Sorry updating today rather than yesterday because the wifi in last nights hotel like every thing else there cost far too much money. So had coffee and cereal as usual then walked Sasha for a good two hours, it was going to be the last walk we had for quite some time. It was a beautiful hot day, she enjoyed it. Then it was packing up the car with a ton of dog food and doggy drop-off. They were eager to go and happy to get there. I think they actually have a pretty good time socialising with all the other doggies. Then I can back and spent the next three hours doing some fairly serious packing. Did the accounts and photocopied lots of stuff. We eventually left at about half seven. Arrived at hotel by nine. Had to pay fifteen quid parking. We ate at the sports bar which kind of took us to the US a bit early. Service was a bit dire, food was fine, first beer in about two weeks, gave me a headache. We couldn’t get the TV to work in the room so I went straight to sleep.

Got up at 7:30, had a shower. Drove to Heathrow Terminal 3, found the car drop-off, all rather painless. All checked in. Now eating breakfast at one of those posh ‘lounges’ which I now have a card for. I had cornflakes, Jamie has eggs Benedict. Now just waiting for the departure time. Then its a nice short eleven hour flight.

Got up this morning at just gone 8AM. Had coffee, read the paper. Went to hairdresser for 10AM. Hair cut for twelve quid, got far more grey than I’d like. Went to Pet’s or us, they didn’t have any crickets. Got some petrol, had lunch. Drove to pet shop and got crickets. Did a home check for a cat on the way back. Started packing, three hours later and most of it was done. Went out for a walk. Came back and added a load of stuff I thought of while I was out. Had a bath. Phoned mother and heard her moan about her strimmer. She kept asking me about if I was going to post anything about the holiday anywhere, I said no.

But the good news is that, that twat George Fergusan has been turfed out. Sorry, but RPZ’s are one thing but all these damn 20MPH zones are a complete nightmare, never known anyone quite so ‘anti-car’. Been replaced by some Labour guy, lets give him four years and see what a pigs ear he can make of the job.

So started my last day with an interview. I was doing the interviewing, not the other way round. It was fine, but these things are always a tad dull. Then synced up everything and watched it crash. Walked Sasha in the sun. Came back and did my last few hours. Still ended up knocking off almost an hour after I was supposed to. So that’s it, all logged off. This will be the longest break I’ve had off working fro twenty-seven years. I’m sure it will be awful. Did a home check for a dog. I’m a bit on the fence with this one. Am I right to judge someone’s ability to take a dog on from their circumstances? Yes. Dropped keys off at my sisters and then walked home on a very pleasant evening. Must think about packing.

So started a bit later today as I was somewhat knackered yesterday after a very long day, sex as well, first time in weeks. Finished off the SDK updated then had to do a load of memory saving stuff with shader binaries, yep, that’s as exciting as it sounds. I think the summer is here for two days, walked Sasha in just a t-shirt (I had bottoms on as well). Went out this evening and picked up a couple of Geocaches, felt quite knackered though, walked too much yesterday. Sorted out iPad Air for holiday, intro video installed and ready in FCPX. I’ve got the Hero 4, three batteries and a dual charger, plus about 1TB of flash storage. That’s all I’m taking this time. Also have a little tripod and various mounts. Got a helicopter flight booked in Miami, that’ll be a cool way to round off the holiday. Must think about packing, ah, maybe tomorrow.

So woke up at 6:15, had breakfast and coffee. Bowels kicked into action. Drove to Parkway at 7:30, on train at 8:03. In London 9:35, in office 10:15. Left office 12:30. Walked back to Paddington for 14:30. Got the 14:45. Back at Parkway for 16:15, home at 16:30. Had lunch and then took Sasha for a walk. A new Geocache came up. Walked the mile and a bit then failed to find it. Got some milk. Ate. Going to have a bit more food then head off to bed. Looks like Miami helicopter flight isn’t going to happen as then only day we have the car is memorial day.

Spent all bloody day on that SDK update again. Finally got to the bottom of it. Walked Sasha rather late due to the weather. Went out for a walk this evening and found a few new Geocaches. Updated WordPress and Ubuntu. I’m going to build a new server when back from holiday and update Linux at the same time. I looked up the motherboard in the current server and it’s marked as ‘end of life’ so that about says it all really. It’s done well with no real problems. 12.04.05 times out April 2017, 16.04LTS has just been released and that’s good until April 2021. So probably have to do a two stage upgrade to 14.04 first. I think an upgrade every four years is reasonable considering it’s on 24/7/365. Off to London tomorrow for a meeting I don’t particularly want to go to.

So started this morning as a normal Monday, it was a bank holiday but peeing down. Work was very frustrating, getting some issues with some stuff using ‘std’ and all the locales are crashing. Waiting until gone four before taking Sasha out, when finally the sun came out and it was a lovely day. Did a bit more work and then we went to the pub to eat with Jamie’s sister. As it was a school night I ended up drinking three bottles of alcohol free lager, go me.

So breakfast and coffee as normal. Attempted to pack my suitcase, put items in suitcase, may not necessarily be the correct ones. Then we headed out to Tesco’s and then into town. Bought socks. Looked at other things. Went in Superdry and spent a fortune. Do like Idris Elba’s clothing range, frighteningly expensive, I bought a teeshirt. Walked Sasha. Did the accounts, had a bath and phoned mother. Now Jamie is cooking, looks interesting. Working tomorrow as normal.

So got a text off Ben first thing apart todays flight. Had breakfast and coffee. We then walked to Tesco and I got some more USD. Had a quick lunch and then drove to Staverton. We waited a while for basically a storm to pass. We then flew to the west down to Chepstow and back up the Wye Valley to Hereford and back to Gloucester. It was actually a beautiful day with nice weather where we were, just everywhere else was shit, so we were lucky. Video to follow. Now looking into airport lounges, looks like we can get a card thing for entry to most of them.

Work was kinda dull, still working on SDK update. Got dragged int a meeting in London next week, fairly pointless me being there, but there you go. Still, I’ll have a nice shopping trip in the evening while I’m there. Walked Sasha. Cycled to gym, did Pump, session with Laverne. And that’s it now at the gym until June. Maybe my groin will heal, doubt it.