Amazon Prime, my QVC nemesis

It’s quite handy at 3AM when you think, “Oh shit, I need metal primer”. Pick up iPad, click on Amazon app, search primer, click on one click buy and then go back to sleep. If QVC was that easy my mother would be more fucked than she is now.

At 6AM I woke up, at 6:20AM I was in the car with Dillon. At 7AM I was back in bed.

Most of the morning was spent testing threading stuff. Had lunch and then was into more complex issues of contexts, great fun, but mostly working now. Picked up Sasha. Went to Pump. New month, so increased my weights by 2Kg. Jesus did it hurt. Came back and re-wrote the context stuff. Still don’t like it. Tomorrow I will rewrite it again.

The electrical stuff has turned up. The skirting beading has turned up. All the stuff ordered next day from Amazon Prime however, hasn’t.

Do remember to follow me on Twitter, @mannmansion I feel another rant about my childhood coming on.

I had a normal perverted dream

So this morning I awoke due to the dogs, having had a perfectly normal perverted dream. There was no Keith Lemmon, The Saturdays or any other odd celebs. There were two guys (yes they exist), I was investigating if they were banging each other. Anyway, I woke and let the dogs out, then went back to sleep. I was able to continue the dream, which was quite nice as I wanted to get to the bottom of it (In more ways than one). Woke up with a stonking hard-on, Jamie had gone to work. I got up, drank coffee and re-wrote a memory manager.

Basically all day I’ve been writing this vram memory manager, it’s pretty complex, so I’ve been on ‘Do Not Disturb’ all day and everyone left me alone. It’s going well enough, will probably have it finished tomorrow.

Went to Spin, worked very hard, came back and did another hour of work. Sat down and ordered all remaining items for the dining room. I think that’s everything now except for the door. No idea if I’ve blown the budget or not, mainly because I didn’t have one.

Be going to bed shortly and will attempt to have sex with Jamie, mainly as he’s there and Tom Daley currently isn’t, mind you, that could be tonight’s dream.

I was more surprised Tom Daley signed up for a new series of ‘Splash’

So woke up to Tom Daley’s little you tube vid, where he confessed to dating a guy. How truly unremarkable. It’s quite a sad world when he has to do this to quell the media attention. It’s good that a young sportsman has ‘come out’ though, that’ll be inspirational for a lot of young people. His life has slightly mirrored mine, has to wait for dad to die of cancer before coming out. If any of his ex-girlfriends suddenly get back ache, get them to the hospital quick. What the hell does it matter where he wants to put his willy for a bit of fun, or who he wants to go to Ikea with.

Work was a typical Monday morning, in other words I didn’t get a whole lot done. Walked Sasha, Dillon refused.

Went to Combat, talked to Sarah. She did point out that she never could remember mum or dad ever playing with me. This is true, other than dad who used to play snooker with me, he used to call it, “Giving you a hammering”, it was fairly one sided, at least it wasn’t physical. We won’t even mention my attempt at bonding in later life with golf. I have a really terrible picture which my sister found, it’s dad standing with a snooker queue. He has a really dodgy beard and looks like a pedo. I’m glad she didn’t get it printed, it would have ended up in the bin. Anyway, I’ll moan about that more another time.

I’ve booked a couple of days off next week, so I can finally finish all the bloody dinning room stuff. I’ve spent the last hour ordering everything remaining up. As next Wednesday the new arcade cabinet arrives.

“OMG the fucking chorus”

This morning started off fine, at about 9:30, which is always a bit strange when the night before you’ve had four pints and probably the best part of a bottle of wine. I eventually persuaded Jamie that breakfast was required for two dogs and me. I ate breakfast and read the paper. The alarm kept going off and I kept on adding another ten minutes. It was Radio 2. Ike and Tina Turner came on with ‘River deep mountain high’. I grabbed hold of Jamie’s winky and started fapping away to the tune. I was getting into the groove. After a couple of minutes it got to the slow bit so I settled into a steady rhythm, then the beat picked up again and he suddenly blurted out, “Oh my god the fucking chorus”, I burst out laughing at that point and that was the end of it. I finished the paper and got up.

So today was all about painting, and lots of it. Sanded the coving and gave that another coat. Stained the wood round the patio door and then did the skirting. Picked up the dog poo and then had lunch. Gave the coving another sand and another coat. Decided the wood stain on the patio door looked shit so just painted that the same as the skirting. After eleven hours it’s all done bar the touching up with a fine brush. Then I need to caulk it all.

In the meantime mother had left two messages on my mobile. The first was moaning that the curtains hadn’t been sewn straight so she had to pin them all up again. Then that she had spent 45 minutes trying to close her curtains because part of the rail had come out. She would then apparently have to spend the next day in the dark as she couldn’t close them, and how was she supposed to do my curtains then, and could I pop round and sort it out. The next message was that she had managed to sort her curtain rail out, but she was still having issues with my curtains, blah blah blah. I didn’t call her back, I really don’t give a flying fuck about her curtain rail. I knew this would cause me grief, I wish now I’d just packed them up and sent them down to Alison to be done. At least then I wouldn’t have to donate a fucking kidney to have them taken up three inches. Everything is just such a fucking chore with her, she has no idea about how much stress it causes for me. I’m not in the greatest of mental states and she does fuck all to help it. I really should have moved country when I had the chance. Remind me Christmas time, there’s a great story about a present we got her, where she turned out to be the worlds most ungrateful bitch.

Finished off, then found Jamie in the bath which was rather inconvenient, so basically had to sit on his fat thighs. Mind you his massive stomach does make a good pillow.

And there we go. He’s now walking the dogs, hopefully then we may eat and its only 00:30.

Anyway folks, if you enjoy reading my whitterings, and want to follow more of my day to day rants about helicopters, Ubuntu, my bad sex life or how much I hate my mother you can follow me on Twitter using @mannmansion I’ll attempt to follow back as many as possible (if anyone follows me at all). Mind you on twitter this evening was Connor Maynard saying he was naked and covered in Nutella, which sounded quite interesting.

Yes I really did see an old man play the spoons to Eminem

So this morning started with some weird dreams which thankfully I didn’t remember. It was actually a really nice sunny but cold day. So I took the dogs up to the field in Almondsbury and they had a good run around off lead. We popped into the vets on the way back and picked up some flee flee and wormy wormy.

Came back and had lunch, then I headed out to B&Q and got some paint for the skirting boards and stain for the patio door. Picked up from crickets, walked into town and bought a shirt. Popped into mothers and dropped off the curtains and gave her six bottles of red.

She then left me a message on my phone to say that she didn’t have the right colour cotton for them and would have to go all the way to John Lewis. Now this slightly annoyed me a bit…I’ve given her about fifty quids worth of wine for taking up a couple of pairs of curtains three inches.

Now for some reason this triggered a couple of really bad memories. Call me an ungrateful bitch if you want, but fuck you, here we go. Lets go back thirty years. I was eleven. PE. Okay, I wasn’t the most athletic kid in school, but I did used to enjoy it, I especially liked basketball. Anyway, I was wearing a pair of white daps that I had inherited from my sister. For PE, I required some white sports socks. I asked mother for some, she said that they were too expensive and I couldn’t have any. But we went to a weird shop in Coldharbour Road, which sold weird shit. There she bought me a pair of girls laced socks and said ‘ah nobody will notice’. Jesus fucking christ, I was eleven, do you think that I wouldn’t be beaten to shit for wearing some girls laced socks. I never wore them, I would have been fucking killed. I just went bear footed, which caused my feet to be completely sore after every PE session. In the end I actually stole a pair of socks out of lost property. I kept these secret and washed them by hand for five years. All because my bitch mother wouldn’t spend a couple of quid on some white sports socks. I was also the only kid that never had any trainers, I felt like a real third world outcast.

And while we are at it, here’s another one. I was very good at rugby. I enjoyed it. It was fairly tactical, so it not only required brawn, it required brains as well. And each type had their own positions. I was asked several times by the school to join the school team as one of the ‘backs’, as I had good tactical skills and could outrun anyone. I always refused, as I knew I would only get the piss taken out of me by my parents. It was always the case that if rugby was mentioned, it was always, “Oh Tim is good at rugby, they use him as the ball”, hahahha, fucking bitches. If there was ever a school for making someone feel very small and insecure, you would be the masters of it. I never did play for the school team. I also never played for the school basketball team, I wasn’t allowed as apparently my shoes were a bit of an embarrassment, but the PE teacher did offer to buy me some! Meanwhile, mother was treating herself to everything available from Gratton, Burlington, Great Universal and Empire Stores.

So if you have kids folks, and they are vaguely interested in any kind of school sports, give them every kind of support you can give. And I don’t mean spend your time on the sidelines swearing at all the other kids. I mean give up buying yet another dress you’ll never wear and buy the kid some trainers that won’t embarrass the shit out of them.

Am I bitter? Yes I fucking am. Is it justified? Well the older I get, I find the more I’m mentally affected by it all. It will come to a point where it will become intolerable. Then it will be a case of her or me. It sounds really bad, but there is only one point when I truly will be free. Somehow at the moment she is still in control, this is tearing me from the inside.

This evening we went out with some of Jamie’s Tesco friends. We went to the Italian and ate turkey which was rather strange. It was a good evening though.

Oh the spoons thing. Yes, in St. Nick’s market there was a probably homeless man with a radio, who was playing the spoons to a radio, it was rather bizarre and rather fascinating at the same time.

Why do all helicopter pilots appear to be either 60 or 12?

Today work wise was fairly dull, lots of changing thread priorities and analysing profiles. It’s all looking quite tight though which is good.

Had a sandwich and then vanished off to Staverton late afternoon. No traffic problems so got there a bit before my time slot. There were the usual assortment of old pilot type people, didn’t really chat to anyone to start off with. James was there, so we put the wheels on G-OJAN and did all the checks. Opened the hanger door and dragged her out. James booked out, I went through the check list and fired her up. Did the checks, then I took her off into the hover. As it was only us operating at the airport we had clearance straight-away, so I took off to the north. It was a magnificent sight, we flew around in a big circle over Gloucester and Cheltenham. It’s really nice seeing it all lit-up. It’s quite eerie over pitch black bits, you have no idea where the ground is, it’s disorientating. We got to the east of Gloucester and got a direct landing path to the west runway R27. This is unusual as it’s normally occupied by aircraft. But I got to do a glideslope landing on the main run-way and flew right over GCHQ. I then taxied back and parked it badly back at Heliflight. Was a good flight. I then went back and had a couple of burgers and chatted to some people. I ended up having a long chat with a grandma, who brought her 17 year old grandson in for the night flight, he already has his PPL(H) but is still learning to drive a car. She was a lovely lady ‘Irene’. Also while I was there, this blond bean-pole boy of about 18 (yes I would) turned up with his parents and block booked ten lessons, good to see he had a spare four grand. Anyway, fun evening.

Came back and did some more work. Bath time.

It’s so cold even the dogs have decided that malting is not a good idea

Today started late. Working mainly on physics stuff, that is profiling it and doing some optimisations. Made a nice change from render stuff, which no doubt I’ll be back on tomorrow.

Walked the dogs, well walked Sasha, Dillon refused to even have his coat on.

Went to spin, gave it all. Did more work. Installed R22 SP1 on the iMac, will give that a good blast tomorrow. I have a night flight tomorrow which I’m looking forward to. It will be cold. Talking of cold, it’s bloody freezing. I’ve turned the heating down as gas is far too expensive. Paint sample arrived, it’s kind of a dark chocolate, put it on the skirting board, looks fine, so I’ll get a pot made up.

It’s interesting that mother requires a TV aerial which will cost about £100, which she doesn’t have. Yet, she’s still managed to order a rather ugly dress she doesn’t need from QVC for half that amount. This is why I won’t do anything about it.

Christmas is coming, which I haven’t really thought about. New year is coming which I haven’t really thought about. All the kennels are booked up anyway, so doubt we will be going anywhere.

If you fly into a wardrobe, your rotors will fall off

Woke up at 6:20AM. Took Sasha to daycare. Dillon howled. Went back to bed.

Still working on multi-threading rendering type stuff. Almost coming to an end on it now, will start looking at another aspect next week I expect.

Picked up Sasha. Went to Pump, it was very busy. Did more work.

Transferred white to a new bucket. Will order up another couple of white kits tomorrow I think. Flew the msrx, managed to get it hovering fairly well, then whacked it into a wardrobe and the rotors fell off.

Oh the arcade cabinet is finished, it looks awesome.

YOLO, but I wish to repeat sixteen to twenty-six

Spent the bulk of the day debugging threaded rendering, which really is quite dull, but quite intense.

Went to the gym and did spin, it was with Kate rather than Paul, so no bad American accent. Game back, did more work, finally found the bug I was looking for. Watched the live stream of Danisnotonfire. I need to stalk more.

Jamie is playing xbone with his little friend (Game of Thrones). I’m finding someone with a ‘God’ complex quite amusing, I put it down to insecurity.

You know, people look back and say, “Oh, I wouldn’t change a thing”. Gash to that, there’s a fucking lot I’d change between about sixteen and twenty-six. There’s still some people I need to hunt down and destroy.

My skirting boards look like they are covered in poo

This morning started with another weird dream, I’m sure it had something to do with Tesco’s but thankfully can’t remember it much.

Bit of a strange day for reasons I won’t go into yet, but it may involve sacrificing some chickens. Work was mainly threading, renderer type stuff. All going to plan, if a little dull at the moment.

Went to combat, that was fun. Did more work. Got back into Twitter so I can stalk people. Think I’ll have a quick glass of wine to settle my head then have an early night and do some reading. Can’t really get into the GP qualifier.

Oh yes, the skirting boards, staining them maple didn’t really work, looks like the dogs have run their asses down them. Ordered a tester pot of a dark brown, will just go for paint instead. Get the bloody thing finished after about two years.