Things are good
Times can definitely go up and down, but lately things have been pretty good. I recently moved into a nice little place in Kernville with my girlfriend (cjbrooks7) , so recently in fact that we haven’t even sorted out the house yet. That’ll be this weekend. I really dig the place and Kernville is just beautiful. Much better than the rest of the Kern River Valley… if you’ve never been here, which most people haven’t, most of the valley is very high desert like. You know, not very green, more vegetation than a desert desert, but it is brown and yellow 90% of the year. Kernville on the other hand is in the foothills of the the southern Sierra Nevadas at the north end of the valley, which according to Candice looks "much more like lots of Colorado." Which is awesome with me. I am a much bigger fan of the high country look than the desert look. In fact, the true high country, the big trees, is probably my favorite place in the world- outside of a gym 
and slightly ahead of the beach. Anyway I could ramble on about it, how all of the good restauraunts are there, the brewery is there (Kern River Brewing Co, awesome place but that is a whole ‘nother story) but the point is it was a good move. The only compromise: I now have to get up a 4:40 am and drive 20 minutes to work. Whah. Some of you LA folks drive 45 minutes and cover 2 miles to get to work. Now that sucks…
Training has been kicking ass. After the San Diego in March my training went through some rough patches. I delt (lol, get it?) with shoulder and elbow (probably technically biceps) injuries for much of the year and couldn’t even do a pull up (my fav’) from July to September-early October. Pain in the butt times there. But I’ve been healed for a while now and am back to full training potential. I am planning on keepin it this way too. I am going to be and have been much more careful as of late. Much better decision making on my part concerning rest and heavy vs light days. Cody (cunningham_cody on here) my training partner, is kicking butt also. He has been holding up pretty well injury wise as of late and has been making great progress on his way to the Excalibur. My good friend Andy (weber007 here) has also been ripping it up in here, getting strong and big again after some surgeries that repaired some old football injuries. Few weeks and he’s gonna start leaning out.
As far as anything else goes- just like the rest of America I’m broke, but the gym does have its doors open and lights on so I can’t complain too much I just wanna keep moving on, getting better and maybe win some shows. Then maybe I’ll land some sponsorship and not be as broke… Or you all could just vote for me in the Ironman contest… 
Anyway, I’m kinda running out of steam here and should get to some cardio, but I just wanted to say that I am happy and pass on some of those vibes. Hell, its almost a new year; we have a new president, a new outlook on the future and new and different challenges to conquor. Most important for the moment- all of us have a new day ahead of us. Lets live it up.
