Renga: Brickish

I’ve decided something: I want to get rid of the bass pudge while I’m at it. For those of you that don’t know, I’m starting to learn to play bass, and while I’m still technically *meh* I have learned some tricks that’ll pay off when I get past that and learn my stuff really well.

Regardless, I have found something that really drives me insane, and I wish I had a picture of it. I have a Bass Pudge, or, more properly, where my bass hangs when I’m playing, I kind of gather and spill over every once in a while. Kind of gross. So, it’s gotta go.

 While I’m still not going to be worrying about nutrition too much (Limits, not cutting out works best for me) I feel that as I begin training more and more, it’ll go away.

 Which, I forgot to mention: today was day two in the gym of setting new weight points and well, I didn’t realize how liberating the whole bit of not worrying about dropping weight was. Sure, I may wind up carrying a little too much, but I’m confident that when the summer rolls around, I’ll burn off that biking my way to work, wherever that winds up being, and that’ll show all the work I’m doing now off. I mean, It’s nice not thinking I’m not going to be working hard enough, because I’m getting ready to ramp it up. Plus, with what Sensei may do to me and the other Uchideshi, I don’t think that I’m going to have to worry about the intensity thing. I’ll work to that as I get further and further along. I’m excited, even if I am going to have to be on break for a week and not be able to continue while home.

Rather than new years resolutions, I set goals inside different categories: Physical, Social and Mental/Arts, dealing with developing various things that fall into those umbrella topics.

 This blog is pretty much for my Physical goals, as well as a Social goal. Getting the "solid" descriptor, gaining physical strength, and cardio endurance, ect. The blog that will be syndicated from Rockband.com traces my a couple Mental and Social goals: Learn to play the Bass guitar, perform in front of at least 50 strangers in a band playing an original song. Of course, my Martial training falls into all of these, so they just go where they go. Anyway, as a recap, here’s as many goals as I can remember for each category:

Physical Goals: Gain physical strength measured by a 300% increase in average volume (Approximately 20,000lbs/workout), increase sprint time from 4 seconds to 30 seconds, learn to eat clean, lower Bodyfat to a confirmed 10%, Have feroucious furry abs.

Mental/Art Goals: Learn to play Bass guitar, Join a Band, Perform an Original Song, Perform in front of at least 50 strangers, Pass "Water" and "Earth", Obtain an Application for Undergraduate Degree approval, Have a B+ or better semester, Regain 2.75 GPA. Write a second Novel

Social Goals: Obtain "Solid" descriptor, Join a Band, Establish Drury University Gamer’s Association (DUGA), Eliminate "the Rock Band Guy" social status, Attend more Clubs at Drury, become Sherriff of the Knoblands in Amtgard (Club President), Obtain full samurai status within the family.

 So, from here on out, I’m gonna make sure that these goals happen. I will obtain at least two goals from each category by June 30th, 2008, and add two more by December 31st, 2008.

 An explanation on the title: So I’ve got a lot of stomach hair, so I wouldn’t have model abs. So they’ll be ferocious. And furry. Rwar!