Dragon Docking and Boarding the Internally Space Station

Here’s a couple of pictures of Dragon Docking earlier today. It was fun watching the docking process up until the crew boarded the international space station. 

Here’s a couple a pictures I got from just after they boarded the international space station. 

Dragon Launch 2020

We got to watch the launch today and we are looking forward to seeing the docking with the space station in the morning. At least we hope we get to see the docking. Here’s some pictures we took while watching on our tv.

Here’s a video I took from my cell phone of the launch on tv earlier today:

This was the first manned launch that T has seen live. I’m sure it will be the first of many for him. 

Getting Back At It

T is getting back at it. He’s been anxious to be able to train. Today, for the first time in about a month, he did some running, jump rope, stretching, pushups, crunches, and a little bit of control kicking to build strength and cardio back up from having been down from his hip, low back, leg injury. He’s feeling really good. He has some soreness but that’s to be expected when he had to take a break for his body to heal. He’s so excited to have been able to do anything. He’s glad to be on the other side of his injury now. It’s been a little bit of a journey to get here and this week coming up is dedicated to cardio and strength exercises so that the following week he can be ready to really get back to work while continuing to build upon his cardio and strength training. 

Launch America

We are so excited about #LaunchAmerica. We are really hoping that the weather holds out and they don’t get scrubbed from launching a second time. 

Here’s some information on the launch that is to take place:

Nearing Returning To Training

T is nearing being able to return to training. Loving that he’s feeling more back to normal. In our world you know he’s feeling spry when he starts trying to use us as TaeKwonDo kicking pads...LOL!  Glad his hip, low back, and leg has gotten so much better. Being able to do laser therapy twice a day at home has made all the difference in the world.  It has been the tipping point to getting him feeling like normal. We have a final appointment on Tuesday for them to check him and we are praying he can get back to training again. Of course after so much down time he’ll have to build his cardio/strength back up. He’s been stretching though and his flexibility is looking really good so that’s a plus.

New Shop Lights

New shop lights are going in. It’s a process. We have a big shop. The lights are in over our wash pit at least anyhow. 

Home Laser Therapy

T has advanced to home laser therapy for the next week two times a day. He gets to do a little jump roping, some stretching exercises, and strengthening exercises next week. Another step forward in his improvements and being able to get back to training. Woohoo🙌!!!

 

Update on T’s Leg 🦵

T had another laser therapy session today and it went well. He’s getting better each time he goes. He has another appointment on Friday. They have been focusing on his low back, hip, groin, and the two muscle groups in his quad on his left leg. This was a deeper injury this time, with other areas affected by the injury, so it’s taken a bit longer to bounce back than before. Thank God we have the extra time to take right now for his recovery without any pressing tournaments. It’s giving his body more time to heal completely in hopes that moving forward we can focus on strengthening that left side and make it as strong as the right side so we don’t have repeating injuries down the road. Strengthening is the key to getting past what he’s been dealing with in his quad muscle. It’s amazing how all those areas (hip, low back, groin, and quad muscles) work together though. One affects the other. We’ve been learning so much about those areas recently. Quite an education to say the least. That’s all we have for now. We’ll give another update as we have more to tell. 

Too Cute Not To Share

Check this video out of Wild Seal and Scuba Diver. 

Found this to be an interesting read

https://www.peterhaas.org/is-the-cure-killing-us-how-history-can-help-us-rethink-our-covid-response/

T’s Tokyo LEGO Build

Here’s a pic of T’s Tokyo build. 

Scot’s F40 LEGO Build

Scot got his F40 done several days ago but this is this first I’ve been able to take the pics so I can post them. 

Fun Times

T got all his schoolwork done and since he can’t train right now he’s taking advantage of being able to game with his friends. He was able to replace two broken headphones (to no fault of his own) and got the one you see in the picture. It’s a Corsair. So thankful for protection plans. He was able to get that headset with us only having to purchase a new protection plan😁.

Update on T’s Leg

Laser therapy treatments continue. T still isn’t where he needs to be to go back to training. He’s made amazing improvements but he’s just not there yet. He can’t wait to get back to training. It will be an easing back in stages from the doc said. When the green light is given I’m hoping to work with the coach on strengthening exercises for that leg and hip. Fun times. 

T’s Replacment Headset

T had two broken headsets. One for the Xbox and one for the PS4. On the PS4 one the transmitter broke to no fault to anything T did. The other had a cord and when T went to unplug it from his xbox controller the tip broke off inside the controller. Another malfunction due to nothing T had done. We have protection plans so we traded the two in for this new one that will work with both the gaming systems plus a pc/Mac and his Nintendo Switch. We put another protection plan on the new set but that was the only out of pocket cast to us😁. It’s a nice headset too. Here’s a pic of what he got. 

T’s new Gaming Mouse

T got a new gaming game mouse yesterday. He loves it. He tested it out but hasn’t been back on to give it an even longer test drive because we’ve been concentrating on school and getting his leg better so he can get back to training. 

Protection Plans

Just let me say I’m a big believer in Best Buy’s protection plans. We were able to replace three devices today and all we really had to pay was for the new protection plan on the new devices. It saved us $300+ today. At least now we have new ones being shipped to us. Woohoo🙌!

Yoda Lego Build

T finished the Yoda Lego build. 
He really loved this build. It was difficult because of all the tiny pieces and all the tan pieces he had to deal with. Now it has a home on his dresser in his bedroom. 

Lego VW Beetle Bug Build

I finished this build finally.