So woke up this morning in some sort of moral dilemma for some reason, couldn’t decide if I wanted to fit a radiator or overdose on pills. After about an hour I decided that although I hated plumbing, it was the lesser of the two evils so finally got up and fed everyone. Jamie had vanished that morning to work at 4AM. Cracked on and measured it all up. To be honest, apart from the massive eight it wasn’t too bad. Got all the brackets mounted and got the bloody thing on the wall. Then it was just a case of the pipework, again, wasn’t that much of a big deal after I’d managed to get the system vacuum sealed so it stopped leaking. Made quite a nice job of it all in the end. Silicone sealed the window. Put some sealant on the fireplace, I’m not overly happy with that, bit messy to be honest. Put all the trunking up. So the blinds are being fitted on Wednesday, so get everything else done. I reckon two solid weekends and it will all be finally done. At the end of today I syphoned off the first of the whites and then bottled it. It made twenty-seven bottles and one large glass. I had the glass in the bath, it was very good.

So last night was good fun, much Karaoke was sung. I got bored of people asking me if ‘I’d bought a helicopter yet’, so in the end just said that I bought two Jet Rangers as I couldn’t decide on the colour. Drove back this morning, dropped off some network programmer at the station (no idea of his name, he was from Malaga). There was a burnt out coach on the motorway, very strange.

So got straight back into the lounge, removed the radiator and now have all that painted up. So just the new radiator to fit tomorrow and seal the window with new silicone. That should be that side nearly finished then with the blinds being fitted next week.

Spent the day finishing off what are basically prerequisites for the next stage. Its all very complex and mostly very dull, but I’ve got some really fun work coming up in the next few weeks. Horrible bloody weather again. Walked Sasha and it stayed dry. Tried to go for a run later and it kept with a mild drizzle for about twenty minutes and then hammered down. Sterilised thirty bottles ready for bottling, probably on Sunday. There’s an issue with the other wine, my sorbate isn’t dissolving properly, so gave it a good stir, I think it just needs a bit more time. I’d like to get the red on by the end of the week, or it’ll never be done for Christmas. I’ve got a new colour calibrator, my old one was starting to give weird readings. I set it all up with the software and started calibrating, it promptly crashed and gave weird results. I was about to pack it up and send it back when I realised that it was in two parts and you split it to reveal the sensor. So rubber band in place around the monitor holding it on and two hours later I have a monitor which can support 100% of the srgb colour gamut, which is quite impressive. I need to do the iMac, the iMacAir, the telly and most importantly the projector at some point.

So off to Windsor tomorrow for the office Christmas party. What happens in Windsor, stays in Windsor…..but Vitt will no doubt have his bloody camera.

Spent the bulk of the day changing string parameter gets at runtime to basically not runtime. Takes bloody ages, almost done now though. Very chilly again. Walked Sasha. Drove to Pump as we seem to be in a continuous state of drizzle and high winds. Came back and Jamie had put up some Christmas lights. I’m not in any kind of Christmas mood at the moment, the living room is still a half finished mess, far too much work still needs doing. I have the bulk of the trunking sorted out now, but still need to silicone the window, change the radiator and paint the bay. Hopefully most of that will be done this weekend, but I’m quickly running out of weekends.

For some reason I went to bed last night and was very horny. Jamie didn’t object. Straight afterwards he said he was going downstairs to get a drink, I was asleep before he’d come back up. Started work late today, made up for getting back late yesterday. I’m doing some tidying up today, lots of things overdue, get it all done before the weekend. It’s a bit of a short week this week, that meeting yesterday and off to the company party on Friday. So get all this work done now. Walked Sasha. Didn’t finish work until late. Went for a run, ate salad. Then spent the evening drilling grommet holes in trunking. I’m still working out where all the cables are going to go, plus I need to find room for a network switch, a TV aerial amp and a lighting interface.

So today I started in a grumpy mood. Logged on briefly, moaned at a few people and then logged out. Drove to the station, got on train. Very uneventful journey, read a complete magazine. Walked to office. Then proceeded to have a rather fun meeting with a company I can’t mention looking at a product I can’t talked about. Left at about five, walked most of the way back to the station, it was actually quite pleasant, there was a light drizzle, but it wasn’t freezing. Got on a tube at Hyde-Park Corner, would have been quicker to continue the walk. Got a ticket, got on train. Had to stand all the way to Reading. Then got a seat. A guy sat down next to me, he plugged himself in, then got a notebook out. He then proceeded to write what was either a song or a poem entitled ‘Death of a child’, he must have had the same sort of day I had.

So started this morning with coffee, breakfast and no bumming. Soon got on to the second coat of gloss on the windowsill. Then it was a bit of a race against time, I wanted to get on with doing the trunking while Jamie wanted to get to his dads. Finished at about half three. Drove there and found out that dinner wasn’t until six, so a bit pissed off with that. Dinner was nice, I manager to get some well done beef which was very much to my liking while everyone else ate red bleeding stuff. The usual hilarity and debauchery took place, with many an innuendo. Got back and stabilised both lots of wine, not sure which one will clear first, but both will be ready to bottle by the end of the week. Did a bit more trunking. It isn’t the prettiest thing in the world, but I think I prefer it against a load of trailing wires. Off to London for a meeting tomorrow, not something I’m looking forward to.

So spent the whole day indoors, well apart from the bits where I went out to the garage. All about the bay window. Took down the old curtains and rail, filled everything in and then painted the ceiling. Bit odd this one. House was built in 1996, but for certain the Artex on that part contains asbestos, you can see the fibres, all other Artex in the house is clean. Anyway, all sealed in using three coats of Dulux finest. Removed all the mouldy silicone from the windows, that’ll need replacing. Painted the window sill and the skirting, only thing left on that now is another coat on the sill and the walls there. So on with the second coat on the sill today, then start on the trunking I think, get that out of the way, that’ll just leave the bay wall and changing the radiator next week, ready for the blinds to be fitted.

Had one of my dreams last night. I finally decided to stab my mother in the back of the neck with a knife. All was going to plan, dragged her body into the car, belted her in and disposed of it somewhere (obviously that bit was a bit dull as it was edited out the dream). Next thing I know I was in court, I was hoping to get away without a custodial sentence, pleading ‘diminished responsibility’ or ‘physiological bullying’. However I got ten years. Oddly I quite enjoyed the prison thing, it had a gym and a cinema. There was this one ‘odd’ bullying character, but all he demanded was that I brought him tea a 2:20PM every day. At one wrestling match there was rather a cutie. I got pulled up on this by one of the gays, he said he knew I was into him as my leg quivered. But he said it was fine as this guy was gay as well, and he and another were both up his ass like rats up a drainpipe, and it was fine if I wanted to join in. I then woke up, which was a shame as I was quite looking forward to the orgy, I guess it was coming up to 2PM and I needed to make that tea….

Woke up this morning with something in my eye, I think it’s still there now or I have a cut or something, very annoying. So spent the day fixing problems on a certain console while maintaining my watch on Amazon. And yes, yet again, I’ve managed to buy a shedload of crap. Actually some good stuff at good prices, will make reasonable presents. Although I don’t buy presents for anyone except Jamie, so all nice presents to myself, which I’ll never use. I am, indeed, turning into my mother. Except she doesn’t use that many commas. Walked Sasha in the rain. Drove to Pump as it was pissing down. Did a session with Laverne afterwards and then came home and fixed a few more bugs. Got a bloody meeting on Monday I don’t really want to go to. Pizza time.

Cleaners arrived today, did an average job. Think I’ll get rid of them after Christmas. I’ve had flyers through for cheaper places, and to be frank, I can pay a lot less for the same average job. Worked on various bits, nothing exciting. Went for an eight mile run. Today is the Thursday before black Friday, the forerunner of cyber Monday, this means Amazon has deals on everything. Already spent far too much on things that a) I don’t need, b) I didn’t really want, c) can’t find a use for anyway. I feel like my mother, but slightly less self-obsessed.