the good parts of saturday

[opabinia]

I can clean a KB without so much as disturbing my forearm. I'd been psyching myself out for weeks. I was sure I'd flip the damn thing wrong, time the knee dip incorrectly, tear off my entire wrist, and shatter my ulna into little red slivers.

I watched mrzero a few times, went into his back yard (in case I had to drop the damn thing), and... Huttah! Almost perfect the first time, then clean after clean, both right and left, with no ill effects. My swings need refinement, and the cleans are but a gateway to the real exercises; even so, much progress has been made. I've borrowed FRWTL and RKC on video from Mrzero.

atalanta made me a couple of ergogenic mix CDs, and we dug up Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life," for real this time. :)


Apart from that, life can stop sucking any minute now. I'd be fine with that.