Today has been kind of a big day for me. Right off the bat I weighed in at 249.3 lbs, dropping below 250 for the very first time. I am astonished, because I gotta tell ya I did not hold back yesterday on enjoying Thanksgiving. All I can figure is that my body looked at that huge one-day spike in food consumption and just didn't know how to handle it. Or something. We'll see if it holds up tomorrow. Anyway, after that I went to a local convention and met both Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper from Torchwood) and Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto from Torchwood), and got both of their autographs on my Time Treadmill inspiration poster. I was supposed to also meet Pearl Mackie (Bill Potts), but she missed the first day of the conference. Fortunately I have a very awesome wife who is going to go see her tomorrow and get the autograph. Why not me? Because tomorrow is opening day for my first professional musical theatre production, and I have two shows at 2pm and 8pm that will consume my entire day. Tonight we had our first live audience as a preview, but tomorrow both shows are pretty much sold out. 

So yeah, today was a pretty big day. I also watched some Doctor Who, of course, so let's talk about that.

Nightmare of Eden - Parts 3 & 4

(TARDIS Data Core recap)

Look, this just isn't a great story. The back half of the story has the Doctor discover that the terrible horrible drug is actually generated by the decomposing bodies of the giant Mandrel monsters from the planet Eden. It also has extended sequences of the space liner's captain going from a euphoric high on the drug, to jonesing for his next fix and being willing to do anything to get it. There may as well have been a flashing DRUGS ARE BAD sign in the background. There's a lot of running around and shouting, the Mandrels kill a bunch of the ship's passengers, the two drug traffickers are revealed, and in the end the Doctor does a Very Clever Thing to separate the two fused ships, send all the Mandrels back to Eden, and capture the two bad guys. A happy ending.

About the most positive thing I can say about this story is that the voice for K9 was markedly better this time around, although still nowhere near John Leeson's performance. 

Tomorrow: The last episode of the 1970's and the first episode of the 1980's. How cool is that?

STATS:

Doctor(s): Fourth
Companion(s): Romana, K9
Episode(s): Nightmare of Eden - Parts 3 & 4
Steps Walked: 7,358 today, 1,807,920 total
Distance Walked: 3.94 miles today, 913.04 miles total
Weight: 251.46 lbs (five day moving average), net change -55.84 lbs