The Winds of Change Are Blowing...

Whew, what a week!

Took last Friday afternoon & evening off for a screening physical to begin acupuncture on my shoulder, caught the latest Transformers in 3D that evening then chilled out at BB King’s Blues Club on

Beale St.

Friday night. Got up fairly early Saturday & kicked it off with 70K in legs then had my first ever needle fest with Doc Ming & his magic then hit the side job & worked til 10PM. Arose Sunday AM & it was just too nice to be inside, at first, so I took a nice walk then hit the side job again for 6 hours then cut up a downed tree in Sunday afternoon’s nearly 100F temps then chilled out for the evening at the new H-D biker bar & grille with a COOL blues duo for a few hours. Monday was business as usual hitting legs again for 71K then flying the desk all day & machining parts all evening.

It was at this point the week got ALL jacked up! Tuesday & Wednesday the side job shop was a mess, getting in our latest Swiss lathe & getting everything all straightened back out. When they put the last new one in we arranged everything so there was space for all to clear getting this one in but then they decided on a slightly modified floor plan, making it easier for us to keep up with more machines than originally planned so it took two days to dial everything back in. Wednesday morning was THE highlight of the week as I had an awesome ph call with a dear friend who shared some potentially outstanding news & hearing happiness in her voice once again just made my day! Regardless, during those 2 days I quickly found myself back on Insomnia Island. Too much time on my hands & although recent events had gotten my brain & heart somewhat settled over events of the past, like my grandma always said, an idle mind is Satan’s playground & recess went all evening & night BOTH nights.

Started getting back into my rhythm Thursday, pulling my usual first AM workout, 8+4 hours on the jobs then back home 16 hours after leaving, but sleep last night was still highly interrupted with looney dreams & arose this AM feeling WAY worse than when I crashed last night GRRR!!!

Hit Helga’s House of Pain this AM for a BEASTLY back shoulder & bicep grind-a-thon destroying 44K LBs of iron then slid on into the day job where I’m enduring what seems to be the world’s SLOWEST day, going from meeting to meeting not partaking of a late lunch, expecting a long night at the side job starting the process ALL over again only I‘m saving Saturday’s legfest for Sunday so I can MAYBE sleep in just a touch tomorrow before visiting Doc Ming again LOL!

I’ve seen ups & downs, as usual, in friend’s Blogs, status messages & whatnots but all in all gotta call this one a decent week!

Working on Wicked & Hippie’s “PUSH” challenge totaling 388,710 LBs of iron shoved around this week but given Wicked’s insane 1,000 squats yesterday…still not going to be nearly good enough I fear LOL!

Y’all know what a music nut I am & this morning on the way from Helga’s to the day job the Scorpions took charge of the commutermobile’s sounds with Winds of Change & I’ve gotta tell y’all…seems about right! There’s a change brewing for sure. I can’t quite get weapons lock on it YET but it’s brewing & the percolator is just about to boil over. Can’t even say if it’s looking to be a good change or not but the one constant in life is change & it’s on the horizon's edge RFN!