I worked up to my openers last night. Squat 160kg (actually 355#) was like butter. I might do 162.5kg instead. Bench 85kg. Still fumbling with the competition pause, still pathetic. Deadlift I had planned 170, but did 175kg and felt great about it. I just hit those singles and went home. Quick day. The squat makes me think I might hit 400# on Saturday, which is a Good Thing. I may play conservative and hit 180kg instead. I am definitely going over 400# on the deadlift. There were some strong people there last night. I am quite weak compared to them. I talked about programming with one a little bit. I think I will take next week sort of "off", then take a couple weeks to work strength strictly, then start to taper more into Olympic weightlifting, then have like 4 weeks of working a very traditional weightlifting template, and then have the week of the meet.

I didn't like this week's homework. I just couldn't quite figure out how to prove the stationarity of this process. Weak stationarity is trivial, but we don't have joint normality, which would make it follow from that. And I wasn't quite clear how much detail I was supposed to go into when it came to some of these other proofs - there are sketchy proofs in the book which make complete sense, so I think we're supposed to go into detail, but when you try to write the detail, as you write it, it just doesn't make sense to write more because it is so trivially simplified to... what is in the book. It's equivalent to worrying about simplifying (7+3)*4+(6+1)*5 as 40+35 or 10*4+7*5 and then 40+35. Stupid.

YNAB is a great budgeting tool.

Teh Wife and I are thinking of buying a share in a CSA. Woo fresh produce. Any thoughts/advices/knowledges? I was thinking of doing a half share at first to make sure we actually do it, and next year doing a full share. There's a good produce store nearby, so we can easily supplement if it's an insufficient amount of produce. Meat shares and egg shares sound intriguing, but I don't know how practical they are for us, so am interested in feedback.

mmm, meat.