I love Van Winkle. He’s super smooth—like he always looks cool, even when he’s sweaty and stanky , he looks cool. And he’s a financial GURU. Probably the best accounting guy in the Metro. Rumor has it this is a genetic thing—his ancestors created the concept of the decimal point, rounding up, and currency conversions. Before Van Winkles ancestors got involved, the dollar, the rupee, and the shekel all were traded at a 1:1 rate. So, I obviously like having him at the beatdown.
Except for this past Tuesday at ALS. I know Van Winkle has a date with retirement in the future, but I had no idea that he had found a new thing to put his efforts into. I mean, guys like VW usually have their last day, do consulting with their former employer for a year or two, and then sell Jaguar parts online (see Midget for explanation here). But VW has found a gig to get behind that he is really nuts about. You know that scene in Caddy Shack where Bill Murray has the pitchfork at the kid’s chest and he is telling the “looper” story? The one with the Dali llama? That’s how it was with me and VW.
Seems VW as invested everything he has in the latest form of alternative currency. He claims it’s like Bitcoin, but instead of being tied to am algorithm. his currency is tied to one material—manure. As in fertilizer. Poo. Dung.
I’m just not sure I want to invest in a company called “ShitCoin.” But more on that later.
We started out with the standard. Because even new currencies have to have standards.
Then we moseyed down the Selwyn drive, doing 5 stump jumpers at each lamppost till we got to Colony. Next, head to the MPHS tennis courts and do 10 squats at each power pole along the way.
At the tennis courts, we got into that alley/ditch/crevice between the courts and the driveway. The plan was to do merkins and Jlo, but DoReMi ran his yapper so we had to do burpees and merkins—climbing the wall, and the retaining wall in between. Ya gotta love 11’s. It was super duper fun.
Mosey to Colony, and repeato on the 10 squats at power poles on the way to home.
Partner up for 5 rounds of partner work by the baseball outfield fence. Partner 1 runs the hill and does Tijuana dreamers, partner 2 does Bulgarian split squats.
Head back down the Selwyn drive with 10 stump jumpers (5 was not enough earlier).
Circle up for 4 minutes of Mary while we listen to Sara Bareilles sing “Sweet As Whole”.
NMM: Pretty good beat down, although far from original. I combined a couple of different prior workouts into 1. Except for the end—I am hoping the Sara Bareilles tune combined with my vocal overlay was the end-of-workout motivation the pax needed.
Announcements: Blood drive is around the corner.
F3 give is on. DOREMI put his money where his mouth is (which is a lot of money) and contributed $20 for each pax that posted today. Think about a gym membership when you are considering how much to kick in. YHC has agreed to contribute his 2019 Redbull and Vodka $$ (approx... $400).