Sunday I went to see the "Amazing Caves" IMax at the Museum of Nature and Science. I was okay for almost all of it: the repelling down a cliff to a cave mouth in Arizona, the unstable ice cave in Greenland, even most of the cave diving in Mexico. Only when a cave diver removed her tanks to squeeze them before her through a hole and then followed them did I get squeamish, if not actually queasy.
Afterward I strolled through the park and signed a petition near a demonstration for an off-leash area. It really is ridiculous that dogs can't run and play in city parks, as children may. No wonder they have behavior problems (as inactive children do): they're not permitted to be who they are. A coworker was there with her two Frisbee dogs, and there were a three-month-old hound mix (spotted, with big ears: my favorite of the bunch), two Newfs (not with Frisbees), many border collies and heelers and mixes, a sleek doberman, labs and lab mixes, easily two dozen dogs. And the only ones who barked (and that incessantly) were two dustmops--they must have been so jealous of the real dogs of worthwhile sizes and commensurate physical ability. A Newfie might not be a good Frisbee dog, but at least it can rescue a drowning fisherman.
My notstepmother's Yorkshire terrier is at least somewhat of a dog, and my father has certainly encouraged his more aggressive behaviors (like trying to chase away all the birds who live in their hedges). Now my sister has Kitty, and of course there's Blake. My sister observed, "The kids' table at Thanksgiving is going to be a nightmare now."
Two 3.8 mile city rides, and then later
Seated row, 3x12 @60
Tricep rope pull, 3x12 @20 (that pulley thing is weird. When I did 20, the pulley would pop and it'd be super easy; when I put the pin in 30, the pulley wouldn't pop and I could barely budge the rope)
Hack squats, 3x10 @120
Iso Lat pull downs, 3x12 @75
Something that used different and more back muscles, 3x12 @100
50 back extensions
Whatever isolated muscle at the top of the shoulder, 1x10 @30 and then to exhaustion (maybe eight) at 20.