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I didn’t return home (upstate) on Tuesday as intended, but I did get some writing done on “God Save the Queen”. Not a lot, but enough to say I’d done it and (one may hope) prompt me to keep it up.

No, I came home yesterday, to prepare for drill this weekend. And to check my progress on the Army physical fitness test. And to watch television.

APFT, better but still not great. I’m at 100% on sit-ups (of course, have been for weeks), and now past 90% on push-ups and continuing to get stronger. As for the two-mile run … good news, I made qualifying time after a substantial period of time off; bad news, it’s the worst I’d done since the middle of September. The APFT is this weekend, so I have two days to regain some lost margin. My legs were strong, didn’t give me any suggestion of weariness, but I have to work on my wind.

I’ll pass. I always do. But I have a chance here to SOF-qualify, and I want to do it. Army standards call for 60% overall to pass the APFT, but the units (like mine) included in Special Operations Forces prefer for all their people to pass at the 70% level. I had worked up to within 16 seconds of 70% on the run; today I was 49 seconds away. I’ll have to do a lot of improving fast.

Now, thoughts on television. Any potential spoilers hidden in the cuts.

( Jericho )

( Lost, Season 3 )

( The Nine )

I messed up Tuesday night, arranged to tape one show and watch another … but instead, taped and watched the same program. Bad enough in itself, but the one I’d meant to record, but lost, was the opener for Veronica Mars, Season 3. Several different intensity-levels of drat. I mess up like that every now and then — not much recently, because I was out of the country — but I wish this hadn’t been one of my bobbles. Now I have to check for any re-broadcasts, and I’m not really in good position to catch any such.

Still, I’m lookng forward to seeing how this goes. Veronica and crew in college. Think anyone learned from the less-than-outstanding move of Buffy & Friends to the university scene? I’m hopeful. The VM writing team has a good track record, and (if nothing else) they have the BtVS example to serve as warning.

Much to do before Saturday. Still need to work up a list of exactly what.