The scales surprised me somewhat this morning, considering yesterday I started eating again. Lets hope they continue to go in that direction. I managed to seek out some strange rice that is only available in Morrison’s, I may try and pick some up tomorrow, it has bugger all calories in it, will go nice with a curry. So work was dull once again, spent ages trying to find a problem on PC, in the end debugged it on a console as it was quicker. Walked Sasha for an hour. Ate salad for lunch. Going for sort of chunky chicken next week for a change, as I no longer have bread. Went for an hours walk this evening. So that’s two hours exercise again today. Spent an hour or so working on a tune. Had a shower. Still have to debug one more thing before finishing. And then it’s salad again.

Didn’t have a great night again, got up at 6:20 and too Sasha to daycare. Went back to bed and finally got a few hours sleep. Jamie played with my giant sausage and I’m sure I’m shooting out pure Aloe Vera mixed with orange concentrate. Got up and stocked up on said Aloe Vera and orange concentrate. Work was very dull, in a bit of a limbo land at the moment, sort of between projects. I couldn’t really get the motivation to do anything to be honest. I may finish the bug I’m working on and then take some time off. Dillon wasn’t interested in the walking thing, so I walked myself for an hour. Then I had some real food, well salad. Picked up Sasha, piddled about a bit more then went off and did Pump. Came back and did a bit more work, then did the Day 3 video and uploaded that. So only lost just over three pounds, I could do that by taking a dump, something which I haven’t done in two days anyway. Had salad for dinner, followed by cake and stayed within my 600 calorie allowance. Also two large cups of tea, that’ll up the water intake. So it’s pretty much the same now for the next seven days, which I may extend to nine. The excitement of my life.

Didn’t have a very comfortable night, but I’ve had a lot worse. Had a bit of a headache for about 10 minutes, more dehydration than anything else I think. Then it was off with the bloody Aloe Vera and to work. I’ve mastered it now, you just mix it with concentrated orange squash and down it like a shot. It then just tastes a bit like ‘orange juice with bits in’. Had the fibre ‘shake’ and all the pills. Took Sasha out lunchtime and it hailed. So went out for an evening walk. Knocked up two hours in total exercise today. Feel fine. Haven’t had a poo though or even the urge to have one. I would have thought that with ‘detoxing’ it would be firing out like a water cannon, but nowt.

This evening I actually sat down for two hours with a notepad and coloured pens and did some proper ‘studying’ for about the first time in twenty odd years. So actually making some sort of effort on these exams now. I think that’s in then. Upload today’s video and have a shower. Sasha at day care tomorrow and it will actually be nice to eat food again. Oddly it’s exactly the same food I would eat normally during the week anyway. I reckon I have enough Aloe Vera to last until next Thursday, so I’ll run it until then, then get hammered Thursday night.

So started this morning with what can only be described as diseased seaman. Mixing Aloe with water alone was not a great idea. Took all the pills with it as well. The ‘snack’ was interesting, stuck it in a glass of water and it basically just solidified. So drunk almost half a litre of Aloe vera today. Mixed it with put orange squash concentrate in the end. The protein shake is just pure vomit though, that can go straight in the bin. If I need to take a protein shake I’ll just use the one I take after the gym. Exercise wise, well I was supposed to do half hour of gentle walking. So I walked the dog for an hour and then did and hour of Combat. So one more day tomorrow like today, but with less vomit.

So got up to leisurely start. Finished off the bathroom, that is cleared up all the masking tape and put the door furniture back on. The only other change I’ll probably do is change the white screw caps to black, but that can wait until the next visit to B&Q. So started measuring things and looking at cable routing. Think I have it all planned out. Ordered two 15M HDMI cables and some Cat-5. I’ve looked at lighting as well and all seems okay providing there are no bloody noggins in between the beams. Next week I plan to remove the floor on the upstairs landing. Route the HDMI and mains cables down the wall, that will probably be it for next week. Will be nice to get on. Need to do some serious research into projectors this week. Went Geocaching when the rain stopped and knocked up another four. Came back and worked on Jamie’s bloody tune again. Got a good audio isolation of it now, much work still to do. Bath, then cooking. That Clean 9 thing starts tomorrow.

Started the morning how I like to start most mornings, in bed. Was supposed to be away this weekend but got out of doing it at the last minute. So had breakfast and read the paper. Then redid Jamie’s Sonic intro thing again, did a better job of it this time round. Walked the dogs. Had lunch (finished off the evil cheese). Walked down Gloucester Road and through Stokes Croft into town. Picked up some stationary for my studies, including a selection of coloured pens and highlighters. It’s bloody expensive. Anyway, that’s for Tuesday. Came back and got petrol. Then made a new video about this ‘Clean 9’ thing. That’s uploading now. About to have a bath. Lots to do on the DIY front tomorrow, may be drilling through floors, which is always kind of enjoyable.

Got up late with a bit of a head after a couple of bottles of wine last night. No idea what time I got to bed. Can’t even remember what I was working on now, oh that was it, a crash in audio due to false sharing on an atomic. Now atomics are weird, you have to be very careful swapping known values and assert on them being swapped, as the atomic can still actually fail, due to cache line sharing. For an atomic to work on x86 you need to do a thing called cache line reservation. Anyway, dull stuff. Walked Sasha for an hour. As I said before, trying to get a bit more activity in during the day. Went to Pump. That’ll be the last one for two weeks as Laverne is off and Trudie needs to stop doing about fifty Pump classes a week.

Now, I’ve still got six exams to pass and just reading the books before I fall asleep isn’t really working. So I need to dedicate one evening a week to some intense study, which will include actually doing some bloody notes and then for some light relief I’m going to dedicate another evening to working on music / Ableton, as that’s a lot of fun. Tuesday and Thursday seem good days, as there’s no gym class. So I can go out with the dog during the day for exercise and then do this in the evening. Does mean starting work vaguely on time though, otherwise I’ll finish and it’ll be time to go to bed again.

Started work a bit late, wasn’t really too much in the mood. Anyway, got stuck into a bug which took several hours. I guess it was fun. Took Sasha out for a mammoth walk lunchtime. My Cleans 9 stuff turned up. So will probably vlog that next week. Sat down and tried to work out Jamie’s tune for the Sonic Show. Got most of it worked out. Finally got round to buying SynthMaster, it comes with some amazing sounds, really pleased with it. Consider I managed to get the full version for about forty quid.

So woke up at 6:20 to the alarm, which makes a change as I’m usually already awake. So must have slept well. Clean run to daycare, back in bed by 7. Started kind of late. Had to piss around a lot with ‘god rays’, which pretty much sucked up most of the day. Walked Sasha, bit longer than normal, as I’m trying to walk a bit more in general. Picked up Dillon. Went to Pump, first time in over a week, so cut down a little on weights, plus it was packed. Came back and did another couple of hours. Ate salad. Bowels are doing weird things again.

Got up and tried to do stuff. Mostly failed. Okay, well got a few bits sorted. Got to about 2PM and Jamie was still in bed even after repeated attempts to ask him to get up so we could take the dogs out. He didn’t. So I went out by myself for and hour and a half. He’d finally got up by the time I got home, ready to go out and eat with Callum. Did a few more bits and finished about half seven. So practiced the new tune and a few other bits. Need to work on an original composition I feel, one to think on. Ate salad. Watched telly. Time for bed. Dillon at daycare tomorrow. Ordered the Clean 9 stuff. So will attempt that next week.