Work today dragged, it was quite dull. Ended up waiting for a lot of data to sort itself out, then spent ages swapping video cards until I could find one I could reproduce a bug on. Finally got that sorted so I can start looking at it next week. Did a hell of a lot of research on the next task as well, which should be good fun anyway.

Walked Sasha for an hour. Finished work on time and then had a shower. We were being very ‘gay’ tonight and going to a musical. We saw ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’. It was good fun and a lesson in jamming about forty songs into two hours with virtually no plot and a set that looked like a school play. Still, the guy with the Kylie fetish was really quite fit. It was all kicking off in the audience though, several times during the first act the bloke came over to the row opposite and told a woman to shut the fuck up. During the interval the woman next to her was telling her to just not fucking sing. She got quite upset about being told to shut up and there was a bit of a barny. I’d quite happily tell her to shut the fuck up, I’d paid to see the actors, not some fucking fat trout with the voice of a road drill. They moved her and her entourage, hopefully to the road works on the M32.

Started on time, a bit cooler today due to cloud cover. Work was dullish. Didn’t walk Sasha lunchtime as I decided to walk to the doctor’s as the traffic around that time was horrendous. Got there in under an hour. Was actually seen bang on time. Nice lady doctor. She had a poke around and asked lots of questions. She offered to refer me to a physiotherapist, which would take ten weeks. I polity declined. I’m seeing mine again on Saturday. It was a nice chat, but fairly fruitless. Walked back and finished off work. Took Sasha out late in the evening.

Now watching an in/out referendum, I think Boris Johnson will come out eventually.

Still got a cough, definitely falling apart. I blame my mother. Work was dull, but filled the day I guess. The cleaners arrived after a five week break. There are about thirty-thousand dead flies on the cooker hood, there’s more black insect that steel showing, they failed to give it a wipe. Need to look for new cleaners. Went out for a wander this evening and read a book. Also charged up some model helicopter batteries and got that going again. Someone contacted me and asked to meet up about flying models, so may see about that, haven’t touched them in ages.

So started vaguely on time. New guy started today, he hasn’t said much or left yet, so take that as a good thing. Mother picked me up so I could collect a new car battery from down the road. She enjoyed talking about how much other people spend on their shopping and how she had no money to spend on it. I’m sure that by getting a lift I will be indebted for life for something or another.

Worked until about 2PM then took Sasha out, beautiful hot day. Then worked through until early evening. I didn’t do Combat tonight as I think Laverne would have shouted at me. I’m still doing my stretches. Fitted the car battery. I was quite impressed with ‘Tracker’ they called the house phone within one minute of the battery being disconnected and my mobile within two minutes. Went for a nice walk this evening, came back and finished off a book. I’ll have an early night I think. Still need to sort that damn SSL certificate.

So had a nice quiet night until about 5AM when I got up for a piss. That was fine, but Jamie with his plague was making more noise than club night at Liv. I reconvened in the spare room, which wasn’t great as the sun was rising so it was almost daylight in there. Still, managed to get some sleep. Went back to the main bedroom after he’d left for work. I had breakfast and coffee quite late. At bout midday there was a constant nice from the front door, I’m not sure what he did but basically the front door lock was now fucked. You could no longer close it without the key in it. I then spent the next hour stripping the mechanism down and cleaning it all out. It all works now, but I’ve ordered a new lock barrel as thats very much on the way out. It’s interesting to see that you can still get parts for Coldseal about fifteen years after they went under. Spent the bulk of the rest of the day in the front garden. Must have spent five hours out there in making heat. Felt like I’d chopped down the whole of Endor. Then walked the dos for two and a half hours. Had a bath. Now curry time.

So this morning started with all good intentions at 7:30AM. By 8:45 I was up and in the car. By 8:46 I had a problem. Pushing the start button on the car yielded very little, flat battery. I then phoned the Physio Clinic and left a message. Then with a bad leg I ran to the gym and got there at 9:20.

She had a good number of questions and had a good feel around. I think this is probably the only acceptable environment that a man and a lady of similar age can share a small room with a bed in it while wearing speedos. She found that my left groin was certainly far more solid than my right groin, also that I had an old hamstring injury that had torn a muscle so big that she could put her finger in it. Apparently I have torn a muscle somewhere that I can’t pronounce and that it has failed to heal properly. She then proceeded to pummel the said area into submission until it was boiling hot and throbbing. I’ve been given some new stretching exercises and an appointment at the same time next week.

I walked home and put the car battery on charge. I walked to the community festival which was shite. I then walked the dog. Then finally caught up with four weeks of paperwork. Put the charged battery back in the car and it was fucked. Put a meter on it and it read 10.2 volts, so that’s as dead as anything. Had a bath. Now time to eat. May do some gardening tomorrow as I certainly won’t be driving anywhere.

Today my leg was hurting like hell so I phoned another doctor, actually it was a receptionist, I couldn’t get an appointment without having a phone call with a doctor, so they phoned me back, she said to make an appointment. I then finally managed to get one, oddly she said that I may need physiotherapy and it would take up to sixteen weeks. So I have a physio appointment tomorrow morning, oh how many talks. Walked Sasha, nice weather today. Limped to the gym, limped through Pump, caught up with Laverne and then limped home. Had about thirty minutes of work to finish off, hour and a half later….

If you get a weird message about SSL certificates it’s because I haven’t updated them yet. They have to be keyed and everything and that requires logging into the SSL site and that requires remembering the password, so that’ll have to wait.

So I started at 9:15 and had a fairly dull morning. Spent all afternoon though arguing with the art director so was quite a productive day.

Weather is horrible, walked Sasha and it looked like it was about to piss down constantly.

Wrote a complaint email to Virgin about Alamo. Went out and got a local Geocache that was new. Sat down and watched the Spanish GP. Now watching the Monaco one. Think we’ve both come down with diphtheria over the last couple of days.