Derp & Floof using strong arm tactics to get breakfast:
“No one eats until we do!”
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Kitty!!!
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Yesterday:
Warm up- cut grass.
Workout- 1½ mile hike out through my favorite trails.
Didn’t find any sheeps heads, but it was good to get out and blow the stink off.
Found lots of these honey mushrooms though.
I don’t care much for them, but aborted entoloma come in and feed off of them, so I’ll be back for those in a week or two.
It was a pretty good hike. I feel good today. Not all dragged out.
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More shrooms?
pls deliver
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None yet, but if I get some nice sheepsheads maybe I’ll meet you at Station Square or something.
I’m absolutely terrible with navigating down town.
This is real.
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I can’t remember if we’ve talked about this before, but do they have morels in your neck of the woods?
Growing up, Gramps took morel season almost as seriously as deer season (which was essentially a religious rite in our family). I used to love hiking the hills looking for the little “gnome mushrooms” as we called em, and then we would fry em all up with some venison and potatoes for a big family dinner. Good times, good times
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We do! They’re some of my favorites, and my wifes #1 choice.
I’ve always taken kiddo and my nieces out for the “easter egg” hunts in the spring.
We have this interesting thing that has developed. The old railroad beds that used to bring all of the coal from the surrounding areas to the mills have been converted into trails. The morels grow really well all along the trails.
The result is miles and miles of morel super highways criss crossing all of western PA.
Yeah, that does make for some good times. 
Thanks for sharing the good memory.
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Deal
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Well, I havent done much with the weights lately, but I hit the 20 year mark in sobriety today.
Yay!
I’m pretty happy about that.
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Now that’s incredible.
Congrats.
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Congratulations man, that’s a bigger accomplishment than you will ever hit with a barbell. Proud of you.
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Thank you both, sincerely.
There have been A Whole Lot of people that have helped me along the way.
I’ve definitely been the beneficiary of a lot of good hearted people.
I’ll try to reflect that a little better now and moving forward. 
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Hey @dt79 & @ChickenLittle too, if you’d like a few laughs. 
Here’s some mechanical fuckery for you!
So, the brake pedal on one of the work trucks was dead. Straight to the floor. The brake lines all need purged, and we’re tearing the whole thing apart anyways. There’s a little bleeder valve for just such a thing on each caliper, and they’re supposed to only be “snug” like less than “Grrr! snap”. The following documents multiple layers of failure starting there.
Pictured here is the caliper removed and placed in a vice. It had already been heated pink hot with a torch.
Closer examination also reveals remnants of a bolt extractor buried in the center and snapped off. Thats hardened tool steel. Virtually impossible to drill through and we dont want metal chips in the brake system.
The method of last resort: weld a nut over whats left of the bolt shank and hope that it works.
The bird poop looking stuff is a hearty mixture of zinc from the galvanized nut and slag from the welding process.
After superheating through welding and swearing at it because heat is often invisible and I can’t resist the urge to touch sub-glowing hot objects that I just welded-
Yay! Its out! And it might even still work! (The caliper, that is. The bleeder is now screwed.)
And I finally figured out this meme.
Its a warning that welding will destroy your soul. 
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Strong! 
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Yeah yeah yeah!..
Thank you. 
Wow!!! That looked like a bitch. Glad you won the fight!
Lol. I understand this. I like lean over the project on the welding table. Ya know, because I like belly brands 
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Me & my dude have a game going.
Every time I grab something hot and yell “F*$k! Thats still hot!” He has to drink.
Him: “Man, its only 9:30. I’m not going to make it to noon!”.
Actually, that wasn’t too bad, and it worked. If it didnt, that would have been a real mother f…
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Holy cow. It has been a while.
Today just felt good. Like the first time I’ve breathed in over a year. So I ruined it by jumping on my airdyne. 
I figured 20 min. would be good and was going to hang it up, but a good song came on.
Then at like 40 min. I figured I’m like done done, and this came on:
When that opening riff hits, its go time.
Ended up here:
I dont know. Felt good.
It would have been a regular work day, but my buddy’s appendix burst and he’ll be in the hospital for a while. He’s a tough motherfu… he’ll be ok.
So i figured Id do something else with that feel-goodness.
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Tonight’s airdyne-
6.1 miles in 26:31.
Taking a note from @ChickenLittle on her approach. Got 2 sessions in this week. Maybe next week I’ll get 3.
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