Once again, I find myself at the bar at The Outback steakhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why is this weird? I\u2019m a vegetarian and some kinda health \/ fitness freak. I assure you, it feels sorta weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why does it work? Well first off, Outback has a number of fine non-meat options. It helps that I consider fish to be vegetables \u2026 but I can dine quite well on the wedge salad (hold the bacon, please) and the cheese fries. I\u2019ve also, in my eternal travels, learned the virtue of ordering a couple of appetizers rather than any entrees. Eat a whole restaurant entree, especially without exercising, and you\u2019re in for a heavy, bloated, soggy, gut twisting evening. Have a side salad and an appetizer (a crabcake, some fries, whatever) and it\u2019s okay. Plus, the entree almost always drags out into one more beer \u2026 which if I\u2019ve got the laptop can become yet one more beer after that. No good. Best to eat and leave the beer dispensing zone if we\u2019re going to do this all week, two weeks a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why does it really work, here in Hampton VA? Because this particular Outback went smoke free as of March 1. That makes it instantly better than every other bar in the area. For clean air, I will be loyal, even if I have to subject myself to the dreaded onion blossom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh sweet onion blossom. Forgive me, but you\u2019re as bad as the entrees \u2026 even though you\u2019re on the appetizer list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other news, work is making me work. A week-long series of 1.5 hour interactive training sessions to get as many users as possible using the compute cluster is exhausting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also fortunately, I\u2019m healed enough to get back to the gym. Went back to the MMA place<\/a> and got a solid three hour workout yesterday. Their current \u201cprize\u201d warrior who goes by the nom-de-plume \u201cThe Juggernaut<\/a>\u201d took the same jiu-jitsu class as I did. We rolled, briefly, and I felt good for holding my own for a while against a man who fights for a living on TV. It may be a gentle, giving, \u201cuse your opponent\u2019s strength against him\u201d style \u2026 but when a dude is approximately three times as strong as me and does this for a living, you sort of know how it\u2019s going to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also did an exercise that I\u2019ve always liked. It\u2019s unfair, but in much the same way that real life is unfair. Sort of a modified king of the hill: The four highest belts in the room started off in the middle of the room. The rest of us formed a line in rank order, lowest to highest. The instructor defined a scenario: people in the middle start on their backs, challengers try to hold them down \u2013 however you want. If the person on their back escapes, they win and stay in. If the person doing the holding gets a submission, they win. Winner stays in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We went through the line, perhaps a dozen times with a class of 20 men. Nobody can stay in the middle forever, and the point is to wear down the top of the class until we\u2019re all at the same level. The better you are, the longer you\u2019re going to be out there, challenged by fresh people. Eventually, everyone loses \u2026 and gets a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, it was three hours of brutality \u2013 I hurt \u2013 but I\u2019m going back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again, I find myself at the bar at The Outback steakhouse. Why is this weird? I\u2019m a vegetarian and some kinda health \/ fitness freak. I assure you, it feels sorta weird. Why does it work? Well first off, Outback has a number of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,52,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting","category-judo","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}