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Sep. 16th, 2013 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynDecent weekend this weekend. Went to the local Y on Saturday- I've got some day passes from a Groupon purchase and will probably be joining the Y before the end of the month. No pool at the one near me, but they have weight machines and a selection of aerobic machines and a number of different class activities, and frankly I'd be happy with just the weight machines and the elliptical trainers. (Because it's easy to pretend they're the foot-clamping rigs in the Jaegers from Pacific Rim, mostly.) Actual stair practice will probably start a bit later than normal this year if I join the gym since I'll have another place to work out, and since I don't think I'm as likely to get horribly flattening sinus infections or colds that cut into training time as I was in New York.
I've also started on the 200 Squats and 100 Pushups workouts. I'm going to ask the folks at the Y to help me get my pushup form right, as I've never been able to do the kind where you dip down to ALMOST the ground but don't actually touch it. The squats are being done with the aid of a wooden stick that I think they normally use for some kind of shoulder based exercise- they have several sticks in a container near an open floor space, one wooden and the others synthetic and weighing between 10 and 18 pounds each. I'm using the wooden one to keep my hands even when I bring them up in front of me during the squat. Right now my quads are kind of angry with me, since the ellipticals are a lot of quad exercise and the squat workout has happened three days running; I've got other things to do tonight so I won't be going to the gym. They get a recovery day.
I also got to visit the USS Salem in Quincy, Mass. this weekend. It's a retired heavy cruiser used as a museum ship. Poor thing's showing her age, although the volunteers do their best to keep her in shape. It was an interesting visit, but I admit I spent more of the visit comparing what I was seeing to my mental image of life in a Vault-Tec Vault than actually thinking of naval history. (Not that I didn't think naval history, it just came second.) The Salem is probably a better real-world analog of Vault life than the Growler submarine in New York, since even the Vaults with hot-bunking sleep arrangements in games 1 and 2 still had somewhat more large areas than the sub did, and the East Coast Vaults had considerably more space overall. I may wind up going back at some point; we'll see.
Side note: guess what the ship's emblem was. Go on, guess. Of course it's a silhouette of a witch and her black cat riding a broomstick; everything that references Salem, Mass. in any way is going to be a thing about witches.... don't mind me, I'm just a bit peeved that people like Giles Corey (who was enough of a badass that he told his torturers the equivalent of "FUCK YOU, BRING IT ON" rather than accept the authority of a court prosecuting him under charges they damn well knew were false because they'd get to confiscate his property if he confessed) go forgotten in favor of a modern conception of witches and pagan religion that wasn't even present at the time. And I admit to a bit of hypocrisy on that charge as I wound up buying a T-shirt with the ship's emblem on it, although in my defense the alternatives were the ship's outline or something involving a skull and crossed cutlasses and the words 'PIRATE HUNTER', which I'm not sure was ever one of the Salem's duties. My apologies on that front.
I've also started on the 200 Squats and 100 Pushups workouts. I'm going to ask the folks at the Y to help me get my pushup form right, as I've never been able to do the kind where you dip down to ALMOST the ground but don't actually touch it. The squats are being done with the aid of a wooden stick that I think they normally use for some kind of shoulder based exercise- they have several sticks in a container near an open floor space, one wooden and the others synthetic and weighing between 10 and 18 pounds each. I'm using the wooden one to keep my hands even when I bring them up in front of me during the squat. Right now my quads are kind of angry with me, since the ellipticals are a lot of quad exercise and the squat workout has happened three days running; I've got other things to do tonight so I won't be going to the gym. They get a recovery day.
I also got to visit the USS Salem in Quincy, Mass. this weekend. It's a retired heavy cruiser used as a museum ship. Poor thing's showing her age, although the volunteers do their best to keep her in shape. It was an interesting visit, but I admit I spent more of the visit comparing what I was seeing to my mental image of life in a Vault-Tec Vault than actually thinking of naval history. (Not that I didn't think naval history, it just came second.) The Salem is probably a better real-world analog of Vault life than the Growler submarine in New York, since even the Vaults with hot-bunking sleep arrangements in games 1 and 2 still had somewhat more large areas than the sub did, and the East Coast Vaults had considerably more space overall. I may wind up going back at some point; we'll see.
Side note: guess what the ship's emblem was. Go on, guess. Of course it's a silhouette of a witch and her black cat riding a broomstick; everything that references Salem, Mass. in any way is going to be a thing about witches.... don't mind me, I'm just a bit peeved that people like Giles Corey (who was enough of a badass that he told his torturers the equivalent of "FUCK YOU, BRING IT ON" rather than accept the authority of a court prosecuting him under charges they damn well knew were false because they'd get to confiscate his property if he confessed) go forgotten in favor of a modern conception of witches and pagan religion that wasn't even present at the time. And I admit to a bit of hypocrisy on that charge as I wound up buying a T-shirt with the ship's emblem on it, although in my defense the alternatives were the ship's outline or something involving a skull and crossed cutlasses and the words 'PIRATE HUNTER', which I'm not sure was ever one of the Salem's duties. My apologies on that front.
