The gripz are pfat, just mow it, 3 classes

Earlier this week I used some of my Amazon spiff points to buy a couple pieces of fitness gear.

The first item was something called Fat Gripz.  These hard pieces of blue rubber are designed to be used with barbells, dumbbells and pull up bars to make the grip area significantly bigger.

What is the point you ask?  Hand, forearm, and grip strength.  These things have tremendous reviews from pretty much everyone that uses them.  A fat grip equates to much more difficulty.  If you do a set of curls with 30 pound dumbbells and then do another set after slapping the Fat Gripz on you will be amazed at the additional effort required.

I will be using the Gripz primarily on my pull up bar but I will try them out for different movements as well.

The other item I got was a dip belt.  The belt will make doing weighted dips and pull ups much easier instead of holding a dumbbell between my knees.  It will be accompanying me to the gym today.

Last night I decided I wanted to take a chunk out of my weekend workload by mowing and weed whacking the property.  Since summer/wet season seems to have gotten an early start this year the grass needed full grooming.  I didn’t get done until after 8.  I threw together a wrap for dinner that included hard boiled eggs, tomato, carrots, hummus  and swiss cheese.

So I have now had a chance to play three different classes in Diablo 3, the barbarian, the witch doctor and the monk.  All three are a lot of fun in different ways.

The barbarian and his brute force, in your face smash mouth style of play is great for stress relief.  The witch doctor with his zombie dogs, endless jars of spiders and assortment of spells are just eye candy to watch.  The monk utilizes a Bruce Lee fists of fury play style that is fast paced and devastating.

If I had to pick a favorite out of the 3 so far I would probably take the monk by a slim margin.  I always did like Bruce Lee.

Yesterday I saw a video that outlined the procedure to replace a broken ceramic tile.  I have had a broken tile in front of the fridge for a few years that I first just covered with a throw rug and later tried to fill with some similar color grout filler.

Well after watching the video I realized I should just replace the damn tile, it isn’t rocket science.

This weekend I have several things I’d like to get knocked out but nothing set in stone.  Speaking of the tile replacement, I am going to rebuilding my home project list which was ripped off the fridge awhile ago.  I find having that list in front of me serves me well as motivation to eliminate items from it instead of having things drag on forever without ever getting done.

That list will have several items on it in addition to the tile replacement. Painting the bedroom, master bath, and garage will be on there.  I also am looking to replace the twice replaced landscape timber border around the pool with concrete landscape blocks.  Wood rots, concrete doesn’t.

As part of painting the bathroom, I am hoping to score a left over piece of granite/Corian from someplace that I can use to cover the big flat surface in the bathroom next to the sink.  Right now it is just white drywall that looks like shit.

Of course projects cost money so besides the tile replacement, most of these will be delayed until I have some more time to get a solid feel for what my new financial thresholds will be.