This is where I will be before I die.

[Josh577]

I'm working right out side of Washington DC, I'm a union pipefitter. I've always assumed it was a nice moderate climate here because that's kind of how it seems to be pretrade in the movies. No! It's hot as balls here always! Like 100% humidity it seems like. i'm from Ohio I never would imagine it was like this here.

[Obs]

Turnned 31 today.
Proved some fuckers wrong!

[Josh577]

Happy birth day

[Obs]

Thank you Josh, yeah it is probably humid as hell there too! People in the dry climates dont get to appreciate it enough lol

[Josh577]

Lol... I here pple say it's hot out west "But" it's dry heat! Like 110 dosnt suck major balls! I've been there Arizona and Texas pretty much every state we can drive to, it's a dry heat because it's too fkn hot for water to exist you just want to murder somebody by 930am when you're working in that crap. I guarantee the guy running the lawn care business wakes up every day and says I wish I had went to college

[Obs]

Lol... I here pple say it's hot out west "But" it's dry heat! Like 110 dosnt suck major balls! I've been there Arizona and Texas pretty much every state we can drive to, it's a dry heat because it's too fkn hot for water to exist you just want to murder somebody by 930am when you're working in that crap. I guarantee the guy running the lawn care business wakes up every day and says I wish I had went to college

I shouldn't complain too much because I positively loathe winter. I would rather sweat than freeze. I bet welding in this heat is a real pain too.

[Obs]

Did shoulders and upper back. Did my free weights at home then walked to the storage shed I have my cable machine in. Hot, sweat was covering the floor before I was done. I am making great progress in my sjoulders and arms. This is progress I can see and feel the strength.

Bought some "ON gold standard mass gainer"
For times I cant stomach food but need to eat.
107gr of carbs and 55gr of protein per serving.

I am looking pretty damn good.

[Josh577]

I've noticed in your pics that you have a home gym set up. I want to do that as well. I'm in a new state ever 6 weeks or so and it's hard to find a good gym on the fly or even the time, I work 7 days a week. My plan is to buy a 8x12 box trailer that I can pull from job to job with all my road stuff in it. I could just park it at a motel until I find a place in what ever town I go to. I have an adjustable bench now, it's just a golds gym bench "no bars" but it goes in the three positions a man needs. I figure if I get adjustable dumbells and a cheep squat rack off ebay, I can tie a pulley in the top of the squat rack to do cable exercises. Hell with those three items I thank I could do every thing I would at the gym and it would be mobile. I had lost motivation lately but reading you post and watching you contest on here has really got me fired up again.

[Obs]

I've noticed in your pics that you have a home gym set up. I want to do that as well. I'm in a new state ever 6 weeks or so and it's hard to find a good gym on the fly or even the time, I work 7 days a week. My plan is to buy a 8x12 box trailer that I can pull from job to job with all my road stuff in it. I could just park it at a motel until I find a place in what ever town I go to. I have an adjustable bench now, it's just a golds gym bench "no bars" but it goes in the three positions a man needs. I figure if I get adjustable dumbells and a cheep squat rack off ebay, I can tie a pulley in the top of the squat rack to do cable exercises. Hell with those three items I thank I could do every thing I would at the gym and it would be mobile. I had lost motivation lately but reading you post and watching you contest on here has really got me fired up again.

Home gym fits me pretty good. I am good at pushing it. I wouldnt know what to do at a real gym. Thanks btw!

[Obs]

120lb kid was let go.
Knocked out four jobs in two days alone.
Good money, but good gosh its getting to me.
Taking tomorrow off.

Veins on shoulders are finally coming out to stay. My traps have some real nice veins ready to come out. Gotta keep on at this rate.

[Quester]

120lb kid was let go.
Knocked out four jobs in two days alone.
Good money, but good gosh its getting to me.
Taking tomorrow off.

Veins on shoulders are finally coming out to stay. My traps have some real nice veins ready to come out. Gotta keep on at this rate.

Where did the kid go?

[Obs]

Where did the kid go?

Home to his couch where he belongs. Paid the little punk twenty bucks an hour to drag branches and he wasn't worth $5 an hour. When my big ass comes off a tree soaked in sweat and about dead and I drag three branches to the kids every one...

Kid was black, I am probably labeled a racist now.

[Sicko]

Home to his couch where he belongs. Paid the little punk twenty bucks an hour to drag branches and he wasn't worth $5 an hour. When my big ass comes off a tree soaked in sweat and about dead and I drag three branches to the kids every one...

Kid was black, I am probably labeled a racist now.

Dang OBS...is that what labor is going for in your neck of the woods?
Heck I would drag branches for $20 an hour!! I like that sort of work. Kinda like getting paid to workout!!
I'm not saying you can live extravagantly off $20hr but for mindless branch hauling... I would be your huckleberry...ehehehhehh...

[Obs]

Dang OBS...is that what labor is going for in your neck of the woods?
Heck I would drag branches for $20 an hour!! I like that sort of work. Kinda like getting paid to workout!!
I'm not saying you can live extravagantly off $20hr but for mindless branch hauling... I would be your huckleberry...ehehehhehh...

I pay that because it is damn hard at times and I am trying to find someone I can keep.
Its impossible, these kids will not work. They show up for two days, and always have some issue why they cant be there every day. I have missed 5 days of work in my life and I wanted to work those days but couldn't.
If its 100 degrees outside and you arent sweating dragging branches, you are giving a complete half ass effort. I think I solved the issue though, my girlfriends brother is strong and I took him on a job and he did great.
His only problem will be showing up which he has a history of not doing.

I pay good also because I always swore I wouldn't pay my employees shitty if I was blessed with them. People are important and a good employee will make you live longer in my line of work.
My other rule for employees is I will not keep a bad one around for any amount of time. In one day I can determine if they fit or not, so when I hire them I only promise one job so I dont feel bad not calling them back.
Some people look at their employees and think "every dime this guy makes is not going in my pocket".
I hate that greedy mindset. I left my last employed job because I was working like six of the others and getting paid the same while they stood and watched. I was replaceable as anyone is but unfortunately I was replaced with three employess and their profit fell hard.

I hope I am never so blind, I feel like God will bless me if I can bless others.

On a side note today was very stressful, gonna focus on settling down and appreciating dinner and my kids and girlfriend. Time to laugh a little

[NACH3]

Dang OBS...is that what labor is going for in your neck of the woods?
Heck I would drag branches for $20 an hour!! I like that sort of work. Kinda like getting paid to workout!!
I'm not saying you can live extravagantly off $20hr but for mindless branch hauling... I would be your huckleberry...ehehehhehh...

East coast is paying the labors' Union 30+ an hr lol

[hollowedzeus]

Some people would say that...

Others would say you can be a lazy little shit black, white, yellow, purple or multicoloured.

You gave him a good chance and he blew it.

[Obs]

Moved some of my plates to my cable machine in storage. I work out 4 exercises at the house for three sets, push then pull, alternating without break, for two execises then break for a couple minutes.
Tonight was
Hammer curl x 3sets
Skull crusher x 3sets
Break 2 min
Dumbell pullover/tricep ext. standing x 3 sets
Barbell curl x 3 sets

Grabbed my shit and walked the 200 yrds to my storage shed and cable machine.

Tricep ext. on pulldown cable x 3 sets
Curl from floor cable x3 sets
Break maybe 30 seconds
One arm curl standing away from pulldown cable x3
One arm tricep extension from pulldown cable x3
No break
Tricep pushdown one arm x3
Two arm curl x3

Panted like a dying ass cheetah.
Walked to store bought gatorade and protein drink
Simply an excuse so I could go to their bathroom and stare at myself in the mirror and show off my fresh pump to the public.

It was all very successful. Workout - showing off.
Like when peoples eyes linger that on extra split second on different parts of me.

People in my town rarely get to see a steroid pump coupled with eca so I feel pretty special.

[Obs]

Bought a bicycle today, toured the town with the kids and their bicycles. They wore my ass out.

I ate dinner at a german restaraunt that was awesome! It wasnt just a brat and pilsner, it was authentic!
I ate their bread which was probably the best piece of bread I have ever had, and got an appetizer of schnitzel and german sausages
Main course was spaetel and Sauerbraten.
Had one bitburger which is now my favorite beer with a meal.
That restaraunt is too damn good for the town it is in.

[Obs]

https://youtu.be/ruoR-P94DEU
Funniest video on the planet! 18 seconds long

[Obs]

Oh, damn! A little scrawny punk working for one of my friends just flipped me off in traffic while driving his boss's company truck...

I didn't even hand it back.

I guarantee he will piss his pants when I step out of my truck to bullshit with his employer. Lol

[Obs]

Im neva gettin married Im never gettin married!

SHHHIIIISHAAAAAHHH!!!

Fuggin mutha fuggin beast!

[Obs]

Pretty sure I just sealed half custody with my kids zero child support!
Fuuuuuuuuck iiiiiinnnnnnngggg A!

Sometimes a man must use all available leverage, resources, and amass his forces to one focal point.
Then...
You unleash hell.

BOOOOYAH MUDAFUKAHHH!!!

[Obs]

Just cannot explain the weight that will be lifted from my shoulders when this is filed. It is a million pounds of steel on my soul.

[hollowedzeus]

Happy for you, hope its a smooth transition

[Obs]

Happy for you, hope its a smooth transition

Thanks this has been in the works a long time!

[Obs]

Emergency call at 6a.m., back home at 9p.m..
Missed workout.
Worked my ass off all day in pouring rain.
Saved a house, pool, 2 power services, fence, and lawn decor.
For all you emergency tree needs call ******* Tree S Service ***-***-****

[hammerheart]

Congratulation on your rescue success.

[Obs]

Congratulation on your rescue success.

Thank you my Italian friend! It was some of my finest work.

[hammerheart]

Obs, don't know whom else to ask.

What does it mean when you just look for an argument to beat someone up. Not a specific person, just random ones.

I never felt this way before but did today.

[Obs]

Its usually an underlying psycological reason, though could be horomone related. Sometimes pent up stress. I know the feeling well. Sometimes though we just get sick of people shit and carry it with us.

[hammerheart]

Yeah I'm getting more and more angry and stressed at daily shit and don't how to put with it anymore.

How do you cope then? I'm too physically exhausted already to subdue the negative feelings into training.

[Obs]

Yeah I'm getting more and more angry and stressed at daily shit and don't how to put with it anymore.

How do you cope then? I'm too physically exhausted already to subdue the negative feelings into training.

My personalized status, I convert my emotions to drive and willpower. I have a very twisted mind when lifting because I turn it all loose. I dont like anyone in my presence during workout. When someone speaks to me working out I tend to yell.
Learning the dark places in your soul and heart and mind and how to channel it all into drive is an invaluable tool. I wish you well, its damn hard and I fail often.

[hammerheart]

My personalized status, I convert my emotions to drive and willpower. I have a very twisted mind when lifting because I turn it all loose. I dont like anyone in my presence during workout. When someone speaks to me working out I tend to yell.
Learning the dark places in your soul and heart and mind and how to channel it all into drive is an invaluable tool. I wish you well, its damn hard and I fail often.

You know, I used to believe I already had everything explored but those dark places are like a bottomless pit.

Thank you for wishing me well, I'll need it.

[Obs]

Exhaustion becomes sadness and depression which is easy to turn into hatred and anger which I can turn into work.

[Obs]

By the way biz, I have a question for you.
When I inject especially the two days after, I can literally feel my thyroid as best as I can figure. Its not so much a pain as it is a sensation like a contracting muscle or a squeeze.
My neck is very large but on test it blows up huge.
Do you know what would cause something like this? At last observation my t3 levels were normal. Not worried, it just seems to be a lot more noticeable the last couple of months.

[hammerheart]

By the way biz, I have a question for you.
When I inject especially the two days after, I can literally feel my thyroid as best as I can figure. Its not so much a pain as it is a sensation like a contracting muscle or a squeeze.
My neck is very large but on test it blows up huge.
Do you know what would cause something like this? At last observation my t3 levels were normal. Not worried, it just seems to be a lot more noticeable the last couple of months.

You can't really feel the thyroid, there are no pain receptors there. You can though feel some pressure on adjacent structures. Doesn't necessarily have to the thyroid, could be anything including muscles.

Hormones can interact with thyroid by either stimulating or inhibiting TSH to a small extent, also via down or upregulating TBG (thyroxine binding proteins). When there are such a sway in levels, the thyroid can feel swelled and this occurred to me when I first started T4. However, I don't really see this happening with frequent AAS injections.

[hammerheart]

20, 30 hourly? I better not tell what the average salary for manual work consists here, lol.

[hammerheart]

BTW obs, I think I've got it. My feelings atm are best described by the German word Weltschmerz. I'm plainly wishing for something that can't be, and I know it, that's why I'm turning angry. It's a kiddish reaction. But sometimes the pain is so distressing it almost feels physical.

How long can a man put up with an endless stream of shit yet remain "clean" . I'm not sure my rationality will be enough hold everything in place in the future.

I'm rambling, don't mind me.

[Obs]

BTW obs, I think I've got it. My feelings atm are best described by the German word Weltschmerz. I'm plainly wishing for something that can't be, and I know it, that's why I'm turning angry. It's a kiddish reaction. But sometimes the pain is so distressing it almost feels physical.

How long can a man put up with an endless stream of shit yet remain "clean" . I'm not sure my rationality will be enough hold everything in place in the future.

I'm rambling, don't mind me.

Ramble away, I dont mind a bit. Change what you can and hell with what you cant. What you cant change eats you alive like acid if you ponder it.

[Obs]

Is it possible for adrenal function to be triggered by things other than the hypothalamus?
Such as, adrenaline realeased without the hypothalamus being activate like in a stressful situation?
I.E. the release of adrenaline, testosterone, and/or cortisol without fear trigger?

Listening to music and being pumped vs. Being scared.
There is no way in my mind the hypothalamus and adrenal glands react the same in both situations.
I can literally turn it on or off at a whim...
What do you think bizzaro?