Didn’t have a great nights sleep, still work up and had coffee and breakfast for three. Started the iMac screen calibration using the spyder. Then went down and fixed the car glove box which had broke (the damper thing had come apart). By the time I’d done that the screen was perfectly calibrated, it’s quite significant the difference it makes. I then headed out to find a Geocache I couldn’t find last time, found it this time. Came back and had a light lunch. Then spent the next few hours editing a video. This iMac is certainly a lot faster than the old one but is suffering from lack of memory at the moment. Took Sasha out for a walk. Transferred the wine, attempted to descale the coffee machine, but appeared to have buggered that up at the moment. Yes, very pleased with this machine, about double the price it should be, but I wouldn’t ever look at my mega PC and think ‘that looks beautiful’, this on the other hand, is a work of art.

A great Saturday morning always starts with a couple of cups of coffee and breakfast for three. A great Saturday morning does not start with a text from your mother saying her fencing panels had arrived. Sarah text me for some help, it was pretty good actually, I think between the three of us we had the job done in under ten minutes, which meant we could be out of there in fifteen. Walked Sasha and then we were heading into town, but couldn’t be arsed so went to Cribb’s instead. Picked up a magic mouse for the iMac and Jamie got a touch pad for his. Came back and finally set up the new iMac, restored from backup, took ages so walked Sasha again. There was an ancient estate car which pulled into the RAC obviously lost, I called him over. English wasn’t his first language, in fact I don’t think English was his seventh language, I think he was Romanian, one thing for certain, his wife wasn’t a looker and had a gob on her like the PA at Glastonbury. I tried to ask him where we was going, eventually I got, ‘Sturminster Newton’, he had a fucking long way to go. I tried to explain how to get to the motorway, his wife was now at boiling point, eventually he just waved at me and fucked off. Half hour later I saw them again, still touring round the industrial estate. You just can’t help some people. Came back, iMac all installed. New one has both a mouse and a trackpad. Everything appears to work, I’ll start playing with it with some video editing tomorrow. Had a bath, watched the Grand Prix qualifier. Coverage was fine for Channel 4. Qualifying format was bloody appalling, what a car crash, without an actual car crash, put it back to what it was.

Felt bloated, not really surprised. Had a good work day actually, stressed to fuck all morning as everything I did yesterday of course fucked up. But, by a very late lunchtime everything was sorted. Felt like the arctic out today though, very cold. Walked Sasha. Walked to the gym, did Pump, didn’t stay with Laverne as she was coughing and wheezing everywhere. Did a bit more work.

Got an email from Apple for my new iMac, it was the certificate for three years of Apple Care, which was nice, considering I never paid for it. Wonder if I can get my dodgy old mouse replaced?

Finally got round to checking everything in, did the last round just before I knocked off, so probably broke lots. Another nice and fairly warm day (for March). Sasha got a nice long walk, Dillon just got fisted. My teeth whitening stuff arrived, I’ve gone for a slightly stronger mix so I should end up with teeth like Rylan Clark after a few weeks. Went out for a run, had shower, now tired. Time for a film tonight me thinks.

Started off well, trying to isolate old D3D11X code which is now depreciated. Rewrote a load of stuff to do with texture loading, it’s all tidy now. Went back to the console and found a load of stuff which just didn’t work and never has, so ended up re-writing all of that as well. Then got sidetracked by a bug on the original game where we actually had a GPU crash dump for. Walked Sasha. Walked to the gym, did Pump. Good to see the gym is back to normal and completely empty. Weather not looking too wonderful this weekend, so may be a bit of Geocaching and lots of video editing to do.

Started vaguely on time. First job was to split a load of code up between two platforms, it’s almost readable now. Next job was to do an upgrade to DX11.1 and still retain compatibility with Windows 7, that was more of a challenge, getting there though. New iMac arrived, that can sit in the box until the weekend I expect, no time at the moment. Walked Sasha. Did a home check for two cats. Went for an eight mile run.

It’s Monday, I still really can’t get the hang of Mondays. Work was going nowhere so rang the vet, got Dillon in in an hour. Boss tried to talk to me, nothing was really getting through. Took Dillon to vet, they are not going to operate but I have to poke his bum with cream for the rest of his life, good job I’ve got a bulk load of rubber gloves. Another lovely day, so Sasha got a nice walk as well. Walked to gym, did Combat, Laverne’s stalker was there, god is she useless. Came back and found the bug I’d been hunting for six hours, cured a number of problems. Fisted Dillon, ate salad.

Okay, so I didn’t have the best nights sleep, probably because I was feeling knackered and went to bed at about 10:30PM. This morning though I got the wind spot chart and the forecast and plotted the route. Walked Sasha, got some petrol and picked up Sarah. Drove to Staverton. Office was empty so ended up giving the flight briefing outside the cafe. Tech log signed we headed to the apron, I gave the safety briefing and warmed up the crate. Full credit to Sarah, she was certainly less nervous and apprehensive than I was. I’d done the pick-up and take-off a hundred times before, but this one was somewhat special. No longer was the passenger a dumbbell or an instructor, this was a sibling who’d passed through the same vagina as me. After that terrifying feet I guess this was nothing special. I’m very impressed that she was calm enough to actually video the entire take-off. Due to the odd weather I couldn’t carry out the flight as planned so had to wing-it a bit (no pun intended). But we flew around for an hour and looked at the sights of Tewkesbury and Stresham motorway service station. There were a lot of dust particles hanging around so made the visibility quite bad. Landed back at Staverton and did a bit of hovering. Overall a good flight. I think she enjoyed it. Most people can drive a car, very few people can fly a helicopter and even fewer have the privilege of flying their own sister in one, it was a pleasure. I know it was a bucket list item for you, but it was a big achievement for me, and for that I’m thankful. Hopefully the next flight will be somewhat more interesting.

Woke up fairly early this morning. Usual coffee and paper. Sorted wine out, now on its first clearing. Walked Sasha. Shot a video for Jamie’s channel. Had lunch and then went out on a very unsuccessful Geocaching hunt. Beautiful day though. Had a bath and ate, early bed. Tomorrow I get to fly my first non-paying passenger.

Another one of those weird days where I’m surrounded by two nuclear PC’s and the worlds slowest laptop and I’m trying to work on all three at the same time. Spent the bulk of the day trying to find some shader issue that kept giving me infinity, I just ended up shoving a clamp on it in the end as every single PC GPU debugger is pure shite. Nice day again, walked Sasha. Walked to the gym and did a session with Lavern, walked home and did a bit more work. Now pizza and beer time. Weather looking good for the weekend.