Last night was another fun Halo gaming night with friends. Like I said before, it’s been years since I had played online multiplayer with other people. And even though I don’t know some of them personally, they’re all good lads to play with and had a blast. Last night was a little closer to home, in a way, because we were playing Halo 3. Halo 3 was, well, my first Halo. The first of the series that I really got into, probably due the fact that the Xbox 360 was my first Xbox console I ever bought and I was working at GameStop at the time so I played the heck out of that game with my coworkers. Thus, I was a little more familiar with Halo 3’s multiplayer than any of the other games in the series.

One of the games we played last night was “King on the Hill” and I kicked ass (a hundred percent luck 😅). I sucked in every other game mode, and that’s okay too.

10 Minute EMOM

• 10 Snatches, 5 per side
• 20 Swings

I completed my reps for the first move and rested the remainder of the minute, then the next minute did the second move alternating back and forth.

I Believe this sesh was meant to be a workout finisher but I treated it as my main workout after a small sesh on the rower and did 20 minute total, 10 minutes for each move.

Today I went back at it, I went to my local gym. It’s a small gym so even before this whole pandemic thing hit us, it was never crowded. Today, I decided to check it out and see if that was still the case. There were a few people — elderly people mostly — and mostly by the machines and treadmills which I rarely ever use. I was alone in the big room where I do most my stuff (body weight and kettlebell exercises for example).

Clearly the gym’s management are taking precautions, marks on the floors, machines more spaced out, in fact, the entire layout of the gym has been rearranged. It took me a few minutes to find the rowers. And there’s hand sanitizers and disinfectant materials all over the place. I had always been extremely conscious about cleaning whatever equipment I use before and after using it, this time around, even more so — for obvious reasons.

Anyways, I went around noon, I will try an earlier time tomorrow to see if there’s far less people. Again there wasn’t that many today but the less people the better. Either way, I’ll stay away from the most popular and most used machines and try to make my workouts short but effective. Also I am not planning on going every day of the week, most likely two to three times a week the rest will be dedicated more to running or maybe even hiking.

That being said, it felt good getting back into the “grind” of things. Trying to continue where I had left off. Gotta loose some of that pandemic-weight.

Cabernet Sauvignon from Columbia Valley, Washington

Winemaker Notes:

A stunning Cabernet from Washington’s oldest and most revered vineyards. The Readers blend tips its hat to the exploratory readers of books and wine. Sourced from Conner Lee Vineyard’s old vines from ’87 and ’88 blocks, Dionysus Vineyards’ old block 18 and Elephant Mountain Vineyards’ high elevation superior Cabernet blocks, this powerful wine offers fragrant blackberries, mocha and mineral complexity, all built into this fantastic old vine Cabernet’s delicious style.

I am personally not a huge fan of Cabs, I prefer blends usually, but this one it’s actually pretty good.