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I'm with you, I can see them not winning anything this year and even the Women lost their CL final against Barcelona! I was super happy for Leicester, they were terrific and deserved their slice of luck through the game. Jamie Vardy also became the only player that has played in every single round of the FA Cup. Incredible achievement and now some of those players have a Premiership and an FA Cup medal. Absolutely brilliant. Made up for Rodgers too.

Satisfying

The red one looks pretty sweet. I'd get one if my controller broke. That's if I ever manage to get a PS5 in the first place 🤣

Only bad thing about being gone on vacation for 2 weeks is that the weeds take over the garden. Spent the past 3 days pulling weeds and working on the bonsai garden literally 6-8hrs each day. Finally all back in shape with weeds all gone and shrubs all trimmed and shaped. Also found a pair of large pots at a yard sale last month and didn't know what to do with them. So today I cleaned them up and flipped the bottom one mounting the top one to the flipped one making a huge vase shape. Then sank some blocks into the ground for a platform and replanted my 5 tree spruce bonsai forest into it. Next spring there are plans to dig about a 600-700g pond further back since the Koi are now closing in on a foot long.

Wow that's some garden, mines looks pretty rough and neglected at the best of times. It needs totally redone anyway. But that's a majestic spot to hangout dude.

And now I kind of want to get it, but will resist until sale season 😉

Beta footage leaked - probably wont stay up too long and it's potato quality as usual. Not sure what to make of it or what it's supposed to be.

5/16/2021 Workout MMA Thoughts: The benefit of having your MMA coach also be a doctor and a physical therapist is that he takes injuries and muscle stuff pretty seriously. More seriously than I would, tbh. I mean. I would never do hand-to-hand with boxing gloves, but he "requires" them. We talked about the procedure I had done and tailored today's workout in oh-so-fun ways. I basically had to do the session as if my right arm was tied behind my back. But, also, we focused more on kicks. As much as I love kicks, what I really enjoyed was him showing me a move he calls "passing". It's where you parry/block to manipulate your opponent one way/to one side to set it up for a follow up punch/elbow/kick. I picked this up very quickly because it's very similar to what we do in Arnis/Kali/Eskrima. You "swat" at the same time as you adjust your position, then counter. Additional things we did today involved elbows and knees. Which, I also love and prefer. But, the way we started was not anything I had previously done. We will get there. Some of the moves Jonesly was showing me today definitely made me go "hmm..." So, I asked him, "These are leading up to jiu jitsu and judo, aren't they?" He laughed and said, "You noticed?" I said, "The third move in this combo is to hit the back of the leg. You hit the back of the leg, then the person is going down. If the fight isn't over, then you're on the ground." Jonesly seemed so excited that I realized this. I said, "I don't do ground fights. Remember? I do 3 power hits and run away! Far far FAR away." He laughed at that. Anyway. It was a good session. It feels good to be back working out.

I wasn't a fan of Leicester winning the league a few years ago, surprise surprise, but I was genuinely happy to seethem beat cheatski in the cup. When the equaliser went in, I was gutted for them, and then when it was disallowed, well sometimes VAR is a force for good 😂

5/15/2021 Workout Squat Clean Workshop Thoughts: What was supposed to only be about a week of rest starting on 5/5, ended up being 2 weeks of rest starting on 5/3. I had a super minor procedure scheduled for 5/6 that was supposed to take 10 minutes and only have like 2 days of down time. It became a 45-minute more invasive procedure with a full week of rest/not allowed to do anything per doctor's orders... and because Carl grounded me. Anyway. Today was my first day back. Some weightlifting is a good way to get back into it. Nothing intense. No expectations of hitting any of the goals set in today's workshop. We were supposed to get to 90% of our 1 rep max. So, for me that meant 115lbs on my squat clean. I thought to myself, "We'll keep it light. Maybe just go to 85lbs." Lolz. The really cool thing about having the unexpected mass and "strings" removed from my upper back is that the tightness and knot that has been plaguing my right shoulder up to my neck is basically... gone. Slightly knotty right now, but that's because I fell dead asleep on it last night. Every clean I did, I was able to do faster, better, more in-sync with what I was supposed to be doing. So, what did I end up doing? I ended up actually going up to 125lbs. I failed it twice, but by then we were up to 30+ reps for the sessions. Not once did my right arm not match the height of my left arm. Not once did I not catch the bar because of the weird tightness. It was all just.. flexible. 125lbs, my original 1 rep max, and I'm not done healing. Here's hoping that I can hit 130lb at the end of this cycle.

Thats a great review @Riff Machine , im really looking forward to playing it myself. How was it for scares and creepy moments compared to the previous games?

Well done to Leicester! I didn't even know the FA Cup Final was today until this afternood🤣 Wasn't a great game but there were some huge moments from the wonder goal, the wonder save and then the dramatic VAR decision towards the end. Great to see the fans back in numbers too!

Well at least Sony got our memo that the FG colours are the way to go 😎 Getting a black controller with my pure white console gives me OCD anxiety, however the red one I could dip for if a controller breaks in the future.

Yeah I heard stasis in the crucible had got worse as the hunters had a buff !! I get what you say about the grind and do agree it makes it easier for the more casual player to an extent, but ..... I’m guessing GMs will need 1335 though , so that’s a lot of levelling needed into the artefact and limited ways to improve your base power. That’s another reason why the DSC non-pinnacle decision is so bad, such a fun raid , relatively easy, nice source of pinnacles for most people. I suspect VoG won’t be so straightforward. The power grind without DSC is going to be pretty tough so I’m hoping they reverse that decision.