So woke up after a rather bizarre dream. Was it erotic and sexual? Well, depends on your preferences. I dreamt an entire Maths A level paper. I don’t mean I just dreamt thinking about taking the exam, no, I dreamt every bloody question, and I did all the working out. Worse part was that I couldn’t answer most of it, not surprising considering I’ve never done A level maths. So my brain is now capable of conjuring up exam papers. Looking forward to A level physics tonight and may be next week A home economics, at least then I can eat something. Obviously spending far too much time reading bloody vehicle dynamics books.

Went shopping. Did a couple of animal rechecks and that really was about it. Oh, did some more paint stripping of that bloody door frame. Still not finished.

Anyway, quick bath, glass of wine, then on with the curry.

Again I wasn’t exactly too spritely up this morning. After I’d blown out about 3 gallons of snot it was back on to physics stuff. Got really stuck into it all today and once again did far more hours than I should of. But did squeeze in some extra Japanese. I’m still going through my flash cards each time and trying to remember all the words, it must be about 180 by now.

Nothing else done really. I managed to tank the pppoe connection by plugging the notebook into the Draytek and trying to look at the the current line status. It seems okay, but according to the Zen logs it’s been doing a resync every couple of days. I’m not losing any signel though so just something to keep an eye on. I want to see if the built in reset I’ve added to pfSense will kick the modem back online. Will have to wait to 4AM to find out.

Oh, so that’s no access to this before 4AM and no email for me either. Still I’m after a quiet night now. It’s torture porn night. Actually it’s the second half of the second Twilight film.

The sim card for my old Galaxy S turned up. My hacking attempts were successful and I managed to unlock it, so as a fallback I can use that one in Japan if I get a data sim.

Got up at 6:20 and took Sasha to daycare. Went back to bed. Didn’t start work until 10:45, but still way over time, so no real concern.

Ordered a two hundred quid book on vehicle dynamics. Filled in an expense claim for two hundred quid.

Working on tyre dynamics. More specifically Pacejka tyre models, which is a very fascinating area of physics. It’s all to do with forces generated from tyres. I can’t really go into what I’m working on specifically, but lets just say I’m finding it very interesting.

Big tub of paint arrived.

Picked up the dog.

Did another Japanese unit. That’s something else I’m very pleased with my progress on.

Ate pizza, Jamie decided he wanted to eat something after feeling ill for god knows how long. So had a bath and a couple of cans. I’m slowly beginning to feel better but still a long way from 100%.

Hopefully by the weekend I will have recovered.

Today I did feel somewhat better, if not great. I was able to concentrate at least, which was very useful considering I was messing about with physics again. Today it was Coulomb friction models again, this time I did manage to get on top of it though. Knocked all that on the head so tomorrow I can get on with the next bit, which is all to do with slip angles. That will be fun.

Jamie got sent home from work, not because he was a naughty boy but because he was a health hazard. So I walked the dog. Finished fairly early to make up for extra hours. Did some Japanese. Then did a recheck for a dog. Oddly it wasn’t the same dog the lady was down for, communication, wonderful thing. Anyway, the lady and dog were both fine.

Came back, ate salad. Started watching ‘House of cards’ on NetFlix. Not sure yet. May give it another episode, but it’s not really the same without Ian Richardson, “Call me daddy”.

Didn’t sleep again last night. Cold appears to have gotten worse, which is lovely. So started work late. Physics again. Sorted out a couple of issues, one is still very much annoying me though.

Walked the dog.

Tried to do some more Japanese, but just couldn’t concentrate.

Think I’ll have something light to eat, then go to bed.

So I slept in the spare room last night. No weird domestic, but Jamie was snorting like a train, taking up the entire bed and the dog looked at me in that “Fuck off I’m comfortable” way. So peaceful night was had by me.

Got up later than planned which kind of skewed the day a bit. I rang a few people to try and arrange some dog/cat rechecks. Finally got hold of a women who I’ve been trying to get hold of since about October. She spent ten minutes moaning that none of us cared and she could have been abusing the dog for months etc. etc. Well love, I’m glad you’re happy with the dog and all is well. I hope you got value for money for your ninety quid and all the volunteers at the sanctuary are pleased also. I did visit a cat over in Clifton, he was fine, did what cats mainly do and that’s sleep on a chair. Then I visited a dog up by the gym. Really lovely, settling in nicely with his companion. So some people are happy. I’m glad I spent the best part of three hours of my time and petrol for nothing to make sure all is okay.

Came back and did the accounts. Ordered some phone cable as I really need to reroute that one sooner rather than later. Bath time, then make food.

Tomorrow is a DIY day, so likely to be very busy. Not sure where I’m sleeping tonight.

I started the day fine. Jamie sounded like an old woman. Pretty much how he sounds every morning. It’s actually very difficult with him to know when he actually has a cold, as he permanently goes around coughing and sneezing. I think that’s the first one I’ve ever managed to give him, usually he gives me the aftermath of some minor sneeze and it annoys me for a few days. This one’s coming up to two weeks now and I’m still get coughing fits. Anyway, I think it’s finally on it’s way out.

So today, still on physics, and likely to be there for quite some time. Managed to sort out a couple of problems that were annoying me. Still got one big one to fix and then I can move on to the next physics related task.

I must by a new mouse. The scroll wheel is buggered on mine. Actually it’s been like that for about two years, but now it’s finally really beginning to piss me off, so definitely time to go.

Went and did Pump. That was fine, was thinking about energy transfers, exciting stuff.

Managed to squeeze in some more Japanese earlier as I’m owed quite a few hours. On to Unit 4 now, so making good progress, but really need to work at it solidly. So another weekend of DIY planned, so bath and wine time. Let’s get the weekend started.

Got up a bit later than normal, but I’m owed lots of hours. Once again, still on physics tasks. This time trying to debug a friction model. It’s more complex than you would expect, also quite annoying. Spent basically hours at it. Got it slightly better but there are still some problems. Also tried to figure out a velocity problem, that also got nowhere.

Jamie had the day off, spent the bulk of it in bed as he now has my man flu. When he eventually arose, which was early evening he came in and announced he had a weird dream. He apparently met a very large African gentleman who said he had the rights to half my money and he could prove this. Not only that, but I apparently paid for a boob job for someone. At least I guess he wasn’t having sex with Keith Lemon and the Spice Girls.

Worked till very late. Then did Japanese, all going well with that. Still no running, last of the man flu. Will go to pump tomorrow and then plan and going back to normal next week.