Back on multi-threading again, thankfully near enough finished the platform specific stuff now.

Walked the dogs. Well actually just walked Sasha as Dillon didn’t fancy it.

Went to spin. Came back and then had a headache which is rather annoying. May be coming down with something. New heli arrived and a quad copter. Heli is good to fly and fairly stable. Quad is very twitchy but fun.

This morning started with breakfast for three, that’s me and two dogs. I then let the dogs outside. We had sex. Thankfully everything worked as it should this time and I banged harder than November the fifth.

I got up and started painting. Basically that’s all I’ve done all day, sanding and painting. I’ve got two sections that need more work but I’m going to order the top coat this week. At some point I’ve got to call a halt and I think I’ve reached that point.

I won another helicopter.

Had a bath. Now sat down watching some telly, will then eat and probably pass out. It’s been a long hard day, but quite enjoyable.

So woke up and had breakfast. Okay, I woke up, dogs annoyed me until I fed them, so fed myself at the same time. Cruised porn, walked the dogs. Had a quick sausage roll (that’s not a euphemism).

Drove to Staverton. Considering the weather has been piss poor all week, when I got there it was clear with virtually zero wind. Up we went in G-GJCD, I took it from about 50 feet. Today we did more ascents and descents but this time while performing 360 degree turns. My level-offs and roll-outs were pretty much perfect. I then flew it to a hover reasonably well. Spent some time hovering, not very good today. I think actually the other R22 hovers better. Did a few landings and take-offs.

I won another heli on ebay and it was in Tewkesbury, so I swung by and picked it up. It needs a new central shaft as it can’t even take off without falling over, so ordered a load of parts for that.

Looking into swapping our 400 odd quids worth of Tesco vouchers for Virgin reward miles. Worked out we can get two premium economy seats to LA and just pay the taxes, so will probably do that.

I’m cooking tonight, so quick bath and then on with the curry. DIY day tomorrow.

Started off this morning with a hand job. The postman then didn’t ring the bell again, so I have yet another parcel to pick up. These two items are not related.

Working on buffer management, which is exciting as it sounds. I actually did some mobile stuff this morning, to finish that off.

Walked the dogs as it’s Nov 5th, so not going out in the evening. Went to the gym and did spin. Did more work.

Ordered a bind and fly Blade CX2 co-axial. Should be small enough to demolish the dinning room.

I won’t lie and say I got up at the crack of dawn because I didn’t. I had breakfast and then sat down at my bench. I spent the next four hours stripping down and rebuilding a model helicopter. You know what, I really enjoyed it, the time flew by (no pun intended). I set it all up and attempted to hover it in the dining room again. I certainly learnt a lot. I then played with some radio receivers, managed to fry one completely. Had great fun.

Went to Tesco’s, picked up a lettuce. Visited mother, listened to her moan. Came back and did the accounts.

We then went to La Piazza again. Food once again was great. I enjoyed the day. DIY tomorrow.

Started reasonably early as I was expecting the Tesco delivery, which in the end was late. Working on basic profiling and performance today. All going fine, found an interesting problem with the frame flip that got me back a load of milliseconds. Loads still to do though.

Finally got round to calling Lloyd and putting a deposit on the arcade cabinet on the proviso that we get to see a mock up of the front artwork first. After all, it is rather expensive.

Went to pump, really put quite a lot of effort in tonight, increased all my weights. Done a good effort all week really, gym every night. Really got back into the classes and enjoying it again.

Anyway, bath time. Hopefully get a chance to play with the heli’s tomorrow. Want to set up the V2 after I’ve carried out a small repair. Would be nice to hook up the dx6i as well, see how time goes.

Started at a reasonable time. Spent most of the day working on high dynamic range bloom issue. Such is the excitement of my life. Didn’t really do a great deal otherwise.

Another helicopter arrived, this one’s in a nice case. It’s another fixed pitch one, but it hasn’t been set up by a womble, so should hopefully behave.

Went to spent, done by someone called Paul, who spent all his time shouting ‘touch up’. I think I lost four gallons of sweat. Think I may do pump tomorrow.

Going to try my new sleeping pills out shortly. They are herbal.

Just to show how strange my mind works, yesterday morning I had another one of my dreams. I was with a guy called ‘Danny’, now this was someone who I was at school with, but he was killed in a car crash when he was about 18. It was a real nasty one, car went over a cliff, was identified by dental records. Anyway, he was trying to jam a metal pole up my arse. I kept shouting at him, saying that he need to put a condom on it. Then after a while of prodding I said I would contact his dad who’d given me his business card, he was apparently a bishop.

I got up. Went to Tesco’s and picked up some beer. Forgot to buy tomato’s.

Came back and got on with the dining room. Basically it was sanding down bits which weren’t neutralised properly after the paint stripping. Took near enough all day, but done in the end.

Had a shower and then got picked up by Andy and Lisa. Tried to sort out new year, came up with something but that doesn’t look like it’s available now.

This morning, being a Monday I started somewhat late. Then got on with looking at ground cover and the joys of material replacement. Spent near enough all day on that.

Walked the dogs in the rain, it was very cold.

Went to combat. Did a home check for a pair of kittens. Came back and did a couple more hours. Material replacement now all works. Still quite a few other issues to sort out.

Oh, watched a set-up video on the Honeybee V2, I noticed that one of the servo’s on mine is upside down, no wonder it wanted to destroy the dining room. Still learnt a lot, ordered spare parts.

Jamie is working nights this week, so it’s just me and the dogs.

Today I decided to have a bit of a ‘me’ day. So sod everyone else, I’m going to do stuff for me. So started off with a bit of a lie in, watched some videos. They were helicopter set-up videos, not porn. Popped out to the sorting office, collected a parcel (sanding blocks) and picked up a paper. Came back and walked the dogs. The had lunch.

Then I moved the dining table and cleared the area. I then spent the next couple of hours trying to set up the four channel heli. Learnt quite a lot about setup and control. Managed to get it to hover. Managed to wreck part of the landing gear and part of the dining table. It’s surprising the force that builds up in the rotor. Eventually managed to adjust it to such a point where I lost part of one of the bars. So not a crash as such. I tried one of my spare CP3’s. This seemed much more stable until I whacked the fridge and screwed the blades and bent the main rotor stem. Never mind, this is my ‘practice’ copter. Next step is to fix this and the other one and change the receivers so I can use my DX6i transmitter. I can hopefully set them up a lot better. The good news is I had a lot of fun.

Then spent the next four hours tidying my office. Filled three bags of rubbish and one box for the charity shop. Now have a shelf for all my helicopters and controllers and a drawer for the spares. Plus everything now looks tidy.

Did the accounts.

Good day. Enjoyed it.

Now going to have a quick bath and then cook. Tomorrow it’s DIY day, then we are going out in the evening.

Work wise again was lots of tracing code and debugging things. A bit disappointed I didn’t get one bit going but never mind.

Did pump. Another helicopter arrived. That means I’m now surrounded by five of them. The latest is only a four channel and seems to have been modified by a womble as there is no way one of the servos would work the way it was set up. Spent an hour or so setting it up so most of it moves. It needs a hell of a lot of trimming, but I’ll play with that tomorrow.

One annoying thing, my nice Dx6i transmitter isn’t compatible with any of the heli’s. There is a solution though, that requires wiring and soldering, so right up my street.

Bath and pizza time (not together).