house tour

times ended up being
3:32.0
3:36.3
3:46.8
3:43.5

Fire fighting video blog?

SUP KIDS! I'm trying out having a video blog instead of a silly text blog...




and this is a video of me enduring tremendous amounts of pain... even though from here it really doesn't look that bad...


21-15-9
Thrusters (95 pounds)
kipping pullups
the effort is a fixed workload for times as less time means more power output. and no im not embarrassed in the slightest i think this is the coolest hobby anyone has.



My time was 6:41, an elite time is less that 3 minutes. previously i'd done it in 8:36 and the first time i tried it it took me 10 minutes to do the first 21's. hooray for progress.

As always don't forget you asked!

Steven Pressfield

This series of videos is about the war in the middle east. What we're doing wrong, why it isn't working what we can do right and what we can learn from when Alexander the great fought these same people 2300 years ago. Enjoy











There's a bad word at 4:24 (just hit the little button that looks like a speaker for a second)

Travel Prejudice and Peace

I went to Juneau a few weeks back. I saw my family and my friends from high school. Sadly I didn't manage to find any time for a grand adventure, though I did ride on the fly bridge of a 20ft boat while on step, that was pretty fun. My niece and nephew were in town from PA, they're the jewish step children of my step sister... which makes them my... niece and nephew. Exactly. I started calling the boy, josh, "Wahkeboo" cause it kinds sounds jewish ya know? to which he replied by calling me "uncle poopie" alas. You can't argue with that kind of logic can you?

We also went to Chitna the weekend after. I was a pretty small representation of the tribe this year. Just Pastor, Jordan, myself and my little brother who's here for school. We didn't hardly catch any fish but we rode the snot out of the 2 four wheelers we brought. Jordan's new one is pretty amazing.


it looks like we've come full circle as I'm about to make comment on the quintessential love story of well, probably all humanity. I watched the 2005 remake of pride and prejudice, that movie is really funny and very romantic. I must make a confession though, in the past I'd tried to dissect it and analyze the story too much. This time when I watched it I just ignored that impulse and took it in. As i suspected a tiger is a much more beautiful creature when allowed to hunt and swim and be a tiger than after you've directed it and weighed is liver and distinguished its Sartorius from it's vastus medialus (those are leg muscles).

In other news jane is enjoying her first time going into heat. And poor Goobie (the little beagle man-puppie) Is so tormented that he won't even eat. Whats really funny is that some of the girls have started taking pity on him. Noah and I advised them that it was a pitiful state but that they should by no means have pity on him. Yesterday at the store Elliot and I saw the man for jane. He was a huge yellow lab with a big ol' meat head on him a happy face and strong limbs. I really should have gotten out of the car and asked if they wanted to breed him. here's the best representation I could find.




I'm pleased to report that there has been peace in the house of God like there hasn't been for the last four years. The pastor has been given some time off and has been able to disciple my brother some. I asked Elliot how it went after their first meeting yesterday and he said "best part of my day" Its amazing how he really seems to be a new creature. He still has bad habits like we all did after we were saved but his heart has changed completely. I think the timing of this couldn't have been better to offer encouragement to my pastor so I'm doubly grateful for this second birth.

Bruddie

My little brother moved in last week. He's gonna start school up in the fall but until then we've got a month or so to get reacquainted having not lived together for more than ten years. So far its been really fun. We've got swimming a few times rented a pedal boat and cruised the sloughs looking for moose. We're gonna got on an over night hike next week.

I've of course introduced him to crossfit and he's been enthusiastic about enduring some real pain, (he's also been walking around like C-3PO) Right now we're cooking dinner. Some chicken with vegetables.

Wednesday we went the the Humphrey's for dinner. We had a good time and he got on molly's bad side so thats extra points from me. Naturally Jane didn't have a problem with him.

Going it "alone"

For those who don't know yet I moved out of the Humphrey's house last Wednesday into my first abode. It a duplex which happened to be just down the street (like with it walking distance) from their house and the church. I was just searching through the classifieds online for the area and called several places and when this lady said "oh we live on Athena circle too" I was like... jackpot!

The place is really pretty cute. It's a duplex with a single entry and a boiler room between the two sides, plus the bedrooms are at the ends of the house and I haven't heard boo from the other people. I've only seen them once, I think it might be an old couple but the lady didn't even look at me when she walked inside... weird, oh well.

The actual apartment is fairly roomy, the main living area and kitchen/laundry are all in the front with two bedrooms and a bathroom in the back, huge closets as well. There's a deep garage for each apartment that are together in a separate building. Naturally I've got a world class crossfit affiliate started up in it, complete with rings, kettle bells, a squat rack, medicine balls, two oly bars and more steel that two people could ever move at once. All I need is a rower and I'll be "increasing my work capacity across broad time and modal domains" like a big dog.

So last Wednesday to get the place livable I spent about $250 and today spent another $300 and I still don't have ANY furniture. I had my buddy Dave over to check the place out Sunday and we ate sitting on my bed, which is a queen size -mattress-... (as in, on the floor, no box spring, trailer park style) Travis was gonna trash it so he just gave it too me.

I used the pastors trailer to get my stuff over there and it worked really well accept that the thing is much longer than it looks like it is out the rear view mirrors and I managed to back it into garage on day one. The land lord wasn't mad at all though he just gathered his tools together and (being an old guy) just pointed and coached me into pounding and screwing it back together. Glad that didn't turn out any worse. The annoying thing was that backing it was pretty hard but I did really good turning it around I just couldn't see the end of it and didn't realize it... lesson learned "NEVER BACK A TRAILER WITH OUT SOME ONE BEHIND YOU WATCHING"
(or just don't be a retard, that works good too)

So back to buying stuff for the place... I walked around freds today with a cart full of homey touches (like a lamp, and a vacuum cleaner, a broom, garbage bags) It was so awkward, I felt like everyone was staring at me thinking: "Why is that huge 12 year old buying all those Wifey/Mom things?" At one point I just wanted to ditch my cart in a back aisle and run out of the store crying "I want my Mommy!" I'm normally just a hand cart, in and out, man alone, runnin' and gunnin' style; Turkey breast, apples, almonds and beat a hasty retreat. This was a different animal.

Spending this kinda time alone and trying to create a working (though one man) house hold makes me think it'd be really nice to be married when I'm doing all this. Watching Caleb and Lisa doesn't to much to dissuade these thoughts. I just read "Watership Down" which is an amazing, epic adventure story about rabbits who leave their warren to start another one. After doing so they realize the don't have any does (i.e. purdy girl bunnies) So the last half of the book is about the liberating some from a terrible oppressive warren who doesn't need them yet wants them anyway. Today in Fred Meyer I was thinking this would be a lot more fun if I had a pretty little doe on my arm... Not at all to be confused with a pretty little "doh", those only come in one size... big, and uh... hairy. Though one of those wouldn't be too bad I guess. (For those unaware "Doh" in a nick name for Noah G. my good friend and a... "Traveling Christian")

At any rate I won't live there alone for too long, the point of me getting a two bedroom house was that my Brother Elliot is coming to go to school here so I offered to let him stay with me. He should be driving up the end of August.

Having some space to go it alone isn't all bad though. I'm not as distracted with other peoples activities and have found more time to read my bible and just enjoy things like washing dishes, cooking, listening to music. I never did listen to music except in my car. But now it's either music or deafening silence.

Cooking has been fun. I've been asked by several concerned women "What are you going to eat!, Aaron... can you cook?" (all of whom, btw, are welcome to come cook for me) I've really been eating very well. Sunday I made Dave and I and I spinach salad with bacon, sauteed onions, orange bell peppers, pepper jack cheese, and avocado. I had blue cheese dressing and he had a honey mustard dressing, very tasty (and no fast carbs) for dinner last night I had scrambled eggs with meat and cheese added in, apples with peanut butter and strawberries for desert (also no fast carbs). For lunch/dinner ( not sure what to call that meal you have at 4:00 because you at breakfast at 10 and were in town all day) at way it was delicious as well: A diagonally cut hot link with pepper jack cheese and sauteed onions. Steamed Broccoli with the honey mustard dressing (is more like a honey mustard flavored ranch dressing that a mustard at all), also no fast carbs... are we noticing a trend here?

Honestly I don't plan on ever letting things like bread, pasta, cereal flower or sugar into my house. I find generally white powders and things made from them are bad and bad for you. I also don't have a microwave on purpose... and I won't be pursuing broadcast television. A friend's house back in Juneau (the navy Seal's family) doesn't have any of these things (maybe the white powders) and their kids are very intelligent and athletic. They seem well spoken and very driven.

Don't get the wrong idea though fan kids.. I'm still making very regular appearances at the Humphreys house, though some are happier about it than others about it. The Pastor said he was going though withdrawals, and when I showed up at 10pm he said "You need to come check in a little earlier". Jordan on the other had has said all of "don't eat that I'm taking it for lunch in the morning" too me. (I think he's just jealous I moved out and he's left all alone.)

I'm still waiting to get internet hooked up at my place so I won't have any pictures until then, maybe never... I am nevertheless compelled to leave you with an unrelated parting thought in the form of a picture:

Enjoy

Wing Suit

Wingsuit BASE, getting better from neil amonson on Vimeo.