on the fifth day

...of the 10-Month Project.

backtrack. on day 3, my mind was mush.

today, as 9 am rolled in, i heard the sound of a stream of fluid onto a soft surface. turned to look, and there was a thin line(?) of water coming from the edge of an aircon access panel overhead, and it was pattering onto a corner of the sofa/bed that i have behind me.

get sofa/bed out of the way, call downstairs to locate utility man; who grabs a pail from the last (unused) row and places it under the leak.

now, this aircon has been running since the start of the week. used to be that i generally would turn it off when i go home, but lately, as eleven rolls around i am in too much haste to be away that i've neglected this little ritual. so it seems that leaving the aircon on 24/5 (so far), means some sort of drainage problem for condensation in the unit.

so: before leaving, turn off aircon.

other than that, the only news to report is the success of a little personal programming project that i hatched up over the past three days - automating a potentially tedious task (which involves typing essential information that is to be overlaid on rendered animation .avi files - for director's benefit when viewing projects).

i now have a mongrel script that takes the information from a text file and composites it onto the .avi in question, at the same time scaling the output and encoding it into quicktime (for a better fit with the mac editing station and software).

...and there we are. day five, and i await further stuff for edit...