Tales From the Milk Drinker

A stupid statement - "Why do bad things like this always happen to good people"

Traditionally muttered by someone who ________ (car breaks down, fails exam in school, catches the flu, etc.)

Do you ever hear someone who is suffering some specified hardship say "Makes sense. I'm a rotten prick so I guess I deserved this."

You wouldn't think a piece of cloth can help you squat 50-75 pounds more than what you can normally do, but Big Blue pulled it off for me this week. Either that or this is a pair of special overalls for fags.  

Officially 10 days of classes left. Yaaaaaaaaa Budddddddddy! Easy work!

Some deep though philosphical crud I've learned about me:

1. I love to challenge myself by trying to do things I don't know for sure I can do properly

2. I would NEVER admit #1 to anyone

3. I'm rarely ever satisfied with what I have. I always want more.


Also a shout out to Shaefer in Calgary. Yes I agree protien bars taste "acceptable" at best. it's the same for the dry protien mix. One concern with the bars is that they're loaded with sugar to make them taste better. They're basically a candy bar with some protien powder stuck in. However, if you can bear the taste and cost I feel they're an effictive post-workout snack to hold you over till the next meal. And I feel that You personally are not going to get fat no matter how much sugar you eat, within practical limits. But remember - whole food is always better than a supplement but a supplement is always better than a skipped meal.

P.S. I tried the squat suit again yesterday. Much better results this time. Took 405 lbs for a ride down to what my digital camera showed me was borderline depth (I would want it an inch or two deeper to be confidant it would be okay in a competition, but it's possible it was fine). There's no way that I could've lifted that much without the suit. It works for sure, I just need to be more familiar with it.

I'm going through that wonderful/awful phase when you can see the end of the semester and you have the list of what you need to do to end it. But you just can't seem to get going. I need to:

Pull a senior project proposal out of my ass (no one make any suggestions, I'm redisgning bench press equipment, I just need to sit down and produce something)

Write a paper and prepare to present it for Metal Cutting

Do the Formal Lab Write Up for Thermo

And the regular assignments


That doesn't look as bad as I thought now that I write it down. The last day of class is three weeks from yesterday. I'm confidant I'll pull it all together. I just wish I didn't have to. Then again, I bet working at the wrong job could suck way worse than this.

Yup. It's time for having a cold. It first showed it's ugly head last wednesday but I kept it supressed somehow. Now yesterday my nose was running a lot and now my throat is sore. So I said screw my school work and me and Am watch "The Perfect Man". A true girly movie. And I had ice cream.

Got to see D double dippy while I was home this weekend and we had a perfect idear for a halloween costume if I'm in the C dot next year. I'm going to wear a big yellow hat and a yellow shirt and he's going to dress up like a monkey and I'm going to walk him around the wave all night. That's right, curious george.

I tried squatting in my new squat suit yesterday. It's a tad tight on the hips and as a result I was having some troubles hitting parallel. In fact I tried with four plates (405 pounds for you non-plate savy) and I still could not get down all the way. It might be time to lose ten pounds. I carry a lot of fat on my inner legs and I think if I peeled a little of that away the suit would sit better and I'ld be able to get a LOT out of it.

Well I'm off to ethics. Since senior project proposal class always sucks I'll skip it today to come home and nap to fight my cold. Hope you all have a good day.

It's been a very office work type of week so I decided to spice it up by picking up the oil for my next oil change. Since winter's coming and Fredericton is "Cold as a witches teet" I decided on the best damb cold weather oil I could get my hands on - Castrol full synthetic 0W30. Perhaps I can take a cue from Neil's delightful blog and lay down today's lesson plan.

The reason most oils have two numbers separated by a W will be explained here. The first number is the viscosity ("thickness" for those of you non-engineering savy) the oil has when it is cold, when you start your car up after it's been sitting all night (or a few hours). For example a number like 100 would be very thick like molasses while a number 5 would be pretty thin, more like water. Now the numbers are separated by a W which stands for Weight I believe (a thick oil being called high weight). The second number indicates the viscosity when the oil has reached the normal operating temperature inside your car's hot engine.

The second number is normally dictated by how your engine was built. A car comes from the factory recommending a specific second number. 30 is very popular, and 20 and 40 are used in some common cars also. (Some believe using a lower number like 20 can contribute to reduced fuel consumption because the engine has to fight less resistance from the oil while running). The first number should be influenced by the ambient temperatures you experience in the region you live. Now I fully expect it to get really cold here in Fredericton (maybe -45 Celsius some mornings in February) so I went with a 0. Five and Ten are more common.

My lower first number means my oil will not thicken up like molasses as much as most oils when the cold cold weather hits. This means when I start my car in the morning it will not sound so slow when I turn the key to make it start. The main reason I want thinner oil is because my pump will do a better job of moving the thin oil, getting oil to the vital parts of my engine faster to protect them. Much of the total wear an engine recieves in it's lifetime comes from all the milliseconds it spends just after it's been started up before the oil has a chance to reach the parts that need protecting. When the engine is all warmed up there is actually an incredibly small amount of wear. If you were to start an engine and run it at a constant speed it would by far outlast an engine that sees duty in a regular car, always starting and stopping a few times a day.

That's it for tonight boys and girls. Man I'm a geek.

Yes sir I like my hydrodynamic lubrication!