Unpacked, undone, & under the influence. Of beef.
We’re officially moved in. Yeah. Today, I opened the
last box & got it unpacked/put together.
And,
I’m done.
“Done”
as in “Spent.” What was the last thing we unpacked?
Our
Home
Gym.
You DO NOT want to know how long it took us to put
it together, start to finish. But I’m going to
tell you, so you can fully understand why I’m so
spent.
9 hours.
Yeah. 9 hours of lugging the stuff around, turning
bolts, wrenches, screws, nuts, pulleys, pads, plates,
& dead bodies. Well,
my
dead body, anyway.
And there were casualties, believe me. In the 9 hours
it took me to put the thing together, I managed to:
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Whack my head on the barbell
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Pull my Right calf muscle
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Injure my Right wrist
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Whack my head on the barbell. Again
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Pinch the skin on my palm
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Nail my shin on a low pulley
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Whack my head on the barbell
Needless to say, I won’t actually be working out on it for a few days. 9 hours of install , coupled with the laundry list of injuries pretty much rules out me putting it through its paces until… well, at least a few days. Maybe August, I’m not sure yet.
More on the new place
One of my favorite things about being up here is our proximity to everything that matters. Mostly I mean food. Cattle, pigs, milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, vegetables, fruit – it’s all grown locally. And not only that, but it’s pretty much ALL certified organic. And even more than that, things like the beef are not just organic, they’re grass-fed. We’ve been to a few of the local Natural Foods stores and had ourselves some lovely barbecued grass-fed steak. Yum yum, y’all.
Don’t believe the ol’ Corn-Fed line; I can assure you it’s BS. I’ve always sort of thought that perhaps, just maybe, after hundreds of thousands of years eating grass, cows and such would probably fare better on that diet than what a lot of these companies stuff down their throats. I mean seriously, how the heck do we think we can outdo nature in a mere 40 years? Evolution’s a bitch, man, let me tell you.
So as I was saying. The meat’s tasty, lean, tender, moist, and all-in-all pretty reasonably priced. I think it was some 50¢ more a pound on some cuts than the regular sh!t, and cheaper on others. What am I saying? I’m eating healthier than ever, and it doesn’t even taste bad. It’s like I’m eating veggies! Once removed, of course.
Peace.