I had a very good weekend and a very mixed Monday.

Let me tell you about them both, now that it’s Tuesday. Your Daily Lex My trainer had asked me to go get a body scan.

And an in-body is a brand, they make a scale that you stand on, it’s got some handheld parts on it too, it sends electrical current through you and it can measure not just your weight, but also like what percentage of your body is lean mass, or what’s your bone density and muscle, whatever.

And you know, I use a smart scale at home that doesn’t have a handheld part, so it has to do some math.

These scales are imperfect, but they’re at least indicative.

You know, I’m finished with the weight loss phase and I’m finished with the metabolic reversal phase and I’m in the build phase.

And so trainer Ursula was like, why don’t we get a baseline starting point to know where you are?

So I went and got this scan.

I got a three pack of them for $100 so I can get it.

And first of all, when I go into the gym where I’m going to get this test done, it’s totally empty.

It’s unlocked, but it’s empty.

And I know I’m there first thing in the morning, that’s when my appointment time was.

And it’s just weird because I could have stolen everything in there.

Other than the fact that, you know, much of it was dumbbells and I would have had a hard time taking them all out.

Eventually an employee came in.

I have no idea why it was unlocked, but it was.

And I do the scan, which takes, you know, a couple of minutes tops.

And I looked at the numbers and thought, huh, okay.

Because I’m not at my lightest since I’ve done this process because I’ve been doing the metabolic reversal and slowly packing on some weight, which is by design.

And so I sent a screenshot of the results of the trainer and he’s like, holy crap.

He actually swore.

And yeah, although you could add or subtract 3% for some of these answers, it said that I was 10.8% body fat.

So even if that meant that I was 14% body fat, that’s still mind blowing.

I remember early on one of my…

Where Ursula was like, hey, what’s your, what does Ursula want your body fat to be?

And I asked Ursula and he’s like 14%.

So I tell my buddy Craig 14%.

And Craig’s like, that doesn’t seem possible.

And now according to this test, I’m at 10.8%.

Even if you add three to it, I’m still under 14%.

That’s how math works.

And so Ursula’s point was basically, hey, we really don’t have to do a…

You already have the muscle density that we want.

You’re already really lean.

Like we can do a mini build at most.

And like, this could just be your walking around weight.

And I’m like, well, I’ve put on some pounds since we did this.

I don’t know if I want to be carrying 188.

I think I’d like to be closer to, you know, 183, 185.

And Ursula’s advocating the 190s where I should go, but we’ll see.

I think I’m going to aim for 185.

But yeah, so that was exciting.

And it put me in a good mood because I didn’t know the numbers were gonna be that good.

And they were.

So yesterday I did the first of three trainings I’ll be doing on consecutive Mondays to become a hospice volunteer.

And you may be wondering as were they.

There were eight people in this training.

And the first thing we did was we met the person next to the group.

And one of the questions they want to know is what made you want to be a hospice volunteer?

And everybody else in the room, well, there were two college rising sophomores who were both pre-med and they were saying they wanted to understand the hospice side of things as part of their pre-med training.

Makes sense.

Five other people all had gone through family through hospice and wanted to pay forward the goodness or helpfulness they found from the hospice volunteers who had worked with them.

And then there was me.

And I gave the honest answer to my interviewer who then told it to the group saying, I woke up one day and said, you know, I think I should be a hospice volunteer.

I have no idea why this thought happened, but I woke up with this loudest thought and it wouldn’t go away.

So I signed up.

You know, we had to tell various things about ourselves, which I did.

And when Joyce, I introduced Joyce who has five adult children, the youngest of whom is a couple years older than me.

So that gives you a sense of how old Joyce is.

And she has a late husband whom she missed.

I shared various facts about her.

So then she’s sharing various facts about me, including the fact that I do some acting in community theater.

And she’s like, and blah, blah, blah.

And also Lex is very handsome.

And I’m like, well, I just want to be clear.

I didn’t say that.

And she’s like, Joyce, again, this lovely older woman says, well, he didn’t say that, but I think it speaks for itself.

So according to Joyce, who is roughly a thousand years old.

But so it was, you know, obviously there are some sadder aspects to hospice.

Like it exists because people are dying, but death is a part of life, as they said 800 times.

The frustrating part of the training, let me do some math in my head.

Five hours long.

And it was probably about 30 minutes of content.

If I wanted to be really generous, maybe 45 minutes of content stretched over five hours.

And that is really boring.

It was very hard for me to take in information that slowly.

I mean, talk to us as well.

A nurse, a music therapist and a social worker.

And the nurse was actually on video recorded three years ago because I clearly that nurse realized that this training was way over time.

But I was so wishing we could play the nurse’s video back at 1.5 X or 1.75 X because slowly.

And listen, I fully respect the need to be trained before one can go be a hospice volunteer.

But man, it could have been an email.

I get that not everybody’s going to read or pay attention.

They have a process and I will respect that process, but it was long and boring.

Then I also had rehearsal last night and long and boring.

It was long and it went late.

It was scheduled to go late and it did.

But we haven’t run the show in several days and the show was 10 days away.

And I would really like to run the show a lot before then.

And we’ll run it some, but I don’t think we’re going to run it tonight because we still are doing various cleaning up of things.

And you feel a little bit behind the show.

Sometimes you don’t.

When I did Same Time Next Year, I did not feel behind.

We started running the show and running the show and running the show.

And that was great.

I love running it.

Some directors get nervous.

Some actors get nervous.

If you run the show too much, it gets like old.

Not me.

I like to know it like the back of my hand.

I like doing it over and over and over again and being ready.

And we have not done that.

So hopefully if we don’t run it tonight, we can run it tomorrow.

Things that have to happen in these tech weeks of the sound crew and the lightning crew and everything else.

So it’s not all about the actors, but the actors haven’t done enough work yet.

We need to do more.

So here’s hoping.

Anyway, that’s me.

Hope you’re having a wonderful June 2nd.

Goodbye. Lex.