Bottom Locker Blag!

I graduated college, I figured it was time for a change. Already posting almost every day, and I AM going to keep it up. So far I've gotten material for it from my everyday life. Seems easy enough.

A couple of weekends ago, a group of my friends and I went to Wagner's Winery and brewery. Its about 40 minutes away from Ithaca, and was pretty cool.

Looking back at my notes, we ha

d some pretty phenomenal tasting wines, and some not-so-great tasting wines. One of their wines that they had stored in stainless steel barrels (rather than their oak barrels) was notable, and my notes read "Taste like a toyota camry." Other wines, however, were delicious, as a particular red caught Josh's taste buds when he wrote "I want to take this wine back outside and get it pregnant."

Either way, wine and beer tasting was a pretty fun experience. Heres a group shot:

Afterwords, we went to the Pines to get Pines burgers (you'd be surprised how much wine tasting gets your appetite up). We also played pool, which is when I play pool as if I am actually in a swimming pool, and that I have to get better.

-Vanish

PS I know this post was kind of boring, but I had to write something!

For spring break I went out to California to visit my friend Steve, who is a year older than me and is currently studying at Stanford. We had the same course of study in undergrad (environmental engineering) and through some strange scheduling mishap, he took all junior level classes his senior year (and thus, how we became such good friends). So Steve, his roommate and I took a trip down the california coast line. We drove down highway 1 (often regarded as one of the great American roadtrips), seeing the entire coastline. I was planning on keeping a journal to post. Instead I tweeted the whole trip until my phone died on the second to last day.

Well, the phone didn't exactly die. It only worked if you plugged it into a wall, effectively making it the least useful cellphone ever.

Here are the tweets

P.S. I have a post from my travels in Cali ready go to for tomorrow

Most of my friends (also some of the more rational and bet savvy people I know) are adamant that he CAN'T do it (and thus bet $10 against him). He (a fairly driven and inshape person) is adamant that he CAN do it. He has a contract and bet list outside of his room. We had a party last weekend and somehow he convinced a ton of people to bet on him for this challenge.

The Stakes: He has six weeks (As of last week) to train and do the pushups in front of no fewer than two people. His legs can never touch the ground and can only rest in the top position of the pushup. If he fails on one attempt, he has 24 hours to reattempt to complete the feat. If he fails, the bettors on the right side of the line get the spoils.

I am slightly torn on which way to bet. On one hand, he can currently do at least 25 pushups in a row. To do 100 in a row, it would have to be a 400% increase in pushup capacity over six weeks. This seems like a lot, but it may be analogous to increasing the amount that you can run from 1 mile to 4 miles over 6 weeks. That is very doable.

On the other hand, pushups are really hard. I workout fairly often, and I'll sometimes actually do a 100 pushup challenge at the end of the week. The first time I did it, it took me 10 minutes and 30 seconds (with stoppage). The last time I've done it, it took me 7 minutes to do them (with stoppage). As Josh says, "If Vanish can't do it, Justin can't do it. Thats my reasoning." While I appreciate the sentiment, I still concede that Justin may be in better shape than I am. That fact aside, doing pushups is again, really hard (harder than running). I think that it will take more than just three workouts a week for six weeks (18 workouts) to be able to do 100 pushups straight.

The Verdict: I don't think he can do it, even if he does stay disciplined and do all of the workouts. Its just not enough work to build up to 100 pushups.

What do you think? Do you think he can do it? Let me know!