Sayonara, DSB

I gave official notice at DSB on Friday. ( Read more... )

Sorry for the LJ quiet this week. I've been feeling more like doing things than writing about them, and also feeling very geeky--reading parts of Lippman's C++ Primer and realizing how very much there is about C++ that I don't have a deep understanding of. (I'm reading about templates now, but have a bad feeling I should be reading every damn page.) It's not clear at all how well the new job is going to dovetail with getting me Java 2 certified... I want to do it this year since DSB's given me the book for it and my Java skills are only going to go downhill from here. But that too involves getting much more in-depth than I previously have, and doing a lot of study on my own time. Sigh... all this time I've been coding professionally and I still don't have the familiarity with my tools that, deep in my idealistic heart, I believe a professional should. (Shame on me.) These thoughts don't bother me though, since they're the thoughts of a focused person again. Nice that some answers actually came out of that inchoate cloud that was in my head for the last couple of months. :) I am starting to look forward to all this. Which is good, because I have more technical books on the way to me from Amazon.

Physically I'm less than okay: my calves are still killing me from Thursday night's advanced TKD class, which had lots of jumping and lots of calf raises. I had to skip both forms classes and sparring. Why must I attempt these workouts that suck so much they keep me from working out as much as I'd like to? Oh, the irony and stupidity of it all. But if I keep going, in theory I'll get back to the level where I can handle them.

Lastly, go read about this super-strong mutant child in Germany. Not a joke. X-men anyone? I'm waiting patiently for the kid who can walk through walls.

I am so proud of myself right now.

Somehow, after the last two weeks of trying to get back into things, and after yesterday's lackluster upper-body performance, I just had an amazing lower-body workout. Wow. That's the first time squats have ever felt remotely good, much less like a dance or a meditation (which is what lifting is supposed to be like, in my book), but today they did. I did all my sets, and nudged my little record up by 5 pounds, and went and exhausted my quads, and did my SLDLs, and somehow still had energy left. Unsure what else to do, I slammed out 11.5 pullups just for the hell of it... which is actually pretty close to (matching?) a record in itself. Then I did some abs and headed home.

Going back through my workout notebook looking for squats entries, it would appear that seventeenth time's the charm. What a great reminder to just keep going if something seems difficult! Things do snap into place eventually.