Rules For Life at Old School

9 Pax roll in on a beautifully chilly morn in downtown Dallas, NC. Pizza Man, Seuss, Gavel and Wirenut ran some EC too. Too cold to stand around, so my adopted little brother Pizza Man says it is time, so let’s go!

Warmup
SSH x 20 IC, Squats x 10 IC, Cotton Pickers x 10 IC, Right Over Left and LOR Stretches, Plank and then stretch right foot to right hand, then left, 5 burpees OYO for Slaw. I like to have some words of wisdom passed along in each of my Q’s and today I read 12 quotes from Jordan Peterson a Canadian clinical psychologist, author and YouTube personality that I enjoy reading. First 2 quotes.
1. “Make friends with people who want the best for you.”
2. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

Let’s mosey out to Trade street past Sammie’s to the newest parking lot in Dallas beside the old jailhouse for some sidewalk chalk work. 7 spaces had the following exercises written in chalk. Pick a space to start. Do the exercise (single count), run a lap around the hillier than expected parking lot and then move to the next space until all are done or time is called which was around 25 minutes in.
10 burpees
20 Merkins
30 CDD’s
40 squats
50 LBC’s
60 Lunges (count each leg)
70 SSH
Read 2 more quotes from JP.
3. “Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”
4. “Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).”

Mosey back across the street to Paw Paw’s pizza (inside joke for Slaw and Blart) then right to the Court House Gazebo and on your six for a shorter version of a Tool Time Core Time. Lots of discussion of fond memories from happenings in this same gazebo in days gone by. Love to hear the tales from all the locals.
In cadence x 15.
American Hammers
Flutter Kicks
LBC’s
Dying Cockroaches
WWI’s
One minute low plank
Read 2 more quotes.
5. “Tell the truth — or, at least, don’t lie.”
6. “Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.”

Mosey down the road a ways to Dallas Church of God entrance with a little hill for 11’s.
Hand Release Merkins at top
CDD’s at bottom.
Read 2 more quotes.
7. “Be precise in your speech”
8. “You’re going to pay a price for every thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.”

Mosey back to flag and we planked while I read the last 4 Jordan Peterson quotes.
9. “When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” Freight really liked that one.
10. “You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
11. “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.” F3 is working to fix this one!
12. “In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.”

Announcements:
Rice and Beans coming to Gastonia. Look for specifics on Slack.
Q school January 22nd at Gashouse (hoping Sister Act will attend)
Per New Nantan Sargento “Always Be EHing!”

Prayer Requests:
Gumby
Wirenut’s Aunt
Roundup and M and babies
Pizza Man’s grandma in her new place
Freight took us out.

*NMM Thanks to all of the Pax that showed up. We got in over 3 miles and a lot of reps this morning with lots of rock pushers helping us all to get better. Pizza Man had to hurry home after the workout as he was obviously wearing his wife’s shorts! Wirenut was keeping us honest on our (mostly my) form today. A Blart CDD is an interesting sight and we hear he may be starting a book club soon! Slawbag had Mexican food last night and don’t ask how we know. Haze was kinda quiet this morning but he did manage at least two “C’mon Leppard’s” as he passes me! There was some story about Freight on a scavenger hunt and winding up engaged or winning $200 or something like that!