Weider Total Body Works 5000

I bought this home gym from the Walmart website a couple years ago called the Weider Total Body Works 5000 and at the time it was $99.  I forgot how much the shipping was though.  But I just went to do a search on that particular brand that I have to see if there was any new information such as blogs or instructional videos or whatever to give me more of an insight into this gym which houses more dust and spiderwebs that it should and I find that they dramatically raised the price to $174.  It looks like I bought it just in the nick of time.

My friend Sue calls it my Weider Total Towel Rack 5000 lol.  My aunt Betty has a treadmill in her living room and when I was there the last time it was folded it and it actually did have towels hanging on it lol.  I had to joke with her about that.

We Got Carded for Wood Putty?

Ok, I've been carded in my life for cigarettes when I was younger.  I've been carded for booze when I went into the bars when I was younger or when buying beer from the store.  No problem.  But I've never been carded for buying wood putty.

We went to Home Depot for prices on linoleum floors for the kitchen in the rental and while we were there Chip needed some wood putty and we went to the self checkout lanes.  I scanned the wood putty and the screen said that we needed assistance from the employee who had to check Chips ID.

I've talked about Chip here in my blog on several occasion.  He is 59 years old and he has gray hair.  He is hardly a person that you would card for something let alone wood putty.

I can understand carding for spray paint because I'm sure teenagers are always buying spray paint but wood putty?  Sheesh.  What could you possibly do with wood putty that would be destructive to someone else's property?

Whatever.

Solution To My Problem

I've been thinking that maybe the solution to my bike seat problem might be easier.  When I was 17 I had a beach cruiser bicycle.  The seat was fat in the back and the horn was very small.  It's handlebars were long enough that I could sit up while riding so I never had any back issues.

My bike is a mountain bike.  I only bought a "mountain bike" because of the price.  I bought it at Wal•mart for $60.  I really wanted a beach cruiser but they were too expensive at the time and same with the 10 speed road bikes.  The mountain bike was my only cheap alternative.

I've already changed out most of the bike and it's mainly just the frame that is the same so why not just take the handlebar off and put a new one on lol.  When I get my next check I plan on buying one of these:



It's long enough that I won't have to bend even a little bit to reach and I can sit up fully while riding.  As long as my seat is in the right position I won't feel like I'm falling forward as long as I have some longer handlebars.

This handlebar is $10 plus $5 shipping from NYCBikes.com which is not bad at all.  However, I'm not sure if I want to wait for it to ship to me.  I mean, we have a bike store in town (they don't have a website :() so I'm going to check with them first.  Hopefully they will have a black one so I don't have to spray paint it lol.

I will probably have to wait another week or so before I can ride my bike again so by the time I get this I will be healed up again hopefully and I can resume my 4:30am bike rides.  I can also add more crap to my seat lol.

Oh the only issue I can see with this is that the brakes won't be long enough to reach to the end of the handlebars but that's ok, I'm sure that when I need them I will be able to reach for them.  Or maybe they will be long enough to get close to the end of the handlebars.

But you know what?  Maybe I'm going at this all wrong.  Beach Cruiser bikes are probably not that expensive at Walmart.  The last time we were there they were $60 so maybe I should just get a new bike.  Beach Cruiser bikes don't have hand brakes.  All you do is peddle backwards and you stop lol.  They don't even have gears which might make it a bit easier.  I'll think about it.

Shrinking Jug Keeps Milk Fresh For Another Week

Check this out from Dvice.com

Shrinking Jug Keeps Milk Fresh For Another Week

That is so cool!  I want one.  All you do is pour your new gallon of milk into it and then close it.  When you want some milk you just push the button and the milk pours into your glass or cereal bowl and the container shrinks in the process.  Since we always buy 2 gallons of milk I think it would be appropriate to buy 2 of these.  Although if one of these containers cost $20 - $100 then perhaps 1 will do lol.

It works by keeping the air out so when you open the milk it starts going bad because the air does something to it... just read the article, it makes more sense when they say what it does.

Obama's Beef with Cambridge Police

By now everyone who has a television or reads a newspaper or even surfs the internet (and if none of those you at least have a friend who told you) you know about this whole thing with Obama saying the word "stupidly" about the Cambridge police about their arrest of the Harvard professor in his home.

Well little did you know, Obama has a reason to be so spiteful.  Check this out:

'Scofflaw' Obama Grudge Against Cambridge Police?

Now, I would think that you, as a president, who wanted to hide this before running for president would want to keep quiet about all of your deadbeat years.  But nooooo you just had to say something that made people dig up your past showing us your true colors.

I don't talk about certain things in my blog that would offend anyone such as religion and politics but I just had to add this article.

Back Meds

I went to the neurologist today for my regular appointment for my carpel tunnel syndrome and I mentioned the problems with my back and they gave me a steroid and a muscle relaxer.

I have to take one of them every 8 hours and the other one I have to take 6 pills today, 5 tomorrow 4 day after, 3 day after that, 2 day after that and then 1 on the last day.

I really hope this pain is gone at the end of this because I really want to resume my exercise.  I'm going to add strength exercises as well because I think that my back muscles just were not prepared for this new seat.