The weekend was good. I got some time to work on my Jeep and get'm cleaned up. All that driving is instantly getting him dusted and the moisture is making it stick! :(. I managed to get to the gym with my work-out partner and keep on body-building task. I managed to get a four mile hike/run in with my partner in crime only go have her kick my ass. I'm apparently not keeping up with my miles in all the gym time I've been putting in lately, and I need to cause I'm running the TC 10 miler next month...in three weeks.
Hopefully, by October I'll be within 3% of my ideal body-fat percentage. This has been a challenging road for a few reasons. One of the big ones is getting to the gym at a reasonable time before or after a work shift because depending on the client the day could start as early as 730 or as late as 1:00 and end sometime around sun down. It's nuts. There are still days that I drive more South than I care to pressing the time issue even further. My approach has been to do 3/4 work-outs on my long drive days. I do some cardio, stretching, and Ab work in the AM, and then I work-out whatever target muscle group for the day in the evening. I do take one day off from everything. One of my six days I spend doing functional motion exercising that is more or less body-weight stuff to keep flexible and strong. Ya know like running, pull-ups, sit-ups, and push-up in rapid succession. All of this coupled with a 89% clean diet has been letting me grow, keep some energy for the 150+ patients I see in between things, and attempt to stay somewhat socially active. Sooner or later I'll post the before and after pics. LOL.
Sunday, everyone else's fun day, is the day I usually speak with my mentor. I've been doing this pretty consistently for the last 22 years. He's beginning to enter into final life-phase activities for health reasons that he is now losing the battle on. So we talk. We talk about all kinds of things. It could politics, theology, and the other possible meanings of life as of late. Maybe because his time is coming, we've been talking about faith, relationships, and the act of unilateral love for another person in the process of getting his affairs in order while he still can. Somewhere along the way he asked me again if I would give the eulogy at his funeral, and I agreed to do so but was quietly not wanting to be one of the men responsible to talk about him. He tells me I'm one of the students that has kept up with him the best over years and understands his approach to life and people more clearly than others. I'm not sure that it's true, but I agree with him so we can get to talking. LOL. The kind of talk I have with this guy can be interesting considering he's a theologian, Jesuit, professional government debater, spokesman for the Atheist movement, but over the years, I have learned a lot about my life and the world from him apart from my own exploits (Those that believe will go out and do great exploits for the glory of the Kingdom..The Bible.) in the world. Steves, as I call him, has always asked hard questions about various important things for the purpose of you understanding why you believe what you do about anything. It has been only in these last years that we have really just chatted as equals on various topics, but the faith one has been one he's taken the passenger seat on as of late.
I've said I will write more on the topic of faith at some point, and I did just post an older story earlier today on my FB for you to click and follow. It's available on my other blog, "Get Adjusted To The Good Life" under title, 'Living A Life Of Faith' for you to read as well. Perhaps its a better way to introduce the topic than just going at it. That's it for the weekend review, and. yes, I did karaoke.
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