Got up at 6:20, took Sasha to daycare. It was still dark when I got home. Got up at a reasonable time and started at 9:15. Cleaners arrived at some point, and well, cleaned. I carried on with grass. Picked up Sasha. More grass. Went to the gym and worked on my arms. Came back and did more grass. Finally sat down and had a play with a FCPX plug-in, which didn’t work as well as I hoped. Then I had a play with Garage Band for some reason. I wanted to get the riff from ‘Animals’ and finally after about half hour I worked it out….GGHJLHHGTD Tomorrow no doubt, I’ll be looking at bloody grass again.

So today started almost at 9AM. Well made it by quarter past. It was all about grass again, god it was pissing me off. Lunchtime I drove to the marble place and dropped off the template, it will be ready the middle of January. Finished work at about quarter to seven, feeling really tired, so had a coffee and then sat down at the iMac for a few hours. It was nice to do something a bit creative for once, even if it was yet another helicopter video. At least this one is to music, hope you enjoy it.

This morning started off early. I’ve set the alarm half hour earlier now in an effort to get up. I was working by 9:15. Tile man arrived first, spent about ten minutes driving this massive lorry backwards down the road. Don’t know why, he could have easily turned it round at the end. Opened the back of the lorry and it had two pallets of tiles in. The rest of the stuff didn’t arrive until later in the afternoon, but all looks good. Today I was looking into issues with grass, didn’t really get anywhere useful yet. Went to the gym and did Combat, it was a great opportunity to stare at my arms. Going for an early night tonight, need to study more about clouds.

So this morning started a bit later than planned. But it was difficult to get Jamie out of bed to bring me breakfast. After that I started sanding. Now after an hour I decided that this wasn’t really going to work. There is a limit to how much asbestos I want to breathe in. So I dug in the garage and found some skim plaster. Ran out fairly quickly, so off to B&Q. Came back, picked up the dog shit and filed the excess wine in the garage. Then spent the next five odd hours brushing skim plaster on to the uneven remains of the Artex. Ran out of skim. Anyway, with a bit of a sand I think it will be fine. Tidied up. Had a bath. Now about to make a curry.

Tomorrow the bathroom stuff is arriving. Need to get the template sorted tomorrow really.

Today I didn’t do any link time optimisation. Instead I looked at rain, well rain drops, and sorted a bug on that. Then I spent ages reducing the number of clouds in environment maps. Who says my life isn’t without these fascinating moments. Not much else happened really. It was very cold again. I went to the gym and did Pump, then spent well over an hour with Laverne doing free weights. We have now actually got to the biggest dumbbell, I’m now doing rows with 50Kg. She said that that was her wait. I said she could get on the floor and I would pump her, but this could easily be misinterpreted.

Anyway, all done, so going for an early night tonight. Get the washing all hung up, then straight on to Pizza and bed as I have a stupidly early flight tomorrow. Will be flying solo again, but this time I think it’s three circuits without crashing, will be a challenge.

So today we had some fun issues with this link optimisation. We do weird things with the library binaries and this optimisation causes the libs to be compressed. So that’s all a bit up in the air at the moment and had to be removed. Then spent a load of time with the renderer to stop it rolling contexts, which is all rather complicated. Very cold again today. Walked the dogs. Got my serial number for Traktor Pro, so will have fun playing with that at some point. I’m still undecided about this model flying club thing, not sure I want to take anything else on at the moment, plus it does mean I would have to socialise, and I don’t really do that sort of thing. I may wait until I have my PPL(H), that needs a hell of a lot more effort at the moment, lots of exams still to pass. I think I’m going to be flying for the next couple of weekends, already booked in for Saturday. Went for a run. Came back and bottled the last lot of wine, which is the red, got near enough thirty-one bottles out of that one. That’s it now on the wine front, may get a couple more kits after Christmas.

Didn’t take Dillon to daycare. I did force them both outside for an hour to play. They weren’t initially amused, but after working out they were not coming in they got on with it. Work was, well can’t quite remember now. Oh yes that was it, link time optimisation. This is quite a fun one, basically the linker will optimise across modules. Which produces interesting code, but eats up shit loads of ram and takes forever. Still, it runs quicker. Didn’t pick up the dog from daycare. Went to Pump, worked on my arms. Came back and edited my helicopter solo video for Youtube. That’s uploading now. Bought Traktor Pro as it was on offer, also bought iDraw as it wasn’t, but hey they are tax deductible. Had a bloody awful nights sleep last night, did I mention that? Bathstore rang, the cabinet that wasn’t in stock now is, so everything is now arriving Monday. Busy weekend then. Need to get wood for template, need to fly helicopters, all sorts of shit.

Oh yes the Athens thing. I keep getting a shit load of spam mail from fucking Greece, yet it all has .co.uk domains, still, just gets added to the spam filter.

Spent the bulk of a very cold day looking for leaks. Memory leaks. Found one in a bit of code which isn’t even used anymore, so ended up just ripping the lot out. Then the afternoon with keyboard input stuff. All fairly dull it must be said. Went for a run, when I came back Jamie had gone out and in the space of ten minutes the dogs had ripped up Sasha’s new basket. It was expensive. Dogs spent rest of the evening outside. I’m still not talking to them, it’s daycare day tomorrow, I think I’m going to stay in bed. Bottled the other white, can’t actually remember what it is, but a small sample and it tastes really good. Just the red to go, hopefully I’ll bottle that Thursday and then that’s everything done for this year. I may get a couple more kits in the new year. Talking of new year, not sure what we are doing yet, probably nothing, last year cost about a grand for one evening, so may just stay at home.

Spent the day doing unsafe mode command lists. Which is really as unexciting as it sounds. Walked the dogs, it’s bloody freezing again. Went to Combat, seven this time. Came back and worked far longer than I was planning. Ordered some more Christmas presents. They are all for Jamie, I don’t actually get any for anyone else. This will make Christmas substantially cheaper after the divorce.

Read through the stuff about the local model flying club. To join you need to come to one of the winter meetings, buy a club tie, do a secret handshake, toss off the club secretary and then get a nomination and a seconder to fill in your form. You can then part with sixty quid for the years membership. I’m not sure I can really be assed with all the politics just so I can stand next to someone who drinks real ale and has a beard show me the best technique to fly a model helicopter. Don’t know, I’ll think about it. I have enough issues with flying the real one. Mind you, I’ve crashed that considerably less than the models.