P90X Day 6: Kenpo X (NOT!)

Boy, of all the programs in P90X that I was most excited about, Kenpo X was it, and today was supposed to be the day!  I have struggled through many of the workouts because I knew I would be getting to the martial arts based workout!  So I woke up this morning a little late, really tired, but willing to go because it was going to be Kenpo X, pulled out the DVD, put it in the player and...NOTHING.  NADA. ZIP.  All I got was an error message that said the disc was uplayable.  Okay, no big deal...the DVDs come in a cardboard sleeve holder, so maybe it's scratched or has some grah-doo on it.  No big deal, I'll just clean it up...except that it looks perfect.  Uh oh.  So I pop it in my MacBook Pro and it says, "Scanning damaged sections of the disc", but it never actually plays.  Crap.

So, frustrated, I call customer service and get Aphu from "The Simpsons", except that Aphu would sound like a Shakespearian Thespian compared to this guy.  Now he was nice, but he didn't understand me and I didn't understand him.  I have been assured that the call center has been moved to California, so I guess they brought the workers with them.  Anyway, the replacements are on the way (I discovered the Core Synergistics DVD is faulty as well) and will be here in 5 to 7 business days.  Well that's all fine and dandy, but I'll be out of town at that time and will not have them by then.

So, I decided to rip the DVDs to my MacBook so I could take P90X with me without taking the discs, and called up a high school friend Jose who recommended a free program called "Handbrake", which worked wonderfully.  So wonderfully in fact, that even though those DVDs wouldn't play, they did rip, and the computer files will play, though at a much lesser quality than the DVDs.  Thank goodness I've got an HD hookup for my MacBook.

The point to all this is that I modified, used Cardio X instead, and kept going.  I didn't use my bad attitude or misfortunes as an excuse to not work out.  I pushed play.  I brought it. I pushed through.  And that folks, is what life is about.  Pushing through, even though obstacles come up.  Now if I could just get my diet worked out like that...

See the video below!