Today is my day off. That means, plenty of time for guitar and ukulele practice. Having a baritone ukulele with me, because it's tuned the same as a guitar, was and is a good idea. I will do the lesson first with my electric guitar, then do the lesson again with my ukulele. With the strings also spaced like an acoustic guitar I get practice with ( Read more... )

While passing through Kuwait I picked up Guitar for Dummies (DVD). So far it's been easy and I'm progressing well. I even remember the names of the chords. Which, if you know me and names would impress the heck out of you.

The workout today did not involve any weights. PUSHUPS and Crunches. I did over 600 crunches. And multiple sets of pushups. ( Read more... )

After eight months of effort, I am shifting gears for the last four months of the deployment. Now it's time to go light, high rep, and have a focus on push ups and sit ups. Why? Because the Army has a PT Test that doesn't measure fitness (they are changing it), it measures how many push ups and sit ups you can do in 2 minutes, and how fast you can ( Read more... )

I'm 60% of the way through the Quran. Which means that my guitar and ukulele have been looking at me, asking me to play with them, yet going back to their corners sad. Well, I'll be going on R&R soon, and I'll take the ukulele with me. It can tell the guitar all about the trip when we get back.

I've started my vacation from the gym today. All the ( Read more... )

Deciding to do two things that take time means that one suffers. Here it's learning a song and reading the Quran. Neither is fast, and the Quran will take a lot longer. However, I am in a country with ties to Islam. And while most of the people here have not read the Quran, I have no excuse. I can read and my copies are in English. So, that takes ( Read more... )

...my head stops throbbing.

A couple long days, and a head banging shelf (shelf banging head?) means that I missed a couple workouts. I also, went very light on those dinners. The result? My weight started to go up. Weird. I'm not trying to lose/gain weight, but that little OCD in me can't pass something that measures without checking it out. Which ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I will hit the halfway mark for my deployment. I will have hit the downhill slopes. You know what that means, right?

Time to pick up the pace!

The weights are getting heavier and the workouts are getting longer.

On the music front, I will actually try to learn a song: Bad Moon Rising. It only has three chords, but it will still be a ( Read more... )

The train up is over. My workout has increase by 20-30 minutes. I meant to stop at a twenty minute increase, but those extra ten minutes were calling me.

With spring upon us, and summer (simmer?) ahead, Afghanistan will be a country where water balance will have to be carefully managed. Don't get dehydrated. Don't retain water unnecessarily. ( Read more... )

It's been a while. The Ripping and Shredding paused for a bit. There were a few countries (5) that had to be traveled through and some extremely important work that took precedent.

Now, after a bit of sickness, I'm back. Today was a back and obliques day. As an added bonus, I managed to finally pick up some gloves (D, that was when we were at under ( Read more... )

The ukulele is packed and I'm on the move. I may not be able to play for a week or two, and exercise is out too.

Once I get settled it's game on.

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