More thrust than a Saturn V moon rocket

So this morning started off rather strangely. Jamie went to bed with no pants on, which is very similar to changing the shop sign from ‘closed’ to ‘open’. However I was fairly knackered and had drunk my own body weight in lager. So this morning I woke up and let the dog out for a pee and went back to bed. Jamie was on a late shift so started getting amorous. Now there are two side effects I get from Fluoxetine, the first is Serotonin Syndrome, which I had yesterday and now appears to have past (there is no longer a time delay between me moving by head and my brain knowing about it) and the other one is a minor sexual dysfunction. Now were not talking about the one where nothing happens, Mr floppy turned into Mr 20ft scaffolding pole (I do boast) in a couple of minutes. So after the foreplay we went at it. Now I was pumping away with more gusto than Arnie Schwarzenegger in a weight room. But thanks to the effects of the drugs my journey to orgasm didn’t need a stopwatch to time it, it needed a calendar. So I looked upwards and saw the Tom Daley calendar, nope. Then I closed my eyes and thought of Taylor Lautner, all rippling six pack, slowly turning into a werewolf…hmmm…then opened my eyes in shock to see a wolf by the side of me, momentarily I thought my luck was in, until I realised it was the dog. Eventually I got there and all was good with the world. I had breakfast.

Jamie went off to work, I walked the dog and called in the vet for her worming tablets. I did ask if one day she would turn into a rippling six-packed stud, they looked at me strangely and pointed out I needed to give the worming tablets to the dog and not take them myself.

I went shopping and bought some shoes, you can never have enough shoes.

Pizza dough is in the bread maker, I’ll try not to fuck it up this time.

DIY day tomorrow. Oh, I also installed Dropbox on the Ubuntu server, I’ll no doubt rattle on about that a bit next week.

The joys of Serotonin Syndrome

Started this morning sorted a couple of wobble issues out. Then back to the exciting world of inventory data base work. Just ploughed on with it, got pretty much everything done that I had planned, so can’t complain.

Walked the dog. Ate a Turkey sandwich. (They didn’t have any chicken slices this week.)

Been feeling very very floaty all day. Almost stoned, like you’ve drank 300 cups of coffee. I’ve had about six, but I have a pretty high tolerance to it now. It’s been a week on the pills now so suffering from a bit of ‘Serotonin syndrome’, don’t Google it or you’ll be on eBay next looking for a nice black dress. It’s just a bit of a chemical in-balance in the brain. Your head feels just slightly disconnected from your body, almost as if there is a slight time delay. It passes, but is quite an amusing side effect. I’ll have a glass of wine, that’ll settle it down a bit.

So the woman’s just sat there in the dark with her minge out

Had a bit of an odd task to do today. Gear wobble. More accurately gear wobble sound. Anyway made a change from boring database type stuff I’ve been doing the last couple of days. It was pretty straightforward to do and is quite effective.

Nice weather again. Went out for a run lunchtime. Also started going through the Japanese course again, right from the beginning and using it as a review. Sped through the first unit in a couple of hours.

Went out in the evening for another Geocache hunt. Found another one, failed to track down two others. It is quite fun and appeals to my geekyness.

We ended up watching a documentary last night which was rather strange, it was about ‘dogging’. It mainly seems to be a way to get your wife shagged by as many odd people as possible. It appeals to ugly men and fairly ugly women. Jamie said, ‘So she’s sat there with her minge out, now what’. Well as it happened, not much. Oddly they were all wearing animal masks, which added another layer of bizareness.

Life is short, well in my case 5ft4

Working on app code again, once again not particularly exciting. Most of the day was just fire fighting various issues with very little additional code done, but again, that’s just the way it goes sometimes.

Cleaners arrived. They made a sensible decision and actually sent one of the original ones round who actually had a clue what she was doing. The fire grate still has ‘dust me’ written in it still though.

Picked up the dog from playgroup.

Did a bit more Japanese but got to the point now where new stuff isn’t really sinking in. So I think with the last week or so I’m just going to start going through from the beginning again and use that as a review. As I think it’s going to be a lot more useful to be able to order train tickets than it is to discuss the fact that ‘Maroon Five’ concert tickets have sold out. (Yes that is in there.)

Went out for a walk again with my phone GPS. Found two more geocaches, went for a third but that bloody motorway was in the way again. Anyway, good excuse for a nice walk as yet again it was a very pleasant evening. Hopefully if it gets warmer I can get the bike out and seek out a few further ones.

Jamie is cooking tea tonight, so salad free. Hopefully I’ll get it before tomorrow.

Geocaching success

As I spent most of last night working I took an hour off this morning to catch up on my Japanese lessons. I’m on target to finish again now but it’s going to be pretty hard going.

Went for a run.

Finished work at a reasonable hour so decided to go out and have another bash at geocaching. I picked one which was about 1.5Km away. The problem was this little road called the M5 which was in the way, so ended up being 3.5Km away. It was up towards Hortham under a bridge. It was nice to actually find one. The phone GPS is a bit crap, the compass just spins round and round so you have to find it using distance alone. I may treat myself to a GPS when I’m in Japan. Anyway it was a nice evening and got home just as it was getting dark. Corked the rest of the Pinot and stored it to mature. Watched some telly. Early start tomorrow as Sasha is off to playgroup.

Something pretty to look at

So back to doing dull work most of the day. Just cracked on, it kept me pretty busy and it wasn’t exactly taxing. Just required an awful lot of typing.

Walked the dog, weather wasn’t bad for once. More work. Then off to Body Combat. To my surprise there was quite a nubile blonde young chap joining the class for the first time. He stood next to me right at the front and was bloody useless. Mind you I’ve been doing combat longer than he probably has had pubic hair. Needs more weights work, no definition, no coordination and was unable to string a combo of more than one move together without fucking it up royally. Mind you it gave great amusement to the bulk of class, which mainly consists of overweight housewives. Still he had nice hair, hope he comes again and the ‘ladies who do lunch’ brigade didn’t scare him off.

Came back and did more work. Ate salad.

Geocaching

Woke up earlier than I’d planned, let the dog out for a pee. Decided it was too early for breakfast so went back to sleep. Then woke up later than I’d planned. Never mind. Ate breakfast, drank coffee and read the paper.

Then it was back on to DIY, was overly in the mood today but cracked on. Glued in the alarm cables and put filler over the top. The painted all the walls with acid, this was to neutralise the industrial paint stripper. This actually took less time than I thought it would. So had lunch and then put some filler over one wall. There’s an awful lot of filler ahead. I need to get a smaller palette knife though to do the coving with. I think it’ll all be fine, just a lot to go.

I decided I wanted to get out for a couple of hours, so wanted to try something new. As the weather was still a little bit shit I decided that naked sky diving would have to wait another week, so thought I’d give geocaching a go. This is where you are given gps coordinates of a location which contains a ‘cache’. This is usually some kind of box which contains a log book, you fill it in with your geocache number. Basically it gives a target for a walk. I picked the closest two, the first one was only 1.5Km away but it still took me about an hour to find the location. I use an app on the phone which homes in on it. The actual cache wasn’t to be found, but a lot of these things tend to get nicked, so no surprises. I then went off and found another one. I must admit it was quite good phone and got me to walk to a couple of new places. I’ll try and do a few more over the coming months, see if I can actually find the boxes.

Came back and bottled the Pinot. Managed to get 24 bottles out of it, and now drinking the dregs.

The Vigor is holding the line steady, but I see the actual network throughput has stopped, so you won’t read this until the network is reset. It’s set-up to restart ppp at 4AM, so hopefully that will kick it off, if not I’ll try and use remote access to restart it.

If you want a cheap inuendo, I’ll give you one

This morning started how I quite like to start Saturday mornings, with sleep. It was then followed by a bit more sleep, breakfast, coffee, vitamins and Fluoxetine.

Got up and walked the dog. There was a dog running about that wasn’t on a lead, Sasha got a bit over excited and started chasing it and basically walked over it. I pulled her back and apologised that she just wanted to play. The women moaned ‘oh really, I’ll her on a lead then she they won’t’. Jesus, there’s someone who needs HRT, miserable bitch. Mind you I can hardly complain about being moody. My mood swings more often than the Plimsoll bridge. Further down the path we met a lovely Welsh women with I think it was a ‘chow chow’. Medium sized dog with the most amazing afro. It was also apparently a moody shit, so would have got on fine with me. We were talking for about ten minutes.

Came back, had lunch. Went and met bum boy at Tesco’s and did the shopping. Also went to Pet’s R’Us and got Sasha a new bed for her box, we also got her a basket style one which she will probably eat. We also stocked up on Pig trotters, Jamie has some odd eating habits.

I walked into town, failed to buy anything, it’s cheaper that way. Visited mother, she’s still alive. Updated her virus software. Came back home and did the accounts. Pizza dough is currently in the bread maker. Jamie is currently in the bath, which is where I want to be. I would join him but Archimedes was pretty spot on and we’d only need an egg-cup of water. Mind you last time we were in the bath together he kept moaning about every time I peed in it.

More DIY tomorrow, only 1059 Sunday’s left.

Better living through chemistry

This morning I wasn’t woken by a courier.

Spent all day working on this data stuff again. I just knuckled down and got on with it, I don’t really like how it looks, but never mind.

Walked the dog.

Courier arrived. It was the Draytek back from repair, they’ve swapped it out. I must admit, gold star to Draytek that was bloody quick service.

Went to the doctors. He failed to join me in a suicide pact, so prescribed more Prozac instead.

Did more work. Went to BodyPump. Did more work.

Then looked on the server syslog and notice some iNode block errors. After further investigation it appears that the backup drive which it archives to every night is shagged. So it no longer has a backup. I’ve now gone into panic mode about it. I’m just doing a backup run now and I’ll copy it over to another machine. Nothing has been lost, but potentially could have been nasty.

Thirty five quid per fucking pony

Rudely awaken this morning by yet another courier. This time a box for Jamie. It contained four ponies. To be exact four ‘My Little Pony’s’. They were shipped from the US. Looking at the invoice, the shipping costs and the import duty they cost thirty five quid each. That’s a lot for a pony.

Spent the morning discussing a database task with a work colleague. It took about two hours to explain something that turns out to be quite simple, yet is being implemented in probably the most complex way I can think of. It’s not my department so I’m just getting on with it without complaining, I’m sure there are lots of other reasons why it’s being done this particular way and I’m just being dense.

Tried to get a doctors appointment, rang at 8:45, apparently all the appointments were gone for the day. I should have said, “Well I’ll just fucking die then.”, I didn’t. I said I’d call back tomorrow.

Went for a run. Did some more Japanese. Only eleven working days left until we go.

It’s torture porn night, Twilight Breaking Dawn Pt.1 tonight, bring on those abs.