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• 13:11 Taking a long lunch for once, it's good to be able to just relax... #

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Today I spent 2 hours working on a problem and not with silly customers, hurrah. Really weird issue, looks funky on playback (like an 80's disco) and reproducible... until I reset the unit. Then it stopped. D'oh. Yes I know it's now fixed, but that's not the point. They claim to have 20 different machines doing this, this isn't going to be a simple "reset it and it goes away" because it will probably come back again...

Yeah it was weird. The playback was funky, but only when doing a filtered download. It was fine in remote playback, fine on the monitor playback, fine in the raw download, but filtered downloads (which are essentially remote playback, just stored in a file instead of output to the screen) go wrong.

Anyhow, the upshot is that I've been asked if I want to go out to the site with one of the field guys. Whoohoo. Someone must have been listening. Probably going to be next week but looking forward to it.

As expected, there was lots of energy around and things went well. I felt better about "Murder, Murder" though I still dislike the song because the words are a bugger to learn. We discovered after rehearsal that the second producer (Jane's co-producing with someone who's never done it before) has had a harder time than we'd expected. I'm intrigued as to why people feel that they can behave the way they do and get away with it.

Facade's sounding awesome and minus a couple of small mistakes it's looking great too.

I'm struggling with learning words, I don't do well learning things like words without repetition. I can generally grab a concept and remember it without too much effort, but lines/a script is a different kind of learning. Guess it's just going to take practice.

I'm watching Phoo Action on BBC Three. It's VERY silly. Apparently based on some comic strips around in the late nineties. Stars Jaime Winstone who I must say is hot but WAY too young (born 1985! Eeeep!) too letch over.