Dang it, more than another two weeks gone. I had a family medical / child care issue, and then the Time Treadmill itself kind of got blocked in by a shed. See, four months ago I promised my wife I would build a storage shed in our back yard, and I ordered a kit. There were issues with shipping, then issues with stock on hand, but two weeks ago it finally arrived. On a huge pallet. Then I had to prepare a foundation and decking for the shed, hauling nearly a literal ton of drainage rock and leveling before building the floor of the structure. It took until this past Tuesday to finally get the actuall shed built, and another day to clear the space backup up around my treadmill. So it has only been the past three days that I have been back at it. Unfortunately, I also failed to do any strength training at all during that time.

Special credit to author Rik Hoskin for today's title. I lamented to him in email this morning that I had already had a title in mind before today's episode of Blake's 7 was over, but that went out the window with the final scene. I laughed out loud when he suggested this. It's good to have successful authors as friends!

I just spent over a half hour writing a new post, with some deep philosophical insights. It got deleted before I could post. I don't feel like re-writing it. I am going to bed.

Oh. Hey. I almost forgot about this place. Seriously, I have spent the last three months in rehearsal for a show that opened this past weekend, and frankly the final week of rehearsals plus the opening weekend performances exhausted me to the point I just couldn't do any workouts at all. The good news is, after missing ten days of this ridiculous project I expected to have ballooned up, but I actually only went up three pounds. Which, that is a little disappointed given how much progress I had made recently, but honestly I was overjoyed that it wasn't worse. So that's cool.

Since I last posted, I have also watched three more episodes of Blake's 7 on the Time Treadmill, so let's get to it.

Another quick one today. Tonight I have my very first ever sitzprobe, and I am all kinds of excited. It is not, as it might sound, an elective medical procedure. Rather it is a musical theatre thing where the singers and orchestra rehearse together for the first time in a show. Every musical I have done previously has been tracked, or at most had a piano accompaniment, this is the first show I have done with an actual orchestra. How cool is that? Anyway, I did watch Blake's 7 today on the Time Treadmill, so let me tell you all about it.

Just a short update today, because I have to get ready for a show rehearsal. But I did watch me some Blake's 7 on the Time Treadmill this morning, so let's get this done.

Here in the US it is Memorial Day today, so I would like to start off by taking a moment to honor the soldiers who have paid the ultimate price. I myself wore the uniform back in the late 80's, and through nothing more than pure luck I was never asked to serve in combat. I separated from the Army the same month that Iraq invaded Kuwait, and my unit went. I know that some of the men and women that I trained with at Fort Dix, Fort Eustice, and and in the 92nd Transportation Company ultimately served in the Iraq War, and I am equally certain that some of them never came home. I don't like to talk about politics here, and I am not about to start today. I will simply say that I did, in fact, take some time today to remember and honor those who have served. 

But anyway, moving on to Blake's 7 and working out...

It's been four days since I last posted, but on three of those days I did work out and watch Blake's 7. So let's get caught up.

Whenever I am feeling down, at least I can console myself that I will probably never die by being crushed and suffocated by airtight expanding foam during a deep space hull breach event. So at least I've got that going for me.