1 January 2026.
Good morning and a Happy New Year.
I was up at 3:00 am.
Cyprus and a drive down the M1 beckons.
The worst part of travel is the drive to and from the airport... and queuing.
A New Year's resolution?
We are going to try and top the 74 days of sobriety that we did last year.
It is as boring as hell when you first kick off but once you are into it, it gets a bit better. Not much, but a bit.
The beach bar at Agia Triada doesn't help, but May and those really hot days are five months away, so it will be a case of coffee and sparking water... and exercise (for me).
I should take delivery of the new computer system, which will handle all the 3D by the end of the month, but will need to do a bit of thinking to how I am going to set it up to work as the space on my desk is a bit restricted.
I think I'll have to mount the 43" ultra screen monitor monitor to take it off my desk as I already have a 36" on there.
Again, I need to do a bit of thinking.
I need to work on the script as well as there has been more ideas for me to make it flow better.
Eating out and socialising eats into your time as when you get in you cannot do anything, as you are generally non compos mentis after a few beers.
So, I'll be able to have a good run at that.
I could also do with getting a monochrome laser printer for knocking out drafts of the script and so I can start doing some hard copy filing which will make it easier for me to proof and change.
Indexing - which I hate, also needs completing.
There just isn't enough hours in the day and me mastering the animation and software has been highly time consuming.
The Anthony N'Gonte animation - nearly four minutes, which I chucked up on here, took me around five hours to do from start to finish.
I didn't need to do it as such; it just helped me with the script as I can define the characters better.
N'Gonte in Series 1 is a good character as he is rather bi-polaric, angry and extremely envious .
And at 21 years old he is also older than the other students at 40 Martyrs college and acts rather entitled.
Wait for that one!
Right, I am shutting down the system as my bath is ready.
I may see you in Luton Airport.
