To die by lunar ellipse

This ellipse thing is really pissing me off. After lots of searching I thought I’d found the exact equation, except it does’ work. So went back to my original system, this uses ray casts, well line intersections. It’s pixel perfect in the major axis and I can also work out the midpoint, the thing I’m stuck with now is the minor axis radius. I think I’ve sort of worked it out. You need to calculate the new ‘height’ from the midpoint. So if you’ve moved five meters to the right and you were one hundred meters up, then just using pythagorus you can calc the new distance, then I think it’s just taking the tan of the alpha and multiplying by that. That should give the circle radius if it was going that distance. Hopefully that’s the last part of the puzzle.

Now to drink heavily.

It’s all about the angles

Spent the day with some interesting trigonometry problems. Ended a very long day still with some interesting trigonometry problems. Gave the angles a wide birth in the end and now have a solution which uses line intersections and direction cosines using three dimensional cartesian coordinates. And I say my job is dull.

Walked Sasha, nice day. Went for a 15Km run. That was uneventful. Long day. Checking on weather. May give Ben a call, long time since last chopper session.

Then the fire alarm went off halfway through chest

Spent the day rearranging some code to do light projection, not very exciting, but more interesting to come. Walked Sasha but phone was playing up so couldn’t get a decent Pokemon Go connection, so that was a walk wasted. Walked to gym. Started Pump. Halfway through chest and the fire alarm went off. So stood in carpark for half an hour in a vest. At least I brought my small towel. Fire engine turned up. There was indeed a real fire in the plant room. We were let back in but were told to just gather our stuff and leave, you could certainly smell the burning. Walked home. Soldered some thing for my nephew. Ate salad. Looked up cones intersecting planes.

I actually enjoyed Top Gear and didn’t really expect to

Spent the bulk of the day staring at a lazy list cleanup and managed to get a ten times speed increase in it which can’t be bad. A bit concerned about the size it grows to though, I’d certainly like to poke that a bit more.

Longer walk with Sasha, taking advantage of the nice but very cold weather. Still collecting Pokemon.

Went for a 13km run early evening so caught the end of the daylight and went through the nature reserve, twice.

After more work I settled down to the new series of ‘Top Gear’. Must admit that I wasn’t expecting much, but ended up really enjoying it. A good few laughs. I think this will hopefully grow. I have already got bored of the Amazon offering after just three episodes and haven’t watched any more.

Thirty days of sobriety

So did the whole of February without drinking at all, even added a couple of extra days. It’s certainly easier these days due to very decent alcohol free lager and even a sparkling Chenin Blanc which was quite nice. So after all that it’s back on a diet getting my beach body together for Ibiza. I have a very effective diet plan that’s based on fitness trackers and food intake, it’s frighteningly accurate. I’ve lost four pounds.

Been decorating the bedroom, it’s mostly painted now, probably about four Sundays to go on that one.

Had a fun email from mother. She was apparently pissing around on YouTube and found my video of ’99 anecdotes and the bitch is in all of them’. She complained about being called a bitch, obviously never heard of the song….. Did she actually apologise for tormenting her son by making him wear girls socks? Did she fuck, she complained that I got the song wrong and I should get my facts straight. I think I’ll film another one called ‘bitch in a box’. And it’s not fucking ‘utube’. Haven’t actually thought about her at all for a couple of weeks, suddenly my life is so much better.

Work is oddly okay at the moment, some pressure has been removed from me and I’m getting on with stuff, I haven’t wanted to kill anybody for almost a week now.

I’ve done the first transfer on the Viognier and the Pinot is almost ready to stabilise, so that’s another sixty bottles in a couple of weeks.

Jamie and I are wondering about going away for our anniversary, not sure we can get any time off though. Maybe we’ll go away over Easter instead.

The other thought was to hold Jamie’s thirtieth in Turkey in September. Everyone’s invited (family that is, no weirdos), you just have to get there yourself and pay for the hotel in Antalya, which of course we never actually leave. I’ll even pay for a meal there for everyone.