Another back-dated entry here, for a day in which my weight had spiked up after a week of barely working out. On the upside, I did manage a full hundred push-ups again so that was nice. Also on the upside, after two weak-to-mediocre episodes, The Sarah Jane Adventures came roaring back with a true classic.

I am back-dating this, because it is nearly a week later. Last week was... well, not awful but not awesome. My wife was sick with the flu that is going around, and I had just enough of it to give me a headache and not want to risk working out too much. On this day I did fifty push-ups and staggered through an hour on the treadmill, while watching a fairly mediocre episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. After the weakness of the previous episode, I hope this isn't a long-term trend.

Oh, this story. I can't even be bothered to spend more than a few minutes on it.

I did one hundred push-ups this morning! Back in the summer I had reached the point where I was consistently doing a hundred push-ups per day, but then I put my shoulder out because of it. It took multiple chiropractic adjustments combined with stretching and other work in order to get my right arm back to normal, and I have slowly been working my way back up ever since. Today I finally hit that goal again, and it felt amazing! Well, that plus exhausting. I have no intention of going back to the daily thing, that's what knocked it out to begin with, but I will absolutely continue to alternate between the hundred pushups on one day followed by continuing to up my reps in sit-ups until I hit two hundred per day there. I've got a long way to go on that count. In other news, I was surprised to see future companion Graham show up on today's SJA episode, with actor Bradley Walsh showing up as the bad guy. This show continues to surprise and delight me.

Another day I slept in instead of working out at 6am, but I got it done later in the day. Today was a sit-ups day (82!), and theoretically tomorrow is the day I get back up to 100+ push-ups in a day. We'll see how that goes. In the meantime, today was Maria's last episode as a series regular on The Sarah Jane Adventures. I gather the actress decided she needed to focus on school instead of acting, so she was written gracefully out of the show while still leaving the door open (and she pops up in person at least one more time this season). As exits go, it was pretty well done...

Weird day today, workout-wise. I just couldn't drag myself out of bed early enough to get it done in the morning, so I put it off until after work. Even so, I manged over 90 push-ups today which is awesome. I expect I should be back up to 100 by next week sometime. I also wrapped up the first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures today, and it was freakin' awesome.

I know nobody is reading these besides me, and possibly sometimes my wife, but even so I have to say how much I appreciate you, my dear Imaginary Readers, for keeping me on track. I had another day of great forward progress today. This past year has been a bit of a wash, with a tiny bit of backsliding, but I really feel like I am back on the right track. I dunno, maybe it's just holiday cheer creeping in, but I am really enjoying my treadmill time these days. Of course, it helps that I am also thoroughly enjoying The Sarah Jane Adventures, especially after the dreary mediocrity of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

I had another lovely day on the treadmill today. I got to sleep in a bit, which is always nice, then knocked out a bunch of sit ups, and then watched a fairly middle-of-the-road SJA episode on the treadmill.

The day after Thanksgiving, what a lovely day! I got to sleep in. The outside Christmas lights are up. All of the Christmas decoration boxes are out, and we have started decorating inside. And, best of all, Sarah Jane Smith brought me an early present!

I took the day off for Thanksgiving, but carried on today with the treadmill. The downside: I thoroughly enjoyed my wife's cooking, which showed clearly in this morning's workout. Ah, well. The other downside: Sarah Jane Smith tries my patience with a Slitheen episode. Ugh.