Great job on not taking the bait from your sister. You did her a solid by not letting her drive, might even of saved her life. She might not appreciate it, but you are a good brother. Sounds like she needs to find a good 12 step program in her town and grow a little.
LoL at giving your buddy shit. That is what good friends are for. 
You did the right thing! Way to step up!
@shaneinga Truthfully you did her a solid by not letting her drive, might even of saved her life.
This will probably sound brutal. I was thinking of the person(s) she might kill by hitting them. I am not close with my sister. I have seen the wake of destruction she has left behind her. Her own life of course, but also most of the people she comes in contact with. My wife and I took her daughter in for six months about ten years ago. I learned later, while her daughter was disrupting our lives, my sister was cashing and spending the SSI checks that were meant for my niece. The money is not important, we do fine. It is the proverbial, “principle of the thing…”. Regardless, after six months of my niece telling my wife to eff off, my two youngest hiding in their rooms, and my niece telling her Special Ed teacher, “My uncle frightens me…”. I shipped her back home. Of all things some lady at church says to me, “If you just had a bit more patience…”. Patience my arse. Enough of that rant. Sorry!
My sister passed several years ago and I can still say.. I loved her because she was my sister but, we wouldn’t be friends if she wasn’t. 
July 17, 2025
Soloflex II
Pre Workout
That went well. I have a very good pump going on. I sucked a bit more wind on the squats, but I just added about 5000 feet in altitude returning home.
I added resistance on a couple of exercises.
It is nice to be back in my own home gym. As imperfect as it is, it is my comfort zone!
See you Saturday!
You have to take care of yourself (and yours) before you can take care of somebody else. If someone is toxic, and it is affecting your quality of life (and kids), you have to remove it.
Your rant has been approved.
Like the saying goes, you can choose your friends…
I was taking over/under bets at five years. Hopefully this is my last as well. I could write a short story about last week.
July19, 2025
Pre Workout
Workout
Workout Partner decided to skip today
Not a bad session. I was looking forward to it. A good thing. I was sore as poop after Thursday. Dips were weak.
I took a twenty minutes sauna. It felt good. A good sweat.
See you Tuesday!
That’s a cool looking dog.
He’s my bud.
I have that same weight when I attend a big weekend celebration. Hopefully you drop back to normal after a few days.
July 21, 2025
REHIIT. 2:00+:20 (sprint)+2:00+:20 (sprint)+2:00 = 6:40
Ab Stimulator Mode I, level 10, 20:00 minutes
Dry Sauna: 20 minutes
July 22, 2025
Afternoon session. I pulled back on resistance. I have not been feeling well. I do not want to skip, so I backed off
Sorry, sideways picture.
I forgot to count total reps. Total time was 29:00 minutes. No pre workout either.
Hopefully I will be feeling more spunky by Thursday. I had the new tires put on the Mini Coup today. New brakes on Friday. Tune up next week. I have not driven it for sometime. I forgot how quick it is. I still want a Mustang 5.0 though.
I will see you all on Thursday!
July 24, 2025
Good morning! It is 3:41 A.M. I am up and at it and put my time in already. In two hours I will be casting powebait into a seemingly fishless lake.
On another note. If you are familiar with the Mountain Time Zone, where 8% of Americans live, it is Pioneer Day! Almost 200 years ago Brigham Young was carted into the Salt Lake Valley and supposedly said, “This is the place, drive on…”. My wife’s ancestors were some of those early settlers. I am not saying that group per se. Hence, after wars with the Utes and Camanches, the U. S. government (kind of a war), prostitutes, seekers of filthy lucre, Salt Lake has grown into the World’s greatest truck stop. Fortunately I live four hours north. I would live eight hours north if I could get my wife to hit the Like button.
Anyway, back to training. Started the session with REHIT. That may have been a bonehead play. Regardless, I rode for 6:40 minutes. Two :20 sprints in the middle of it. I rode 1.6 miles overall.
Pre workout
Then of course my real workout:
Last evening I took the Coupe out for a jaunt. First time in a few months. New brakes, an oil change, and I am really good to go.
Saturday then!
Have fun fishing! You have good taste in car color.
Looks like a sporty ride. 
I always enjoy your extra commentary and musings.
Nice car as well, my step dad had one of the “new” mini’s when they came out again after the hiatus and was his pride and joy.
Very cool story about your wife’s ancestors. About 10 years ago I was in Lander, WY for work. On my way back to SLC I pulled over at this historic marker at a split in the Oregon/CA trail. It’s hard to imagine going through there on a horse and wagon all those years ago. Just fascinating…
Every time I have driven across Kansas I think about what it would have been like to be out on the wide open prairie in a coverd wagon and see a ginormous tornado coming at you with nowhere to hide. 
It’s amazing any of those folks actually made it all the way out west. 
