I was DFL today during the workout at the gym. I was almost four minutes behind the fastest person, but I also was using a dball that was 4 pounds heavier and a kettlebell that was 20 pounds heavier. Cumulatively, that’s 30+24+20+16+12+8+4+2=116 times that, or 464 more pounds in ball slams and 2320 pound more in snatches. I suppose I do have about half a foot on her, but she’s a competitor in the Crossfit games and I’m just a computer guy. A computer guy who is seriously doubting the math of that, and really I only did 19.05 lbs more on the kettlebell, so cumulatively that’s only 2210 lbs. I think there were 12 people in our class, mostly women, and so I can safely say that I lifted more weight than the total weight of our whole class, unless we weighed an average of 184 lbs. I don’t think anyone in the class weighed that much alone.

Multiplying the weight by the time (3:49) would give us a value of 8343.8, which is a large number with no significance at all, but apparently there is a dude at the gym who eats about that many calories in a day. He’s a big skinny dude and my current hero. I even heard he sat down and ate two pies at once. I don’t know how to compare that to Sean’s achievement of losing the burrito eating contest (he had a bit left of #3 before he was disqualified) but everyone else in that contest held their stomachs in pain afterwards while Sean went out for ice cream.

So if I do some division, I did 729 lbs/minute more than the fastest person. Another meaningless measure, but I can live with that. Maybe I’ll do what Sean said, “With abs like that, I’d just take my shirt off and eat chocolate cake all day.” I know, I’ve mentioned it before, but a man can dream, can’t he?

Oddly enough, I had two people trying to give me their old TVs today. My sister and brother-in-law have a giant CRT HDTV but we really don’t have anywhere to put it right now. And my next door neighbor got rid of his glass TVs as well. I’m personally trying to get rid of a 13″ glass TV right now, and after I actually buy an LCD TV I’ll probably want to get rid of two 27″ glass TVs as well. Ah the wonders of congress, helping us make more things ready for the landfill.

Didn’t do all that much today. Yesterday’s gym workout made me pretty sore today. We could see it coming in the middle of it yesterday. And after all the horrible missteps trying to fix things around the house yesterday, I though I should probably just lay low, watch my backlog of TV shows, and read a book. Really exciting, but it’s hard to screw things up when you hide. I’ll find out later this week, I’m sure, how poorly that plan turned out for me.

I went to see my friend Melissa from the gym in the Shakespearian play Richard II and I really enjoyed myself. I remember seeing Shakespeare performed as I was growing up and it was always at a huge distance. Seeing it up close in a theatre that only fits about 40 people was great. It’s being done by an all-female cast with little costuming and I’d certainly recommend it. According to the intarweb, it’s playing until May 24.

I saw some pretty odd sights on the way home: a bunch of dudes in red dresses. Thanks to google, I found out it was the Red Dress Party. You’d think I’d know something about those sorts of things.

In any case, the rest of the day was only slightly disastrous. I went wild with caulking in the bathroom and lots of things look like hell where I did it. I replaced a light switch, something I’ve done dozens of times before, but this time I couldn’t find my wire strippers and I even shocked myself. Sheesh. Well, at least my bedroom now has a lighted switch, and the wire strippers are pretty cheap to replace.