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  • Tire Flipping at The MuscleShip RV1

    1st Shot at Qing the newest AO – I showed up early to drop off the “tire” and set up the cynderblock playground then ran to the fountain to get things kicked off. 

    Disclaimer – mousy to the “long way” to the playground – with the muscle flag stand, exactly 1/2 mile.  Circle up for a quick warmup.  All in cadence:

    SSH x 20

    Scorpion Kicks 10 x each leg

    Shoulder Taps x 12

    Everyone grab a block – mousy over to edge of the field and line up.

    1st Effort – Bear crawl out 30 yards with block –  perform 10 merkins – Bear crawl back with block – 5 man makers

    2nd Effort – Kong out 30 yards with block – perform 10 merkins – Kong back with block – 5 man makers 

    Count off 1,2,3

    Group 1 – tunnel block slide – pull the block under yourself passing it to next pax get up run to the end waiting for the block to be slide down – continue to mark and head back to the start.

    Group 2 – over under with the block – out and back to the mark

    Group 3 – 10 curls – 10 squat press – 10 man makers – continue until both group 1 and 2 complete their journey

    Rinse and Repeat

    Group 1 – Timer – Indian style tire flip, jump through then go to the back of the line. Challenge apprx 40 yards.

    Group 2 – Sledgehammer tire slam. 100 count each Pax does 10 reps while the rest of the group does alternating block step overs. If rep count reached then each Pax does 5…..

    Group 3 – block squats, deep block merkins, alternating block merkins, overhead block press

    Rotate through all 3 stations.

    Before returning blocks – 2 sets of arms in cadence curls x 20 with 10 secs rest then overhead tricep press x 20

    Roll tire back to QIC truck – Tool recommended Pax should run around the tire while rolling to the truck – challenge complete.

    Indian Run back with the Muscle Flag stand in hand leading the charge.

    4 minutes of Mary finish with 3 burpees.

    COT – Count off, Name O, Intentions, Prayer of Thanksgiving.

  • We’ll Never Finish in 45 Min….Yep it took 47

    I’ve been talking about it for some time now and had it loaded in my truck; the tractor tire was armor-alled and ready to roll……yet the levee was calling.

    Quick disclaimer and a challenge to push yourself to the limit before giving in. Mosey around the fountain to circle up for the warm up.

    All in cadence:

    Low Slow Squats x 10

    Leg swing left x 12 then right x 12

    SSH x 20

    Scorpion kicks x 10

    Shoulder taps x 15

    Pax moseyed up the levee – Q gave instructions – Indian run, disperse – Repeater 

    – once Pax gets to the front of the line he yells out his choice of an exercise movement then yells disperse – ALL pax runs to either side of levee and performs the  movement x 3.  Each time the next Pax runs to the front and gives the next exercise movement the Pax runs down to either side of the levee and performs the movement x 3 THEN runs up and over to repeat the 1st.  Each time a Pax gives a new movement all other movements are then repeated after running up and over the levee.   Regardless on how you count it…..we ran a lot of levees! 2.8 miles up and over

    This was on the boarder line of insane….and there was a lot of “chirping” by the those normally expected yet every pax pushed through and completed the task.  

    No time to spare mosey to the flags!

     COT

    Count off – Name O Roma – FGN made his presence known with a LOT more details so fittingly we came up with TMI!  He’s a welcome addition to our PAX and will be pushed by Hokie Pokey to make the Uptowner. 

    QIC was no doubt disappointed NOT having time to roll out the tire but none the less proud of the brothers on hand that pushed through!

    It’s a blessing and honor to lead!

  • Improv at The Foundry

    YHC has not been extremely active on the Q sign up sheet.  This is kind of been disappointing b/c being the Q is the only payment that F3 truly request.   After so much that has been given to YHC, he feels that he owes much more.   Of course, he has his excuses, but if he were being completely honest, there is no excuse.  If you can post, you can Q.   When today’s scheduled Q did not show, YHC seized the opportunity to lead and to pay back F3.

    W/U

    • SSH x 30
    • IW x 10; HB x 10
    • AC x 10; reverse x 10
    • PP x 10; PP x 10
    • J Lo x 10
    • Take a Lap around the Track

    The Thang

    • Route 66 down the mall – Derkins
    • Mosey to the side wall of NOMA
    • Peoples Chair – List your F3 Name, Favorite Mardi Gras Krewe, Favorite Mardi Gras memory #HailThoth
    • Mosey to the Foundry
    • 4 stations x 12 – Big Boy Sit-ups, Rows, Dips, Merkins
    • Run around the neutral ground by Christian Brothers & back
    • 4 stations x 12 – Dying Cockroach, Lunges, Squats, Step Ups
    • Mosey to the Track
    • Partner up. Partner 1 mosey across infield, Partner 2 Spring 1/2 the track. Switch on the other side. (2 laps)
    • Mosey to the Flag

    Annoucements

    • Amnesty has a quarter Keg of the Official F3 Beer, Shovel Flag. He will host an F2 Event on Wednesday 2/20 1800 at his home, 136 Middle Park Pl. New Orleans. (YHC could be up for a Pre-F2 Run)

    COT – Lots of intentions were mentioned today for personal friends, F3 families, and thanks were given for our fortunes.

    Thank you for the opportunity to lead, SYITG

    Da Parish

    NMM – Plenty of PAX are members of Mardi Gras Krewes. YHC rides w/ the Krewe of the Rolling Elvi (in Muses only), as well as Krewe of Thoth (float 9a, last man, top deck). YHC loves hearing the crowds and especially his name or see a sign. If you feel comfortable, share your Krewe & Float w/ the PAX.

  • NO Spartacus For You

    We were fortunate it started to rain harder as 16 men gathered around the SF and one, Abacus, was running the track. (I’m missing one name. Let me know who and I’ll update this BB) DISCLAIMER and let’s mosey.  There was a lot of disappointment we weren’t doing Spartacus, but the pax were pleasantly surprise with what was in store. We found a nice, wet grassy field for the warmup:

    -SSH x 30 IC

    -IW x 30 IC

    -Abe Vigoda’s x 10 IC

    -Mt Climbers x 30 IC

    -Arm Circles x 30 IC (15 ea dir)

    Grab a rock:

    -shouler press x 20 IC

    -curls x 20 IC

    -squats x 20 IC

    -merkins x 10

    Let’s mosey 200m and back. Rinse and repeat with 15 reps and 400m run.  Rinse and repeat with 10 reps and 400m run.  Next is the  Merkin Circle.  Three pax at a time would run to outdoor gym and do 10 pull-ups each. While they were at the pull-up bar, one pax in the circle would do 5 merkins, then the next guy, etc… When all pax did their 10 pull-ups, we did one more round of the above, without the run.

    Time for some Mary:

    -LBC x 20 IC

    -Flutterkicks x 20 IC

    -Hello Dolly X20 IC

    -Dying Cockroach x 20 IC

    -Penguins x 20 IC (per Mahatma, heels together)

    -Wife Pleasers x 20 IC

    -J-Lo’s x 20 IC

    Times almost up, put the  rocks to bed and plank back at the SF.We did some High Planks, Low Planks, Left Arm up, Right Arm up and Mission Impossible.

    Countoff, namerama with a FNG, Announcements, Shoutouts and a Prayers.  SYITG!

  • The Muscleship Launch

    “Without continual growth and progress. such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” —Benjamin Franklin

    The Muscleship blasted off in solid fashion this Saturday, thanks in part to the 16 PAX flight crew that hopped on board for the maiden voyage.  This new workout and AO was strategically engineered to accomodate the every growing number of men eager to start their Saturdays with a F3 beatdown.  Several guys got in some RRR miles before blast off…T-claps!  As the clock approached 6:30, it was good to see several reguklars trickle in and a few koters to boot.  After a brief description of what was in store, and of course the disclaimer, we made our way over to the front of NOMA to get started.

    Warmup Part 1: IWx20, WMx20, LSSx20, SSAC (Sixty Second Arm Circles, from the F3 website…T-plank Left ACx15, LBCx15, T-plank Right ACx15), capped off with IPSWx20.  In the middle of this we noticed The Mothership trying to invade our territory in the nearby field so we upped the volume on cadence in an effort to claim dominance.  Before departing, YHC asked the PAX to start thinking of some good jokes, hoping Bogey would be the star of the show.      

    Warmup Part 2:   Short mosey to the banks of The Big Lake for some Planking and Merkins.  We lined up all holding a high plank, then 5 Merkins, then a joke, then 4 Merkins, joke, 3 Merkins, joke, 2 Merkins….at this point The Mothership did a fly by so our last joke was centered around them, then 1 last Merkin.   

    Foundry:  Short mosey to The Foundry where YHC realized the PAX was too large for plan A so we settled for Plan B:  Split up with group #1 doing 3 rounds of PIMPS (timer) near the pull-up bars and group #2 doing BLIMPS AMRAP in the grass.  Flip flop with a “pimp daddy” being chosen in each group to be the timer. Lots of intense stuff here with very little opportunity for small talk.

    Lake-North Side:  Next stop was another stretch of shoreline for Inchworm Burpess x10, joke, x8, joke(s), x6, dirty joke, x4, another dirty joke, x2, maybe a final joke. 

    Lake-South Side:  After a pit stop at the water hydrant to hydrate, we made our way over to the raised ledge along The Big Lake track.  We rotated duties with mutiple PAX running cadence and various counts for LLSUx20, Dipsx20, RLSUx20, Derkins x15…breather….rinse and repeat with the highlight being Bogey and Abacus peforming a duet in tandem. 

    Lelong Drive for Cinco de Cardio:  Here we gatherded for five 1-minute rounds of various cardio-rich exercises which proved to be much more manly than the moseying and frolicking that our counterparts were doing with The Mothership.  We dug deep and did Semi-Circle Mountain Climbers, Rocky Balboas, Partner Plank Slaps, IPSW, and Groiners as the finale. 

    One minute left so back to the flag to call it a morning.  COT, annoucements, prayer, and some admiration for the new steel encased shovel flag that may be worthy of it’s own name.  Also, YHC thanked the PAX for posting and making The Muscleship launch a success.  YHC wasn’t sure what to expect knowing so many of us enjoy and look forward to The Mothership each week and trying to split that up is no easy feat.  The F3 vatican has always encouraged an “addition by division” concept when trying to grow so it was good to see all the PAX on board with that.  YHC also mentioned a workout several years ago where a fellow PAX Q’d with some new exercises and routines, which worked well, and after talked about one of the strengths of F3 is that the group always supports those trying new things, typically with little or no heckling from the peanut gallery.  Thanks to the PAX for pushing hard and helping to make it a good one! 

    Tool       

  • Everyone Needs a Friend from St. Bernard

    • Kuch: next, we’re going to do 11’s, but a little different
    • Da Parish: How is this 11’s?
    • K: Well you go back and forth and do a different exercise on each side of the levee like 11’s, but we’re going to do it together.
    • DP: So you don’t count to 11?
    • K: Well, No
    • DP: Those are not 11’s
    • K: Look, I’m new here, okay?

    Cool, dry mornings at Okwata with a hint of a sunrise thrown in truly make the 5 AM wake-up call worth every minute of lost sleep. At 5:30 this morning, as we started out over the dark course ahead, I mumbled out a brief disclaimer and off we went into the 40 degree gloom for a bit of a leg workout. T-claps to Rudy who had already run a couple miles at that point, a decision he may have later come to regret…

    WARMUP

    • IW’s x 24 (everyone always starts with SSH, so we switched it up a little)
    • SSHx25 (a very little in fact)
    • Windmills x 15
    • Parker Peter x 25
    • 5 8-count bodybuilders OYO just for a bit of practice…
    • Mosey across the street and down the lakefront past canal for…

    FIRST EXERCISE

    Route 55, 8-count bodybuilders OUT, Low-Slow-Squats IN

    Route 55 v2, Low-Slow-Squats OUT, 8-count bodybuilders IN

    The nice thing about 8-count bodybuilder is, if you do enough of them, they make burpees feel like side straddle hops. I felt it was important to put this contrast on full display for the PAX in attendance, so we moseyed to the foot of canal for….

    SECOND EXERCISE

    “11’s”

    All Pax do one exercise for one minute on one side of the levee, and then scale the levee together to the other side, where we do another exercise for one minute, then back, rinse and repeat. We managed to get in:

    • Burpees – Monkey Humpers
    • Merkins – Squats
    • Shoulder Taps – Alternating leg lunges
    • Going up forwards got a little dull, so we did the last round Bernie Sanders, and then moseyed to the flag and got back right at 6:15 or so….

    It’s truly a privilege to lead this group.

  • Louisiana Fast

    Louisiana Fast

    YHC had dreams of a legendary AO at the Fight Club in Kenner, alas his inability to EH guys over to Kenner resulted in one too many solo workouts, so he is shifting gears and moving this Wednesday workout from LaSalle Landing to Lafreniere Park. So Metairie, Kenner, and River Ridge Pax – sign up to lead Popeyes on the Q schedule.

    Warm-up

    YHC led the Pax on a mosey past the large gazebo in the middle of the park for a standard warm-up

    SSH – 25

    Annies – 20

    Plank Jacks – 20

    Inch worm – 20

    Leg Stuff

    YHC led the Pax on a short mosey back to the starting location for some leg exercises on the wall.

    Channing Tatums – 20

    Box Jumps – 10

    Tatum Channings – 20

    Incline Merkins – 10

    Repeat with reps at 15, 10, and 5 for the Channing Tatums while Box jumps went from 10 to 7 to 5 and merkins remained at 10

    Global Warming

    The forecast called for temps of 36 degrees with windchills in the 20s. YHC assumed this would be the coldest hour of the year for New Orleans which is the right time for some Global Warming. God was good and the temps were in the low 40s, but the Pax still did two rounds of Global Warming.

    Circle up with everyone in the Al Gore position. One Pax starts the round with 2 burpees and we follow in sequence. Round two was 5 merkins. Each round consisted of 3 trips around the circle. Tclaps to the Pax for clapping on the burpee jump and shouting out their merkin count.

    The Real Mountain Climbers

    Popeyes is the home to fast Louisiana fried chicken and good hills for F3 workouts. YHC broke us into the hills with some real mountain climbers. Three hills are lined up in a good order or running up and down so the Pax ran up to the top of the first hill, got down on their face for a 30 count of mountain climbers, down the hill and back up the next for more mountain climbers. We went up and down 3 hills on the first round and up and down 4 hills on the second round.

    The Apparatus

    Popeyes not only has good biscuits but also two sets of outdoor workout equipment. The Pax moseyed over to one set and everyone picked an apparatus to climb on for a brief workout. The Pax doing pull-ups was the count at 5 pull-ups to switch to the next apparatus. The Pax completed two rounds and moseyed back to the start for some Mary.

    Mary

    Flutterkicks – 16

    Penguins – 20

    O Dolly – 20

    The Close

    Count off, Name-o-rama, announcements, and intentions. Closed in Prayer

    Join us at Popeyes at Lafreniere Park on Wednesdays for a beatdown that promises to bring a good variety of exercises.

    Rev Sox



  • RevSox’s Birthday Party

    The news spread slowly at first but soon gained speed and momentum. The beatdown on January 28th was sure to be epic, inspiring, and convoluted with poor instructions. YHC’s birthday Q was coming and the Pax was coming out in numbers to celebrate. F3 Nation arrived in record numbers with men from Kenner, River Ridge, Metairie, Uptown, and Tallahassee to celebrate the birthday of own of their own.

    YHC began the workout with a welcome to his birthday party, the standard disclaimer, and a mosey over to the open grass next to rock pile.

    Warm-Up

    Since YHC was born 36 years ago, YHC gave us a brief trip back to 1983, a year of Pop Culture glory.

    SSH – 36

    Imperial Walkers – 20 in honor of the release of the Return of the Jedi

    Peter Parkers – 20 in honor of the comic debut of Spider-Ham

    Parker Peters – 20 because Spider-Ham hasn’t receive enough love over the last 36 years

    Playing at the Park

    The Pax was invited to go pick up one party favor (a rock) for each guest and head over to the playground for some play. Each Pax member paired up with their best friend as we tackled an exercise rotation that took far too long to explain because YHC did not anticipate numbers swelling above 20. The Pax was stationed by pairs around the playground to workout at their spot while one pair knocked out 10 pull-ups as the timer. The Pax would rotate to the next spot after each set of 10 pull-ups were completed.

    The exercise stations: Pull-ups, Partner Shrugs #1, Partner Shrugs #2, Partner Curls #1, Partner Curls #2, Underdogs, Triceps Ext, Thrusters, Bicycles, Flutterkicks, Burpees, and 8 count body builders.

    Once every pair had hit every station, the Pax grabbed their rocks and headed over to the football field.

    The Suicide

    YHC wanted to relive his old soccer practices from high school, so this required suicides, Rock City style.

    The pax lined up at the end line with their rocks and ran it to 1/4 length of the field, stopped for 15 shoulder presses, and dropped the rock. Then the pax ran back to the end line and returned to grab the rock and take it mid-field for 15 curls and dropped the rock. Then the pax ran back to the end line and returned to grab the rock and take it to 3/4 length of the field, stopped for 15 low slow squats, and dropped the rock. Finally the pax ran back to the end line and returned to grab the rock and take it to the end of the field for 15 bench presses, and ran the rock back to the starting point.

    Ultimate Frisbee

    Since this was YHC’s birthday, he wanted to celebrate with some fun. There is no better F3 fun than Ultimate Frisbee with some merkins thrown in. The Pax split into two teams (shirts vs. skins). The game was standard Ultimate Frisbee rules with the addition of 5 merkins every time there was a turnover and 10 merkins for every score.

    YHC’s team (the shirts) won a close, hard-fought battle with Scantron coming in big with two scores in a 3-2 victory!

    The Close

    The Pax took their rocks back to the pile and moseyed to the flag. TClaps to Left Eye for pushing it to the end so he could get a little extra plank in before the six arrived. This is what F3 is all about, pushing each other each morning in the gloom, so we can be stronger and faster this week than the week before.

    Counted off for a Pax of 24 to set a new Rock City attendance record.

    Name-o-rama, announcements, intentions (keep praying for the Ranger in need, Cheese Fries’ family with the passing of his friend, and the growth of our men), and we came in close for the sweaty ball of man.

    Thank you for the opportunity to lead and the birthday wishes, thanks to you all 36 will be better than 35,

    RevSox

  • Stomps and Sprints

    Thanks to Gabrielle, YHC had a different take on his usual Stomp-and-Sprint workout. So Tuesday am, time was right to give it a test run. I think it has some potential, but needs some help. We will definitely try again soon.

    12 PAX gathered in the gloom. Nice to see a good sized crowd on a Tuesday am – thanks, brothers! Warmer than expected, causing YHC to regret the choice to bundle up. Oh, the fun of winter weather cycles in NOLA. After a disclaimer, the PAX set off for 30 minute run: meet back at the track at 6am.

    Not surprisingly, Smooth, El Guapo and Mahatma took off to the front. Even less surprisingly, Mr. Freedom-Hammer himself decided he didn’t want to hang back with El-G or M-Ice, and bolted. Smooth sure can fly. YHC enjoyed the chance to catch up with Sesame Street – I wish I had his dedication when travelling. 5 days in NOLA and 4 workouts. Nice work!

    Back at the track at 6am (Hawg straggling in late at his 11:45 pace), we gathered to try Gabrielle-themed workout. Split into groups of 4. 3 of the 4 take their position on the track roughly 1/3 apart from each other for a sprint relay. The 4th toes the line to get ready….

    • Position 1: 25 LBC
    • Position 2: 25 PJ
    • Position 3: 25 Merkins

    Go… PAX sprints to the Position 1. Tag, you’re it! PAX from Position sprints to the next spot, while the arriving PAX does the exercise and waits for the relay to come back around. That’s the cycle. Sprint when its your turn, do your exercise on arrival, and wait. As YHC says – needs a bit of work, but everyone got 3 or 4 sprints in before we headed back to the flag.

    COT ends with our count-off, name-o-rama, and close with a prayer to use the gift of Tuesday, January 22nd wisely.

  • What we learned from BlackHawk Down…

    A beautiful, crisp Saturday morning for the Mothership, with a quick disclaimer we ….circled up.

    For the last couple of weeks, YHC has been thinking about events that have occurred in our F3 family. These include Terrabyte’s passing, illness with our F3 brother’s loved ones and the impending closure of Morning Call and loss of employment, at least temporarily, for our faithful waiter, Mike. As YHC was preparing for his Q at the Mothership during the week, YHC noticed an old favorite movie had been added to Netflix, Black Hawk Down. This film is about the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia in the early nineties which resulted in the death of 19 American Soldiers, YHC noted some explicit themes in the movie such as “No Man Left Behind” and “We fight for the man next to you”. There was also some implicit themes including no man is on his own. Clearly, all of these themes are echoed in the F3 credo “Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you found him”. So in honor of the 19 American Soldiers who died in Mogadishu and all of our F3 Brothers going through tough and uncertain times, this Mothership beatdown will have no OYO exercises. One other note on Blackhawk Down, in the movie there was multiple references to “chalks”. After some quick research with the source of all sources, Wikipedia, a “chalk” in military terminology is a group of troops (think platoon) in an airborne assault. PAX, count off 1, 2, 3, 4 and form up into Chalks 1, 2, 3 and 4. This will be your group throughout the workout. Each Chalk designate a Chalk Q and grab a Flag.

    Mosey to Great Lawn for Warm Up

    Form rows of by chalk starting with Chalk 1 then Chalk 2 followed by Chalk 3 and 4.  Chalks try to stay in formation  Let’s begin:

    All exercises until Q yells Halt

    • Walking Soldiers
    • High Knees
    • Butt Kicks
    • Carioca

    Circle up for additional warm-up:

    • Self Love I/C X20
    • Imperial Walkers I/C X20
    • Hillbillies I/C X20

    Form your Chalks into circles on the Great Lawn for the next thang… Bear Crawl Ring of Fire:

    • Bearcrawl Counter-Clockwise till Q yells halt
      • 10 merkins in ring of fire fashion starting with the PAX to the left of the Chalk Q
    • Bearcrawl Clockwise
      • 10 wide merks Bearcrawl Counter-Clockwise till Q yells halt

    Let’s increase the difficulty!

    • Boo Boo Bearcrawl Counterclockwise Right Leg Up
      • 10 staggered right merkins in ring of fire fashion starting with the PAX to the left of the Chalk Q
    • Boo Boo Bearcrawl Clockwise Left Leg Up
      • 10 staggered left merkins in ring of fire fashion starting with the PAX to the left of the Chalk Q

    Chalks grab flag, form columns and march to road in front of Storyland.  Line up chalks in four columns facing towards museum for Indian Runs to Fountain. 

    At Fountain circle up staying with your Chalk for Red Hot Chili Pepper:

    • Right Leg Step Ups x 16; Decline Merkins x 8; Left Leg Step Ups x 16; Incline Merkins x 8
    • Right Leg Step Ups x 12; Decline Merkins x 6; Left Leg Step Ups x 12; Incline Merkins x 6
    • Right Leg Step Ups x 8; Decline Merkins x 4; Left Leg Step Ups x 8; Incline Merkins x 4
    • Right Leg Step Ups x 4; Decline Merkins x 2; Left Leg Step Ups x 4; Incline Merkins x2

    Next, down Lelong Drive for more Indian Runs in Chalks.  T-claps to Chalk 3 for hanging back to keep their chalk together.  Now you’re getting the idea!

    Mosey in Chalk to side of NOMA and partner up in Chalk for O.P.P.

    One PAX does OH Claps (O) in People’s Chair (P) while the other PAX does 20 Plank Jacks (P) Flapjack till Q yells halt.  These were done in 2 count cadence.  Let’s try to stay together on cadence Chalks!

    Time is running out so grab Flags and mosey in Chalk columns to great lawn for:

    Quick Mary:

    • Flutter Kicks I/C X20
    • Hello Dolly I/C X20

    Times up so circle around Flags in Great Lawn for CoT

    Count-Off, Name-o-rama (1 FNG who was named Twin Span as he’s from Slidell), Intentions and Prayer.

    T-claps to all the PAX who did the daily double, the Mothership and Krazy Ivan.  Southshore brought the Freedom Hammer home!

    Thank you PAX for embracing the Beatdown’s theme of no man is “on his own” in F3.  As we all go through life’s ups and downs, it feels good to know that we have our F3’ brothers to watch our six.  We are truly our Brother’s Keeper!

    NM Moleskin

    For 4 years, the PAX have been enjoying F2 and F3 at the Morning Call in City Park after the Mothership.  For most if not all of those coffeetaria’s, we have arrived to ice cold water to refresh us and been served “Hot” au laits, “Cold” iced coffees and for a brave few “Hot Black” coffees by our faithful waiter Mike.  We all know that this past weekend was the last for Morning Call and there is some uncertainty whether Mike will come back with Café du Monde.  Even if he does, he will be out of work for at least a month.  So in true F3 fashion, an operation was drummed up.  In a short week, what became known as Operation Big Tip was put into full effect to thank Mike for all of his service to the PAX.  The PAX raised $349 for Mike and a Framed Picture signed by the PAX was delivered at Coffeetaria.  YHC even noticed a tear in Mike’s eye.   The PAX should be proud of their efforts.  This is the best of F3.