Forgot to mention yesterday, when I was doing the flooring, Jamie had the dogs in the bedroom for about seven hours. When he eventually came down Dillon went out for a pee and we stood there giggle as he was going for about three minutes.

Work was tidying up a few bits from last week. Also looking at a few optimisation things. Walked the dogs. Did more work.

Went to BodyCombat. Was great fun. My arms are looking damn fine. Chatting to Sarah, were going to see if we can do something about mother. As murder is a bit dodgy, we may look inter power of attorney instead. Oh I’ve looked it up, it’s £110 for the financial form.

Came back and did a bit more work. Then decided to re-edit my heli video. But to use the radio edit of the song so it’s shorter. Installed all my new FCPX plug-ins. They are fantastic. Had great fun with light bleeding, lens flares and volumetric lighting. Need another couple of sessions on it, but looking good.

Going to have a torture porn night tonight, as it’s been about a month since I’ve watched a film.

Don’t forget to watch my new video ’99 anecdotes and the bitch is in all of them’.

So woke up with a little bit of a hangover, which isn’t really surprising after not drinking for a month. Still, had breakfast and read the paper. Then just cracked on. Got the new steam mop out and cleaned the lino. Then just started cutting away. I spent the next seven hours cutting and laying laminate flooring. And to be honest I made a fucking good job of it. All done. And I have enough left over to do the downstairs loo. The saw I bought was an absolute gem. It really served it’s purpose well. I need to put silicone sealant round it next and then add the beading. I’m really pleased with it. The only slight cock-up I made was when I put the washing machine back, I turned the hot water on rather than the cold, and flooded underneath the unit. It was late, I’d been at it all day…..So At the moment the washing machine I stuck out in the middle of the floor while it all dries out.

I’ve decided I’m going to do the whole of the dinning room and the lounge, this will enable me to get the cables in I want.

My camera sold for a hundred and twelve pounds which was pretty good. Had a bath, drank some home brew. Now looking forward to some food and sleep.

Had an email from my mother. I answered in a curt but professional manner. If she wants to see the last season of Dexter, she will have to save up and buy the box set, after all it’s a lot less than a Nina Lemon skirt.

Today I had a bit of a’me’ day. That is I did stuff that I wanted to do, rather than to the benefit of anyone else. So had breakfast and fed the dogs, cruised the internet for a bit. I then walked Sasha, Dillon wasn’t interested. Then I decided to make some videos, I actually ended up making three videos. Well I did the filming for three anyway, as thats the bit that takes the time. I then popped out to Tesco’s. Can back and then spent the next three hours editing. I decided to go for my next bitching video first. So I edited ’99 anecdotes and the bitch is in all of them’ first. This is quite an amusing video about my mothers story telling. In between I moved the whole of the kitchen into the dinning room. This is so I can do the laminate flooring tomorrow.

Bought a steam cleaner for the laminate flooring and picked up Jamie. Had a shower. We then went to the local Italian. It was good to see it really busy. I had a lovely pizza, Jamie had the steak. Now the prohibition is over I drank three pints of Stella and feel rather pissed. So I’m having an early night, lots of DIY tomorrow.

You can find my latest video here ’99 problems and the bitch is in all of them.’

Today I didn’t have to do anything with video codecs. Actually I did remote play which turned out to be remarkably easy. Then ended up with a truly horrible thread issue. I’ll go into fun detail on this. A thread is created via normal system, so this had a thread ID. This is a system task, which then creates several other threads. These threads do memory allocations, the memory allocator keeps a track of the calling thread ID. If the ID doesn’t have an internal context then one is created. At the end of each frame all contexts are tested to see if they are then stale, if they are they are deleted. Now this all worked fine, until today. Here was the fun scenario. A thread was created, this had an ID, the system then allocated a load of other threads which had memory callbacks so contexts were created. All good. Except then the thread was closed, the system threads then exited, but a new thread was created the same frame. The system allocated a thread ID of one of the old system threads, this then happens to be in the context hash table as it’s yet to be marked as stale. It then all goes bang. I got round it by doing a manual flush after the thread was deemed, but it is rather a strange case. The moral of the story is not to ignore that the system can reallocate thread ID’s just when you’re not expecting it. Another fun issue of the day is that we needed a build for Monday. This after about four attempts using the automated build system is still failing. So I had to produce one here, package it up, rar it and I’m now uploading it.

Apart from that not a lot else happened. Oh I’ve got my fun little DJ controller, I’ll have a pop with that on the Mac the weekend. Went to Pump. Then did a good session with Laverne afterwards. Ate too much chocolate. Had spaghetti and meatballs, which tasted a bit ass.

Last day off the booze. I’ve surprised myself, managed all 28 days, without any issues. The fridges are back on. But tonight I’m sat down with a pint. A pint of water. I may make some videos and play about with some stuff tomorrow. Sundays going to be a full on bloody hard day.

Woke up this morning to get a letter, it was my Class 2 medical certificate. So now I’m cleared to fly solo. Just need to pass air law and learn to actually hit the target spot all the time, not just once in a session.

Spent the bulk of the day encoding video, this was actually for work purposes. Ended up doing it on the Mac as it was just better at it and more flexible. Finally checked in all the video code and a load of other stuff. Up to date again now. Tomorrow I have to look at some remote play stuff which should be quite interesting.

Went to the gym and did Spin with Laverne. Coming to the end of the month now. It’s been interesting but fun. Thinking about doing a few more videos. I think the next one will be based on mothers famous anecdotes, after all, everyone wants to hear about the time I got bullied (which never actually happened), or the record my cousin broke which never actually existed. There’s a few more as well.

Still trying to catch up with TV.

Gt up at 6:30 and took Dillon to daycare. Went back to bed. Started work fairly on time. Still tweaking that video player. By god does MP4 decoding eat up vast amounts of memory. Got a mail from Dr Ramsey, my medical certificate is on it’s way. Got an email from the rental company, the hire car is now sorted.

While working I had my scanner on, tuned into a 70cm repeater. This is because I need to take a telephony exam so thought I’d get into the swing of it again. It’s mainly a quiet channel, but every now and then Mr Dull pops up and then another Mr Dull answers. The first Mr Dull is sat somewhere on the M5 where he’s going to Taunton to change a toner cartridge, the other Mr Dull then answers with the fact he can’t get his tablet to read his email. And I thought diagnosing my mothers technical problems was fucking tedious. They both then talk about their exceedingly dull lives for a further ten minutes while almost completely ignoring each other. They say amateur radio is full of old farts with nothing better to do than talk about the weather. It isn’t. It’s full of old farts who have nothing better to do than talk about toner cartridges. At least the weather would be current, or even relevant. I look forward to being able to talk to these people again, I’ve had a month without depression and dullness, I’m kind of missing it.

Picked up Dillon. Went to Pump. Gave it all once again. Shoulders actually felt a bit sore from yesterdays cross trainer exploits. Came back and did some more work. Then ate salad and two bags of peanuts. Caught up on yet more television. Now up to mid December.

Woke up this morning in a piss. Not alcohol related. But very annoyed with Jamie. We were going to America but he had the bright idea we should get off in Germany and drive for a bit as it would be quicker. So we missed the fight connection. My mind works in mysterious ways.

Spent the whole day finishing off the MP4 video player. All mainly working now. Sent off my radio license application, see if they can dig out my old records.

Got a mail from Dr Ramsey, he has my medical report so should hopefully be able to issue my certificate now. Got a mail from the car hire company, still not sorted yet.

New lens arrived. It’s very nice. Went to gym, worked on cross-trainer. Came back and ate too much crap. Still crying to catch up on TV.

Actually slept through Jamie getting up for work, which I think is the first time I’ve ever done that. Was however, awoken by the dog. Fed and let everyone out. I used the bathroom, dogs used the garden, but we had the same goals.

Cracked on with video player. Got most of it working now, just a few more bits to sort out. The video and audio don’t sync up, nothing is ever bloody straightforward.

Went to Combat. Admired my arms. My sister asked me what she should say to my mother, I just said that she should stop spending money she doesn’t have, stop moaning about everything or just do the decent thing and die. Came back and did some more work.

I need to pass a radio telephony exam for the PPL(H). I keep getting everything fumbled on my communications. I had a quick look on Ebay to see if there were any old second hand VHF radio transmitters and to my surprise found brand new ones for under forty quid. So printed out all the paperwork and filled it it.