Dan Cornell
Entrepreneur, developer, security professional, advisor, and investor. Slow ultra-marathoner, mediocre powerlifter. He/him
Finished "Gate of the Feral Gods" https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788551/the-gate-of-the-feral-gods-by-matt-dinniman/ by Matt Dinniman
This took me a bit to get through because my schedule has been a mess the last few weeks. That said - this was a fun read. You start to see more about the overall universe the books live in. Need to order the next one
Started my seedling/grow operation in-town to run in parallel with the one I've got out at the ranch. Probably a bit later than I should have, but I plan to overcome this by just planting way more seedlings
Now I've got to build my raised beds and figure out how to get them filled up without infinite trips with a wheelbarrow
My wife has a bunch of her buddies out at the ranch this weekend and I was catching up with one of them
Me: Wasn't your brother acting out in LA?
Buddy: Yes! He was the second season rapist on 90210
Me: Your parents must be so proud
Deadlifts! And some accessory/core work. Friday!
OK week for lifts. Meh work for accessory work. Shit week for rucking/running
Next week isn't looking good because of travel. Apparently I'm playing golf Wednesday - I'll act like that counts as exercise 😜
Got a bunch of my wife's buddies in town this weekend. Should be a great time. That said, damn I could use a week/weekend with no travel and no visitors
Hope everyone is headed into a tremendous weekend
Susanna Hoffs is a fucking PROBLEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rOEf9vF1kc
Seriously, are we really going to let this woman roam around the Earth with a tambourine? To say nothing of her being allowed to have hips?
Problem
So fucking happy I don't have to go to RSA this week
Damn I miss seeing all my security industry buddies, but I don't miss ... everything else
Everyone headed out this week - hope you have easy travel and great meetings. RSA is tremendous because it gets a lot of folks in the same place and that's how magic happens
Just happy I don't have to do client meetings, analyst briefings, happy hours, and all the other nonsense
Nothing wrong with it. I'm just lucky to be able to avoid it
These kids (24-25) are all arguing about which of them is the oldest so I had to remind them that my wife and I have been dating longer than any of them have been alive
That seemed to shut down that line of discussion. Now they're playing MarioCart
Tuesday!
Squats!
Bumped up my calculated 1RM a bit today. nowhere near where I used to be, but good to see some progress
Shoulder rehab and some accessory work
Going to skip bench stuff for a while until I can figure out why my shoulder is squawking so much. Boy would I rather not have surgery on my left shoulder after last year's surgery on my right
Perhaps I should try just being stronger... 😀
Made up the squats that I missed yesterday
Got to see the Spurs beat up on the Bulls this evening. I've had worse times...
Wemby is so damned tall... And he can shoot three-pointers. I'm not sure what you do to try and deal with that
Took the "kids" (24-25) shooting this weekend. After a particularly unsuccessful course of fire, one of them yelled "Don't draft me unless you want to LOSE this Iran war"
Don't know if I'd say the kids are all right, but at least they're kinda paying attention
Called my brother who runs a handyman service up in Chicago today
Me: Hey, man
Brother: How's it going?
Me: I was calling to get you to remind me of how you fixed the septic system when it backed up last Thanksgiving
Brother: So "bad" is how it's going?
The important things is we got everything sorted out. Our "nephew" is here this weekend with his college buddies so I'm sure some 24 year old flushed an apple core down a toilet or some other kid-nonsense like that
Damn I hope Larry David is available this weekend for an SNL appearance
Bernie vs. Claude
The wife and I don't have kids. BUT we did keep track of some twins that went through Trinity University (our alma mater) a couple years back
Checked in on them every couple of weeks to feed them dinner, take them to get groceries, and see what they were up to in order to make sure they weren't doing anything crazy
("Parenting" is, apparently, easy. Not sure what everyone else is whining about...)
Now our "nephew" is back in town this weekend with his new fiancé and his college buddies.
Afroman really Streisanded the police today, didn't he?
My thoughts on this fine Thursday evening at the end of a strange week: Send lawyers, guns, and money
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9XlQi0yew
Admittedly, I've been on a bit of a Warren Zevon kick lately