Work was okay, I spent a lot of the day syncing and building code for a project I’m not directly involved with. Got to work on my fun stuff as well. Managed to take Sasha out during a nice sunny moment. Rode bike to gym, thought I’d pull off a manual going down the road. Now the last time I pulled one of these I was actually probably heavier, but probably twenty years younger with better balance. I failed to bail out in time and ended up on my back and whacked head on floor, bike went flying. Must remember that a modern BMX is about half the weight of an old one. Still, it was a learning experience. Incidentally it was on a dirt track so it hurt my ego more than anything else. Continued to gym and did Combat. It was very busy, word must have got out that Laverne wasn’t doing it. Rode home, actually it only took twelve minutes each way, so very efficient. Did more work, ate salad. Also visited the Physio this morning, I’ve apparently pulled a tendon, so have to do some weird stretches and everything should then hopefully settle down. If not my groin will fall off. Also on getting home I managed to whack the front of my head on the bedroom door. So that’s pretty much every part of my body damaged in one day. Ordered a brain bucket, I think I’ll wear it permanently.

Started this morning with the usual coffee and cereal. I was planning on resting my leg somewhat but that didn’t happen. Due to an insurance issue I had to fit a five lever mortice lock to the office door, this took around two hours in which I managed to shove a chisel through my hand and a screwdriver through my thumb, still, lock is now working. Then we went over to Virgin at Cribs and then I came back and fitted a third lock to the patio door. Finally got out into the garage and built my new bike. Rides nicely, the seat is more of a decoration than anything else, you certainly wouldn’t want to sit on it. Jamie said it’s all a bit low, it’s a fucking BMX, it’s designed for a twelve year old. Had a bath and cooked dinner, curry. Leg still hurts a lot, not sure if it will ever get better unless I rest it completely and there isn’t any chance of that happening. Mother asked if I can spare any time to fix her shed, I don’t even have any time to fix my own gutters that have more grass in them than my garden.

So today started with the usual ideal weekend setup, I had coffee and cereal, read the paper. Didn’t get up until far too late. We walked the dogs, had lunch and then headed out. Walked into town, did the usuals, popped into ‘Forbidden Planet’, whinged at the exchange rate for the dollar at the postoffice, went through T.K.Maxx and bought things we didn’t need. I stopped off at Toolstation to get a five lever mortice lock for my office door as it’s now a ‘requirement’. I’m tempted to installed full recorded CCTV on the house due to a spate of burglaries in the area, and I’m paranoid. Priced it all up, will install next week. Popped into B&Q, everything is on sale, but it’s still cheaper on Amazon. Looked at my new bike, very pretty, can’t do shit as my leg is still bust. We had a lovely meal this evening at the Aztec Hotel, proper poncy. Got served by a lovey Chinese lady, didn’t understand a word she said all evening, but she was very attentive so got a twenty quid tip, which apparently ‘made her day’, well that’s what I translated it to anyway. Walked home, Jamie was quite pissed and played Modanna very loudly from his phone. Busy day tomorrow, locks to fit, bikes to build.

Leg felt fine first thing until I tried to put my sock on, had to get Jamie to do it. Work was very similar to yesterday, I’ve had a pretty good week work wise really must admit. Walked Sasha, walked to the gym, did Pump, walked back via the shop and picked up a paper. Have some fun things to do this weekend, build my bike, fit a few locks. Probably have to have sex at some point, may put that off for a couple of weeks yet.

Started at a reasonable time, played around with buffers a bit more but didn’t really gain any ground. Did a load of other stuff which did work though and gave me a nice frame rate boost. Tried to find a new Geocache first thing and failed. Walked Sasha in the sun. Went for a run this evening. Now going to settled down and watch the last half hour of my German spy drama.

Sad news today about Gareth Thomas, Rog Blake from Blake’s 7. Although he wasn’t in half of it. Grew up with that with it’s wobbly sets and dodgy plot-lines.

My new bike is still in the lounge in it’s box, in front of the coffee table, the weekend perhaps.

So started a little bit earlier and cracked on. Had a pretty fun day today, first with trying to figure out the best way to get a CPU fence running on DX11. It seemed to be a bit driver dependent on if it worked or not. As it happened I didn’t really need it anyway. Then spent the rest of the day trying to convince the driver to do what I wanted it to do and not what I wanted. It was very much like David Cameron’s tax return, there was nothing technically illegal but wasn’t really in the spirit of the rules. I will get it to work how I want, just needs a bit more twiddling. New bike arrived, in a shipping container, ‘some self assembly required’, I may as well buy that steel company cheap and make it from the component parts. I’m sure it’ll just need the pedals and bars attaching…and probably the wheels, brakes, okay, everything. Walked to the gym, did Pump, my leg is feeling better this evening, but I couldn’t get my sock on again this morning. I now have pains elsewhere so I think I’ve screwed over a whole set of muscles or I’m about to explode.

My leg is still very painful, if I don’t move it. Cracked on with work, had a much better day at it today, very enjoyable, good stuff done and plenty of ideas to go on with. I’m sure it’ll all turn to shit tomorrow. Walked Sasha in quite warm weather, compared to yesterday where it felt like the arctic again. Went for a run early evening, very nice. Had a shower and then settled down to my East German spy thriller, which is 100% subtitled. It’s bloody hard gong but very enjoyable, only a couple more episodes to go. Then tried to stand up and couldn’t, probably need to go running again.

I’ve definitely pulled something, I woke up this morning and couldn’t even put my sock on. Oddly when I’m moving around I’m fine, but sitting an lying down is painful. Anyway, Monday being Monday, work wise not much happened. Spent all day building data and stuff, still, all set for a more interesting day tomorrow anyway. Walked Sasha in the rain, which just kept hammering down until the end of the day. Walked to the gym, it had stopped raining, did Combat, which was painful and then took a long walk home as it was actually quite a pleasant evening. Did more work. Sat on couch, groin hurts. Think I’ll go to bed and put some heat on it.

So Saturday morning I decided, that as Jamie was working all weekend, that I would take mother out. Okay, technically she would be taking me out as she was driving, but I was going to pay for it all. So I gave her a call and all was sorted. I had the usual breakfast with the dogs, coffee and cereal, then fixed the heating mid-position valve. I then walked Sasha for ages, had a light lunch and went into town. Failed to buy anyway and came home. Had a shower and off we went. Bingo had been somewhat updated a bit, there were now ninety year olds with tablets rather than paper tickets, all they had to do was prod the screen when a number was called. Whats the point in that? Surely the fun is stamping your ticket with a ver leaky marker pen. We failed to win anything. We then went to the Indian and were greeted as if we’d been in there the day before. Nothing had changed, including the carpet. But apparently renovations were in the pipeline and everything was being revamped. Still, the food was good as normal. So why did I suddenly decided it would be a great idea to take mother out? Well, she’s seventy-eight, no spring chicken, and I think I’ve got to the point now where I look at it like this: We had a good night out, if we don’t have another one then I can look back at it and say we enjoyed it. She probably isn’t long for this world, so take each curry year by year. It was a good night, I can’t complain at all. When I got home, Jamie was fast asleep. I curled up beside him, knowing that I’d actually done some good karma for once.

So today I really needed to physically relax. My left ball and groin is hurting like fuck, I’ve strained something (don’t worry folks, I spent a good hour in the bath this evening checking for lumps and bumps and I’m vary familiar with my own balls). So I only walked Sasha for two hours. I’ve spent the day doing a trailer for our new vlog series on YouTube for our upcoming holiday. Yes, I spent another sixty quid on FCPX plug-ins, but I really enjoy video editing, I find it very relaxing.

The other thing I did today was setup my new iPhone 6SE. All good. I really like it. I had to do a sim swap, it said, “Will take up to 48 hours”. It took nine seconds. So now my old HTC One-M8 has been consigned to the drawer of dead phones, I never really liked the bloody thing anyway. It was enormous and ugly. The 6 SE is the size of a 5. Plus it does everything I want and I know how to use it. Sorry Android, I know you are for the greater good, but as far as usability is concerned, Apple has you nailed. It’s on a two year contract, lets see where we are in 2018…..

It’s my birthday. Yay. So started work early. Was working on a bug which really was someone else’s, but can appreciated that they would never get to it in a million years, so I needed up fixing it. Which pleased an artist, I must be in a good mood. Nipped out and got another Geocache, then walked Sasha. Okay, I had a two and a half hour lunch break, but I’d already made up the time this week anyway. My new iPhone arrived, very nice, except it turned up with an iPhone 6 accessary kit, not an SE one. Rang up Barclays, as my iMac should have been interest free until September. Spoke to an Indian call centre, after about ten minutes he passed me to an English one, she was very apologetic, they better not fuck it up. Walked to gym, did Pump. Came home and worked more bloody overtime. I’m now having a very very fattening pizza and some beer, I’m going to enjoy it.