Yes, we have no inspiration. We have no inspiration today.

Edit: So bored, I did my next round of pushups a day early – 27,21,21,18,33

I forgot to mention on Saturday that I completed Week3 of hundredpushups.com!  (30,22,22,20,30)

Today, I completed Week4 Day1 with 27,20,20,17,32 – I’m a bit confused about why the first day of week 4 should be easier than the end of week 3, even though I’m doing it “oldskool”.

Festoo^oooo_oooO^OOOO_OOOO^OOOO_OOOO^OOOO_oooon!

Oh, and 22,17,17,15,22 – week3 level3 day1 complete

I really should find something more interesting to do than a 3 exposure shot of some clocks.

Oh – and 25,19,19,17,23

It’s pushup week 3, and I’ve failed day 1.  I wasn’t even close to passing it!  (I do however feel a bit sick now)

I should have listened to Andy, Gareth and Chris.  The top set for week 3 day 1 is *nasty*

The rules we’re playing by at work say that if you fail a day, you can re-take that day and then carry on with the rest of the week, but if you fail a week you retake the week. I think I’m going to write today off and assume that I’m not going to pass it on a re-take, then drop down to the middle set for the rest of the week, and then re-take week 3 next week.

Assuming my arms don’t fall off first.

This is J’s VW Corrado. I spent most of the day wrestling it into having an oil change – the filter isn’t in the most accessible of places!  Still, new oil, filter, dizzy, plugs and leads can’t be a bad thing.

In pressup news – today was my calibration day for week 3.  I managed 30 pressups, which on the one hand is good news (that’s a 7 pressup improvement from the start of the program) but on the other hand it does mean I’m in the top set for week 3 – and that looks *hard* – If I can make it through day 1 I’ll be happy.

Oh, and today being the last day of August, that’s 8 months down, 4 months (or 122 days) to go.

Being the planet friendly tree hugger that I am, I bought a “bag for life” from my local supermarket a couple of months ago to reduce the number of carrier bags I use.

Today, the handle fell off it.  On the way home.  Dropping my shopping all over the pavement.  Not so much “bag for life” as “bag for a bit” – the child sweatshop workers who stitched it together should be ashamed of themselves.  I don’t mind breaking the sewing machine out to fix it, but I can see that many people wouldn’t bother to (or wouldn’t be able to) fix something like this.

In pressup news – 16, 13, 11, 11, 16 – I’m only just ahead of the minimum, I’m a little worried that I’m going to fail on Friday!

Busy day today, I was working from home all day.  I finally stopped at about 8:30pm.  Still, at least I made significant progress on the “rip the heart out of our business logic and start again” project, even if it was at the expense of an uninspired picture of a thing.

In “3 Meter Clock” news – I bought a dremmel at lunchtime to cut the circuitboard down to size so it’ll fit in the case.  I’d have been better off using a hand saw.  Dremmels suck.

In hundred pressup news, today was 12, 12, 10, 10, 15.  I think.  I may have done 3 sets of 10 as I couldn’t remember if I’d done two or not, so did another set anyway.  I think it’s going to hurt tomorrow.

The blue background is a sheet of white A3 paper backlit by a Vivitar 283 at about 2/3 power with CTB filter shooting through a white brolly.  The Orange is lit from camera right by a Vivitar 283 at full power with CTO filter, snooted, and softened slightly with a carrier bag.

That’s more for my reference than yours though.

In pushup news – today is Day 1 of Week 1 – and I managed “10, 10, 8, 6, 10″ with carefully timed 60 second gaps.  I could probably have pushed that final 10 a bit further, but I’m being slightly cautious.  I don’t want to burn out too early in the first week.

Today I decided that I’m going to have a go at http://hundredpushups.com/

I’ll be posting my progress here along side my photos, just so I can keep track of things.  Today was my “Initial Test” day – and I managed 23 pushups from a cold start.  Not too bad, and better than I was expecting to be honest.  Shame I couldn’t crank out just one more to equal Chris, but then he is a week ahead of me.

If you fancy joining in, and have nowhere else to brag about your progress – feel free to use the comments.