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Yesterday afternoon (Sunday) my family and I went over to my parents’ house to celebrate my Grandma’s birthday. My cousin went to the Rams football game yesterday with his good friend, Jason, and some woman I’d never met before. They came over to my parents’ house after the game. The two men (my cousin and Jason) were pretty well hammered by the time they got to my parents’ house, and the woman I’d never before met had also been drinking.

She immediately made herself at home, pouring herself a drink from my dad’s bar, hugging Grandma, playing with my two children. What was odd was that nobody seemed to know who she was. Now, Grandma’s a pretty hep lady; still dances several times a week, plays cards, plays and sings periodically in a band, goes on several trips a year, etc. To be perfectly clear here, my Grandmother is one of the coolest people I know. She took all this in stride.

At some point, it becomes apparent that this woman is just somebody they picked up at the football game. They don’t even know who she is.

Dad

~pulling my cousing aside~ What they hell are you doing? …just bringing some random girl to my house? …for your grandmother’s birthday?

Cousin

~slurring his speech real good~ Well, if you wanna get technical, Uncle Larry, she brought us. We’re way too drunk to drive. My car’s still at the stadium.

Awesome. What do you say to that? My dad just laughed, shook his head, walked away.

Workout

This is going to be a super-low volume week. I’m still sore from the last five weeks, not recovering well. Need a break. I’m testing my 1RM in several lifts this week and that’s about it.

Work Up to 1RM Back Squat

330# !

Work Up to 1RM Bench Press

235# !

I put 15# on my squat in 5 weeks and 10# on my bench in as much time. The funny thing about that is, I haven’t bench pressed even once in the last five weeks. I’ve done weighted dips and push presses and bent-over barbell rows…but no bench. And it still went up 10#.

Squats really are a miracle lift.