2017-03-20 – The cooking of the oil.

I’m going to be filming this week.  I jotted down the videos that I need to make, and there are 8 of them, so I’d better get cracking.  The first one is a review video for the Olimax 7% CBD oil that the Polish Medical Marijuana website sent to me absolutely ages ago.  I check the manufacturer’s website for a lab report on this product, and see that most of the 7% of CBD is, in fact, CBDA which is not really what we are looking for.  The CBDA can be converted to CBD by decarboxylating it, so the first thing I need to film is the cooking of the oil.

Before I start the decarboxylation, I need to prepare a script (which should suggest the shots that I need to get), so I sit down on the sofa with my iPad and write the first part of the script.

My tremor seems a little better today, and my dystonia and dyskinesia are similarly improved, which is great.   My voice is still weak, my balance seems reasonably okay.  My walking is not so good, though, so I take the dog for a stumble (rather than walk) around the village hall field this morning.

Next on the agenda is setting up the camera, tripod and radio mic, loading the script into the teleprompter app on my iPad and turning the kitchen into a studio.  I then film the process of decarboxylating the CDB oil, and film myself introducing the review (as scripted!).

I return the house to relative normality and then take the dog for her second stumble of the day (in-between heavy rain showers) by the time my wife returns from work.  I had also intended to put the plumbing job (replacing our old cast iron bath) out to tender on the internet, but still haven’t done it – perhaps I’ll manage to do so after dinner this evening…

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