This blog is basically to chart my progress in trying to lose weight...
This is a Record of my daily events including my family when appropriate for my other family members to see if they choose to.
This is my legacy, for my family to read after I am dead and burried. So, any thing on here is meant for them only and if it offends anyone, my apologies, but, its not meant for you and them
Chow for now...
May the LORD Bless all who see this.
I wish you well...
Jesse
This is a Record of my daily events including my family when appropriate for my other family members to see if they choose to.
This is my legacy, for my family to read after I am dead and burried. So, any thing on here is meant for them only and if it offends anyone, my apologies, but, its not meant for you and them
Chow for now...
May the LORD Bless all who see this.
I wish you well...
Jesse
Exercise
Posted 02-25-2011 at 03:32 PM by woodworkingmenace
Another successful day of exercise. I hit ten machines today, so, my Wife is happy about that one. Also, I made sure to do 'light weights' so I could get through them all. Though, I did get tired toward the end, I kept at it until I got my second wind and was able to do them all. I did do my 1000 reps of abdominals, but, I stayed at 100 and 110 pounds, instead of trying to go higher and slowing down to a crawl.
Now, Im home and making 'chain mail' for my son LOL. Yea, its a neat looking thing, even if I say so myself! We are doing a 4 in one link, and he is basically going to make a 'shirt' out of chain mail... Mainly so he can show off at one of those 'Rennesaince fairs' (another spelling butchered I bet).
We are making this out of steel wire, 12 gauge steel wire. We looped it around a 1/2 inch dowel rod, then we cut each individual ring. After that, we make a 2 and 1 single line. After we get 20 "double loops", I give them to my Son and he joins them to the rest.
We figure its going to cost him over a hundred bucks, buying about 10 or more, hundred feet coils of steel wire, and, if he gets enough, and I cut them out or he does, then we can put them all together and the next week, he can wear it at one of the regular meetings. He is sure to be the 'talk of the town' when he walks in there and shows them what he has done. (They were talking about holding classes on chain mail making, and he will be way ahead of the curve).
(My Son just told me that he checked on the 'chain mail' shirt online and it would cost him about 250.bucks, just for the shirt, and probably another 50 bucks for shipping and handling, so, he is saving a mint, by doing this ourselves).
When he joined this outfit, he figured that they would 'stick with the period' and do things the 'old fashion way'... But, he soon found out that things arent what they seem to be.
A lot of people use these blue plastic barrels for armour
. They cut them in pieces, drill holes in them and loop the nylon or leather into intricate weaves to keep the plastic plates close to the body. Sure, those plastic plates are able to absorb a lot of punishment and force, so you dont feel as much when you get hit with a ratan sword, but, it doesnt do much in the way of authenticity... My Son found out, that they have a rule... If it looks 'authentic' at 10 feet, then it will pass 'muster' ...sheesh! He has seen people spray paint the blue barrel plates so that they 'look' like metal, and pass that way.
... So goes the way of 'ye old ways'.. *sigh*.
Of course, my Son is going to take a short cut too, he will be buying a full sheet of 14 guage steel, and making the plates for his armour, (I will have pictures I hope, when its finished and put them on here
...should be interesting!).
OH, Nancy, an update on your cousin.. Apparently they took him off the machine, and he was able to breathe for 30 minutes on his own, before he finally stopped, so, the family put him back on the ventilator and they are going to ask the Hospital staff to try and 'wean' him off the machines, so that they can put him in a Nursing Home!! Why, is beyond me... I am figuring they dont want to 'let go' just yet, but, to let him lay there and 'vegetatate' in a Nursing Home, being a ward of the State, is something I would never have thought they would do. Course, it all depends if its possible to even wean him off of the machine or not, and whey they will eventually do about his hands, is still another matter. So, he lives for the moment, and will wait for further developements. (Oh, they did give him some dialysis during the week).
OK, my Sister in Law is here, so I will go and chat with her for a bit, before she and my Wife go to the Thrift Stores and eventually wind up at Tim Hortons for coffee.
I wish you well...
Jesse
Now, Im home and making 'chain mail' for my son LOL. Yea, its a neat looking thing, even if I say so myself! We are doing a 4 in one link, and he is basically going to make a 'shirt' out of chain mail... Mainly so he can show off at one of those 'Rennesaince fairs' (another spelling butchered I bet).
We are making this out of steel wire, 12 gauge steel wire. We looped it around a 1/2 inch dowel rod, then we cut each individual ring. After that, we make a 2 and 1 single line. After we get 20 "double loops", I give them to my Son and he joins them to the rest.
We figure its going to cost him over a hundred bucks, buying about 10 or more, hundred feet coils of steel wire, and, if he gets enough, and I cut them out or he does, then we can put them all together and the next week, he can wear it at one of the regular meetings. He is sure to be the 'talk of the town' when he walks in there and shows them what he has done. (They were talking about holding classes on chain mail making, and he will be way ahead of the curve).
(My Son just told me that he checked on the 'chain mail' shirt online and it would cost him about 250.bucks, just for the shirt, and probably another 50 bucks for shipping and handling, so, he is saving a mint, by doing this ourselves).
When he joined this outfit, he figured that they would 'stick with the period' and do things the 'old fashion way'... But, he soon found out that things arent what they seem to be.
A lot of people use these blue plastic barrels for armour
. They cut them in pieces, drill holes in them and loop the nylon or leather into intricate weaves to keep the plastic plates close to the body. Sure, those plastic plates are able to absorb a lot of punishment and force, so you dont feel as much when you get hit with a ratan sword, but, it doesnt do much in the way of authenticity... My Son found out, that they have a rule... If it looks 'authentic' at 10 feet, then it will pass 'muster' ...sheesh! He has seen people spray paint the blue barrel plates so that they 'look' like metal, and pass that way.... So goes the way of 'ye old ways'.. *sigh*. Of course, my Son is going to take a short cut too, he will be buying a full sheet of 14 guage steel, and making the plates for his armour, (I will have pictures I hope, when its finished and put them on here
...should be interesting!).OH, Nancy, an update on your cousin.. Apparently they took him off the machine, and he was able to breathe for 30 minutes on his own, before he finally stopped, so, the family put him back on the ventilator and they are going to ask the Hospital staff to try and 'wean' him off the machines, so that they can put him in a Nursing Home!! Why, is beyond me... I am figuring they dont want to 'let go' just yet, but, to let him lay there and 'vegetatate' in a Nursing Home, being a ward of the State, is something I would never have thought they would do. Course, it all depends if its possible to even wean him off of the machine or not, and whey they will eventually do about his hands, is still another matter. So, he lives for the moment, and will wait for further developements. (Oh, they did give him some dialysis during the week).
OK, my Sister in Law is here, so I will go and chat with her for a bit, before she and my Wife go to the Thrift Stores and eventually wind up at Tim Hortons for coffee.
I wish you well...
Jesse
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