Last night I got my scheduling all screwed up. Instead of going to see the Misfits at a local venue, I found myself playing Axis and Allies Europe with a customer and his son who I promised a game earlier in the week..pathetic confusion..oh well. It was fun to take in the father/son interaction on just how they were going to conduct the strategic war against the Germany in 1941. The son who was defending the Russian motherland wasn't taking advice to eagerly from his Anglo/American player Dad. Funny how a game made of cardboard, plastic pieces and dice can sometimes simulate the actual political situation. This is sounding too gamegeeky so I'm going to stop, it was a fun three hours of History Channel-like action.
I went to the local upscale gym tonight for an all around workout. I've gotten into the habit the past few weeks to showing up here on friday nights for a change of pace. One of our more aloof customers seemed to recognize me and kept looking at me as to say "what are you doing here". I was going to say something but I didn't fucking feel like it, especially to him. I've been using plate machines for bench press but tonight I felt like doing regular bench and I really yanked something in my inner right shoulder..damn!..I dropped some weight and completed my sets. This really makes me mad, but I think I need to lay off heavy bench, inclines and flys, and focus on other stuff for awhile. However on the lower half, I pushed leg presses to greater weight than ever before to make up for my collapsing chest program. I guess I need to just keep plugging away and be patient for results.

I left work mid-afternoon because low sales were driving me mad and I had to get to my gym to renew my membership today. Good workout made me forget my retail funk, helped spot some big dude through his 315lbs. bench press sets. If I keep eating my spinach and chicken maybe I'll be able to do the same thing someday..probably not anytime soon. EXCELLENT Fall weather, cold, wet, very very blustery, yellow and gold leaves flying everywhere. This is by far my favorite season.

Had another workout at the yup gym, I really liked their Hammer Strength iso-lateral hi row machine, it was a real back burner. The yup gym is a nice place to visit but I think I'm going to renew my membership at my current gym. Its not as flashy but it definately gets the job done and thats what counts.
In the world of boxing Mike Tyson(139lb.) soundly manhandled Brian "Danish Pastry"Neilson(260 lbs.) in a six round bout. Before the fight in Copenhagen the crowd of 25,000 sang the Neilson's theme song "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" from the Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" and threw plastic ears into the ring as a reminder of Tyson's ear biting incident with Evander Holyfield. The "Danish Pastry"nicknamed for his ample midsection claimed he would beat Tyson black and blue, but it seems he was on the receiving end and on the canvas the whole fight till he gave up. Tyson who weighed in some twenty pounds heavier than his normal weight claimed that with two more fights he would be ready to assualt the Heavyweight title for a third time. The Tyson camp just seem to get more and more unusual, from ear biting to wanting to eat opponent's children and now, boxing/battering large Scandinavians. Despite all the weirdness, Tyson still is a complete engine of boxing destruction and it will be interesting to see where it all goes. That Mao tattoo on his right arm is just too much.