January
Monday, Jan 01 2018, After doing this 4 years ago in 2014, I am giving this another go. 2018 starts much in the same way as 2014 did with a family New Years Day dinner, the Kings expecting anothe kid and looking forward to Mens Roller Derby Word cup.
Tuesday, Jan 02 2018, The 2nd of January in the last couple of years has become a day of lazying about and watching films before going back to work. This year was no different although I don't go back to work till next week as I didnt stop working till the Friday before xmas and had to carry over holidays.
Wednesday, Jan 03 2018, Back to the gym today after almost a month of being lazy as I need to get back into shape quickly as I have Team Italy training in just over two weeks time
Thursday, Jan 04 2018, Quiet day, with more excersizing done and a little bit more buildng of lego. Nick came round in the evening and we watched Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh (they go to Egypt town) and Trancers
Friday, Jan 05 2018, Another qiuet day, my legs were a bit knackered after the last couple of days gyming, so just did some stuff in the house instead. Went to get my Euros for Milan in 2 weeks and finished building my latest Lego Modular
Saturday, Jan 06 2018, Took the tree down and put away all the christmas decorations and now the livingroom looks bare. Also was supposed to go see Kim, Donald and Ivy but being on call and getting called ended that plan.
Sunday, Jan 07 2018, A bit of a messy day, was supposed to go to the gym first thing with nick but he called to cancel and we tried to go around lunch and I ended up cancelling. Got a load of stuff done for going back to work tomorrow then went off to visit Vero at night.
Monday, Jan 08 2018, First day back at work after a rubbish sleep. Woke up to it being -8 and my car was frozen solid, and had to traverse freezing fog most of the way to work. Work was boring and nothing happened as it was the first day back but also it was the first training session back at BCR in 2018.
Tuesday, Jan 09 2018, Another boring day at work, followed by a visit to the dentist to be told my teeth are brilliant and didnt even need a scale and polish. Then after went to the gym and did rubbish, hopefully come thursday when I go back I will do better.
Wednesday, Jan 10 2018, Busy day at work, ended up working late and on my way home fog settled in so when I was about to hit Falkirk the radio transmitter that you normally never notice looked eerily evil and nefarious.
Thursday, Jan 11 2018, Felt knackered today, so skipped the gym. Caught up on some things I had to do around the flat then my computer decided it was a great time to update. It took close to 3 hours to do this and I had to stay up till after midnight to make sure it all worked as I am supposed to be working from home tomorrow.
Friday, Jan 12 2018, Woke up very very tired after getting to bed late and up early as I was working from home. Got logged in ok but after work was done I skipped the gym again as I was tired because we had Training this evening and I also was away early to help out with fresh meat.
Saturday, Jan 13 2018, Did not go to the gym AGAIN, but got a load of washing and tidying done as well as shopping. Then later on Me, Kat Chris and Nicola went to visit Donald, Kim and Ivy and played some board games.
Sunday, Jan 14 2018, Not only did I go to the gym today, I went early in the morning (9.45am) with Nick. Was there for 2 hours and got a load done, so much so that after it I was utterly knackered and spent the rest of my day playing L.A. Noire before heading round to visit my dad.
Monday, Jan 15 2018, Back to work and spent the day working on and having to tweak code in Angular to deal with google analytics to track every stage of a single page multi step form. Also It started to snow this evening quite heavily so if it continues I shall be working from home tomorrow.
Tuesday, Jan 16 2018, Well the snow did arrive overnight, so I worked from home and ended up just staying in al day as the snow kept up all day.
Wednesday, Jan 17 2018, Woke up at 6am and it had snowed during the night and was still snowing so decided to work from home. By 11am the sun was out and the gritters had been round so the snow was starting to disappear. by 4pm it looked like this so I went round to visit dad.
Thursday, Jan 18 2018, Boring day back in the office, got home ealy ish an started packing for going away to Italy tomorrow for Team Italy training. Still think I am going to get lost or something bad is going to happen as this is a proper trip away by myself and I am no good at travelling by myself abroad.
Friday, Jan 19 2018, A rather exciting and terrify day, flew to Milan for a weekend of Derby Training with Team Italy but I was travelling alone. Plane was delayed 2 hours then when I got tere I had to find he train to get into Milan, also managed to help a load of other people from my plane to get the train includind tickets and validating. Then got into Milan and had to trust google maps to lead me to where I was meeting upwith folks, got lost but had a bit of a wander around Milan. Met up had dinner then off to bed by 11pm.
Saturday, Jan 20 2018, We had the fist of our training sessions, before hand myself and Francesco hit the super market (some Aranciata Amara for me). Then off to start at 11 with Womens team Italy. Did that for a couple of hours then mens team italy training started and we finished at 7pm, so around 8 hours worth of training, which was great. Then off for a team meet up at Elo's workplace/office and to bed as we would have a very early rise tomorrow.
Sunday, Jan 21 2018, Was awake at 5am after getting to sleep at half 12, got up about 6 and got packed and washed and went for breakast at 7. Then off to pick up Tony and onto training for 9am. We started with a scrim againt Womens team Italy (we won) an some extra bits finising at 11.45. Had an hour lunch break and were back on skates for 1pm till 5 for our training. Then a mad rush to get to the airport and made it to my gate wih 2 mins to spare before they boarded the flight. Got home absolutely knackered, so glad im off tomorrow.
Monday, Jan 22 2018, A lazy day today as I took it off work as I was away all weekend. Didn't really do anything apart from watch some stuff on Prime (Lethal Weapon tv series) and played some PS4. But got this from Lego in the post, as it was the missing pieces from my modular I got at christmas.
Tuesday, Jan 23 2018, First day back at wrk after the busy long weekend away, not muchhappening apart from catching up. Weather wise it wa windy as hell and t nevr stopped raining all day, but proper torrential rain. In fact so much so that te road on my way home had flooded, this however did not stop m going through it and emerging unscathed. Other cars going either way on this road after I passed through sat for a longtime befor edeciding not to bother giving it a go.
Wednesday, Jan 24 2018, A quiet but busy day, finished work late then off to visit Vero. When there Journey to the Centre of the earth was on , which we watched. It's been so long since I last saw this film and it is stll a classic.
Thursday, Jan 25 2018, A realy boring day at work,mostly doing documentation and helping out with a few things. When I got home I had decided to try creating somethign new for dinner, so made this. Cannelloni stuffed with bits of Italian Sausague and mozzarella, covered in a tomato sauce topped off with some more mozzarella on top. It was actually really nice.
Friday, Jan 26 2018, Boring day at work, then we had scrims at training against GMRD. Got to try out my nw Gaskets, but I GMRD were short so I played on their side and also managed to pull my thigh muscle at the start of the second half and hand to sit out the rest of the scrim as it was so sore.
Saturday, Jan 27 2018, Let was still really sore so had a quiet day in, cleaning ad tidying the flat then made fresh pizza dough and pizza for dinner and finished it off watching Thor Ragnarock.
Sunday, Jan 28 2018, Wen to Costco with Vero, didn't end up getting much and then after went round for dinner and we had Haggis neeps and tatties as neither of us had had it on the 25th.
Monday, Jan 29 2018, Stayed off skates at training as my leg is still sore, on the way to training round the corner from the flat I passed a Mito exactly like mine. Didn't get a chance to see the license plate to check if it was m old one but reminded me that its pretty much exactly a year ago I traded it in for the Clio, still miss the Mito
Tuesday, Jan 30 2018, Made truffles for taking into work tomorrow as lianne leaves on Thursday and after she claimed to make the best truffles at the start of the Agile Team Latte project there has been a bake off challange between us.
Wednesday, Jan 31 2018, So after it not snowing for about a week and a half, the snow returned over niht and also most of the day we had snow showers although none of it lay back home. Also found out that I am getting to go back to my old team at work and escaping the agile team that I have been in for 5 months now when it was only supposed to be 3 months in the first place.
February
Thursday, Feb 01 2018, Liannes leaving day at work, so there were so so many cakes and everything there. Really do not think I will need to eat for about a month I have eaten so many cakes and things. Also today was the first day in the Women's RDWC. ITaly won their first two games and unfortunately Scotland went down to two defeats, although they had led the Germany game for so long but lost it in the last 6-7 minutes ish by the looks of the twitter score updates. Alsofound his lego at half price in ASDA so treated myself.
Friday, Feb 02 2018, Worked from home, had to go collect some stuff from the post office first thing (new writst guards), the moon was still so bright in the early morning sky as well
Saturday, Feb 03 2018, Spent most of the day cleaning the flat, then cooking dinner (fajitas) then in the evening went off to go see Ale in his show, high school musical. It was actually really good and he got a few lines to say as well in it.
Sunday, Feb 04 2018, Spent most of the day catching up on stuff then watched sme of the games from the womens roller derby world cup that were being streamed on the BBC
Monday, Feb 05 2018, Best news at work, tomorrow I get to go back to my old team. Had training this evening and I booked my flights to the WC
Tuesday, Feb 06 2018, Back in the web team today, long day and I got motivated and went back to the gym on the way home. Also considering ive not been at the gym since before going to italy I did so well on the excersize bike getting over 14k in 30 mins
Wednesday, Feb 07 2018, A really cold day when I woke it also the mook was looking great. ende dup working to 6pm so missed the kids at dads by the time I got round to his.
Thursday, Feb 08 2018, Was quite tired today a its been abusy long weekend, work was ok also stopped off at the gym and did everything although not as well as tue as I was a bit tired. Although I managed to up the max weights I was doing on some of the upper body machines
Friday, Feb 09 2018, Worked from home, managed to sort out mortgage stuff as ts coming to the end of my fixed deal, also paid off a load of it. Loked into my home and contents insurance for this year coming and called the council to do with the gas box. also found out last minute that I was helpingtake training so had to put together a plan for that. Plus this stuff for the WC arrived
Saturday, Feb 10 2018, Today was such a wasted day, had so many plans and ended up doing none of them and stayed in bed super late. Did some cooking and cleaning but that was about it and watch CHiPs (bad film) and L.A. Confidential (classic film) at night. Although am I allowed to enjoy L.A. Confidential as much as these days as it has Kevin Spacey in it?
Sunday, Feb 11 2018, Busy but uneventful day, had the BCR AGM. I booked the room and was excited that we were in the Toy Story room lol, went to see my dad after
Monday, Feb 12 2018, After a cold day yesterday I awoke to find snow, snow everywhere and it was quite undexpected. Was all gone by lunch time though
Tuesday, Feb 13 2018, Busy day at work and I was so tired that I skipped the gym on the way home and just crashed on the couch and watched a couple of films (Supertroopers and Club Dread) as I had the techo tune from SuperTroopers in my head all day
Wednesday, Feb 14 2018, Quite a none descript day but cae home to find a letter from my mortgage provider to say they got my overpayment (thankfully), now next week I just need to sort out a new deal for my mortgage after paying over half of it off in my overpayment
Thursday, Feb 15 2018, Finally got to go to the gym this week and altough I was a bit tired did well and got a new PB on the leg press and that was without having my knee taped up and also after recovering recently from my muscle strain in my right leg
Friday, Feb 16 2018, Worked from home, was a boring day although at work they were doing a load of network upgrades and with me being on call I had to put up warnings on our sites as some of them were affected. Was supposed to hear by 8pm to take them down but didnt so went to training. IT was only at 11pm I got the message to take them down. Pretty sure im going to get called again over the weekend about this
Saturday, Feb 17 2018, Lazy Saturday again for me although I was super tired. Got up and did a loadof washing and tidyin along with a load of cooking for dinner this evening and tmorrows dinner for round at my dads
Sunday, Feb 18 2018, busy day in and about the flat then, finished off the steak pie and took round to Veros for dinner
Monday, Feb 19 2018, A stressful day, didnt get finished work till 7pm had to stop off and give Luca his birthday card (aso got a cake) then rushed off to training that was on at half 7. Didnt manage to go pick up the old FVRG stuff we needed though for BCR
Tuesday, Feb 20 2018, A busy day, up early to then o up to the Building Society to sort out my mortgage (I may be able to pay it off by next year or the folowing year). Then after work headed to Glasgow to go se Hell Is For Heroes, A and Vex Red with Kat and Chris and also went and got dinner at Pizza Punks which was really nice
Wednesday, Feb 21 2018, Slow day at work but at long log last Team Italy Officiallly announced the squad :D
Thursday, Feb 22 2018, Was really tired today and felt lethargic, after wrk went to the gym and didnt do as much as I normally do ecause I was tired yet managed to do not to adly on the excersize bike even though the first 10-15 minutes was a bit of a nightmare
Friday, Feb 23 2018, Work today was mostly about getting things on my pc upgraded and running into issues connecting. That all got fixed and it now looks like I can connect properly from home as well. Also finally managed to pick up the FVRG stuff for BCR and we had out last training session before our double header and games tomorrow
Saturday, Feb 24 2018, Today BR had a double header and the first games of 2018. Skelpies playes the B *'s and then BCR coed played Newcastle coed. Both were good games and we almost won the boys game. After it was out for drinks int he evening
Sunday, Feb 25 2018, A busy day was away out for mostof it. Got home at about 8pm and was falling asleep by 9, tried to keep myself awake by eating too much chocolatebut it did not work as I fell asleep onmy Living room floor
Monday, Feb 26 2018, Long day t work, didnt get finished till 20 to 7 and when I left the place was like a ghost town. Managed to make training but only 10 mins late.
Tuesday, Feb 27 2018, All the talk about the Beast From The East snow storm has amounted to nothing today although by night time there was a little more snow. There is talk of a big dump of snow over night though.
Wednesday, Feb 28 2018, Well I woke up this morning to some more snow than last night, I thought about driving in then throught against it. Thankfully I did because all day it was snow blizzards and it snowed constantly for about 4 hours at one point. After finishing work I ventured out and walked round to asda to get some supplies before they run out and took some of these pictures. The snow continued on with blizzards well into the night.
March
Thursday, Mar 01 2018, Woke up to even more snow and work had told us to work from home, so another day working from home. Did not venture out because once again central region was under a RED alert for snow and my god did it snow. The neighbou had cleared the path last night up to the gate, today it was back filled up. The snow got up to almost the tops of my car tyres.
Friday, Mar 02 2018, Another day working from home and some cabin feaver was startingto settle in so after work took a walk round to asda in the snow but the shelfs were mostly empty. Got Grapefrui though so had some gin and got a wee bity tipsy after I got back and had dug out my car from all snow and also dug out the pathway in front of our building and a walkway round to Billy and Pearls front door.
Saturday, Mar 03 2018, Saturday the snow finally seemed to stop as we were now well into a yellow alert. I decided to stay in and played some GTA online fo the first time in years and was reminded how I styled my character and also finaly built my Ferrari Lego.
Sunday, Mar 04 2018, Woke up to the most shocking news I have heard in years, that Astori Captain of Fiorentina was found dead in his sleep at age 31. The thaw set in late on saturday so by today a fair bit of it had melted but the roads round here were still totally covered in ice and had hardly been driven making them still dangerous to drive. I drove round to go visit Vero and almost crashed slowly twice and got stuck twice. Also got stuck in my street going home so ended up digging out a load of the street by myself.
Monday, Mar 05 2018, Managed todrive to wrk for the first time since last monday, roads were not to bad but still a fair amount of snow about and a load of fog. Also was on a training course today and tomorrow for Agile working.
Tuesday, Mar 06 2018, Woke up to loads of rain, when leaving in the morning it was freezing and windy with sleet rain. by the time I got to polmont it was full on snowing again making driving very hazardous. The snow continued all the way to ASB and in particular the motorway was really bad. had to drive at about 45mph for a fair few miles as visibility was so low thanks to the snow and it was all lying as well. Thankfull it was all gone by home time.
Wednesday, Mar 07 2018, Cant beleve a week ago the beast from the east arrived and it didn't stop snowing for 2 days, today woke up to a very sunny morning little to no slow left to melt and it was actually really not that cold
Thursday, Mar 08 2018, Long long long day at work had so many computer issues that I got little to nothing done, was going to go to the gym on the wayhome but after leaving work at half 6 I had lost the motivation. But at home I treated myself to some Brinner for dinner.
Friday, Mar 09 2018, Had hoped t get away at half 3 today from work but ended up leaving at 6. Im still surprised at how much snow is still lying about liek here at work or at the sports centre at training even when the temptreture has been getting warmer. Also got interviewed at training by the film students about roller derby.
Saturday, Mar 10 2018, A good if not busy long day toay. Was up early and away to he gym to gym Bro it up with nick first thing in the morning. Then off to the garden centre to get stuff for planting this year. Then Nick came round in the evening for a bad movie night, we watch Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers and Raw Force (Kung Fu Cannibals). Also my two spur of the moment amazon purchases arrived (Mad Men 1-6 and The Untouchables)
Sunday, Mar 11 2018, Today was alwasy going to be an emotional day as its mothers day, but also today was not only a week after Astori passed away but it was the teams first gamesince then and a chance for the fans, team and city to say goodbye. They also stopped the match at the 13th minute (his number was 13) as a sign of respect. We won 1-0 in the end with a goal from Vitor Hugo who plays under number 31.
Monday, Mar 12 2018, The news arrived on monday afternoon that I shall be a fake uncle again as baby Leo was born in the early hours of the morning. Both baby and mum doing well and were back home by dinner time.
Tuesday, Mar 13 2018, A productive day at work, then hit the gym on the way home and did well although I felt slighty tired before hand. Stopped off at ASDA on the way home and ended up getting some easter lego and a Guido and Luigi set that was on sale.
Wednesday, Mar 14 2018, Worked from home today, when I finished I picked up nick from the garage in Bo'ness as his car was going in. Then got to meet Leo as well after.
Thursday, Mar 15 2018, Long day at work, fnished late so didn't make it to the gym but made it to do Kat's radio show. Facebook also reminded me that 4 years ago today was the first MRDWC and the USA game
Friday, Mar 16 2018, Came home to find my t-shirt from ladies team ITaly from ther go-fund me camaign. I also planted some of my seeds for my herbs and peppers then went to training and we did scrims which was a lot of fun.
Saturday, Mar 17 2018, A busy day, woke up and was going to go to the gym early but it was trying to snow so i went back to bed. Then went to a couple of garden center's with Vero. Got hom eBuilt some Lego, than made Pizza for dinner and enjoyed some gin whilst watching a couple of films. Watched baby driver... what a film!!
Sunday, Mar 18 2018, Even though I was in bed late last night I still woke up early this morning and thanks to the snow over night it was quite white outside. So got up and went up to falkirk Tesco, got myself a Columba then went to the gym. Broke a couple of pb's including hitting 15.1k in 30 mins on the excersize bike. Fiorentina also won 2-1 against Torino as well.
Monday, Mar 19 2018, Busy day at work, team Italy finally got my player profile up online and training was fun even if it was a bit cobbled together due to a few late minute call off's
Tuesday, Mar 20 2018, Boring day at work and for some reason I Was really tired all day so skipped the gym on the way home as there is no point going if youare just going through the paces and not pushing yourself. But had carbonara for dinner and got that film from a a friend at work.
Wednesday, Mar 21 2018, Worked from home and finished early then went round to dad's early as the kids wer there. was good to see them for a bit.
Thursday, Mar 22 2018, Such a long day at work but I battled through and went to the gym but was feeling really lethargic and wasnt able to push as much as normal. Only did 25 mins on the excersize bike but true to how I was feeling I couldnt even get a picture quickly enough before it shut down.
Friday, Mar 23 2018, I Was one of only thee people in the office today, it was a looong day and very boring. Stopped off on the way home to take a few pictures as the sun was out and it was a lovely spring day. Training at night saw me ref (properly) scrims for the first time since last year, was fun.
Saturday, Mar 24 2018, Busy day, up early then off to the gym first thing and for the first time since last week felt I had the energy to push it. Manage to do 20 mins on the cross trainer and covered a decent distance considering I wasnt pushing it properly, did load of weights and did my normal excersize bike but only did 20 minutes instead of the normal 30 as I Was trying a new way of building up resistance and distance and it workd really well. Did gardening and put out the first potatoes of the year as well.
Sunday, Mar 25 2018, Clocks went forward and even though we lost an hour I was up and out o bed at 5.45am as per this time of year to watch the first F1 race of the season and Ferrari won!!!
Monday, Mar 26 2018, A long day at work, on m way in it was so foggy it was unreal. Was supposed to be goig to see Flight of the Conchords tonight but one of them broke their arm and it got cancelled.
Tuesday, Mar 27 2018, After yesterdays day of so much fog it wasso bright and lovely. Went to go see Ale's show at night, this was for his trumpet club at school as it was a music show for all the local schools. Dad also flew out today a week before I do.
Wednesday, Mar 28 2018, A long day at work again and I was feeling under the weather and quite lethargic. So skipped going to the gym on the way home and just got home and started to tidy and clean because the students are coming round to interview me tomorrow.
Thursday, Mar 29 2018, Last day of the week, work wise and last day before im off for just under two and a half weeks. Worked from home, then hit the gym then back home for the interview. Gym wise I was still feeling lethargic but still tried to push it and managed a not to bad time on the excersize bike all things considering.
Friday, Mar 30 2018, Had a quiet one at home and just relaxed and watched a few films. Then went to training at night (last training before the WC) also we got a picture of all the uys playing at the WC
Saturday, Mar 31 2018, Got up early and went to the gym, it started well as I felt I could do even more on the cross trainer, but then weight wise things did not go so well. But on the excersize bike I pushing at least 75% of the time on level 6 which do not normall do as its 5, so that was good. Went to the shops then home and started tidying and getting things ready for going away
April
Sunday, Apr 01 2018, Easter Sunday and that was sepnt at chiara's. I made a lemon drizzle cake to take up. Lucca had some friends over from italy visiting also
Monday, Apr 02 2018, Went to go see Black Panther at the hippodrome, then popped off to the shops to get some travel stuff for going away tomorrow. Also finally got around to packing, now I can start worrying about everything else.
Tuesday, Apr 03 2018, Got no sleep as I was too worried about sleeping in. Up at 3am got everythign ready, got plane ok and got to Barca. Waited for Mike to arive on his flight but turns out he was at the other terminal. Finally met upwith him and got to the hotel. Then had a nap and when other arived webt for a wander and went up to the roof pool and out for dinner after.
Wednesday, Apr 04 2018, Up early (7am) as we had to get to the other side of Barca via metro to get to a hall for training. We did 2 hours of training including playing Team Mexico who were so so good. Then back to the hotel and pool time. Then at night off to the venue to test the floor whch was a bit of a nightmare. aparently hall 2's floor is the old floor from the futsal but it is so rediculously rippy even on 92's im fining it almost impossible to stop or get some slide.
Thursday, Apr 05 2018, Another early rise (6am) and another night of little sleep (about 4 hours), all to get to the hall for the parade of nations. Then after first game was in hall 1 vs Scotland. We played well and ave them a run for their money and they shat their pants as they expected to walk all over us but did not. Game 2 Austrailia and I was told I would get less track time to let others skate, I got 2 jams the first 6 mins in the next 7 mins after. So no real point in playing, I woudl have rather they didn't play me and give me jams to someone who really needed them. Thank got though that this game was in hall 2 on the terrible floor.
Friday, Apr 06 2018, A bit f a lie in at last although we still had to be up at the hall for 9.30 but thats later than the rises we have had so far. Only 1 game today and that wa against Columbia. We won and we played out own game which was good. I di a few camp run backs with finger guns and the Scottish group were in the front row to cheer us on.
Saturday, Apr 07 2018, First game of the day so another v v early rise (6.30 am) to be at the hall for 7.30, only got 4 hours sleep (again). This time we played Japan and we won once again in a fun game. Lots of good stuff happened on rack I also got in camp run backs and finger guns(caught on camera). Japan were great, got some really good seats for watching the other games and mad sure to be abusing Owain when he played with his (you had 1 job Owain chant) also our creep shot game went into overdrive today. much fun was had, and also got to play scopa for the first time in years.
Sunday, Apr 08 2018, Finaly day of MRDWC and another first game of the day and another 4 hours sleep and early rise. This has really taken its toll on me this week and it took me to the end of the first half to actually wake up and not be sluggish. This was not just me the whole team were on a go slow because of tiredness. Chile were really good and took a big lead in the first half. By the time we woke up and got ourselfs into the game it was too late and Chile had the win. Watched loads of other great games including the clifhanger and extra jam after the final whistle for Fra v Aus which saw the win change. Then the Use having skaters skate with Quadzillas number on their legs. Swapped both of my team italy tops, then went to the after party that got shut down by the police. Francesco lost his phone in the taxi back and I passed out I was that tired and only woke up on time by chance the next morning.
Monday, Apr 09 2018, Thank go I packed the night before as after passing out and waking up just. Thankfully everythign was ready to go. Had so much troube trying to get a taxi as no taxi apps would work onmy phone so had to flag one down. Got to the Airport in loads of time in the end and got back to Edin ok. Home and went to the shops to get food and was going to go off skates to training but fell asleep on the couch at 4.30 and woke up at 11, then went to bed and slept till 9am the next day. I think it is safe to say I was exsausted from the lackof sleep whilst being away. Also in good news Francesco got his phone back.
Tuesday, Apr 10 2018, Up and went to go pick stuff up at the post office (aquabats stuff) then off the the Cemetary as it was M&D's annaversary whilst I was away and dad is in ITaly so someone had to put new flowers down. Spent the rest of the day doing washing and resting up as I was so lethargic all day.
Wednesday, Apr 11 2018, Away out again today, went to the garden centre and got new tubs for trying to grow some potatoes in and also got a couple of smaller bags of Charlotte potatoes to try and grow. Also found new minifigs at tesco ad got a load of the ones I wanted. Also went out for diner with Chiara and the kids to Beancross.
Thursday, Apr 12 2018, Was away out to Ikea and Costco with Chiara and Ale. left and half 10 and got back at 4.30. Spent the rest of the day not doing much as I am of and can be lazy.
Friday, Apr 13 2018, Today went to go visit the family King, got to see new arival Leo again and got to hold him for a bit. Lady K was looking well and Jenny was down from Aberdeen as well so it was really nice to see her as well. Then training at night and I took the FM portion of training
Saturday, Apr 14 2018, Had a quiet saturday ish, although I got up early and went to the gym with nick. Then hit the shops, went home and cleaned and tidied then got everythign ready for going up to Dundee to ref tomorrow
Sunday, Apr 15 2018, A strange long day, was up at 9 to grab some breakfast before heading up to Dundee for half 11. Reffed a double header under the new rules and verbal ques and left Dundee and got home and showered for 7pm. The rest of the day disappeared as I was really knackered and was falling asleep by 9pm, but tomorrow is the first day back at work
Monday, Apr 16 2018, First day back at work and it was actually quite good, got a load of stuff done even if it took a while to get back caught up with everything. Also took monday night training, which was he first in the new focus sets so it was diffcult to come up with new stuff. think it went ok
Tuesday, Apr 17 2018, Dad cameback from Italy today, so went to go pick him up in the evening, which ment a bit of driving about until he called to say he was at the waiting area. All of this did mean though food and things from Italy!
Wednesday, Apr 18 2018, Should have worked from home today but, could not get logged in for love nor money thanks to rsa issues so had to go into the office. That did mean I missed going round to dads early to see the kids, but Chiara had come to pick them up so they had stayed later than normal so I got to see them both.
Thursday, Apr 19 2018, Worked from home today instead seeing as the RSA issue was fixed. Got a load of stuff done and had a generally quiet ay. Although these did arrive, cheap ebay comc purchases
Friday, Apr 20 2018, The office today was empty, like more empty than normal for a Friday. Thre was only 3 of us in untill 1pm when another couple of folks turned up. I got so bored and almost fell asleep that I just left early as I had worked up a load of flexy this week. Training at nigt was good fun
Saturday, Apr 21 2018, Decided that I was going to make steak and ale pie, but needed extra ale so had to go back to the shops today to get more stuff. Pie turned out well but not quite right, Vero thinks I may have added a bit too much bay leave.
Sunday, Apr 22 2018, Got up early thanks to it being super bright, did a load of gardening as my potatoes are starting to flower out of the ground so topped them up. Didnt do much else as I ended up being a bit half asleep/half awake as my sleep pattern all week has been all over the place. Went to visit dad later for dinner and watched the Juve vs Napoli match which was good, as it looked like it was going to be a draw but Napoli who had be attacking the whole game scored in the last minutes to win and keep the serie a title still open.
Monday, Apr 23 2018, Back to work, really was not feeling the best today and left work with a splitting sore head. Wasnt going t go to training but went off skates and got home and went straight to bed and read some Saga
Tuesday, Apr 24 2018, Long day at work then when I got home was going to have some pasta. Opened my last jar that I had previously opened to fin it had went mouldy sohad to throw out. Then opened te last big glass tankard thing only to find the seal had not worked and it had went off. So had to make a pasta sauce from some pasata I had and everything else I had lying about. It actually tasted really nice
Wednesday, Apr 25 2018, Worked from home then went round to dads and got to see the kids. Serena was studying for her exams that start next monday. I hada load of stuff I had found in my clear ut at the weekend that I gave to them (sweets and such)
Thursday, Apr 26 2018, First day of a 2 day agile course at work, such a waste of time as it covered everything the last course did. Wasnt feeling the best after the course finished and ended up just making it to the toilet at work. When I got home I spent the night on the couch or in the toilet as my stomach was not wanting to settle
Friday, Apr 27 2018, Thankfuly feeling a bit better than yesterday, last day of the course but it was utterly a waste of time as we just thalked about theory.. yeh like you are going to try half of this or change it to work with sepa. Training at night, but had low ish numbers but it was fun
Saturday, Apr 28 2018, Decided to have a quiet weekend as the next 3 weekends I am busy. Saturday had to go do shopping early then back home the post had arrived and this dvd came tha cost me £1 on ebay. Started to make pasta sauce as well to refill my fridge.
Sunday, Apr 29 2018, Busy day, started off finishing making all the pasta sauce then did some gardening and also watched the F1, which was pretty exciting then went to go visit Dad
Monday, Apr 30 2018, Ok day, work was busy and training was fun at night. Plus all this stuf I ordered arrived
May
Tuesday, May 01 2018, Another busy ish day at work, was going to go to the gym but thanks to it being quite plesant outside I decided against it. Came home and did some gardening and also the tomato plant seedlings have been growing well in their jakey terrariums.
Wednesday, May 02 2018, Worked from home and had a bit of a boring day. Then went round to Vero's but the kids werent going round and he was up at my sisters and didn't come back till later. However we did spot a little field mouse type thing in the garden plus all the trees are starting to have blossom on them so finally things are starting to look colorful.
Thursday, May 03 2018, Another great day at work... not. Quite boring but stated looking into how to build surface controllers in MVC in Umbraco. Things did not go well but I learnd load of ways how not to do things lol but came home to this blu-ray that arrived.
Friday, May 04 2018, Today is friday the 4th of may so May the4th be with you. Did a load more work on the MVC stuff at work and got a few bits working. Reffed the Belters scrim at training in prep for reffing a game tomorrow.
Saturday, May 05 2018, A busy but great saturday. Got up and went up to Dundee to go ref a MRDA Sanctioned game for the Brawlers vs Barrow Infernos. Then back home grabed a shower then out up to falkirk to met nala for some drink and Kat and Chris came as well plus we went to the new Gin bar in falkiek, WINNING!
Sunday, May 06 2018, A really odd but prety good day, it felt like I had all the time in the world. I got a load of stuff done including loads of washing, a load o gardening and tidying. Then spent a bit of time playing ps4 before finally going to the Hippodrome to get to see Isle of ogs which was very enjoyable
Monday, May 07 2018, A bank holidya with a change... it was the hottest bank holiday ever!!! But I was stuck in work although I did get a load of stuff done, even worked late to finish some stuff off. Low numbers at training but it was quite fun
Tuesday, May 08 2018, Managed to get my Umbraco/MVC suff working and all validating which was a big win for me. Weather however went back to pants, but on the plus side its Eurovision semifinal night 1
Wednesday, May 09 2018, Working from home and it was a busy day. These blu-rays arrived as you know you have to TREAT YO SELF! went to dads at night and watched the football, bu the kids were not there as again serena is on her exams at the moment.
Thursday, May 10 2018, Busy day at working, did a load of MVC stuff and sorted some other things. Was quite a nice sunny day on my way home so got back to the flat and did some gardening and decided to do some work over the weekend in the garden. My Garlic is growing really well already whichis a surprise. Thn watched the Semi Final of Eurovision as well.
Friday, May 11 2018, Busy day at work after Scott asked me to work on something for him that was all jQuery. Got it working but it woudl not work on the dev site when I tried to move it up. Even worked lateto try and fix it but no dice. When Istopped at asda on my way home got this amazing deal on bread then went to training early s I was taking fresh meat.
Saturday, May 12 2018, Woke up early so got up at 9am was in the garden by 9.30 and cut the grass then dug out part of the garden and then sorted the ground and laid the slabs I have had sitting for a couple of years from the other part of the garden I had dug up to plant veg. Took me about 5 hours in total and I was knackered. Then at night went to Chiara's show, sweet charity.
Sunday, May 13 2018, Woke up early again, thought I would head ff to asda and get some stuff and go jet wash the car. Did all of that to find my car was covered under the drt with bit of tar/rubber stuff from when they have been fixing/laying the roads. So I got the buckets out to hand wash the parts that had all this to get rid of it. 5 hours late it was done, think this is the logest ive spent cleaning a car and again like yesterday I am absolutely knackered.
Monday, May 14 2018, Ok day at work, came home to all these things that had arrived whilst I was out. Couldnt wait to get the green house up, but once it wa realised it was a little smalled height wise than I thought so decided to get a arger wider one for grow bags.
Tuesday, May 15 2018, Was so so tired today, like super tired. Was going to finaly get to the gym but was falling asleep at work so skipped it. Did a load of work when I got home though and mp3'd a load of old cd's I had to get some different music for the car.
Wednesday, May 16 2018, Worked from home, not much to tell other han the day was a busy one. Kid's again were not at dad's so went round a bit later. The sky however was looking amazing at night when I got home.
Thursday, May 17 2018, Busy day at work before I am off tomorrow. When I got hme had dinner and got fired into some gin I have had sitting for about3 years and never got around to trying.
Friday, May 18 2018, Off today, went through to Livingston to the shops go a couple of things including Ale's bday present, well half of it. Then home and Kat and chris came round and dropped of a present for me and then later off out for dinner.
Saturday, May 19 2018, Up early today and through to Glasgow to go red a double header of games of GRD vs DRD. Went to the lego shop and treated myself. hen back home and Nick came round and we watched some bad movies.
Sunday, May 20 2018, My other green house arrived yesterday so built that today and got it out nd put the tomatoes in there as well. Didn't do much else other than go visit dad
Monday, May 21 2018, Busy day, was late home and had to rush about to get everythign ready for training. Also had to water the garden and have to saythe tomotoe plants in the smaller greenhouse are not looking so great nor do they look like they are growing much. Training was fun though even if we had low numbers.
Tuesday, May 22 2018, A good but busy day at work, really felt like I got a load of stuff done. hen I got home watched a film and also took the controls and battery out of the lego train and tried to hook it up to the new motor I got on saturday to see if I can use it to power the ferris wheel. It all worked :D
Wednesday, May 23 2018, Worked from home, got aload of work done again, as I am having a very productive week at work even if I am having issues witht he mail server. When I finished I went to the shops up in falkirk to go se if I coudl get the othr part to Ale's bday present. Couldnt so will have to order online but did spot this pop at Smyths, really wanted to buy it but didnt. Also went to B&Q and got canes and tomatoe feed for the plants.
Thursday, May 24 2018, The drive into work today was so so dull with fog eveywhere, the sun didn't actually come out till about 2pm but the rest of the day was warm at least. Was going to gym it (I know I keep saying that) but I was feeling super lazy so didn't and just came home and did some washin and other things about the flat as the rod up at Chiara's is cloed so ive been drivig the motorway into work.
Friday, May 25 2018, What a dfference a day makes, woke up thie morning and it was not only super super sunny but it was roasting even at 8am. Great day at wok, got good feedback on my yearly pdr finished a load of work and fixed some things. David P was around the department soI was honest with him when he spoke to me about the focus for the changes we need and wages. At niht it was scrims but I reffed as I need sme experience in JR'ing as its been a while and im reffing a double header in a couple weeks as a jam ref.
Saturday, May 26 2018, A very bright snny morning, so got up early and started fixing things in the garden. Paited he shed (3 coats) and it looks great, also pinted some of the fences (about 20% done), was going to fix one of the fence posts but decided against it this week will possibly do next week. Then made a veryvery ovely and tasty steak dinner. Plus Fiorentina Womens team won the coppa italia 3-1
Sunday, May 27 2018, had a lazy sunday, watched the F1 also made some pastries for late breakfast at lunchtime. Then went round to visit dad
Monday, May 28 2018, This morning everywhere was covere in fog and myst, stayed like this till about 1pm then the sun came out and by the time I went to drive home it was super super hot. Also work was a shit hit the fan day, a group of our servers got black listed as they wre reported as being part of an online attack when they weren't. Training was good at night though.
Tuesday, May 29 2018, Fog was just as bad as yesterday if not worse at some points on the way into wrk. Sun was out by lunch time though and was warm although no where near as warm as yesterday. Was going to go to the gym on the way home but have been supertired all week so far so headed to Tesco instead and got a thing for Ales bday.
Wednesday, May 30 2018, Worked from home, then off up to the cemetery to go put flowers down for mum. After that round to dads for dinner.
Thursday, May 31 2018, Busy day at work today, got a load of stuff done on the sectors designs and got them sent over for feedback. Another super warm day as well but they are saying that the storms that were downs south last week will have moved up here by tomorrow and we should have rain for quite a few days after over 2 weeks of constant sun. Also couldnt believe how much overgrown the old football pitch I drive past everyday is now its disused, look at it in the picture.
June
Friday, Jun 01 2018, Well the rain arrived as expected but only stayed around for about 3 hours and it was torrential, first rain we have had in nearly 3 weeks. Then I stopped off at Chiara's to drop of Ale's bday preset. Then home to get changed and off to training and right after training rushed home to grab a shower and back out to the gin bar to meet up with everyone for drinks for Paula la la's birthday.
Saturday, Jun 02 2018, A weird, busy and fun Saturday. Got up a little late after geting home at abotut half 1 last night. Then tidied and cleaned and played a bit of ps4 before Nala and Ie came round for a couple of drinks. After those we went out for early dinner at the Oxgang which is looking good after being done up. A few cocktails later we went up Falkirk and at 1am nala went home and me and Ie went for 1 more drink. We left sportsters at 3.30 and I got home at 4am.
Sunday, Jun 03 2018, woke up at 8.30am after about 4 hours of sleep still drunk and had to cancel the gym with Nick. Spent the next 5 hours dozzing in bed until I got up sorted some stuff and went round to Vero's. Spent most of the day really tired though.
Monday, Jun 04 2018, Went over on my ankle last fri at training so skipped trining this evening to rest it. However did do some gardening when I got in and caned up the tomatoe plants, which are looking great so far. Then tidied the flats kitchen and part of my bedroom.
Tuesday, Jun 05 2018, Busy day at work, then off home did some tidying whilst waiting for nick to contact me and then at long long last went back to the gym. Forgot to take my phone so no picutres of times but I was not that far off what I was doing when I went to the WC. Managed to do 8.8 km on the excersize bike in 20 mins which is a little off what I was doing before but I wasnt pushing it as it was my first time back.
Wednesday, Jun 06 2018, A really shit day at work after going in for meetings. Started off well after having a meeting about the sectors stuf that went well. Then an hour later had another meeting that was supposed to be about the Homepage but the head of comms guy leaped in about sectors and although he
Thursday, Jun 07 2018, Worked from home today as I Was in the office yesterday, was a bit of a long day and I was supposed to go to the gym after work with Nick but he wasnt feeling the best so I told him to just rest and I woudl do work in the garden. Ended up painting fencing from 4pm till 9pm but got a lod done at least
Friday, Jun 08 2018, Most of us were in the office today so it was actually fun to catch up and chat for a bit. Got a load of work done then came home and did some gardening after stopping off at b&q on the way home to get more fence paint. Maaged to get net upmost of theveg bit of the garden to stop the cat from destroying everything. Then at training there was 9 of us and we did super scrims, I was always on th team of 4 even though we kept swapping up the teams.
Saturday, Jun 09 2018, Slept till 11am, last night really must have been tiring at training. Then off to tesco to get stuff for making dnner at night (Crispy shreded beef), and stopped off at b&q to get a fence post for replacing part of the fence. Then spent about 5 hours painting fencing and almost got it all done (only part of the new fence to do) but it started raining properly heavy so had to give up.
Sunday, Jun 10 2018, Didn't get to bed till late last night as I watched a sh*t film. Once I got up was straight into the garden and started working again. Had to re-do part of the fencing due to the rain yesterday then started on the new part of the fence and did about a third of that before it was time to go round to vero's.
Monday, Jun 11 2018, Busy day at work but got a load done but worked late as well. Found out at 3pm I was taking training so had to put together a plan, then when I got home I made meatballs with the mincemeat I bought on saturday. Training went well considering I pulled the plan out of my ass and we had low numbers
Tuesday, Jun 12 2018, Was going to go to the gym but spent most of theday with a splitting headache thanks to a sore eye and my tinnitus flairing up in my left ear. So I decided to skip the gym and felt much better for it by bed time. Didn't end up doing much other than watchig and film and playing some ps4.
Wednesday, Jun 13 2018, Worked from home, got a load of stuff done then at niht went round to veros after spending about 2 hours cleaning the flat
Thursday, Jun 14 2018, Working from home again today as I had my hospital appointment (all went well) also went to the shops after it. Today was also the day that a storm hit the uk and my garden got a bit destroyed including the big grenhouse for the tomatoe plants.
Friday, Jun 15 2018, Back in the office today, not much going on to be honest and it was a long day. Got home and tidied up the garden a little but it was still windy a bit so decided to leave off fixing the green house and things till the wind completely stopped.
Saturday, Jun 16 2018, Off to Glasgow to ref the Mean City Double header, also stopped off at Fopp to get a couple of blu-rays and left with so many more as the prices were just too good.
Sunday, Jun 17 2018, Got up early and started working in the garden. Fixed the green house properly this time as I think I worked out what went wrong last time, also weighted it down a bit more. Then planted some new things that had been growing inside and finished of painting my garden side of the new fence, only have the opposite side to do now. At night went round to see dad for dinner.
Monday, Jun 18 2018, Long long long day at work, managed to get my on call swapped for today as I am off to see Flight of the Conchords in Glasgow, who were amazingly funny
Tuesday, Jun 19 2018, Abolutely shattered today after not getting to sleep till after 2am and waking up at 6am, also my computer went haywire thanks to windows updates and it took over 2 hours just to do the updates and get logged on. When I got home I could hardly keep my eyes open so ende dup in bed at 9pm
Wednesday, Jun 20 2018, Surprisingly awake after being so tired the day before so my early night did me well. Another day of things going wrong at work and computer issues, had to remote onto corporate to email people to try and restart my macine. Took 3 restarts and abot 2 and a half hours before I got back on properly. Went to dad's at night as per usual. But check out the difference of a month in my tomato plants so far, and thats including them being blown to pieces in the storm the other week.
Thursday, Jun 21 2018, Another day of computer issues at work thanks to all these updates it is going through, nothign seems to shift them. Long boring day at work, although the meeting about sectors went well and they loved all my changes so it's time to start building the site in Umbraco tomorrow. Got hmoe and watered the garden then, instead of doing all the other things I had planned I started playing Far Harbourthe add on I bought last week for Fallout 4. It is huge and I have re-caught the bug again for Fallout 4, so much to find and adenture through.
Friday, Jun 22 2018, Another day of computer issues, surprise surprise. So much so nothing was working so I basicaly left my computer for 2 hors just to do updates and god knows what else. That has cleared up the update cue and after I managed to get on no bother thankfully. But when doing an Umbraco VS install and DB build I was having so many issues so gave up an left till monday, although the VS build is done. Then it was training at night and the hall was super super warm.
Saturday, Jun 23 2018, Got up early and went straigh into working in the garden. Gotthe last of the fenc all painted. Then did 2 more coats on that side and another coat on the other side. Once that was done I took apart the fence in front of the shed and replaced the rotten posts and painted it all. Now only a few bits and bobs left to do in the garden and it is done. At night Nick and Johnny came round for bad movie night as John boy was up from Landan.
Sunday, Jun 24 2018, After a nice day ysterday as it was sunny (for a change on the galla day) it was even warmer today. Didnt end up doing much apart from playing more Fallout 4 and watching the F1 fter I did a load of washing and tidying. Then went to asda and bought stone for the last part of the garden, still more to get, then went round to vero's.
Monday, Jun 25 2018, Well the tempreture shot up today, so warm. I had so many issues with SQL server on my machine being borked that I just created a clean DB on our test server and pointed my umbraco instance to that. All went well and it was all up and running althouh I ran into some issues as when it timmed out my log in details woudl not work. Did 2 more fresh installs before I discovered that they have changed how it works and you now log on with the email assoiated with the account, not the user name, duh. Also worked late as I was getting oads done on the sectors project.
Tuesday, Jun 26 2018, Another toasty day and I also got loads done ont he sectors site, so much so it is almost done. On my way home spotted the old mstang again around the corner so went for a wee look, also played some more fallout 4.
Wednesday, Jun 27 2018, Worked from home, go a load done and almost finished the sectors site. Also had some pc issues with lag but not sure what was causing it other than my browser odly. My kickstarter stuff arrived from Pirate fun as well.
Thursday, Jun 28 2018, The Warmest day EVER, temps hit 33 deg, the office was actually not too bad but when I left it felt like when you step of the plane when it lands in italy, with that sudden blast of roasing humid air. We also got the football on the big screen at work.
Friday, Jun 29 2018, empty day in the office but I got a load done, came home to find this had arrived and my god it is good. hen went to training as we had scrims but hardy anyone showed apart from officials, so it was 3 vs 3
Saturday, Jun 30 2018, Up early and day 1 of working inhe garden. This is the final push and is phase 3 of the garden. I want to edge all the grass and stone around it then also build a new surround for the bit at the bottom where I grow veg. Ended up stoning all around te shed as well as I had a load of the plastic underlay. Needed to go out and get more stones as I ran out and ASDA had sold out so ended p on a wee trip to ASDA in Larbert to get some. IT was also super wamr (high 20s) all day
July
Sunday, Jul 01 2018, Up first ting and out working in the garden from 9 like yesterday although yesterday I finished at 6 today I was done by 4, which included another trip to ASDA after finishing to get the last of the stone to finish up. MAde the raised bed for the back of the garden as well today and got it in place. The garden is finally looking pretty decent and tidy and is done for now, although I need to work out what I want to do down at the very back near the fence.
Monday, Jul 02 2018, Busy day at wrk working in Umbraco and started to look into Macro's and a load of other stuff I have never done before especially as Scott is off and he was looking into that part so what better chance to actually try and learn something new. Had a meeting after training about pulling resources with local leagues so we will see whathappens there.
Tuesday, Jul 03 2018, long day at work and I was tired most of it. Got home and did a few bits and bobs then watched Death of stalin and played some ps4. Was actually dumbfounded just how brightit still was outside at midnight when I was heading to bed
Wednesday, Jul 04 2018, Kind of a boring day as not much happened. Worked from home then went round to dad's for dinner an watched the football. Again the sky t night was so so bright
Thursday, Jul 05 2018, Another super sunny and super warm day. ork was good, got a load done and then when I got home I did some gardening as yesterday vero had told me about cutting back your tomatoe plants so unecessay bits don't grow to much, so I did that to all of mine.
Friday, Jul 06 2018, End of the week and saw Nicky in work for the first time in ages, think we spent most of the morning just shooting the breeze. Got a loadof helpdesk stuff cleared out, then after I got home I decided to transfere the last of the tomato plants I had growing on my window sill to the garden just to see what they will do, I now have so many tomato plants and I recon most will probabl not deliver anything. Training at nght was fun though, even if numbers were low.
Saturday, Jul 07 2018, A busy saturday, took dad to the airport (with his man bag) to go off to the homeland, then went to Costco and spent a small fortune on not much. But whilst I was there I got new bedding in Matalan. Then when I got home watered the garden and also moved my peper seedlings outside just like the tomoatoe plants yesterday oh and also built my tron lego I got for my birthday from Kat and Chris
Sunday, Jul 08 2018, Decided to have a lazy sunday. Got up a little late, then tided and cleaned up. Watched the F1 and made some savoury delights toea. Then watched a couple of films and basically relaxed most of the day, even still I was still nackered by the time it was 9pm
Monday, Jul 09 2018, Back to work and last night it was roasting so I got little to no sleep and all day, yup it was roasting. I had to go look back to see the last time we had rain which was now was the 1st of june and that was the first time in about 3 weeks. So since then its been aprox 37 days of boiling weather (mid 20's and 30's) Which has been great but we really need a da or two of cooler weather for a refresh and they re saying that the next couple of days should bring that then its back to being warm again for another month. Training was a hot sweaty clamy mess as well.
Tuesday, Jul 10 2018, Today they were right, the tempreture has dopped, but only a little. It is still warm out but its cloudy so is still in the late teens / 20's but so humid. Thankfully by night it had cooled down and I managed to get a decent sleep for once. Watched the France v Belgum game and I was right France won. Workwas good, had a meting about the sectors stuff and it went really well, also set up a meeting for thursday for commerical services so I am going to be pretty busy.
Wednesday, Jul 11 2018, Came home and checked the garden only to find that my big tubs of potatoes loked worse for ware so drenched them in water hoping it was going to help. I atched the England match and they are.... GOING HOME!!!
Thursday, Jul 12 2018, Busy day at work, was going to go to the gymbut skipped it as I stopped off and visited Chiara on the way home. Spent the night playing some ps4 after having dinner, not much else to report other than I drove half the way hoe behind this amazing orig mini cooper
Friday, Jul 13 2018, V quiet day at work, got a load of stuff done on sectors and com servics so next week I can just beast through the commercial services site. They said it was going to rain today but it only tried to when I got to ASDA after work and that lasted all of minutes and it dried up pretty quickly, but it was the first rain since the start of last month. Training was good ven if it was a sweaty mess and ended up with a bruised ankle as I got kicked right in it
Saturday, Jul 14 2018, So today I had plenty of plans, but only did about 25% of them, was going to clear out he shed but skipped that. Did a load of gardening and emptied my first potato grow bg of the year and got a fair amount of potatoes all from left overones out of my late crop last year. My 2 big tubs of potatoes are back to looking great and growing well. Trimmed down all the tomatoes and then made a late lunch and made fresh pizza for dinner.
Sunday, Jul 15 2018, Got up early and went to the gym with nick, was surprised that even though I have not been in a month I managed to get a feb ish time/distance on the excersize bike which is pretty good but I have not sweated like that in years. Got home had a quick shower and then went to the shops, and visited Nan's grave and put some flowers there as its the annaversary of her death tomorrow. Then off to dads to water the garden and finally home to make dinner, so quite a busy day.
Monday, Jul 16 2018, I drew the unlucky straw of taking training tonight so put together a lan at work. Also a busy day at work, emptied loads of HD and also got the basics and the form done for the Commercial services site.
Tuesday, Jul 17 2018, Another busy day at work, skipped the gym as I was so knackered but went to tesco on the way home and picked up a few things. Watered the garden and it looks like a couple of the small pots are almost ready to be emptied, then made pizza with the lat of what I had left from Saturday.
Wednesday, Jul 18 2018, It properly rained today, I got up and it was raining, all the way to work it was raining and when I left work it was dull still wet but warm ish. Was going to hit the gym tday instead of yesterday, but nick said about coming round after his work so we could get train tickets for Landan, which we did but... I didn't realise he finihsed at 10 not at like 5 as I thought.
Thursday, Jul 19 2018, A very busy day at work and the sun was back and i was warm again, left work and it was 24 Stopped off at dads on the way home to water the garden then at night ended up doing a load of work.
Friday, Jul 20 2018, Worked from home today as there was no one in the office effectively and I had ben in all week. Got a load of workdone and sorted suff. After finising hit the shops, watered the garden a bit then went to training where I took FM
Saturday, Jul 21 2018, Got up early and headed to Stirling, stopped off at Waitrose and got some Pie Minister pies, then hit the shops. Chiara happened to already be at the shops and got the shirt for me hat I was going to get, so ended up spending money in Superdry as there as a sale on. Got home did some weeding and sorting some stuff in the garden then started cooking and made a big pot of broth for tomorow and next week as well as a roast for dinner
Sunday, Jul 22 2018, Up early again, then off to the gym with nick and although I was tired and didnt feel like I did much was able to lift some decent weights (including some bench pressing) and did ok on the excersize bike. Then after watched part of the F1 then went watered dads garden and cut back all the tomato plants then up to Chiaras to go pick up my shirt, then home for broth for dinner hmmm
Monday, Jul 23 2018, Busy day at work, trying to get all the sectors stuff live. Then stopped off on my way home to drop of anthonys bday present for wed. Thentraining and home after and finished off the soup left in the pot after I emptied it out into this container in the fridge.
Tuesday, Jul 24 2018, Another busy day at work, sorting all the issues with the sectors site now we have moved it into the live environment. When I got home I made the first of the two pie minister pies for dinner and then downloaded and started to play No man sky after the big update. They hae added so much more to the game and it feels just better than it did before.
Wednesday, Jul 25 2018, Not much to say about work other than I fixed the last of the remaining Sectors isses, then I managed to f**k up my movies ite as I overwrote the htaccess file so had to start re-coding that. Again more NMS tonight with Chris and his brother
Thursday, Jul 26 2018, Worked from home today instead of yesterday,was a busy day and got a load done including fixing the htaccess file on my site and backing it up, multiple times. Was a sunny ish (not that warm though) day so I went out and watered the garden after work and got some red onions out of the ground that I had been growing. Also spotted some tomato's growing on one of my outside plants just none on the plants in the gren houses yet though.
Friday, Jul 27 2018, Kind of a quiet but busy day, it was back to being warm again so I think I may have to go earlier to water dads garden this tim rather than leavingfor 4 days as I thought I would. Training was much fun at night, even if I was 1 of only 2 guys on skates.
Saturday, Jul 28 2018, A busy saturday, got up and went to Stirling, handed in he forms for BCR, then exchanged my pineapple shirt for a smller size. Then I may have over spent on more boxers in the Superdry sale. On the way home went to the gym and tried out a few new things then back home I tidied did washing then made dinner.
Sunday, Jul 29 2018, Had a little lie in and watched a film in bed. Then sorted some stuff, had lunch and watched mos of the F1 and went to dads to go water the garden. Then back home I did an extra bit of watering and tidying int he garden and made dinner. All in all a quiet but busy day
Monday, Jul 30 2018, Slow day at work, no muchwas happening as the Sectors site is now been pushed back for go live, to next week instead of wednesday. Source controled a load fo stuff and moved up dev sites as well. Then off to training where there was much hilarity as well as a board meeting after.
Tuesday, Jul 31 2018, Actually a busy day at work, got a load done after issues that saw me loose the first couple of hours at work as my omputer was playing up. Thankfully I should be getting the win10 upgrade next week. When I left in the morning it was 24 degreese and it looked like it was going to be a warm one like most of monday but by lunchtime the tempreture had dropped. When I got home I decided to water the green houses as the garden had got the rain and discovered at last some tomatoes growing in there. Also found out tha you should shake ish the plants to help themself poliate, thats prob where I was going wrong as I thoug the spraying of water on hem woudl help them with that as they should have moved but obv not.
August
Wednesday, Aug 01 2018, Worked from home, got a load of stuff done, then after went up to Chiara's as it was Serena's birthday
Thursday, Aug 02 2018, Busy day at work, then off to give blood. After they did the finger test, I had to go sit and do another blood sample as some of my levels were low (iron). Second sample was ok so was allaowed to give blood, got home and a statham film I had ever seen had arrived on blu ray for me so gave it a watch and played some NMS after
Friday, Aug 03 2018, Really boring day at work as hardly anyone was in and nothign was happening, plus I had all my work done. Left at 3.30 and dia f ew bits and bobs on the way home. Head reffed scrims for the first time in ages, it was tough.
Saturday, Aug 04 2018, Up early and right off away to the gym even though I was feeling retty tired from lack of sleep most of the week. Did weighed squas and weights as per usual and all went well. But the cross trainer and esp the excerize bike I was so lethargic on and had to stop as I was just tired, which has been so ulike me of late. On my way home I stopped off at dads to water the garden, then watered all my garden and cut the grass. Also emptied two of my potato bags and got a decent amount out of them, then played some NSM, watched some films ad mae roast dinner.
Sunday, Aug 05 2018, Had a lazy sunday for the first time in a while. Had a lie in, watched a film. got up to then make some lunch and then watched some more films whilst starting to build my lego I bought back at my birthday. Then dinner and bed, a good nice lazy day.
Monday, Aug 06 2018, Busy ish day at work, lots to do. Home and played some NMS before training
Tuesday, Aug 07 2018, A unexpectidly busy day at work, picked upa new Itranet project to work on with Leanne. Had the dentist after work and once again all good and no scale and polish just a checkup. Ten off to pick up Vero at the airport, although he was 15 minutes lte in leaving I had to wait for an hour and a quarter at the airport before he was at the pick up point.
Wednesday, Aug 08 2018, Worked from home, got a load done hen went and watered the garden as it needed doing. Also decided to remove the potates from one of the little tubs I had just 1 potato growing in. Ended up gettnig way more potatoes than I thought from it. Then went off to visit dad afterwards
Thursday, Aug 09 2018, Another busy day at work, decided to go water Chiaras plants whilst she was away on the way home andstopped off by tesco on the way home. Also fount out San eligrino is the next manufacturer to reduce the sugar in their juice... it tastes not that good any more
Friday, Aug 10 2018, A rather long day a work as the office was empty, didnt get much done because there wasnt much doing. Training was alright at night though even if I was a bit knackered as I feel run down at the moment
Saturday, Aug 11 2018, Yearly trip to the Fringe for Kat's bday and it was on kats bday. Me Kat and Chris left at 10, then started drinking as per usual at the plesance, went to see 3 shows, of which thy were all alright.
Sunday, Aug 12 2018, Crashed at Kat and Chris's last night and had intended to be home for lunch time. Erm no, we ende dup playing Overcooked on the switc for far far too long. When I left it was to go up to chiaras to drop of serenas key then rushed off to my flat to grab a shower then off o visit dad and then bed. actually no rest this weekend
Monday, Aug 13 2018, Started feeling nt too great probably thanks to such a busy weekend. Work was also busy so decided to skip training as I really ha no energy so watched Some Aquabats super show and played some NMS
Tuesday, Aug 14 2018, Another busy day at work, trying to sort some stuff out. Really not feeling the best today, had to take some paracetamol as my throat is killing me.
Wednesday, Aug 15 2018, Was in the office today for a meeting will work from home on friday instead. Definately not well and now having to switch up to the lemsisps as my nose wont stop running and my throat is so so sore. Vistsed dad after work as per usual
Thursday, Aug 16 2018, Weird day at work, got a load done but it was one of those day that the office was empty and everyone was just chatting really. Overdosed again on lemsips and am actually feeling better and need to be for reffing on saturday. Watched Deadpool 2 after I got home,whic was not that bad
Friday, Aug 17 2018, Worked from home today seeing as I was in on wed, kind of a quiet day but a few things popped up along the way. After I finished did a bit of gardening and got these onions which I will use next week when cooking. Then played some NMS before training at night.
Saturday, Aug 18 2018, Up early to get stuffsorted then away to set up the hall for the girls game, they won by a lot. I FIPR'd and thankfully was not called as I am on call, after wards went to the pub for a bit then home for dinner as the game was done by 3pm
Sunday, Aug 19 2018, Had a little bit of a lie in, then when I got up made some early lunch put on a film and started building more of the lego. After I did a few bits and bobs then off to dads earlier than normal as Chiara and the family were there as well
Monday, Aug 20 2018, Long day at work, big terry came to speak to the department then did a few bits and bobs. Got home and started cooking dinner for tomorrow (sausage and onions), also spotted a woman walking down my street in slippers, pajamas and a housecoat!?!? Then went to training off skates as I wanted to sort out the bout/scrim and training boxes. Then home and watched the Last Sharknado film ever, which was a disappointing end to the series :(
Tuesday, Aug 21 2018, Odd day at work, not much happened but got a load done. Was knackered all day though and was struggling to stay awake even when I got home, think I may still be a bit ill from last week. Watched a couple of films and played a bit of NMS as well.
Wednesday, Aug 22 2018, Worked from home, busy day trying to get a lot of stuff done before friday as im off next week. Then after a quick water of the garden and then off to dads
Thursday, Aug 23 2018, After work it was fairly sunny although little windy and because one of my big tubs of potatoes looked a bit worse for ware I decided to empty them and got loads of potatoes
Friday, Aug 24 2018, Yesterday was Joe's last day at work, (sad times) but he did bring chocolates and I may have tucked into a few of them today. Ended up staying way later than I thought I was going to and by the time I got home from work and done my shopping it was time to go right to training.
Saturday, Aug 25 2018, A busy day today, was going to go tot he gym but it was really nice weather out so I took full advantage of it all and worked in the garden for about 5 hours. Emptied the shed and sorted it all out and now have so much space. Also pulled a load og veg out of the ground and got massive carrots. Then at night was out to go bowling with BCR folks and then out for drinks as well.
Sunday, Aug 26 2018, Got up a little late then tried to make peanut brittle and because it wasn't working added some water and ended up making a hybrid tablet/fudge peanut concoction. Tasted goo though, then watched the F1 and Ferrari won but Vettel was utterly dominant, also Fiorentina played their first game of the season after not playing the previous week thanks to the terrible accident in Genoa in the week. Not only did we win, but we won 6-1 first time in almost 10 years that we have scored 6!!!
Monday, Aug 27 2018, First day of my week off,put the car in for it's service then walked home via the shops. Didn't do much whilst I was waiting for it to be ready then walked back for it. Skipped training as it was my first day of my holidays and I was a little sleepy
Tuesday, Aug 28 2018, So today I felt like I should be pro active after a rather lazy (ish apart from all the walking) day yesterday. Got up early and went to the gym and beasted it way more than I thought I could considering I have not been to the gym in almost a month. Then off to the shops for a we walk about and bought some stuff including a new gin. Then made a good dinner at night and watched a few films as I Was shattered and kept almost falling alseep thanks to the gym.
Wednesday, Aug 29 2018, Had plans that all went awry today, so ended up having a rather lazy day and played a load of NMS and watched a couple of films.
Thursday, Aug 30 2018, Decided to get busy after a day of not muc again. Went through to Livingston to the shops, didn't get much other than Isle of dogs and managed to find a Series 18 Police minifig. Then back to Falkirk and to the gym again and did well, then went round a few garages to check on tyre prices as I need 2 new front tyres for my car.
Friday, Aug 31 2018, Got a load of stuff done today and also fixed my cooker hob after over a year of being broken. then went to visit the kings and took them some veg and after went to training and we had scrims and I not only blocked but jammed loads and did pretty well and was not tired.
September
Saturday, Sep 01 2018, Up early again and off to the gym, loads of weights and managed to up a few pb's then home and tidied did washing then finished building my Lego.
Sunday, Sep 02 2018, Up late after not feeling the best at the end of yesterday so had a wee lie in. Tried making peanut brittle again and it worked this time, just need to refine my recipe this time think less salt next time. Watched the F1 and it was a bit of an action packed race.
Monday, Sep 03 2018, Back to work and got no sleep the night before so today was a long day. Stopped of at Chiara's on my way home to drop of the harry potter minifigs, then home changed and off to training
Tuesday, Sep 04 2018, Woke up to this, it was foggy as hell, got into work after driving through some pea soup, work was busy had a fair bit of catching up to do still. Was knackered by the time I got home and almost fell asleep on the couch I was so tired, thankfully I skipped the gym on the way home other wise I may have been dead.
Wednesday, Sep 05 2018, Working from home and this arrived after ordering it on monday, I have the fist of only 100 prints. Went to Dads after and the kids were there
Thursday, Sep 06 2018, Busy day at work, also phone round a few places to get tyre prices. Then Gym on the way home but I was a bit tired so didn't push it too much.
Friday, Sep 07 2018, Office was empty but I got a load of stuff done ad started work on the Cyber Essentials. Didn't go to training as Chiara had a one of show for charity that we wet to.
Saturday, Sep 08 2018, Got up early and headed through to Costco and Ikea to get a few things, then on the way back went to the gym. Tidied a little when I got in but later fell asleep on the couch watching a film before dinner.
Sunday, Sep 09 2018, Up Early (again) started with gardening, cut the grass, fixed a load of stuff and then cut back and tidied everything else. Then Finished tidying the flat, hoovered, did washing and ironing and cleaned the bathroom, so a rather productive morning/afternoon. Then played a bit PlayStation and then went to visit vero after.
Monday, Sep 10 2018, Busy day at work working on Cyber essentials, then home and training at night.
Tuesday, Sep 11 2018, Another busy day at work, got a load done. On the way home hit the gym, Tiny was supposed to come visit but cancelled till Thursday. So ended up watching Copland that arrived yesterday before hitting bed early.
Wednesday, Sep 12 2018, ?Worked from home, spent most of the day backing up one of our servers for decommission, then more work backing up and testing our sites on sql server 2016, after that went to go see dad and the kids
Thursday, Sep 13 2018, Another busy day at work and hit the gym on the way home, was feeling a little tired but tried my best at the gym. Then watched a film and played some playstation after
Friday, Sep 14 2018, A busy but quite day at work, which was really odd. Then off home and got ready for training as I was taking it this evening
Saturday, Sep 15 2018, Up early, then off to the gym, which started really good and I felt full of energy but by the time I got to the last couple of things I was really running on low but still tried to push it all the same. Then home to do some gardening, then cleaning and tidying as a few folks from derby came over for a board games night
Sunday, Sep 16 2018, Again woke up early for about the 6th day in a row so lay for a bit then got up and tidied from yesterday and went out to asda then home and made some lunch and watched some Roller derby on the bbc red button online as they were covering champs finals and also and the F1 which was pretty boring, then off to visit dad
Monday, Sep 17 2018, Woke up for too early and all da felt so lethargic but a busy day at work meant it went pretty quickly, got home and turned on the tv after a text from Serena to tell me this film was on and it was right at the Mosses Supposes moment. Went to training even though I was breathing out my ass and it was actually fairly fun.
Tuesday, Sep 18 2018, Decided to take tonight off from the gym as between my knees still being sore and waking up so early every day I'm knackered. Busy day AGAIN at work as cyber essentials is a lot of work. Stopped off at tesco on the way home to see they have Christmas stuff out
Wednesday, Sep 19 2018, Was in the office today also it was the day storm Ali hit so the garden got battered. I put a load of my tomato plants into the hut but the ons in the ground I could do nothing for so I picked a load of the tomatoes that were about to fall off or just had to save them. Busy day as per at work then off to visit dad and the kids after.
Thursday, Sep 20 2018, Today's fun was that Umbraco released a security patch so we had to patch all our sites, so that took up most of our day, then off home and stopped off at Chiara's to drop off the Harry potter minifigures I got her on tuesday. Was going to go to the gym but seeing as I woke up at 4am and couldnt get back to sleep I thought better of it and decided to give myself a week off from the gym but I shall be back next week.
Friday, Sep 21 2018, Worked from home today seeing as I was in the office on wed, quick day then went to training in the evening. This arrived for me today though
Saturday, Sep 22 2018, Had a lie in and seeing as it was a decently bright day and not much wind I went out and did some work in the garden. Emptied the last potato tub and a did a few other things. Then back in and started cooking dinner which was Steak and Ale pie
Sunday, Sep 23 2018, A bit a of a lie in, then did some tidying then headed up to Owains to go watch some of the live steam of the silver city cup with him and Danika. After that headed off to my dads for dinner.
Monday, Sep 24 2018, Such a bright lovely morning on the drive to work, although by later on in the day it got a bit cloudy and started to look like it was going to start raining. Work passed quickly then home and off to training, but I was off skates as my back is still a little sore after hurting it t training on friday.
Tuesday, Sep 25 2018, Busy day at work, at one point when I went to the loo and came back this was on my scren, it is a sign that we have to go visit the Museum when we are down in London this weekend. Skipped the gym as I had a splitting sore head plus it was bucketing it down
Wednesday, Sep 26 2018, Busy day in the office as we were al in and doing server audits and clearing out things thanks to cyber essentials, worked late then went to see dad after.
Thursday, Sep 27 2018, First day of the holiday commences, up early though as my car was booked in to finally get two new front tyres, then hit the shops. Was going to go to the gym but it was so dull, dark and raining it really put me off. Plus the car took way longer than expected to get the tyres. Also stopped off at the kings to organise stuff for tomorrow.
Friday, Sep 28 2018, Up very very early to go get Nick then grab the train to London. Decided to get the earlier train from Polmont, thankfully as the one we were going to get was cancelled. But the earlier one sat at polmont for about 20+ mins and we almost didn't make our London train. Got on with less than 5 mins to spare. When we got To London and met up with Johnny, we went to the Natural History Museum, then saw a couple of sights then got a boat down the Thames instead of the underground and had boat beers. Got some diner, then went out or drinks in the evening.
Saturday, Sep 29 2018, Birthday day for the kings. Up had breakfast ten a trip into town and a wee visit to a few places including Buckingham palace and horse guards and a couple of others. Then went and had lunch on a boar moored on the Thames before heading to the theatre to go see The Book of Mormon, which was amazing. Thena wee wander before heading back to the flat and a flat party.
Sunday, Sep 30 2018, Little bit of a lie in ish, then off for lunch to the grape a pub owned by Sir Ian Mckellen ad some lunch (proper roast), it also had Gandalf's staff behind the bar. Apparently if he is in town he stays above the bar and runs the pub quiz. Then into town visit to the Lego shop and a couple of places before getting the train home.
October
Monday, Oct 01 2018, Off again today, so got up tidied the flat, put the washing on then went to ASDA, when I got back did a bit of gardening, then thank to having a load of tomatoes I made fresh pasta sauce and jarred it up. Also went to training at night although my feet just didn't want to do anything right.
Tuesday, Oct 02 2018, Was going to go to Edinburgh but decided against it and instead had a lazy day as I am still pretty tired, went to the gym at night though and just managed to make a few goals even though I was dying
Wednesday, Oct 03 2018, Was in the office today working on stuff and had some meetings, then off to visit vero on the way home and spent ages trying to fix his old phone but to no avail
Thursday, Oct 04 2018, Busy day at work, then on the way home stopped off at Smyths as Dad thought he saw the Lego calendar going cheap but alas no. Then home for some Mash and sausages also my item from China finally arrived
Friday, Oct 05 2018, Worked from home in a slow work day. Got to see my Strip from China in the day light and it looks amazing, then went to go visit dad to say bye before he goes to italy tomorrow then ff to training
Saturday, Oct 06 2018, Busy day, getting stuff done in and around the flat and some gardening. Then spent a while playing the Playstation before going and making dinner(Chicken Katsu curry)
Sunday, Oct 07 2018, Wasted most of the day, didn't really get up to much just was in and around the flat. Never got most of the things I wanted to do done although I did get a load of BCR Board stuff seen to.
Monday, Oct 08 2018, Busy day at work, when I got home I went out into the garden as it has been fairly windy and picked up some of the tomatoes that had blown of the vines. I also then picked a load of the red tomatoes and some of the green ones getting ready to turn red, then headed off to training.
Tuesday, Oct 09 2018, Slow but busy day at work, got a load of other BCR stuff done and also had to print off our champs contract for next year and rad/sort through all of that
Wednesday, Oct 10 2018, Such an odd day, it was glorious sunshine and warm out, way to sunny and warm for this time of year normally. Got home but was knackered so got a few things done, had dinner then watched Ready player one, was so disappointed with it as they had changed so much from the book.
Thursday, Oct 11 2018, After such a lovely day yesterday, today was dark, dull and foggy. Although on the way into work the sun did break free a couple of times. Work was slow and although we got a load of stuff done it felt like it took 4 times as long to do things as it should.
Friday, Oct 12 2018, Worked from home today seeing as I had been in the office all day. Bit of a boring day, not much happening and went to training at night and ended up hurting my foot so much thanks to my insoles dying on me I had to order new ones.
Saturday, Oct 13 2018, On call so not much happening but it ended up being a pretty full on day. Got up and started doing washing and ironing, then went out and did a little gardening bringing in a load of tomatoes but most of the plants are starting to die off now. My copy f exploding kittens arrived oh and Fiorentina Women's team beat Juve Women's in the Italian super cup. Oh and I got called and spent 3 hours trying to fix stuff.
Sunday, Oct 14 2018, All my Sunday plans went a bit tits up. No gym, no anything really but it was good just to have a relaxing day.
Monday, Oct 15 2018, Busy day at work trying to get stuff done ended up working later than normal. Came home to these in the post then headed off to training to try out my new insoles in my skates.
Tuesday, Oct 16 2018, Yet another busy day even if it was bitty at work. Helpdesk was super busy and me and Huzz ran into a few issues with Cyber essential stuff. Didn't get finished till half 5 then came home and did a little gardening, brought in the last of the tomatoes as the plants are pretty much gone and found a couple of potatoes that were shooting so re-planted them in the hope of getting something from them.
Wednesday, Oct 17 2018, Ok day at work, got a load done then home did a few bits and bobs then off to the gym with nick at 8pm, was a god session after not being there in weeks. Forgot to ake my phone to get a picture of times but did well on the exercise bike over 20 mis and made my goal
Thursday, Oct 18 2018, Bit of an odd day at work, really bitty. Worked late then hit tesco on the way home and then made sausage and mash for diner that was very very lush
Friday, Oct 19 2018, Worked from home, didnt get much done as there was not much doing but got a few things off my plate. Cleaned up the flat for tomorrow and then went to training
Saturday, Oct 20 2018, Very busy day, was up at normal work time. got ready and was at the train station for 9am, to get the train with Danica to go to GGow for the Big Blether to represent BCR. Went well that finished at 4pm, had a quick look at the shops then got back to falkirk for dinner at some then back to the flat where a few folks joined us for some board games
Sunday, Oct 21 2018, Didn't get to bed last night till 4am. Thankfully my plans for today that woudl have seen me out of bed at 8am got cancelled so had a lazy day in the flat
Monday, Oct 22 2018, Tired after the busy weekend but wow what a sight it was this morning in the sky. Work was ok bit quite to be honest, but I wasn't feeling the best so skipped training
Tuesday, Oct 23 2018, Worked late today then stopped off at Chiara's to get something for dad, didn't leave till half 8 though and had to hit asda to get bread and milk for dad, then home for a shower and then off to go pick him up at the airport. His flight ended up landing 5 mins late but it took him over an hour to call that he was ready to be picked up
Wednesday, Oct 24 2018, Work was ok andworked late again got caught in all the traffic coming home and there was an accident so I got stuck on a road for a while then off to dads to see him. Got my Italian goodies from him as well
Thursday, Oct 25 2018, boring day at work as not much is happening at the moment after the news that Cyber Essentails wont touch our stuff even tough they said only weeks ago it would and we all had to pull our fingers out and do a load of work. Came home and ended up in a 90s indi music black hole and it was amazing.
Friday, Oct 26 2018, Worked from home, not much doing though so it was a long boring day. But Read Dead finally arrived, then went to go pick up vero and go up to chiaras to have dinner for his birthday
Saturday, Oct 27 2018, Up early, then headed to he gym. Managed to pull a muscle doing weighted squats, then stupidily went on the running machine and did MAX INCLINE, thanks to nicks advice. Came home played some Red Dead then went picked up Vero and headed up to Chiaras for wee celebration with the Andersons and a few other folks for dads bday
Sunday, Oct 28 2018, Woke up expecting it to be frosty as the temp really dropped the last couple of days, but no all seemed ok if not a little cooler than normal in the morning. Stayed in today and played Red dead, then went round to veros later on
Monday, Oct 29 2018, Well that frosty snap arrived a day late, freezing fog everywhere. Although the pictures don't show it well I could hardly see over the road it was so bad everything was properly frozen. Busy day at work, fixed a load of stuff as I was looking for things to do. Then home but skipped training as my leg which was really sore yesterday after sundays gym was still way sore today, really over did it. Hoping its ok tomorrow as im back to the gym agin
Tuesday, Oct 30 2018, No frost today which was odd but welcomed. Leg was feeling better but still not right, but after an eventful day at work I still went to the gym, first few things I took easier as my leg was playing up but after MAX INCLINE on the running machine it felt better. Managed to do a great job on the excersize bike, not to far off 10km in 20 mins, if I had pushed it more earlier on I could have made it but I was knackered at the end though
Wednesday, Oct 31 2018, Worked from home today, kinda boring day then headed round to veros for dinner. It was Halloween and got a message from the IE to say she had been to see her mum and had posted me something through my door (see picture) also found out that these are not called dib dabs but actually dip dabs
November
Thursday, Nov 01 2018, Weird weather this morning, was foggy everywhere but not proper deep fog more mysty all over and creepy. Boring day as I was on run down for being off friday and monday, so just finishing off little bits and bobs. Played some more Red Dead when I got home at night
Friday, Nov 02 2018, Was going to go to Edinburgh to the shops but when I go up it was clod and a little frosty so decided to leave that till another day and went to costco instead. Got a few things and hen gt home and worked out the training plan for this evenings fresh meat and went and took training.
Saturday, Nov 03 2018, Started cooking pasta sauce using all the tomatoes from the garden as well as some veg from there, also pulled out the biggest onion I have ever grown it was the size of my hand. Also started making steak pie for dinner tomorrow at Vero's and went to the Hippodrome to go see Local Hero
Sunday, Nov 04 2018, Up early to finish off cooking tonight's dinner and the pasta sauce. Nala popped by and gave me my save the date, Vero gave the steak pie 2 thumbs up which is amazing praise.
Monday, Nov 05 2018, Took a wee trip out to Stirling, bought a couple of things. Played some red dead and then went to training, a much relaxed and lazy ish day
Tuesday, Nov 06 2018, The sun was amazing on the rise this morning, very picture esq on the way into work. Spent a while catching up then did a few bits and obs and got a new project to start on. Was going to hit the gym on the way home but I got aprox 3 hours sleep because I work up at 3am and ould not get back to sleep, so got home rested up and hit bed early instead
Wednesday, Nov 07 2018, Long day in the office, Nicky go told he was going to Al-gile-hell for a few months and was raging as you woudl expect. Went to Vero's for dinner after
Thursday, Nov 08 2018, Busy busy day at work, did not get finished till 6. Was going to hit the gym on the way home but seeing as finished so late I skipped it. Although I finihsed off the pasta sauce on monday and Jared on Tuesday I had left them to cool down but seeing as I was at veros till late the day before it was only tonight I got around to finishing it all off and getting them into the fridge
Friday, Nov 09 2018, Worked from home, was a busy ish day and got a load done. Then after I dismantled my skated and cleaned them and tried to fix the bolt issue in the boot then went to training.
Saturday, Nov 10 2018, A very busy day today, got up did a few bits and bobs, then went to the gym, stopped off at dads on the way home to help him with a few things then hit asda. Home cut hair showered then made early dinner and after went to Kat and Chris's for a games night with Joanarchy Kim and the donalds. Also today was the 15 year anniversary of when I crashed the Bravo of Badness.
Sunday, Nov 11 2018, Had a quiet one, got up did some washing hoovering and tidying. Played some Red Dead and did a load of BCR stuff as well, then went round to dads after.
Monday, Nov 12 2018, Got to use my new bee's wax wrap for my sandwich, no more using up tinfoil. Work was a bit busy but a really slow day. Came hoe did a few bits and obs but skipped training as I was not feeling it as my legs were still sore from the gym on sat thanks to weighted squats. Need to do them more often so my legs get used to them.
Tuesday, Nov 13 2018, Busy day at work, got a load done and almost got my project live. Got home did some BCR stuff and then headed out to the gym with nick. Did 20 mins on the cross trainer, then some weights, then 20 mins on the running machine and finally 20 mins on the excersize bike and I really pushed it as much as my legs would let me. Was sweating like no ons business. Not 100% sure if it was a best time for 20 mins, but if it wasnt then it nearly was as I was just off 10k and considering 10 mins in I had not hit 5k thats pretty great going.
Wednesday, Nov 14 2018, Worked from home then went to dad's, and by the picture you guessed what happened. May produces her brexit plan signed sealed and delivered and it s bad.. bad. looks like their is going to be a revolt
Thursday, Nov 15 2018, Up v v early to get through to Edinburgh office as I had meetings, ended up working till about 6 pm, got home and basically half fell asleep on the couch and played some Red dead redemption till way to late
Friday, Nov 16 2018, First day of my long weekend, was up and out early ish, hit ASDA and the shops in grangemouth then home to settle down and get some stuff done and then some Red Dead
Saturday, Nov 17 2018, Up early ad off to the gym for the back of 10, then up to Chiara's to give her her birthday card and present. Then off to Tesco and finally some by about 6pm and settled in for the night.
Sunday, Nov 18 2018, Had a lie in, then got up did a load of washing and gardening then tidying and sorting. After went round to dads
Monday, Nov 19 2018, Last day of the long weekend off, up early for the boiler service guy, who ddn't appear till 12. He said the boiler is working just as goo as it was 10 years ago when it was installed. Then after off to the opticians for my appointment and was there for over an hour. Wasnt feeling the best so after I went to training but off skates.
Tuesday, Nov 20 2018, Busy day back at work and a tiring one, didnt get finished till 5 then by the time got home I just wanted to do nothing, but finally got dads birthay present ordered.
Wednesday, Nov 21 2018, slow but busy day at home, was cold had to get the heating on early and even had a hot choc before heading round to Vero's at night
Thursday, Nov 22 2018, Well this morning was super frosty, I think winter has definitely arrived. Work was busy and when I got home I grabbed a quick shower and got ready to head back out to the cinema to go see Escape from New York as it had been restored and was showing for 1 night only. Unfortunately it was pretty full and the only seats left were rubbish ones and I wasn't paying £14 for the pleasure. So Went home and watched it instead.
Friday, Nov 23 2018, After such a frosty day yesterday, this morning was v v foggy but on the way home the sky was looking amazing with the sun setting. Went to training at night and helped with fresh meat as well
Saturday, Nov 24 2018, Up early for opticians appointment, then hit smyths and got pat of Ales xmas and my lego for my christmas. then out at night for the BCR xmas birthday night out
Sunday, Nov 25 2018, up early again after getting to bed at 3am this time to go to glasgow with Vero and Serena o the shops
Monday, Nov 26 2018, Very busy day at work, ended up working till 6.30 and got to training just as it was starting but I had not been home so just skipped and went home instead as I was so v v tired
Tuesday, Nov 27 2018, Worked from home today, got a load of stuff done after yesterdays meetings and came up with a couple of ingenious solutions to fix issues we were having with the sectors and commercial services sites. At night hit the gym with nick and whilst on the treadmill I had a hankering for breaded fried chicken so on my way home I stopped off at asda ad got some xmas party snacks
Wednesday, Nov 28 2018, Long day in the office but got a load done, then of to see vero for dinner. I also set up his fire stick and set it so he can use my account to watch Prime
Thursday, Nov 29 2018, Last day of work this week as we are of for St Andrews day tomorrow. Had a few meetings and got a load done. Then on the way home stopped off to give blood and again I failed the first test and had to do the other one where they take a sample o blood from your arm, which I passed as the simple finger prick said I had low iron. Then home and watched my newly arrived copy of hackers.
Friday, Nov 30 2018, Off today and went through to Livingston to the shops to see if I could get some xmas things. Got a couple of things but nothing particularly for xmas. Then home and scrims at night, which was fun
December
Saturday, Dec 01 2018, After waking up at 3.30am and could not get back to sleep I finally cashed out about 7 and woke up at 1pm. So most of my day was wasted, ended up not going to the gym but did washing and some cleaning and did some xmas shopping online. Also opened my advent calendar. Can't believe its the first of Dec already, this year has disappeared along with at least 60% of the things I had planned to do.
Sunday, Dec 02 2018, Had a lazy lie in, after getting up did a load of washing and ironing then sorted a few things before heading round to dads
Monday, Dec 03 2018, Incredibly frosty start to the day although the pictures do not show off the extent of the frost. Busy day at work then home to go to training, whch was actually quite fun.
Tuesday, Dec 04 2018, Another busy day at work, loads going on. Was going to hit the gym on the way home but really could not be bothered so just stopped of at tesco on the way home.
Wednesday, Dec 05 2018, Worked from home and for another day found it almost impossible to drag myself out of bed unfortunately. Work was quiet apart from dealing with utter morons on help desk. Then was round at dads after
Thursday, Dec 06 2018, Busy day at work although it was rather bitty. Had my gym stuff in the car but decided against it as well I am lazy. Ended up coming home and watching a film and having dinner instead, as well as catching up with some Derby admin
Friday, Dec 07 2018, Worked from home again this week as no one was going to be in the office, after I finished I put up my tree, then went to training
Saturday, Dec 08 2018, Slept later than I was hoping but got up went to stirling and did some shopping, then went to the gym and realised I am so lethargic it is ridiculous and my shoulder was killing me so gave up about half way through. Then had a quiet night in and watched a few films
Sunday, Dec 09 2018, Up early for the AGM, walked down to spoons in gmouth but it was shut and ended up meeting Owain and Danica in greggs. Grabbed some food then by the time we were finished spoons was open. AGM went well got home and made myself a hot chocolate and played RDR2 before going to see dad
Monday, Dec 10 2018, Up early as I was working from the Edinburgh office, traffic was not bad although the road to go to where I park was closed off and I spent 25 minutes driving about trying to get down the road as loads of roads were closed due to roadworks. got home and really wasn't feeling skating so went off skates. Have to say though the sky this morning looked amazing
Tuesday, Dec 11 2018, Long day at wok as I woke up not feeling right and the longer the day went on he more I got a sore head and just felt rubbish. Was going to hit the gym with Nick but I skipped it and just ended up going to bed early after dinner.
Wednesday, Dec 12 2018, Worked from home today, was a typical one then went round to dad's after. What did make today stand out was that the Tories again managed to make themselves look shambolic. Calling a vote of no confidence in may and her having a vote tonight which she was obviously going to win thus putting the country politically into even more turmoil.
Thursday, Dec 13 2018, Worked from Edinburgh today doing a Kanban session and got a load of stuff done. Then after was away out with everyone in Edinburgh for our xmas night out, I just had the one though as I had the car at the train station
Friday, Dec 14 2018, Worked from home for my last working day of the year, quite boring not much happening. Then hit ASDA after did shopping and went to the last training session of the year.
Saturday, Dec 15 2018, Did bits an bobs today then picked up IE and had a drink and then went for dinner with her Aimee and Nala and went up town for more drinks. Bumped into Baird and Phil and ended up drinking with them the rest of the night.
Sunday, Dec 16 2018, Did not get up to much today but wrote all my cards for neighbours and posted them and chatting with my neighbours before heading round to Vero's.
Monday, Dec 17 2018, Got up and hit the gym on the first day of my holidays, also went to the shops. Then when at home started making pizza dough for tomorrow and watched a few films
Tuesday, Dec 18 2018, Today started as a duvet day and watched a few Christmas films, then after did a couple of bits and bobs and then made pizza for dinner and watched a few films
Wednesday, Dec 19 2018, Hit the gym again, then off to the shops again. Sorted out a few things then went round to see Vero after for dinner.
Thursday, Dec 20 2018, Got up and took Vero to his golf club xmas lunch, then hit the shops. After visited Nick, Lady K and the kids and picked up Vero on my way home. Watched a few films after I got in and played some RDR2 as well
Friday, Dec 21 2018, Lazy morning as I was tired so didn't go to the gym. Did a few bits in the afternoon and wrapped a load of presents. Then at night went out for dinner with Danica and Owain and then headed off to Odette's for games night with the BCR lot
Saturday, Dec 22 2018, Didn't gym again as im lazy, but did go drop off k&c's xmas presents and visited them as well as popping round to Carl and Carols. Stopped off at ASDA on the way home then watched a film.
Sunday, Dec 23 2018, Up early and off to go pick up Vero and we went through to Edinburgh to the shops and to the xmas market. Got home about 6pm and had a big mug of hot chocolate and then watched a film whilst trying not to fall asleep
Monday, Dec 24 2018, Christmas Eve and it was a busy ish one, finished the last of the present wrapping also made truffles for taking tomorrow and then after dinner went to G-unit spoons with Nala, Johnny and Lindsey
Tuesday, Dec 25 2018, It's CHRISTMASSSSSSSSS!! Got up opened presents and watched ADC as always. Then off to pick up Vero and then a trip to the cometary on the way up to Chiara's. It was just us and no visitors after dinner, which was nice for a change. Played some games after dinner including exploding kittens, didn't get home till after eleven.
Wednesday, Dec 26 2018, Had a lie in and got up to basically do not much, watched this along with another film and then went off to the last ever Casa King Boxingday event. Low turnout though with just me John boy Nick Lindsey Nala and Aimee in attendance.
Thursday, Dec 27 2018, So got up early and picked up Vero and then headed through to Livingston to spend a bit of time around the shops and wandering. Didn't buy anything other than trousers from Sainsburys then came home and watched Flash Gordon seeing as we didn't watch it yesterday. Also spotted mini eggs for sale already!!!
Friday, Dec 28 2018, Had a lie in as yesterday was a long day and I ended up gin to bed way too late. Got up did a bit of tidying also did a quick run to ASDA and then at night went to Owain's to have a board games night with him and Danica.
Saturday, Dec 29 2018, Started building my lego today and also watching some old school Disney films as well, did the ground floor and decided to stop and do the rest on the second of Jan to space it all out. Also my superdry hoody arrived only 2 days after ordering Online, what great service.
Sunday, Dec 30 2018, Busy day cleaning and tidying the flat as it is a mess. After that Mike came and picked me and and we along with Hannah and Dottie went to go visit Jen and Matilda, Josh was there as well. After all that I went round to Vero's
Monday, Dec 31 2018, A relaxing day to end the year, watched a couple of films and did a few bits and bobs, then at diner time went round to Kat and Chris's and we got some Chinese then played some board games and switch. After the bells I went to pick up Serena and her frined then took them to the howlins and got stuck thee for a bit before bringing dad home and getting to bed at 3am.