Okay, so today I should have gone flying, problem is, credit card says ‘no’. Now I have seriously high limits, but even mine this month are saying ‘312 quid an hour plus vat ain’t gonna happen’. So I took Dillon to daycare at 6:20. It was odd, I forgot to set the alarm, yet I still woke up bang on time. Went back to bed at 7. Took Sasha to the vet and 9:30 for her second booster. Then I did a normal day at work. Did a load of GPU grabs for my presentation. Walked Sasha for an hour. Picked up Dillon. Okay, so I finished a couple of hours early at 5. Went out geocaching for two and a half hours. Came back, had a shower and then we went for to the Toby Carvery for dinner. Okay, cheap and cheerful but it was nice to actually go out on the day.

The projector screen has turned up, a day early, still at least it’s here now. Tomorrow the charity are coming round to pick up the excess furniture.

So woke up and Jamie was in spare room again, god knows how long he was up for doing bugger all. He remained in bed most of the day until he got up to go out for lunch, then came back and did pretty much nothing, oddly the same as yesterday. How can you just sit around and do nothing? I started fairly on time, still working on compute shader, took Sasha out lunchtime. Finished work at just gone six. Went out for two hours, then came back and did two hours studying. I don’t have the time to lie on my arse for two days and do nothing.

Oh, I ordered the projector screen, it’ll be here Thursday.

So yesterday started vaguely early. Jamie was in the spare room again after he finished at about 5AM, twitting around on something. Had breakfast. Put everything back in the front room and tidied up. Walked Sasha. Then it was time to go to Sarah’s for lunch. We walked and were promptly late due to Jamie being unable to take more than four steps without pissing about on his phone. Within three minutes of arriving the vagina gags were flowing, so normal service was resumed. Mother still existed. After a few hours mother dropped us home. I showed her the bathroom, she failed to fall down the stairs. An hour or so later she picked us up again for the evening session. Much food was eaton. Then mother gave me a small box. Something that she had been saving for almost forty-three years. Not the off switch to her pace-maker. It contained the arm band from when I was born. The hand written hospital release form. My first lock of hair. Several extracted teeth. A piece of pencil lead that was extracted from my ear when I was about nine. Lots of birthday cards. My school selection form. Also a ‘play bill’ from a school play when I was about eight. It’s an unusual gift, but a very nice one.

This morning didn’t start at 6:30, it started at about 11:30. Those down lighters were not going to wire themselves. So after a couple of hours they were all done and everything was tidied up. Jamie eventually got out of bed. We took the dogs up to the field. Came back and I fixed the plank to the ceiling and wired the socket in. Then I went out for a couple of hours and found a Geocache a few miles away. Came back and put the projector up. All set up and working. Used a dust sheet to measure the image size, and it’s a big image. Need to order the screen now.

Back to work tomorrow. At least the game has passed submission today, so a bit of good news there.

So managed to start fairly early, okay, it was about 10. Jamie was asleep in the spare room, he said he finished ‘about 2’, I’m pretty sure I finished about 2, I imagine it was closer to 5. So started with the projector plank. This is a piece of wood that will go between two beams and support the projector mount. This actually required some quite intricate machining to get it bang on. Out with the laser level again as well to do the centre line. I reckon the whole thing is now done to a tolerance of about 2mm. So tidied up, had salad and walked Sasha. Then drove over toward town. Was a nice day actually, just a hoodie. Walked into town, picked up a couple of box sets that I had my eye on. ‘QAF USA’ and ‘Shamless 1-8’, I already have 1-3 but the cost was silly. Also picked up a packet of bolts for the projector mount. Came back. Had a coffee. Then started painting the ceiling. Did one coat. Did the accounts. Did the second coat. Then had a bath. It’s now midnight and I still haven’t eaton yet. Tomorrow I need to put all the stuff back, as it’s sat in a big pile on the dining room table. Then on Monday, time to wire everything in and finally mount the projector.

Tomorrow though, apart from the tidying and walking the dog I’m planning on having a day off, with family, some of whom I like, and then mother. I’m sure it will be fun.

So this morning started off with an email about the blu ray player being faulty. Now the VCR I pretty much expect is fraud, but this one is probably genuine damage by the courier which is just bloody annoying. So that set me up well for the day. Spent the next two hours with a laser level a ladder, tape measure and a wooden batten. Trying to measure a ceiling accurately by one self is quite difficult, thankfully I’m quite resourceful. So managed to produce a pretty accurate grid of 3 x 3. Then drilled them all. Then Jamie comes home. Fed wires across all the horizontals. Annoyingly there wasn’t a wire between the front and back lights. We walked the dogs. I then emptied a load of crap out of the wardrobe and sawed up part of the floor in there. Put a cable through between the rear and middle rows. To be honest that was fairly painless. Next job is to paint everything. Went out for a walk. Rewired the light switch which has been outstanding for about four years. Had a bath. Jamie is doing one of his ‘live shows’. I’m going to eat pizza and get pissed.

So started off latex, when I wanted to start early. I blame Jamie who for some reason desperately wanted a bum last night. It would have been rude to refuse. Anyway, back on h-tile, compute shader stuff. Finally had a bit of a breakthrough, actually it was due to the depth buffer being backwards. All to do with going from GL to a DX style depth format. Basically GL does everything in a cube, so projection space is all -1 to +1 in all dimensions. DX does it slightly different, x/y are -1 to +1 but z is 0 to 1. This means you have to change your projection matrix. Also the depth buffer then just happens to be backwards. So when I was using the h-tile min / max values they were the wrong way round. Anyway, after that was sorted it all started working. So quickly implemented spotlights, mostly working but some odd thing going on with specular.

Got an email via eBay about a DVD/VCR thing I sold, apparently completely dead, asking for advice. Strange, was tested before it went. Offered advice. Did a bit of digging this evening on this particular buyer. In the past couple of months they seem to have sold rather a lot of identical items. Very odd. My auction was marked as ‘no returns’. Lets see what happens. It’s only thirty quid, but I could have fun with this one.

Now watching the ‘leaders debate’, no punch up yet. Farage is coming over as a bit of a dick though and blaming everything on foreigners. They seem to be the cause of everything from NHS waiting lists to global warming.

Started at a reasonable hour. Still working on bloody h-tile shit. Already took Sasha to daycare at 6:20. Cleaners arrived, I went for a walk. Came back and they were about to go. Picked up Sasha and met the chap for the last of the eBay items. Did more work. Went for another walk. Did more work. Bought some shoes from Groupon, these are Sparco ones, for flying in. Ordered some more exam books as well. Oh the joys. Now time for bed.

So started at a reasonable hour. Cracked on with stuff. Back to h-tile and depth problems. Think I have it sorted now, its not fixed but it’s stable enough to carry on. Walked Sasha. Did more work, blokie picked up speakers. Went for another walk. Got petrol. Did two hours of studying on clouds. Ate, and it’s now 1AM.