Mind matters

Today I went to do weight lifting for the first time in 4 weeks. I’ve been so tired lately that I have not had energy enough to overcome my internal resistance to training. Now I pay for my good intention with an aching back! What I did was try to do back lifts (you know, bending over a bench face down and rising the upper body using the lower back muscles) with the same weight I did before my 4 week break, and when I did my first rising I heard a ‘knicks’ from my lower back and felt a sharp pain! Ouch!

I moved around a little to make sure it wasn’t a slipped disk (diskbråck) that I was experiencing. I hope it isn’t. Not sure how one of those feel, but I’ve been told they can be really painful! I’ll live with the pain for a while and see if it gets better on itself, otherwise I’ll have to seek medical attention.

Nevertheless I continued to train a bit, with exercises that didn’t affect my back, and that worked fine. Later this evening I also conducted the Aikido class. I couldn’t run, that hurt like hell! But I could do forward and backward rolls! Very weird.

Oh, and Stargate. I’ve borrowed DVDs with Stargate SG-1, the TV-series, from a friend. That’s 16 discs with 8 seasons, 22 episodes each season and 42 min per episode. I started watching last week. Now I just finished season 5. That’s like 5*22*42 = 77 hours of viewing time! Cheesus!

The series was of to a slow start, but now it has picked up it’s pace. I really like the characters, especially Richard Dean Anderson, who many remember as MacGyver. Richard plays the role of colonel Jack O’Neill, who leads a team of 4 people with the designation of SG-1. During the show, more SG-teams are assigned. I think there’s 13 or so right now. What they do, is to use a system of gateways, Stargates, to travel to other planets and explore. Oh, and also seek technology and allies which can be used to defend earth from the Goa’ould, a powerful race of parasitic symbiots who try to rule the galaxy.

The best part of the show is the dialouge, I think. Sometimes it’s really, really funny Here’s an example. I don’t know if the dialogue stands for itself, or if you need to have developed a knowledge of the characters before it becomes funny. Anyhoo, this is when Teal’c (one of the four in SG-1) is dying, and O’Neill and Daniel (another one of the SG-1) are talking to him:

O’Neill - “Va’lar,” is that what he said?
Daniel - I thought he said “velour.”
O’Neill - Velour?
Daniel - Velour.
O’Neill - The fabric?
Daniel - That’s what I heard him say.
O’Neill - Why would he say that?
Daniel - I don’t know. Why would he say “Va’lar”?
O’Neill - I don’t know.

Anyway. Right now I think it’s a really good show, and there’s 10 seasons of it Time to watch a couple more episodes!

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