MEDIOCRE HONEY-ROASTED PEANUTS: Quartering phone books, Corey's gripbar, quizzes

Alessandra (dru_it) received my Christmas card yesterday, and commented to my thanks telling me so. I like that. :D

Last night, Corey emailed me some pictures of him tearing apart phone books: this one was 856 pages, plus covers. His Indonesian doctor friend Gercelina (Gercie for short) didn't believe that one of his favorite grip things was doing that, so he had to show her even though he was worn out from doing gripbar stuff earlier. (not BOMB stuff!) His isn't all welded together and painted, though. He just bought a pipe and screwed a round flange on the end to hold the weight on. So his only cost a few bucks! He halved AND quartered this one, when he's never fully quartered one before... that requires busting through the binding when you rip that half, which is kinda hard... he got it this time, for the first time. Tearing phone books requires a different type of grip muscles than the Vbar stuff does... Vbar is mainly crushing grip, like grippers. Phone books are more of a pinch grip thing, so he was definitely worn out after doing that!

These pictures would be even more evidence for Eric H.'s assertion that he is a strongman, haha. (where IS he these days, anyhow?) The marker he used for that has one of those angled tip dealies: it's thick one direction, then you go a different way and it's all thin. It's actually a semi-expensive art pen in the older style, but he's been using it to label CDs these days. He has at least a few other black ones, which are pretty cool. They have alcohol-based ink... you can actually blend them with other colors. They're also not all streaky, and it fills in areas pretty solidly.