This morning started at almost normal time, well normal for me. It was milestone build day, so I was sat in a chat room with about fifteen people all panicking. I got my build uploaded and working with a whole six minutes to spare, I really don’t know what all the stress is about.

Jamie went out with Tyrion to eat, I’m sure he played with his broad sword.

After about five years of having my car with really annoyingly loud wiper blades I bought some new ones off Amazon. After about twenty minutes I worked out how to fit them. I then spent ten minutes inside the car listening to the silence as they swished by.

I had a bath, a glass a wine and classic FM. I was listening to Rachmaninoff’s piano concerto No.2 (The one in brief encounter, see I can be quite cultured when I’ not being an ass). I was thinking that may be fifty would be a good time to call it quits. I mean, that gives me eight years and a few odds to complete everything I want to do and to visit everywhere I want to go. For instance I’ve never woken up and thought “Fuck, I really need to go to Norway” or “The one thing I really must do is go hang-gliding over the Himalayas”. I think eight years may be enough. I may even get a couple more rooms decorated. I don’t want to get to a pensionable age and suddenly realise I don’t actually have a pension. I don’t want to sit there and wonder if I can afford a box of Ritz crackers. I don’t want the only highlight of my week to be the postman arriving delivering a Kim & Co. gimp suit from QVC. I don’t want to sit and drown in my own bile.

It would make an interesting YouTube video. Don’t think it could be done though, how could you video dying and then upload it? It would require some dodgy scripting and you just know that will fuck up. How about twitter? That would be cool. But you just know at the ultimate moment, some cunt in a lorry will drive over a man hole cover, the phone lines will jump and your connection will drop, fifty years will be completely pointless because you couldn’t tweet ‘That’s all folks’ at the exact second.

May be I’m just in one of those moods. But don’t worry I won’t shuffle off the mortal coil without righting a few wrongs along the way. There are a few people I need to take out first, you know who you are, and I’m coming to get you.

I was thinking of doing a new YouTube video, which will consist of me, a rolling camera on mains power and a memory card that can hold about three hours. I’ll then just sit there and consume two bottles of wine. It may be an Oscar wining performance or totally shit, but either way, it could be very revealing.

Still got a bit of a cold, hopefully in the recovery phase now, want to get back to the gym and normality.

Yesterday I woke up and felt like complete shit. I didn’t get up at all. I think I had breakfast at about midday. Work was right out. I ended up staying in bed all day and just reading a book. If I moved from the bed I felt awful. I did get up in the evening and have a shower, watched a bit of telly.

This morning I still wasn’t great, so didn’t get up until about 3. Did some work in the afternoon and evening. Slowly beginning to feel more normal now. It’s now almost midnight, just eaten. I’ll relax a bit then go to bed. It’s daycare day tomorrow, but the cars out of petrol and I doubt I’ll be much in the mood, so Dillon will have to stay in. Need to do milestone builds tomorrow which aren’t the most exciting, but will require little interaction.

I’m reading an odd book at the moment, ‘The Wasp Factory’, can’t remember who it’s by, but it’s strange. About a boy who had his genitals bitten off by a dog. Just over halfway through.

Anyway, time for self promotion, follow me on twitter @mannmansion and don’t forget the new YouTube channel mannmansion.

So today started mainly in bed and continued there for quite some time. I’ve got a bit of a cold, so wasn’t too bothered about getting up. Got up half way through Elaine Paige. Started on the carpet tiles. Realised that I didn’t have enough of them so had to pop to B&Q again. Came back and laid them all. I’m sure the bloody dog will dig them up again.

Retired to my lair and finished editing my third YouTube video. Yes, I actually edited it. It was good fun, not sure I’ll do any more soon but I enjoyed it and it made a nice change. Jamie I’m sure hates it’s and would like to crawl into a small hole and die, so I guess there are some advantages. Anyway, check out my masterpiece here.

I’m going to have a bath, followed by chicken. Probably wine. No, definitely wine.

Today was mainly spent coughing for some reason. It was rather annoying. The shopping arrived which was less annoying. Lots of protein powder. Worked on constant buffer usage. Also did my video script.

Went to the gym and did pump. Then afterwards had a session with Laverne. We did lots of weights on a bench. A weights class followed by weights while coughing. Fun fun.

Did a home check for a kitten. Did more work.

Now going to have a bath, drink wine and probably cough. Flying and filming tomorrow, if I don’t turn into a diseased wreck.

Spent the bulk of the morning trying to ftp data to a server. I lost count of how many retries it took. Then spent the rest of the day working on optimising constant buffers, which again is as thrilling as it sounds. Actually it was rather frustrating. Walked the dogs.

Then it was time to go to the doctors for my ‘medication review’. Twenty minutes late (him not me) we then spent ten minutes discussing how to land a helicopter with no engine. Then I got a repeat prescription for my own bodyweight in Prozac until the end of July. He then said when I come back he probably won’t be there. To which I instantly said, “Well that’s a shame, but we all have to die sometime.”. He then explained that he wasn’t planning on shuffling off the mortal coil, but was in fact retiring.

Went to Spin. That was fun. Came back and stressed over constant buffers again. Finally sat down. Still degassing wine. Still haven’t done my storyboard for my video and I want to shoot it on Saturday. Which I’m supposed to be flying on as well. Also need to get carpet tiles. May postpone that one for a week.

So this morning was thankfully back to a full week. Started reasonably on time. Today was trying to upgrade an SDK, which actually went okay. The problems came later when on multiple levels I was getting an annoying black screen. Something’s cocked somewhere, ran out of time today, so one for tomorrow.

Took the dogs for a walk in the rain. Someone had finally taken the radiator outside. Note to self, if you want someone to steel something, don’t make it bloody obvious and write ‘scrap’ on it. There was more chance of it walking if I’d locked it in a bank vault. Anyway, gone now. Wonder how long the next one will take.

The dogs have finally destroyed the hall carpet, so that will need replacing. Out with the carpet tiles again I think.

Jamie has gone to Nando’s with ‘Game of Thrones’ boy. We had Nando’s chicken last night. It’s also taken him about two and a half hours. I’ll check later if he put his nice pants on. He’s come back in a good mood, very suspicious.

Booked my class two medical for next week. I think I have a good idea for a vlog. I’m sure everyone will hate it.