Bench

225
3x8

Incline Dumbbells

75s x 10
80s x 8 (kinda hard to control, a sober reality of ectomorphic wrists)
75s x 10

Tricep stuff

Ab stuff

-I have to go to run and go to a birthday party now. More to come later, hopefully. Or not, time will tell.

Your name rings a bell mysterious stranger, but I cannot place where I've heard of you before.

Welcome back (or not), however brief your stay may or may not be.

Thanks,

Did you read The Prince of Nothing series? I know Yugo has (in fact he is the one that recommended it to me) but I don't recall if you ever did.

Definitely on a very short list of my all time favorite series; really enjoy the prose, world building, and philosophy. Only thing that really comes close for me is Erikkson's Malazan world.

Unfortunately, I have done some internet sleuthing and it appears that Bakker is in no hurry to start the promised No-God trilogy, which sucks but it is what it is.

Welcome!

Will there be lower body lifting in this log, or will you be living the EVgoodlife^locoTM?

Haven't read it, no - thanks for reminding me.

On the short list of I ever find the time to read non-jerb literature ever again..

o/u on ban?

Tough line to set. Gun to my head, I say a month.

Truthfully, that comparison might not even be fair to EV. There is some lower body lifting, but let's just say there is a lot of machine and BW exercises involved, and not a lot of intensity. I doubt I will even do much lower body logging. Not really a point when the highest intensity exercise you do is single leg machine leg press and you don't even count reps.

But that being said, I can finish a lower body workout and go straight to play basketball with my 7 year old son or on a 4 mile hike with no knee or lower back discomfort; so all in all an acceptable trade off.

Thanks for the well wishes. Although he is not in this season, for some reason seeing this post from you makes me think a lot of Littlefinger. You do seem to have a penchant for promoting intrigue, shall we say.

I've always been a fan of you being around. It definitely makes for a more entertaining forum. I just wish you had the restraint required to stick around. So, while I am pulling for you, I've got to temper that with some realism.

Thank you for the compliment (sort of). I would just like to point out that if you do really want me around, then repeatedly pointing out I am a previously banned poster probably is not advancing said objective.

Are the books after the thousandfold thought worth reading?

OP,

I didn't believe you at first, but reading back through Melk's post, I think I see some of the subtext to which you were referring.

I think the issue with his publisher after - was it book 4? - caused significant issues. He's also had some other issues like losing his hard drive at some point. And he ended up not having good times, not selling many/enough books even though the original trilogy seemed to do pretty well (although not superstar well).

All in all I think he may have finished the second "trilogy" due to his own stubbornness rather than it being a smart financial move. He also wrote a couple of other books which I think didn't sell at all - although I thought they were decent.

I get this feeling that he had momentum and was at a "peak" which could have/should have translated to an easier road for him but it all unluckily went south and it's probably hard to know what to do at this point.

Imo, yes and no. I remember really liking the first three books. But the next series was so disjointed in terms of when they were released - and I'm not sure I was that satisfied with the ending. Having said that, some of what I liked the most in the series was for sure in the second half and not the first three books.

So, I don't know. How much did you like the first 3 and what did you like the most about them? There are specific reasons I have for liking them more but if those aren't reasons you like the series then you will probably continue really liking things.

If you even have to ask the answer is probably no. I think epic fantasy is definitely something either you are all in or not, and if you're not that is fine, probably not worth wasting your time. And I think you should even take this approach with specific authors. There have been a number of series I have bailed on after the first book or first trilogy, because I just wasn't feeling it; and others I read every book the second it comes out.

For example, Malazan Book of the Fallen is my personal favorite series of all time, but I would tell anyone if you are having trouble getting through Gardens of the Moon they should probably just bail and move on.

As far as Yugo's points, I would say the Prince of Nothing is focused more on world building and The Second Apocalypse delves a lot deeper into philosophy, and goes into the whole "does logos/reason = truth" philosophical debate. I preferred the first series more, but found them both extremely enjoyable.

I did like the philosophical aspects of the second series. However, the best part of the first wasn't even world-building, it was you name sake's character. Bakker stopped doing 1st person after the first three books for him and while I understand why, I felt like how he was able to write for Khellus was super impressive and compelling. I also hate, hate, hate possibly the most important character of the second series. And I don't mean as an antagonist or anything, I just found everything about the character and the arc to be annoying and boring. Turns out it was the most important plot device in the entire series :/.

You might want to let me in on it. I didn't even know I put it in.

Not sure if you seriously think I'd rat him out.

Also my posts in this thread don't really move the needle. His mere existence in his own log has never been the problem. It's when he wanders off.

However, if you really think it's a problem, feel free to delete all my posts in this thread, including this one.

You are correct that losing Kelhus (and I would also add Cnaiur) as main POV characters is a very big loss as far as sheer interest going from PON to TSA.

You really have a skill for misunderstanding sarcasm. And overanalyzing things to the point where all the joie de vivre is strangled.

Hey, at least I threw a "not sure if serious" in there. That's like a little improvement, right?

Hot takes on Assange?

Yeah, Cnaiur too but, I mean, that was more expected - that some secondary characters would fall off. But Kelhus (imo) should still be the main character for the rest of the books although I'm not sure how it would be possible to write from his POV.

Anyway, I read all of them and if he keeps writing them I will undoubtedly continue further lol.

I tried to reply to this, but Walmart ads keep making me lose the posts. Maybe I will try again later. I am a little frustrated with losing posts and It isn’t worth trying again right now.

BW Pull-ups

7x10
4x8

102 total

-many reps, especially at the end of later sets, would not have been Loco approved. I felt extremely fatigued after this. Might have actually been too much and affected the rest of the workout negatively.

Lat pull downs.

Curl variations.

-interestingly, despite recently losing weight and strength in pretty much every other lift across the board, my curl strength has marginally increased, undoubtably due to the high pull-up volume.

Here's a link to the thread you started:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...earch-1741289/

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