So once again woke without any kind of hangover. Still was very tired and achy though, due to yesterdays laminate flooring exercise. Powered up and cracked on with work. Got into it all fairly quickly today. Had a few bugs to fix and then on with multi-threading common constant buffers. All went according to plan even if I didn’t get quite as much done as I anticipated. It’s all working anyway, so thats good.

Walked the dogs, it was freezing.

Went to Combat, that seemed to fly by. Came back and did some more work. Had to do a data build so got on with finishing the video. It’s now all done and uploading. My new backup drive arrived and that’s running at the same time so it’s taking forever. My new tripod has also arrived, which is still in the box from Amazon. Need to start making a shopping list of trip requirements.

I’m looking at a Tamron lens 24-70 F2.8, so will be good in low light but also have great depth of field. If I manage the entire month off the bottle then I’ll get it.

So woke up, with no bad had. Had breakfast, had meds. Fancied a bum, but that wasn’t going to happen. So bang on midday I started the great laminate flooring adventure. I was a learning experience. I made quite a few fuck ups along the way, including starting at the wrong end. Still, some ten hours later it’s finished and it looks pretty good. I haven’t done the beading or the door strips yet. I had some fun long the way. The circular saw broke, the jigsaw broke, the chop saw broke. And the hand saw I was left with is now so blunt it’s ended up in the bin. There’s a couple of bits I’m not overly thrilled with, but I reckon I can cover most of those up with beading. I’ve decided that as this stuff is still on offer at B&Q I’ll buy enough to do the kitchen. I’m also going to invest in a laminate flooring saw, hopefully it won’t break down and will make the job easier. If that’s a success I may look into redoing the lounge and dining room (yes, I know I’ve only just finished that), but it shows all the mud, so would prefer something a little darker. Plus I want to put in speaker cables and stuff. I have a DIY budget, so it will come out of that, there’s about two grand in it at the moment.

At about 11PM I collapsed into the shower, then cooked tea. Chicken fried rice. I watched Top Gear, then my back finally decided it had enough. So what have I drunk today? Well, three cups (or was it four) cups of coffee, one cup of tea and about two pints. Two pints? Yes, two pints of water. And feel fine.

Oh, still haven’t charged this laptop.

So woke up on day one. Took some measurements. Fed the hordes, ate breakfast, went back to bed. Had an odd dream. Jamie had received a letter from the council fining him £2,700 for spraying his channel logo over council property. I did have a go at him and say that if he did do that then he deserves the fine. And I took y meds yesterday as well.

Walked the dogs, had lunch. Got all the tools in from the garage for tomorrow. Walked into town, failed to make any purchases. Picked up a woodworking square from ToolStation. Popped into mothers. Came back and did lots of accountancy type things. Didn’t have a bath, had a shower. Made food, chicken, noodles, stuff. Well basically it was a chow-mein. Ate it with a couple of pints of water.

Now typing this up in bed completely sober. Jamie is asleep downstairs on the couch. No we haven’t had a barney, he just fell asleep down there while I was watching the telly, so I left him to it. We don’t have sex in February anyway.

So laminate flooring tomorrow. Followed by more video editing. Must put my old camera on eBay as it’s free listings day. Then make food, eat food, probably with more water.

Oh, and I still haven’t charged this laptop.

Started as normal. Actually I got some really good work done today so very pleased. Not sure if it will improve performance a lot, will have to wait and see on that one.

The weather is shit.

Went to the gym and did Pump. Then did a session with Laverne afterwards.

So that’s it then. Last day of January. So February the plan is not to drink and not to eat pizza. Four weeks, how hard can it be?

Started late, well finished late last night so didn’t mind. Bit of a dicky stomach as well, but that soon passed. Cracked on with work. An interesting day on that, now all the grunt boring work has been done I’m on to the frustrating debugging stuff. During some dull compiling moments I looked up some Final Cut Pro X plug-ins. I wasn’t happy with one section of my video, I wanted a shatter effect for an explosion. After a good Google I found a company that specialises in FCXP plug-ins. As usual with these things they seem to have a permanent discount available. I ended up getting three in the end, shatter, smoke and fire. I got the exact effect I was looking for with plenty of scope for playing around more.

Went to the gym and did Spin. Gave Laverne my power bill to see if she can do it any cheaper. Had a chat with her about doing the Friday thing on a regular basis. Came back, finished off work and then did some more video editing. Determined to get it all done by the end of the weekend. I’ve got a few ideas for some other videos.

Bloody cough seems to have made a bit of a come back, wish it would piss off.

I still haven’t charged this MacBook Air.

Had a fairly restless night, mainly due to it being a ‘non pill’ day. I woke up at 4AM, couldn’t get back to sleep. Got up at 6:15 and took Dillon to daycare. Got back home and went to bed. Had a dream. This was a weird one. I was in the back of a car with my sister. The car was driving itself. I told Sarah (my sister) to take the steering wheel. Then in the background I heard a helicopter. It was doing an emergency landing. It crashed. The next thing I knew was that my mother was attempting to disconnect the fuel line. You’ve just got to love mind altering drugs.

Work today was mainly syncing code and data and making everything work again. All went fine, bit one hell of a long day, about twelve hours.

Did pump. Good fun.

Came back and in-between work did some more video editing. It’s almost complete now. A bit disappointed about the noise on the video, I think the ISO was set too high. Still it’s only my fourth video. Great fun doing the editing though.

This morning started vaguely on time. Cracked on, it’s very tough going at the moment, but hopefully have it all sorted by the end of next week.

Managed to get everything done by early evening, so shut down and went to the gym. Ran for an hour. Came back and then spent a couple of hours editing the new video.

Ate salad. With pickled onions. I was supposed to no be drinking this week, so far failed abysmally.

Oh, doctor rang. We had a short discussion about coming off prozac, so that’s going ahead. Fuck knows what will happen there.

Liking this laptop a lot. It’s still very shiny. I’ve also still yet to plug it in to the mains.

Started the morning at a fairly sensible time and pretty much cracked straight on. Which is pretty good for a Monday. Working on shader stuff still, but this time it’s the code side of it, which is a mot more interesting. Got a lot done, doesn’t work yet, but there is an end in sight.

Walked the dogs, it’s bloody freezing. Even in the office it was cold.

Went to the gym and did combat. Came back and did a bit more work. Then it was back to video editing. I managed to achieve something fairly complex on Final Cut Pro then I couldn’t get jump cuts to work. I think it needs a few more hours work, enjoying it though, managed to crash it once.

Then I got my shiny shiny new toy out. Macbook Air. All setup with email and Final Cut Pro. Still can’t find a nice image editor. I’ve downloaded ‘Gimp’, will have a play with that. This thing is so thin and the battery appears to last forever. The keyboard however is an ass to type on if you have long index finger nails. Crack on again tomorrow.

So this morning was fairly typical of a Sunday. We slept in. Jamie got me breakfast, I read the paper. We failed to have sex.

Mother phoned, apparently she found (well she didn’t) an old 110V yellow transformer in her garage and asked if I wanted it. If not she says it’s worth about forty quid and she would sell it. Well that would just about cover the cost of some hideous box she just bought to stick books in. If she wants to buy a box, then why not get a body shaped one with handles. I didn’t reply, it’s Sunday, she got a few hours of my attention yesterday, about the same amount of time she gave me when I was five.

I then got up and fitted a new letter box to the front door. Thinking about it, why would you fit one anywhere else. Then I ripped up all the remaining hall carpet and binned it. Goodbye to a hundred quids worth of carpet tiles. I then got my chisels out. After watching a couple of videos about laminate flooring I decided to knock out a few bits around the door frames so the flooring can go under it. This should hopefully produce a better finish than trying to butt it up to the edges. Had lunch, boiled eggs. Jamie’s dad came round, was quite indifferent. I continued with the chiselling and managed to whack myself in the knee with the mallet. I picked up the dog poo.

I then decided as I was feeling more bloated than a hot air balloon it would be a great idea to go to the gym. Hour and twenty minutes on a treadmill. I can no longer walk.

Sat down and down the rough edit on my knew video (well it’s actually our new video as it has Jamie in it as well). That’s ready for the second stage of editing now. Think I’ll have a bath and then get the food on. A fun day, I’m glad I made the effort and got to the gym, feel slightly less fat now.

So this morning started with lots of sleeping. Followed by breakfast and a dog walk. Had lunch. Was going to go into town but it looked like the apocalypse was about to start so headed to B&Q instead. Spent ages looking at laminate flooring, this is what my life has come to. Finally spent about a hundred quid on three packs of the stuff together with all the tools.

Then visited my mother, first time I’ve seen her since Christmas. She’s still irritating.

Came come to find the dogs have chewed another floor tile. If they can eat laminate flooring I’ll be impressed. Can’t lay it yet as it has to ‘acclimatise’ for 72 hours. I’ll rip up the old carpet instead and do some preparation. Also have a new letter box to fit on the outside.

Done the accounts. Got our USA ESTA visas. Got Jamie a driving license. Think I’ll have a quick bath. I’m cooking tonight. Will hopefully edit my new video tomorrow.