was better than yesterday andTomorrow will be better.

5/16/13 We are all gonna make it, brah.

Morning run:

Getting back into running. New app called "Zombies, run!" Completed the first mission, ran about a mile and a half. I will write more about the app in the media category.

Breakfast:

3 eggs.

2 slices toast.

1 Musclemilk/Soy shake.

Lunch: Bagel w/ Cream Cheese

Dinner: Fell asleep, missed dinner.

Summary: Need to start getting into a routine with work so that I can hit the gym, and keep running. Today had a lot of extenuating circumstances to be accounted for.

On the Mass Effect trilogy

My latest and greatest accomplishment was completing the Mass Effect trilogy. Or should I say saving the flippin universe? As a video game, Mass Effect was good. However, as an interactive story, universe, and work of science fiction, Mass Effect was amazing. I have always been a fan of the interactive storytelling and role playing games that BioWare creates, and Mass Effect was the pinnacle of this experience for me thus far. I cant even imagine what they are going to be capable of making in the future.

Mass Effect as a stand alone story, didn't really add anything to the world of science fiction, in fact, it drew heavily off of MANY other works nearly all of the time. It is not original in anyway other than its execution. This is the real genius behind Mass Effect. It combines the themes of nearly all popular sci-fi stories into one world. Additionally, the story of Shepard is timeless regardless of where it is placed. Both the rich and open universe and the Shepard archetype is what sucked me into truly feeling a sense of importance, that I truly was THE Commander Shepard and only I am capable of saving the galaxy. Mass Effect was never about shooting aliens or robots, often I would play on casual in order to devour more of the truly addicting plot and themes. By the end of the final game I began to feel real emotional connections to the characters, at a level I had almost never felt before in any form of media (let alone a video game) except for Firefly and Ender's game to a degree. Wrex and Garrus were truly my bros, Tali and Liara my girls. It seems absurd to "real people" but BioWare painted these fictional beings in a medium that allows them to transcend into being more dynamic than many of the real people I meet.

There is Order, and there is Chaos. Synthetic and Organic. Then there is you, Commander Shepard, set to satisfy the demands of both. As a clearer than day Christ figure (He even breaks the chains of death in the second game, under something called the "Lazarus Project" no less.) Shepard leads his loyal band of apostles to hell and back. He isn't a typical christ figure however. He is still perfect, but he isn't necessarily "good". You make choices of either Paragon or Renegade, linked to the concepts of order and chaos. I like the distinction from Good and Evil. Especially on a philosophical level, as well as the scope of the galaxy, evil and good are undefinable. Instead it is almost like the concept of entropy. Are you a renegade that increases the disorder of the universe? Or a paragon that does what he can to slow it? Neither is objectively right, we choose where to fit within a spectrum that doesn't cancel out, but instead builds as a function of time.

Conclusion: 9/10, I wasn't unhappy with the extended cut ending like most others, and the hours of good gameplay far outweighs any minute of weakness. I recommend to those who love a good story as well as a game. It is literature in game form, not simply a well written game.