My big thing is I have to rush to shut off the music in the gym before my kid hears some words they shouldn’t hear.
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lol as they get older you worry less about this. I tell my kids that they can hear music with swear words but if they repeat them or get silly, then they won’t listen to them again.
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Oh yeah, I know they will hear them all in school soon enough. Although the swear words are part of it, but I also don’t need them to hear Trent Rezor talking about killing himself being the only positive thing he could do for the world, haha. I can deal with profanity, but I wanna spare the existential crisis for a bit.
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My parents did their best to keep me innocent, and I still managed to pick up plenty even as an outcast with virtually no social media or interest in popular entertainment
Dude, this reminded me of what happened last week that I totally forgot to post about, haha. I have a 6-CD changer in my car, and a lot of times when I go to the park, I’ll load the kids in the car with a snack and put the AC on and some music so I can get everything ready - snacks, water, etc. - and I left them listening to the end of a Fleetwood Mac CD I had in there. Spent a bit longer inside than I had anticipated and came out to them head bobbing to Eminem’s “White America” because The Eminem Show is the next cd 
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I have done this. Not for training (no home gym) but coming home and just needing to get a little work done in the garage before all hell breaks loose.
Now for the past 9 weeks I’ve been working from home at the dinner table, imagine how well that works!
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Ehh, I don’t think that makes you a jerk. You’re right - safety first. My kids just don’t understand that, and they’re young enough to get into some wild shit if I’m not there to physically see them (and like @alex_uk mentioned it can happen in no time at all), so that’s not quite an option yet, but when they’re a bit older, if I’m doing some stuff at home, that’s how it’ll be.
Deep Water Beginner: Week 6, Day 2
Pull-ups
4 x failure
Shrugs
225 4x10
Clean pulls
155 3x10
Sit ups and 1 min plank, 3 rounds no rest
Struggled to get this one in - it’s one of the kids’ birthday tomorrow and I had a lot of stuff to do, but I managed to squeeze this in.
Tomorrow will be very tough to get the workout in on his birthday, so I may sneak outside early on (630 am-ish) and hit my presses before work, because I’m getting out of work early to spend a half day at the beach for the kiddos bday.
Also, on the subject of birthday presents, I love me some classic sturdy toys but if I’m being honest, kids have some awesome stuff nowadays that I couldn’t have even dreamed of at their age. It’s cool living through them.
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Full auto drum loaded nerf gun?
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With weather like this, I’d prefer an old school Super Soaker.
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If they’re old enough, a ripstick skateboard might also be fun. Good to teach coordination and proprioception too
Man, I wish more people would acknowledge this and act.
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I don’t know if this is in jest or not, nor do I know anything about the singer mentioned, but I need to push back against this comment.
I had a friend in highschool who suffered from depression and anxiety. Bunch of other shitty stuff in his life. He used to apologize profusely for his mental state and “joke” that the world would just be better of without him. He ended up hanging himself over the Summer.
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Half jest, half serious. For the past two plus days my we’ve been dealing with a group of criminals who have organized themselves. They post locations and show up in masses with the intention of looting and rioting. These people provide nothing for society. They take and take and take some more.
In this life, we all give and take as we go. Sometimes we take from others when we need support. Sometimes we give to others. Simple example: I give my time and service at work in return for money. These looters don’t work. They don’t give anything, but they take everything they can. The world would actually be a better place without them. They leave victims in their wake with every breath.
Monday night I got the privilege to serve with some brave brothers and sisters in blue. We marched shoulder to shoulder with a handful of plastic shields. The goal was to clear out a crowd after the third series of gunfire erupted at their “protest”. They had also smashed the window to a cell phone store. We marched into a hail of bricks and glass and gunfire. An officer was hit in the forehead by gunfire and his helmet stopped it. Another officer took a ricochet to the knee.
The world does not need these people.
This doesn’t apply to people with families and jobs and crippling mental illness. Those people still give to the world.
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I can’t imagine what you guys are going through down there right now. We’re barely into June and your country seems to have turned on its head. I said it before: my support and prayers are with you. Working in security, I’ve had good cops come to my aid lots of times. I appreciate what you guys do.
I understand your sentiment, as the security jobs I’ve taken have had me dealing with some truly despicable people. I’m sure what you’ve seen far surpasses my experience, but I retain my naive mentality that everyone deserves at LEAST a second chance, which is why I struggle to demonize anyone. Perhaps I need to re-evaluate my thinking.
Sorry if my initial response was a little aggressive. It just hits home when I hear “they should die” in any context because my friend truly believed the world was better off without him, which it most definitely was not.
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Hey J, from what you’ve said - your job is crazy hard and incredibly thankless most of the time, but particularly at the moment. You get to see the very worse of humanity, almost daily. But remember you’re called to something different - Matt 5:44 and I don’t say that as a platitude. Praying for you in this difficult season brother!
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Thanks, Alex. I need all the help I can get. It’s easy to let the darkness creep in.
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JMaier31, I agree with alex_uk’s post. The news reports these last 6 or so days remind me of the Vietnam war reporting.
You’re part of the backbone of this country. Stay extra careful.
That was really something, thank you
@burnur @biker @alex_uk @Frank_C @kdjohn good discussion guys. J, I’m truly sorry for what you guys are going through. It’s okay to protest and it’s okay to be angry, but it’s never okay to hurt people or destroy property as an outlet. I’d like to post a quote from “Killer Mike” - the rapper with a definite misnomer of a name, since he has preached peace and reason in other times before this one - during his speech in Atlanta.
"I didn’t want to come, and I don’t want to be here. I’m the son of an Atlanta City Police Officer. My cousin is an Atlanta City Police Officer, and my other cousin’s a police officer. I got a lot of love and respect for police officers down to the original eight police officers in Atlanta that, even after becoming police, had to dress in a YMCA because white officers didn’t want to get dressed with n*****s.
And, here we are, 80 years later. I watched a white officer assassinate a black man, and I know that tore your heart out. I know it’s crippling, and I have nothing positive to say in this moment because I don’t want to be here. But, I’m responsible to be here because it wasn’t just Doctor King and people dressed nicely who marched and protested to progress this city and so many other cities. It was people like my grandmother, people like my aunts and uncles, who are members of the SCLC and NAACP. And, in particular, Reverend James Orange, Mrs. Alice Johnson and Reverend Love, who we just lost last year.
So, I’m duty bound to be here to simply say that it is your duty not to burn your own house down for anger with an enemy. It is your duty to fortify your own house so that you may be a house of refuge in times of organization."
I can’t emphasize how powerful and important that last statement is.
I firmly believe the vast majority of people are against the violent riots and looting, but I can only hope that it will end soon. Until it does end, thanks to Big J and the others out there doing the right thing and showing the public through action that they are not defined by the actions of a few bad apples. Semper fi, brother.
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