UNBRIDLED TRUTH

This week featured an extension of my nebulous, ill-defined discomfort that wasn't quite an injury. After lingering around my left shoulder for a while, it moved up to my neck, which was especially stiff on Wednesday and Thursday. It seemed to relent after that, though, and it's gone now, so I'm hoping that my body found a way to deal with the cause on its own. It was a really weird experience, because I don't think that I did anything to set it off, and it felt distinctly

I'm a fan of The Alexandrian. Justin Alexander's Gamemastery 101 posts on designing robust scenarios, interesting dungeons, satisfying gameplay structures, and so forth are all quite solid, and among other things, his "archeological" posts on his experiences with OD&D and with running a megadungeon/hexcrawl built out of Caverns of Thracia are also good reads. He's got a Twitter feed on the sidebar, and while I tend to ignore it (since out-of-context packets of 140 character

Unfortunately, my body was feeling weird this week. I had a spot just under my right scapula that was sore on Monday, and then I got the same thing on my left side from Friday through today. I don't think it was an actual muscle injury in either case because I didn't feel any loss in performance and actually doing stuff like pull ups or bridges gave temporary relief, not increased pain. My guess is that there was some tightness or irritation between the muscles for some re

Rating: A+ Length: 66 page PDF This is clearly a different sort of book than what I usually review. However, it's also a fantastic resource, so I felt like it was well past time for me to put up a post about it (also, I wanted to break the streak of nothing but workout recaps, and I haven't quite finished tweaking the recipes I have lined up to post soon). James Edward Raggi IV is one of the most famous names in the OSR (old school renaissance/revolution/revival/too many ot

Finally, I am able to live again. That said, I have no idea what happened with the challenge workout this week. I suppose the inability to go all-out from the heat caught up with me, but if that's all it was, it should correct itself with time. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail Kneeling Fingertip Push Ups - 1 set of 21 (pass) Bridge Kips - 1 set of 7 (pass) Uneven Pull Ups - 1 set of 10, each side (pass) Bonus: none I was still without air conditioning on this day, hence the rather la

This one's going to be brief, because I'm mostly just trying not to melt. Sunday Type: Pass/Fail Kneeling Fingertip Push Ups - 1 set of 20 (pass) One-armed Dead Hangs - 1 set of 12 breaths, each side (pass) Cossack Squats - 1 set of 5, each side (pass) Bonus: none I should've done more Cossack squats. For some reason, I'd thought that I did two sets of three last time. I'm going to blame the heat for making me overlook actually checking my log. Tuesday Type: Pass/Fail Kneel