Diary

I took the dogs out a little earlier than normal last night. We set off around 10:45 pm. We almost always see foxes on the late walks. Last night was no exception but as we walked down the main road towards the hospital a huge badger crossed the road just in front of us. That’s the first badger I have seen for perhaps 3 years. It seemed close enough that even the body cam would pick it up. it did but the images were poor. I was disappointed by that. As I have mentioned on here before I haven’t had much luck getting footage of the wildlife. I have changed the settings on the camera to the highest resolution and full HD. If that doesn’t help I’ll be binning the camera!

As planned we changed things round in our bedroom. By that I mean the furniture and not the sex life. Sue had done a plan and thought it would take all day. As we were getting rid of the old dressing table I suggested that I made a start dismantling that and I’d give her a shout when it was done. It came apart really easily. That left a space to move the wardrobe into. It is quite old but well made and I didn’t remember it having some sort of castors on the bottom. It moved really easily. I was cleaning as I went. Three chest of drawers found their new homes quickly.

Nothing had really moved in the bedroom in the last 8 years (again, I don’t mean the sex life) so I expected to find mess or damage when I moved items but other than dust there was nothing major to sort out. The TV unit moved to the opposite wall. The bedside tables were next. Just the bed to move. I realised that this was supposed to be a little project to fill some time in for Sue. I went downstairs to ask her to help me move the bed. I could have done it on my own! I did apologise for taking the job from her but she was made up that I had done so much so quickly. We moved the bed and started looking at the small details of how we both wanted things to look. We need some new bedside lights which I have ordered from Amazon. We were all done by 12:00.

I wanted to finish adding subtitles to the old webinar video that I posted on Monday. The original sound was drowning out some of my comments. I still had the last 10-15 minutes to do and I got that done. Here is the link if you haven’t seen it yet or if you want to read the comments that you missed from the first viewing.

This is day 5 of Sue’s 14 days off. Things are going extremely well so far! I have 2 orders of bedding plants to be delivered. In fact one of them has not been confirmed yet. All I have had delivered is some bags of compost and the membrane for the front garden. This week looks like having a fair amount of rain so let’s hope we get them for next week to give her something to do.

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Yesterday I recorded a new commentary for a live webinar that I did 10 years ago. It was recorded a month or so after I started trading full time. The state of my trading back then was, er, interesting. Let’s just say I have learned a LOT in the last 10 years. When I started trading I found ways to consistently make money and was making £1500 to £2000 a week when I traded full time.

Having watched the 2 hour webinar I can see why my head turned to mush when I had some family issues quite soon after leaving my job. It was quite a stressful style of trading as I seemed to search for the shittest value I could find before I entered the market.

When I recorded the new commentary the sound on the original recording was quite low. It wasn’t until it was uploaded to Youtube that I realised the original audio drowned out the new commentary in places. I have spent most of today adding subtitles to the parts where I couldn’t be heard properly. It has been a very long job. For some of my comments I struggled to work out what I said! I still have the last few minutes to complete. The auto subtitles struggle to understand me.

Tomorrow we are moving the furniture in the bedroom around. Sue has drawn a plan. I asked if she had measured anything. I got a blank look. I gave an example of the wardrobe. On the plan it is going behind the door but it’s quite deep and may not fit. I wish we had as much room as we appear to have on her plan. She thinks it is going to take all day. It isn’t.

Not a lot else going on. The police knocked on our door this evening. They were trying to get hold of our neighbour but no one was answering the door. As I was talking to the copper the neighbour’s door opened. The little girl had dialled 999. The mum came downstairs to 4 police officers standing in her hallway. The kid’s phone has been confiscated.

Stay safe.