Stealing cars

Thanks to Brownstreak, I was able to get motivated by something on TV last night-Fast and Furious 6 was on, and although I have not seen any of the Fast and Furious movies, I believe the plot generally revolves around stealing cars and driving fast. The name of the movie was enough for me to get some creative juices going. There’s probably some sex, things get blown up, and general bedlam ensues…none of that was on the agenda this am so it’s ok to keep reading….well, maybe a little bedlam but who knows?

Six of us gathered in the gloom trying to figure out who had the Q today and for the next few days while Gastone was gone. It was like we were missing Sargent Hulka during bootcamp (do you like that one Billy Madison? Name that movie!!). We got started with the pledge then a quick explanation of what inspired my weinke: Fast and Furious 6-the PAX were a little surprised during the warmup that we actually had a bona fide warmup-chalk that one up to the brown hair on my head being replaced by grey or no hair. It does not need to be much, but the warmup is important. I gave a very brief disclaimer then we were off…

WU: 10 IC SSH, Merkins, LBC, Imperial Walkers, mobile warmup around Pelican’s with buttkickers, high knees, slide this way, slide that way then mosey to the defunct Lowe’s grocery store parking lot for the THANG:

1 lap around parking lot, 6 hip slappers

2 laps around lot, 6 HS+6LBC

3 laps around lot, 6 HS+6LBC+6SumoSquats (a nod to Gastone for the SS)

4 laps around lot, 6HS+6LBC+6SS+6Merkins

5 laps around lot, 6HS+6LBC+6SS+6Merkins+6LittleBabyFlutterCrunches (thanks Pizza Man)

6 laps around lot, 6HS+6LBC+6Merkins+6LBFC+6DonkeyKicks

This was the plan however, the Q failed to remember the 2 laps during round 2 so we only did 1 lap, the 3 laps was really only 2 laps, and we got a lap dropped on the 4th round when Stone Cold was able to recall Merkins for that round so our 6 laps was really only 4 laps (if you followed that you probably live in Cramer Mountain and have soccer arms. If you don’t have a clue what I meant, then you probably live in LoGa or NoDa-honestly, I don’t know the difference which is probably because they are the same????…. just saying’). To make up for the Q fail, we did 10 reps during the final round of exercises.

During the workout I was overcome with what Bandit described as “Q Power” while we talking before the workout started. I don’t remember the details, but he mentioned the 45 minute burst of superhuman strength that seems to get us through leading a workout while we are Q that we normally would be dragging our butts in the 6 position if we were not leading-in other words, being Q gives you a boost of energy from the PAX. I had some things I wanted to talk about and had a little talk with myself during the mosey that I was going to try to talk during the laps instead of “wasting time” between the laps and called exercises. It worked out pretty well (at least in the beginning), except I made some mistakes with the number of laps. In the end it worked out well anyway based on time constraints. During the laps I tried to cover what Dredd had put out on Twitter the night before-I was thankful no one else had read it yet. Briefly, the lesson was basically about our Dolphin/Daffodil intersection (D2X) and why we should decline work outside our D2X. We have discussed the Dolphin and Daffodil in the past here in Gastonia, however, reading Dread’s post clarified some definitions that, to put it bluntly, I was completely wrong about. Look both of these up in the Lexicon, or better yet, read Dread’s post (I will try to retweet it: http://f3nation.com/2017/04/16/missionality-q2-3/) and then when you finish, read it 3 more times. You will get something different each time you read it. Basically, it explains why Bandit should not wash cars and why Monk should. It also explains why both of them should be able to change diapers and not shy away if the opportunity arises. If you don’t understand this then either A) you were not at Martha’s House this morning or 2) you have not read Dredd’s post at least twice yet. In either case, you would probably benefit from reading it.

We finished up with the idea of the fallacy that we all think we are somewhat indispensable in some way (or ways). HOWEVER, the truth is we are easily replaceable parts in most of our roles in life. There is a hospital in Atlanta that I worked at many years ago that is proof of this statement-the walls did not fall down after I left, and in fact, they expanded after I was gone and the hospital continues to do really well without me.

While I am writing this, I have come to the conclusion that, in my opinion, (again, this is my own opinion, not quoting Dredd on this part) the one area that we are relatively indispensable is our family life-the role we play with our kids and our M’s needs to be so important to us that no matter what, we should feel that we are utterly and completely indispensable. We are so vitally important to our M and 2.0s that we need to take this responsibility and duty so serious that no matter what, we make sure we do our utmost best to “chase perfection, and chase it RELENTLESSLY, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence” (quote from V Lombardi).

This was a great morning for me-thanks for coming out there guys. I still have a little of the Q power left over from the gloom.

Whoopee