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Friday, December 31, 2021

Workout Update: P90X Day 25

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 Day 25 was x-stretch, which is done once as a part of the regular schedule in the recovery week and then once optionally (on day 7 if you w...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Workout Update: P90X Day 24

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 Day 24 was Kenpo-x. It, and yoga, are the two main workouts that are repeated during the recovery week. Overall, it went fine. I had to do ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Book Review: Star Wars The High Republic: A Test of Courage

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  A test of courage is a short story about a newly promoted Jedi Knight named Venestra Rwoh, who is given her first assignment to supervise ...

Workout Update: P90X Day 23

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 Day 23 was the first Core Synergistics workout. It is the workout that is done during the recovery weeks. It is honestly one of the workout...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

4k UHD Blu-Ray Review: No Time to Die

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  Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Naomie Harris, Michael G. Wilson, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Neal Purvis, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Ben Whishaw, Ro...

Workout Update: P90X Day 22

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 Day 22 was the first day of the recovery week, which meant doing Yoga-X again. For this one, I went up to the Yoga belly 7 exercises and th...
Monday, December 27, 2021

4k UHD Blu-Ray Review: Spectre

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  Spectre is the 24th James Bond movie and the fourth with Daniel Craig in the role of Bond. It begins in Mexico City where Bond, acting on ...

Book Review: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

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  The Only Plane in the Sky is a book by Jared Graff that details the events of 9/11 using quotes from different people that were involved i...

Book Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II

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  This is mostly a good story, but it introduces a huge continuity problem with the original novels and movies. I cannot say what it is with...

Workout Update: P90X Day 21

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 Day 21 was the last day of phase 1, the x-stretch workout. Unlike the yoga workout, I really like this one. It flows much better and ends j...

Workout Update: P90X Day 20

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 Day 20 was yoga. I still hate it, mostly because it is way too long and has moves that I think can easily be eliminated from it and still k...

Workout Update: P90x Day 19

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 Day 19 was the last legs and back workout of the first phase. I again used 95lbs of band resistance for the pull-down moves and was getting...

Workout Update: P90X Day 18

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 Day 18 was the Kenpo workout. I again skipped the cold stretch open and just used the twist and pivots and punching as the warm-up. This, p...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Workout Update: P90X Day 17

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 Day 17 was the shoulders and arms workout. It is my second favorite resistance workout behind "back and biceps". I was able to in...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Book Review: Star Wars The High Republic: Into the Dark

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  Into the Dark is a young adult novel set during the High Republic Era, which occurs a couple of hundred years before the Battle of Yavin/T...

Workout Update: P90X Day 16

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 Day 16 was plyometrics again. It is probably the workout I like the best of any of the non-resistance workouts. It does run a little bit lo...

Blu Ray Review: The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

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  The Godfather Coda is a remastered and re-edited version of The Godfather Part III. To be clear, the plot of the movie is exactly the same...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Book Review: Star Wars: Secrets of the Sith

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  Secrets of the Sith is not really a novel. It is a cross between a journal/handbook written from the perspective of Palpatine after the ev...

Workout Update: P90X Day 15

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 Day 15 was chest and back with the ab-ripper warm up. The workout was very good. I was able to get another couple of reps on all of the pus...

Workout Update: P90x Day 14

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 Day 14 was yoga, again. It is the bane of the P90x workouts. It is about 45 minutes too long, and even the first 50 minutes (which is the m...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

DVD Review: Family Guy Season 14

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  Season 14 of Family Guy continues to follow the pattern the show has followed for years. A story of the week, with pop culture and/or poli...

Workout Update: P90x Day 13

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 Day 13 was x-stretch again. I again flipped yoga and x-stretch because of the timing of the workout on Saturday. I had to do it later in th...

Workout Update: P90x Day 12

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 Day 12 was legs and back again. Nothing too notable about this workout other than I upped the total band resistance for the pull-downs to 9...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Workout Update: P90X Day 11

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 Day 11 was the Kenpo-x workout. I again totally skipped the "warm-up" and just used the twist and pivot and punches to warm mysel...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Workout Update: P90X Day 10

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 Day 10 was shoulders and arms again. I was able to increase the weights on a couple of the exercises in this workout, and max out on a coup...