This is excellent.

Also, I bet your boss would applaud their form.

Ahhh, you being 114 years old explains a lot of the angry man rages at cloud episodes you seem to have.

Yugo,

He probably would.

Also, you have to admit that a 114 year old man doing 114 chinups and raising twins is pretty impressive, even if I'm jizzing dust and sawdust at this point. Might have to up the ol' DHEA supplementation or something.

It is extremely impressive. In fact, you are the most impressive human being ever to have lived. 114 years old and 114 chinups is no joke. I believe even brother loco would agree.

It makes my squat and DL numbers a lot more respectable, you have to admit.

That's pushing it

I was curious of the context of this quote, and I did a little private eye searching and found Yugo mentioning my Facebook in the low content thread (when you only have 5 posts/page you are gonna miss stuff). Indeed my facebook jumped the shark a couple years ago and is virtually unusable now, although in my defense I don't actually take or post any pics. I just smile when people tell me to smile and am otherwise an innocent bystander in the process.

Yes, it seems all can be conveniently blamed on your wife for posting hundreds of pictures with you tagged in them. Still, though, I do not believe for a second she forces you into those smiles, a bunch of them are you caught red-handed enjoying being a father. Admit it!

jdock,

I feel that.

The wifeacore and I post pictures pretty infrequently, but when we do they are mostly of the minis (i.e. although most of the photos I have on there are related to them, the overall volume is low). The evolution of Facebook into a baby photo repository over the last ~5 years has been pretty interesting to observe, though.

I am not trying to one up Monte, but I can post an occasional child observation if there is interest, although my observations will probably tend to be ironic in some way.

For example, every time my 2 year old son sees a black guy he points at him and says b-ball (which is his word for basketball). There is a local pickup court adjacent to one of the parks he plays at, and between that and NBA games I often keep on in the background, he seems to have picked up on a certain demographic trend.

jdock,

That is pretty hilarious, both because that actual anecdote is funny and because I am imagining the discomfort in your likely vegan/hippy infested Facebook feed if you actually posted that (i.e. it would turn into the actual Jezebel comments section).

Maybe we should start an H&F LC Dadding thread to contain all this stuff; I doubt all the YOUNGS on this board are really interested in amazingly droll anecdotes about the one time one of our kids did something cute. I can literally feel CR and Syndrom's test levels dropping through the internet every time I hit "post" on one of those.

My wife and sister (who has a 2 year old son and a newborn) are completely out of control. We are talking consistently cranking out 20+ pics/week. All my and my wife's friends are in that early-mid 30s sweet spot where yuppie middle class people start procreating and our facebooks are 90%+ baby/child pictures. It really is nauseating.

Not coincidentally, my facebook friends list has gone through a pretty heavy attrition (although some of this is me). At high point I had >200 "friends", and now it is down to the 70s.

Good lord, there are like 300 photos on Facebook where I've been tagged, although to be fair to me I've probably posted less than 10. Probably 90% are the various seasonal photo albums that the wifeacore posted of the minis for their first year of life -- pretty sure we haven't done that in a while though.

My wife has 900 photos (I don't know if this includes albums, if it doesn't this number is much higher). My sister has 2600 photos, but she was a serial photo poster before kids, so I will say probably only 2000 of them are kid related.

My tagged number is around 500 and my ratio of photos actually put up by me is about the same as you.

No need for a new LC dadding thread. This log will do fine. I think I am the only non-dad who reads this log, with exception of Ygos, who is trying his best to become a dad. And I have two dogs with the equivalent intelligence of a regarded two year old, so technically I am a proud father too.

fakebusto,

I'm pretty sure a lot of people read this log for the warm comfort of lower body lifting schadenfreude, but your point is well taken. Perhaps a log title change is in order.

I just checked my photos on Facebook (i.e. the ones I actually posted myself), and there are more photos of my kittens from 6 years ago that the wife posted when she opened an account for me than actual baby pictures posted. I usually just throw up a random phone picture if one of them does something notable, like chew through an extension cord or something, but other than that, things are pretty quiet. I will say that it seems like the general public finds twins more fascinating and less annoying than singleton babies, but I am careful not to oversaturate the market. The minis are definitely stars when we go out anywhere, though.

Identical twins I assume, otherwise I doubt it would be too interesting.

Most people think they're identical, but we think they're not -- we'd have to do a cheek swab on each of them to see if there are any genetic differences, but even if they're identical genotypically, there are pretty noticeable (to us) phenotypic differences that make telling them apart relatively easy. I can see how it would be hard for the general public, though. My mother-in-law has a preternatural ability to get them mixed up; from a statistical standpoint it's almost impossible for her to be wrong all the time, so she may just be an expert troll.

I don't really think the identical/not identical question matters too much -- people are interested in twins to a degree that I would have not thought possible prior to having a set (and I am one myself, by the way).

Are you an identical or fraternal twin?

Also, the doctor who delivered the baby should know, because identical twins share one placenta, and fraternal twins each have their own.

Never mind, I remember you telling me your twin sister could beat you in arm wrestling, so fraternal it is.

I follow the log, but only to wait in hiding for Monte to get his bench back up to par.

I have a twin sister.

Not all identical twins share a placenta, by the way, it depends on when the eggs split. Ours had separate placentas and sacs, and our doctor quoted some figure that was on the order of it being 7:1 that they were fraternal because of that configuration, so that's probably at least in the ballpark of what the likelihood is in a vacuum. After they were born, he said they looked identical, so who knows.

I'm going to try my best to throw up 12 reps of 225 on Monday. If I don't reset at all going forward and I'm able to microload 2.5 lbs/workout, I should get up to 265 in 16 total bench workouts from now (I think that's like the beginning of May?). So you may be waiting a while.

If I had to guess based on what you were telling me I would guess they were identical. Fraternal siblings most of the time don't look THAT similar.

Also, even in identical twins there is a lot of genetic modifications (from mutation or epigentic modifications) that occur after the split, so them looking slightly different to the trained eye would be pretty normal.

Edit: This statement was made before I saw your post above. Considering your background, I guess it was a little silly/presumptuous for me to assume you didn't know this stuff already, and to probably know a lot more than me because it is actually pertinent to you.

Well, once I'm all healed and able to train semi-normally, I'm gonna RFL away all of my fatgains. So I figure we can meet somewhere in the middle?

Yeah no worries, most people don't know this stuff so it wasn't a poor assumption. My father-in-law and the boys "aunt" (friend of the wifeacore) both stop by multiple times per week to see them and neither have any trouble telling them apart, but anyone that sees them less often usually can't really do it without cheating (which stuffed animal they are holding, etc).

Sounds like a plan. I'm curious as to how far I can go at this weight, because getting back to doing 3x5x265 would make me proportionally a ton stronger than I was before. Given that I'm only 7.5 lbs away from tying a 3x5 press PR (hopefully only 5 lbs after tomorrow), maybe I can get closer than I'd originally thought. I have found this approach (starting way low in weight, ramping up quite slowly with microloading) to be successful in the past in terms of getting my bench up, so we'll see.

I can't explain the fascination with twins. I am an identical twin and am still fascinated by them.

Good luck with your bench increases Monte. You are making great progress. It actually pleases me to see you lifting again, and it seems to have done good things for your mood.