Insanity | Week 8
Mon: Max Interval Circuit (80%)
Tue: Max Interval Plyo (95%)
Wed: Max Cardio Conditioning (102%) + Walk to School Wed./MOWING!
Thu: Max Cardio Recovery & Off to AASL—Charlotte
Nutrition/Eating Log

Lots to do this week, keeping things simple and direct. Workouts = great. Body changes = happening in earnest. Insanity = insanely great. Bring it this week, people.

Note from this weekend, had the chance to watch Battlestar Galactica: The Plan. It's basically a two-hour movie, tacked on to the 4-year series that aired on SciFi. Amazing show, award-winning writing, strong overtones of our post-9/11 world, terrorism, murder, all that.

Thinking back over The Plan, realized that there's a small scene that's a metaphor for the entire premise of the show, and the original.

A boy refugee, with no place to go, keeps popping up in the room of the ring-leader 1 Cylon on Galactica. (Basically, survivors are living on the ship -- survivors of the near-total destruction of the 12 Colonies of humans by their once-enslaved sentient robotic inventions (the Cylons), which fought back (think of the '70s version), then left, and returned 30 years later to nuke the colonies in revenge (this is where the new BSG picked up in 2004.) The Battlestar Galactica is the only remaining "battleship" of the fleet left, and the survivors, including stow-away now-humanoid-looking-Cylons, which have numbers instead of names. The 1's are leaders/many copies of each humanoid Cylon model.)

One day, this boy walks in, without a word, and innocently hands this Clyon 1 an apple to share.

To me, that's like Man/our race, as a child, with no understanding of what we were doing, handing the Cylons perfect AI, sentience. Life.

So the 1 cuts the apple in half, shares it, then... this 1 so coldly pays back this boy for his innocence. Our innocence.

The boy takes a bite, smiles, and the 1 takes the knife and slides it quickly, quietly into the boy's side, who's eyes go wide, then slumps to the bed. Dead.

The 1 brushes his lifeless body onto the floor, and returns to his reading. Cold. Murder.

Reading too much into it? Maybe. Thinking of the tree of knowledge, Garden of Eden stuff, and the Cylons were dead set on knocking us out of Eden. For sure. And we've been paying for that innocence/arrogance ever since.

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