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My fun for today was to clean out the ash pit under my fireplace. We don't have many fires now a days so it has been a while.

1.5' x 2' and about 8' deep. Only about 3' of ashes this time.

At the rate I have fires I may be able to leave it now for the next owner to do in the future.

Husband in Japanese is 御主人
御 honorific
主 leader
人 person
Wife in Japanese is 家内
家 house
内 inside

Husband in Japanese is 御主人
御 honorific
主 leader
人 person
Wife in Japanese is 家内
家 house
内 inside

I need to take a bunch of half days off in ordee to avoid losing them. I decided to use them to finish the projects i have in progress so that i can start 2022 with a bunch of new ones

I have a similar problem. I am going to use my last 4 floating holidays between christmas and new years. They have to be used by the first of the year and I get 10 days off in a row that way.

My schedule is not like most. I work three weeks on and three weeks off. If I take all of my annual leave at one, it gives me nine weeks off and uses 280 hours of leave. It is difficult to take less than a full shift off, and we are short staffed enough that right now there is no cap on our leave bank. I am taking a shift off this winter and I will be off from Feb 8 to April 12. I also am going to Seattle and it is four days of driving and ferry boats to get there.

Yeehaw!

I just got tickets to see Sabaton with my youngest daughter. She's cute and sweet as apple pie, and very much into metal

It has been almost 2 years since I have shot my bow for leagues.

This is not a robin hood but fun curls with the aluminium.

Well done! I never managed that myself. Closest I came was one arrow scraping the coating from the other.
The club I used to go to, mounted the robin hood arrows on the wall with name and date.

Did that a couple times myself. It was kind of cool in a way but i always also hated to ruin an expensive arrow.

Especially being out of practice I am not good enough with the olympic recurve to use a 5 spot target.

Usually with these aluminium arrows with swaged nock ends you just wreck the nock.

32t said:

Usually with these aluminium arrows with swaged nock ends you just wreck the nock.

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That's what I found out when I started shooting, way back. Because of the conical shape, you'd only get a robin hood if the point hits exactly dead center or it will ricochet.

One of the shocks of getting older is that at some point you realize that not everything will heal back to 100% as if it never happened.

One of the shocks that I notice is that many things that I did when I was younger and thought that I got away with are now catching up to me.

32t said:

One of the shocks that I notice is that many things that I did when I was younger and thought that I got away with are now catching up to me.

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That's the reason that when I see beginners deadlift in the gym, I look at their technique and if they are obviously new and doing it wrong, I say hi and ask if I can give them a couple of tips. Because deadlifting is one of those things you can do wrong when you are young, and when you are older you pay the price. My brother similarly hurt his back working in the garden when we were 12 or 13 or so.

I still do a young man’s job, and it gets harder every year. We regularly have to get into the water, and without assistance get back into the zodiac hurricane. When I was younger I was like a bullet and could even get back in closer to the bow. Now I definitely have to be much further back. I certainly don’t have the upper body strength I had ten years ago. Also those old things that I just shook off in my twenties hurt now.

I've been at the same production job for 28 years. Hoping i can make it another 10 till retirement. Not that it requires alot of heavy lifting (though it can) it's just that doing the same motion all day long is starting to make my arms hurt even when not at work.

At work today I had a PM that includes climbing up a vertical ladder in a pipe shaft and going through a smaller hole at the top. Then kneeling on a grate and working on an exhaust fan. Hex head and phillips screws as part of the work. Of course I dropped the philips attatchment of my 10 in one screwdriver and had to retrieve it.

I hate to admit it but it might be time to give this one to one of the younger guys.

I’ve been going through the same thing for last 15 years or so. Probably injured myself as a youth then reactivated one day at work. Has never been the same since and the issues only increase as time goes on. I finally have an mri scheduled to see what is going on with the soft tissues. I have a few compressed discs and quite a bit of calcification in most my joints considering my age(39). The pain can be debilitating and the effect mentally, especially with the way I was raised is leaving me less and less certain as to how to keep making a living and finding joy in my hobbies and playing with the kids.
There is nothing that I can do that doesn’t cause discomfort at this point. Even with taking on a management position at work a few years ago there is no relief as sitting or standing at a desk really sets off my lower back. More so than the carpentry or framing ever did.
Long story less long, I am all over my kids about protecting their bodies as well as the guys at work. The same was done for me as a youth but in my ignorance I brushed them off as the exception and not the rule.
...to know then, what I know now...

My triceps brachii in my left arm is very tired after shooting archery tonight.

Tired is good.

Today it was a litle more than tired. More painful and warm.

It is very hard to touch my left ear wirh my left hand.

I put my face mask on with only my right hand all day.

I got pretty good by the end of the day but what an experience.

I’m guessing you haven’t been doing much archery with that bow for some time. Maybe go with a lighter bow to build the muscle back up, or shoot a little less at the next session.