You Load 16 lb. and What Do You Get? Monday Thoughts...

Total weight gain since I stopped riding 3 months ago and started a new weight lifting program... 16 lb. Let's only take credit for a few pounds of actual good mass, the rest is just urgly. But it's nice to actually do some upper body work. Cycling focuses on getting rid of any strength outside of the legs-- any weight other than that is considered dead weight. So I like having a little musculature on the upper end-- I can now do tasks that normal people can like pick up my kids, carry a sack of groceries without risk of dislocating my shoulder. I can also wear kick ass shirts like this. I put my order in today.

And speaking of urgly. At 7 weeks of age, Caroline has attended her first Auburn game. She was pretty pissed when I took Zack to the AU-Florida game, but she was only 3 weeks old and not even strong enough to hold her own beer. I don't have time for that kind of babysitting.

Much like Anna's first game (98 degree with a 28-0 loss to Southern Cal), Caroline's was equally bad. Rain, cold and another blowup. I'll be sure to let the coaching staff know before I bring another newborn Zyriek to their first Auburn. Auburn might be better off forfeiting as opposed to actually playing on those occassions.

But this is Iron Bowl Week. Regardless of the defeat from last weekend you have to be fired up for this week. I guess I rehased a bunch of famous Iron Bowls in a blog from last year. Newest memory: for some stupid reason I actually dated someone at Bammer while I was in colleg Pre-LP. We had to break up Iron Bowl week and end things permanently. Seriously, do you think that relationship would have stood a chance? Could you see that marriage working out? A marriage between a Muslim Jihadist and the Pope would have been more civil.

Geez, 3 hours and work and I've gotten much less accomplished than I had hoped for. I need coffee. I'm having the "Mundays" pretty hard today and no coffee to serve as antidote.