So, umm... it's been a minute.  The last time I posted was three weeks ago. I did watch a couple more episodes of Torchwood in the week that followed, but never managed to sit down and write about it. Sorry. Then I moved my elderly mother to the opposite corner of the country. First I had to get her stuff shipped, then I flew with her cross-country and got her settled in, then I came back home and got her old apartment cleaned out. It took a bit of my time. I also had some other personal stuff going on. The upshot is, whereas I had just started turning my weight trend around last month, now I have rocketed back up a full five pounds. Oops. The good news is that I am back, and as of today I am on the treadmill and focused on getting that trend line bend downwards again. But I ain't gonna lie, that chart over on the right hand side of this page scares me. A lot.

But anyway, about Torchwood...

This is gonna be short, because I am tired and because this was a depressingly mediocre Torchwood episode. Blech.

I should have taken the day off from push ups. I had unintentionally taken five days off in a row, then done a full workout yesterday. Instead of giving my arms a rest day I went ahead and tired to do another round this morning and wound up doing fewer than I managed the day before. Lesson learned. At least the treadmill workout was good. Oh, and Gwen Cooper finally married Rhys Williams, so that was nice. I mean, aside from the unexpected overnight pregnancy and all the murdering.

I didn't intend to take five days off, it just kinda happened. Just that sort of week, I guess. What can you do? But after missing Monday through Friday, on Saturday morning I finally wrapped up the Martha Visits Torchwood trilogy (where she was criminally under-used).

I was still off my pace a bit today, but I did manage 76 push ups. So that was nice. I expect that I will break 80 on Wednesday. I also weighed in at under 255 for the first time in nearly a month, so that was particularly nice. I really want to get back below 250 before Halloween. We'll see how that goes.

Just a few quick thoughts on Jodie Whittaker's debut turn as the Doctor -- I won't be doing a proper treadmill run of it until the season is over and I have the BluRay (which I am very much looking forward to for reasons I am about to explain..)

After such a good episode on Friday, Saturday morning's episode was a bit of a let down even with the guest appearance by Martha Jones. I don't have much to say about it, but let's get it out of the way.

Seventy five push ups today, can I get a "what what"? Also another personal best in distance covered during a fifty-five minute workout, so that's pretty dang cool. Also: it was a pretty dang good episode of Torchwood today.

After an off day yesterday, this morning I set another new record for distance in a 55 minute treadmill session. My weight is also continuing to move back in the right direction, so that's good. I've got six and a half weeks to get absolutely ripped for my next cabaret, and I am laser focused on getting there. Or, at least, as close to "there" as is possible. As for today's viewing? Well, it was certainly designed to put me off pizza...

Today I crossed 2,000 cumulative miles in this ridiculous project. So that's pretty cool. I also did 65 push ups, which means on Thursday I should do over 70, so I am well on my way to getting back up to 100 push ups in a session (this time without injuring my back). So that's also pretty cool. On the not-quite-as-cool side, exactly one year ago today I hit a cumulative 50 lbs of weight loss, whereas today... I hit a cumulative 50 lbs of weight loss. I am definitely moving back in the right direction, but it is more than a little frustrating to have spent pretty much all of 2018 oscillating back and forth between 245 and 255. It's almost like I am on a treadmill going nowhere...