I’m a very liberal guy, but in my own life I’m pretty darn boring. Just ask my ex-girlfriends. Boooring. So when I had weird cuts on my legs for the past two nights, I had no idea what they were. They’re rope burns from climbing the big ropes at the gym. The new gym has a ceiling that’s probably twenty-something feet high, and new manila ropes that go all the way up. As a novice rope climber, I try all sorts of weird things to try to climb on up and I have the rope burns to prove it.

The hard part of climbing up ropes or the poles they have in the gyms in Japan isn’t so much getting up to the top, but figuring out what to do once you get there. You have to find your way down, and that’s when you get the rope burn.

Like I said, boooring.