So Sunday I made it to London after the train I was going to get had a delayed connection, so ended up hanging round for ages. Got to London in reasonable time anyway, checked into the hotel and met up with the guys. We had dinner then headed over to the conference registration. Then everyone except me and one work colleague went to bed. We went to the pub.

Up early on the Monday. Now I can’t say anything about the conference itself, it’s the usual mix of stuff you already know, stuff you on’t care about and a few golden gems. Took lots of photos of a colleague eating cake. Had amazing gas all day from the rear end. There was a bit of a party that evening, but it was a bit of a damp squib, after a few points of real ale we all headed back to the hotel. I ate a sandwich and then went to sleep, it was about half ten. Oh, had one fun incident that morning, got in the lift after cleaning my teeth to go to the conference. Started on ground floor. “Doors closing”. Doors closed. Got to floor three. Lift stopped. “Doors opening”. Except they didn’t. “Doors closing”. Okay. Off we went up to floor five. Stopped. “Doors opening”. No they didn’t. Waited and pushed five again. “Doors opening”. Nope. So I grabbed both doors and forced them open, the bottom of the lift was about a foot below the floor level. So I jumped out. The doors snapped closed behind me. I was on floor six. I took the stairs down.

Today was very much the same as yesterday, except with a more disappointing lunch and I almost got eaton by a shark.

Got a peak train back, which I almost missed. It was packed. Jumped in a reserved seat. Thankfully it’s owner never appeared to claim it. It was an express so made it back in reasonable time. Went for a quick run. Had a shower. Ate salad. Back to normal work tomorrow. Lots to do.

Oh, just to mention the Rolf Harris thing. Today he was found guilty on twelve charges of fiddling with little girls. I always liked the guy, there are more people now coming forward. I’m sure there is a lot more to this story than will ever come to light. But it looks like, “Do you know what it is yet?”, will be one of HMS prisons.

So spent the day sweating, then at 3AM it just stopped. I stopped producing heat and just sat in a pool of my own sweat. Have been pretty much okay after that, apart from a bit of a sore throat. Had sex, before washing, not the most pleasant thing in the world. Washed. Went and did a bit of shopping. Did the accounts. Now off to London for a conference for a couple of days, so no update tomorrow as it’s a corporate party. So lots of cheap beer and canopies.

So didn’t sleep well last night, thought I’d overdone it at the gym. Stayed in bed until about 4PM, then I had a bath. Felt alright for a bit, took the dogs out, then ended up going back to back where I remained until 10PM. Got up to cook food, decided it wasn’t going to happen, went back to bed. Jamie is now making me a light dinner, I’ve gone to bed with some medicinal Fosters and Metallica at Glastonbury. Need to shake this as I’m off to London tomorrow evening. Have to see how I feel, may cancel.

Spent the work day, well, oddly, working. This was on some culling. We have a reflection map which is very busy, it contains everything in about 300M. This is a lot of stuff. What I ended up doing was adding a heuristic to only put in big objects, but make it logarithmic, so the further away the are the bigger they have to be. This dramatically cut down the CPU/GPU time for it. Will have to tweak the numbers several times I expect to be able to avoid pop-in. Went for a run.

Went to the gym and did Pump, followed by a session with Laverne. Worked on arms, they need a lot of work. Came back and worked on new helicopter video, this is a cut of the Vegas flight. Got the first pass done, second pass tomorrow I expect. Then it will need colour balancing and effects adding.

Not sure whats happening this weekend, probably all a bit weather dependant.

Uploaded a new video ‘Walkies’. We attach a GoPro to Sasha and take her and Dillon for a walk.

Took Sasha to daycare. So started this morning working on what I’ve been doing for the last couple of days. At the end of it I got it working. But the fun thing is after two days work it turned out to be slightly slower. Did something else instead that made it a bit quicker. Walked Dillon, who pulled, a lot. Cleaners came and did cleaning things. Got petrol, picked up Sasha.

Did some more work and then went to Pump. Worked on arms, they are beginning to look nice again. Came back and ended up doing a lot more work. Was planning on mowing the lawn and then editing a video, never got round to it. Still I have lots of performance testing to do tomorrow which requires numerous data rebuilds, so can probably do some of it then.

Started this morning and just wasn’t in the mood. I was working on something that I wasn’t sure was going to work, and after spending the whole day at it, it still doesn’t work. Lunchtime I was planning on going for a run and didn’t get round to it. Even after work it was a lovely evening and had to kick myself out of the house and go and do something. Ended up walking for three hours. Just a completely pointless day, wasn’t into it at all. Hopefully this mood won’t last. Actually got something slightly different to do tomorrow, which stands a chance of working. Sasha off to daycare, cleaners coming.

Started late as I wasn’t overly in the mood, being a Monday. Plus I was way over hours last week so didn’t feel guilty. Working on various GPU stuff, mainly removing duplicate API calls. Got it all done, but it was a little dull. Walked the dogs. Talking of which I tried to contact Mandy regards getting them some training but I have not got a reply yet.

Went to Combat, where I spent lots of time pissing about with the stereo. Came back and did some more work. Then fired up xplane 10, which I haven’t looked at for a long time. I couldn’t get the joystick set up properly, need to give it another blast. Watched TV, just hanging around, waiting to not exist.