That was not fun

40 kg deadlifts and supported handstand attempts.

Just couldn't get my back in the right shape.

There's something wrong, everything's hard, I hurt all over the place. This just isn't fun any more.

Postural work masquerading as a WOD

Or was it vice versa?

3RNFT

20kg clean grip overhead barbell carry - driveway and back

10 x 20kg squats, working ridiculously hard to keep my thoracic spine in the correct curve

10 KTE

A journey of a thousand miles

I think it would be faster to walk the thousand.

Nothing for time.

20kg presses. Shoulders unstable as hell.

Pull-ups, better than I deserved.

Isometric bottom of push-up holds on paralletes. Still tight even after all the stretching.

Deadlift set-ups. More like hunchback of notre dame back than angry gorilla back

Swiss ball push-ups. Possibly even worse than I expected.

Jeff is going to be soooo disappointed with me.

Confession

Apparently I lied, I didn't build a pull-up bar as I posted a few weeks back.

As the video shows, I built a climbing frame.

The box was there so that my father-in-law could have a try at doing a pull-up. He did about half of one which impressed me. Sapphire couldn't reach the bar even on the box or climbing on the clamps that stop the braces slipping sideways, but she was close, then Lynette suggested she put her feet on the brace retaining blocks and that let her get a handhold and she was off.

She had one minor mishap on the way down that saw her collect some scrapes when she didn't pay enough attention to her footing. That made her more careful, so it was useful.

Until the video she had climbed up, sidled her way hand by hand across the bar and got down the other side. This time she decided to get more adventurous and come back again. Little show-off. She's got a partial pull-up too and a fair kip that she copied off me.

RatZapper 1, Rat 0

We'd been hearing scrabbling and gnawing noises in what sounded like our bedroom ceiling and wall for some months and wondered if perhaps it was birds on the roof hopping about. More and more though I was convinced we had rodents.
So, being me, did I buy a bunch of $2 mouse traps?
No.
I researched rodent trapping and found a high-tech rat trap for NZ$100.
A Rat Zapper, or http://www.ratzapper.com if you're in the US.


So I got it. And the optional remote trigger alert.



I baited it with peanut butter and nuts put it up in the ceiling with the tell-tale alert thing hanging through the access hatch. Nothing happened for a few weeks until this morning Lynette asked me what the blinking lights were in the ceiling. The little fake mouse' eyes were blinking which meant the trap had triggered.

I'd almost written the thing off as a waste of money or at least decided that I hadn't placed it properly.

But in it I found a nicely dead decent sized rat. Tipped it out in to the compost heap.
Put the trap back up in the ceiling, ready to catch rat #2.

Very cool gadget and very effective.
You can see it in action in this video from the site.