As the paint brushes finally get moved back into the garage

So Saturday started off fairly slowly, I wasn’t in any hurry and the weather was bloody miserable. Put one coat of paint on the door, walked the dog and then headed out. Had a couple of pick-ups to do and then ventured into town. Bought one birthday card and failed completely on all other purchases. Came back and did the accounts. Then headed out to the pub for a friends 50th birthday. Somehow I ended up there until about 1AM, good night anyway.

Woke up this morning at 7AM, relaxed a bit and read a book, then fed the hordes. Started the next coat of paint at 8AM, busy day planned. It mainly involved painting door and fire place. Touching up a few bits as well. Fireplace needed five coats of paint, door four. All finished now. All that’s left is a bit of wiring and a serious amount of cleaning. Quite happy how it’s all turned out though. Had a bath. Now I’m going to sit down and eat and watch the final of the Apprentice. I was going to wrap the Christmas presents, but I have a feeling that’s not going to happen.

Why does everyone suddenly want to do Karaoke?

Once again I wasn’t really in to it. Ended up procrastinating to infinity and not getting a huge amount done. Still slightly under the weather which really doesn’t help. Thankfully now though near enough everyone is taking next week of, which means I get no interruptions and I can get some decent work done for four days. Walked the dog. Walked to the gym, did Pump, did a session with Laverne, walked home, did a little bit more work. Tidied the kitchen and did the washing. Jamie has informed me that Karaoke seems popular for new year and now I need to find a shit load of new songs for it. So it’s off to ‘Game’ tomorrow and see if I can buy up all the PS3 versions of ‘Sing star’.

Spam attack

Once again I wasn’t in the mood. Cold still lingering. It’s not like it’s crippling or anything, it’s just hanging around. I keep having to ‘de-snot’ all the time. Plus it’s giving me something of a headache. I had to stop early evening as my head was just pounding. Walked Sasha just before the heavens opened. Went for a fairly long run this evening. The police were running a drink-drive roadblock just outside Tesco’s. Every time I’ve been stopped it’s either been on the way back from the gym or back from B&Q. That was a funny one. “Have you been to a pub sir?”. As I was sat there literally covered in head to toe in paint. I fully support it, as soon as they’ve had a whiff of your breath they want you to get out of there so they can move on to the next one. Put up the new hi-fi rack. It’s almost all finished now. Just waiting for my crimping tool to arrive and still have a couple of coats of paint to do.

Sarah, let me know what thingy and thingy want for Crimbo, get it in soon as apparently it’s next week.

I’ve disabled blog comments for the moment as my normal spam filter isn’t working, I had over four hundred comments in three minutes.

Conspiracy rife

Today started rather bizarrely. It’s a great shame I can’t go in to detail. But to paraphrase, I had introduced a ‘feature’ that was available on both consoles. Today the patch was release on the ‘other’ console and this ‘feature’ didn’t work. Large amounts of emails flowed. And no change was done by me. Yet by midday, this ‘feature’ magically started working. Strange that.

Weather wasn’t too bad, walked Sasha and walked to the gym. Did Pump. Walked home and did a bit more work. Still blocked up with a bit of a headache. Ran the extra HDMI cable through the trunking. Just waiting on my f-connector crimping tool and also need a couple of very short HDMI cables, then it’s all finished that side. Still have the door and the fireplace to paint. One weekend left, and I’m not planning on spending all that indoors.

Another white on the go then

Started late as I was not in the mood, this cold is lingering longer than I’d like. I’m not getting any runny nose issues it’s just mainly blockage which is annoying. Cracked on though and got everything I’ve been working on finally checked in. Now working on a new compiler which is quite fun, for the moment. Rained all day. To the point where this evening I went out for a run. Started another white, I’ll put the yeast in tomorrow after it warms up a bit. Think I’ll have an early night tonight, time to pop some pills.

Twenty-seven bottles and some change, I’m drinking the change

It’s Monday, as Sir Bob says, well I’m sticking with him. Cracked on anyway. To be honest I got quite a lot all sorted, so pretty pleased. Bit of a verify and tidy up operation tomorrow, then I get to work on something new for a while which will be fun. Walked Sasha, weather looked iffy all day, but I never got rained on. Drove to the gym as a downpour was due, again, no rain. Did Combat, very quiet, there was about six of us. Did some more work, then bottled the Voigner, twenty-seven bottles and some change, I’m drinking that now. It’s very good, but could do with maturing for a few weeks. The red is now bubbling nicely, about a week late. I have a Riesling to start tomorrow, need to order a couple more kits in while it’s brewing weather.

Almost but not quite

So started with sex, bit of a weird entry, but all good in the end, if somewhat quick. Had breakfast. Then put a second coat on the door frame. Finally got round to routing the rest of the cabling, apart from a dog that pretty much consumed the bulk of the day. Now it’s all together and all working. Except for a couple of mistakes, I’ve run one more RG6 than I needed to, and I’m missing an HDMI cable really. So I’ve ordered a shed load of HDMI cables and I’ll have another attempt at sorting it all out during the week. But it does indeed look very tidy. So just the door and the back of the fireplace left to paint. It will be finished by the end of next weekend, so basically on schedule. Sterilised thirty bottles ready for the next lot of white. I’ll probably bottle that tomorrow. Had a cold bath. Now I’m going to make a curry and watch the x-factor final.

Emulsion paw prints

I forgot to say yesterday that the radiator went. I removed it last saturday and stuck it outside the bay window in the hope somebody would bugger off with it, took less than a week, God bless the pikey scrap dealers. Woke up late, actually woke up at 5AM, but got breakfast or three rather late. Read the paper. Still have quite a bad cold, so reading was as erotic as I got. Got up eventually. Took the lounge door off. Painted the door frame, then you name it, everyman and his fucking dog turned up. A courier came delivering my wine, whichI’d specifically put down for a delivery date of Monday, Sasha came bounding down the stairs, I shoved he in the kitchen, of course the lounge no longer had a door on. See goes careering under the ladder, knocks the paint pot over and gets it all over her paws. I go ape shit. She now run away. I spend the next half-hour shouting my head off walking round with a large vat of white spirit. Went out and did a home check for some cats, picked up a hi-fi rack thing to stick the consoles on. Bought some pet tat. Came back and did a load of wiring in the trunking. Not much more to do now, bit more wiring and a bit more painting, more of a cleaning up operation. So can have a fairly relaxing day tomorrow finishing and tidying up.

What would be handy is new wooden spoon

So not a bad nights sleep, mainly induced by wine. So woke up with a blocked nose and a headache. Cracked on with work though, got a hell of a lot done today considering. Walked Sasha, cold but dry. Didn’t venture out, wasn’t up for the gym or Pump, so back to that next week. We did walk to Aldi though and picked up a heated buffet server thing, it was very cheap. Had a bath. Just put the pizza in and went through the drawer. Everyone keeps asking what I want for Christmas and one thing I’ve been meaning to ask for for years, is a new wooden spoon, mine seems to be bent at a thirty degree angle. So now I’m going to no doubt get about ten.

8 Mile

Not a bad nights sleep, the wine helped. Work was all about profiling buffer formats, some interesting results. Have to use one format on one console and the other one has a different one. PC is so bloody quick you can use what you want. All thats done now, some bugs to fix and a couple of new bits to add. Horrible cold day. Walked Sasha in the rain. Did manage to go out for a short five mile run, it was cold but dry, also a good way to clear my cold, get the blood running through the veins. Spent the evening cutting up the covers for the trunking. All done now, need to plan the cable layouts next and mount the network switch. While doing that I watched ‘8 Mile’, which is a film I’d been meaning to watch for probably about ten years, it was actually very good, battle rap with M&M, did you know rap stood for rhythm and poetry? There you go, educational as well as dull.