Got up no problem. Postman delivered my new headset. It’s very posh and solid, I think it’s a magnesium alloy or something. Can’t test much of it without a helicopter, but I’ve linked it up to my phone and the speech dialling works well. It all goes surprisingly quiet when you put them on.

Sent a text to captain James, next lift should be Thursday.

Finished buying helicopters, I should now end up with six. Three CP3’s and two V2’s, plus a dual rotor little one. I’ve also ordered a Spektrum DX6i controller so I can set them all up properly. I’m going to start on the V2’s which are just four channel and should fly indoors. I’ve been running a similar one on the simulator and it’s going quite well.

Work wise, all about post processing and most of it is now done. I reckon by the end of the week the whole game will be done. Then it’s just the fun task of making it run quickly.

Went for a run.

Just to catch up with last night, we ate at the Italian. I had the sea bass ravioli which was “Interesting” to say the least.

So this morning, Jamie brought me breakfast eventually. I then ventured down and got stuck into painting. Did a complete mist coat 50/50 first. There are a couple of areas where I haven’t neutralised the paint stripper so will have to go back over them. I then did too complete base coats using quite a thick paint. Again, this will need sanding down and finishing.

So much work still to be done. I’m sure I’ve dwelled on this before, but if I take after my dad I have about another twenty-four years left. So what’s going to happen in that time? Well, I’ll eventually be able to cremate mother. I will have to hire a marquee to house everyone from QVC and bid-up TV for their morning. I’ll then enjoy watching their share price plummet. I’ll kill my own kids. People say that nothing will ever give you 100% trust, affection and loyalty. Bullshit. A dog will give you all of those. So at some point, they will be looking directly at me in the eye thinking, “Daddy what are you doing to me?”, as I give the signal for sodium pentathol to be circulated through their veins. Their eyes will water as they give me one more conscious look before they pass into oblivion. Nat (the lizard) died in my hand, it may be due to bad up-keep on my half, but seeing a creature take it’s last breath while your holding it is quite hard.

Jamie has spent the day doing bugger all. I’ve spent nine hours working fairly hard. Sorry dear, but if you’re the size of a blimp I’d rather fuck my own hand.

I’m going to die sad and lonely, it’s my destiny, nothing I can do about it, it will happen. I blame my mother.

Got up late. Mainly due to shot-gunning a rather sweet bottle of German last night. I’m not ordering any more crisps.

Spent the whole day trying to debug my way from the front end into the main game…and it actually got there and plays. Still tons of stuff to fix up. Plus some random GPU hangs, which I just know are going to be a pain in the ass to trace. Still, will make for an interesting day tomorrow. Bosses seem happy.

Walked the dogs. Went for a run. Worked far too long as usual. I might take a bit of a half day tomorrow and debug these GPU crashes while flying a simulator. Then pump in the evening.

Those headphones do look nice.

Actually woke up with the alarm at 6:30 which is unusual, I usually pre-empt it. Took Sasha to daycare and then went back to bed. Woke up late.

Got straight on with work. Had an interesting matrix problem to solve. Got there in the end. Front end all complete now. Now on to the next stage which is even more complicated.

Picked Sasha up, then went for a run. Did a bit more work and finished early evening. Sat down and watched the second half of the Japanese grand prix, which was considerably better than the first half.

Cruised ebay. I have my eye on a set of headphones that are currently under half new price, still fucking expensive though.

Today I finally got the front end all pretty much working on the game I’m working on, which is a major milestone. There’s still some problems to fix but I’m pleased I’ve got that far.

Went for a run, almost managed it before it got pitch black.

My ‘hudl’ arrived. Which is Tesco’s Android tablet. It’s not bad. Pretty responsive and good for the price. I only really want it for playing videos as it has a memory card slot and a bigger screen than the phone.

Early night again I think, still didn’t sleep last night, was knackered this morning.

Sure I slept through the alarm this morning. Anyway, started vaguely on time. It’s cold wet and miserable. Got straight on with work, not a bad day, sorted a couple of things out. There is at least an end in sight.

Walked the dogs in the rain.

Went to combat, which was fun. Feeling very bloated, will try and eat less this week and avoid alcohol, although if I can’t sleep that will soon change.

Did a home check for a pair of cats. Came back and did a bit more work. Then sterilised a wine bucket and equipment and emptied the red into it. Topped it up to 23 litres. Now waiting for the temperature to settle before I add the yeast. It will then need to be transferred when it reaches about 1010, so that should take about five days, it will then take about another five to finish fermenting completely.

Think I’ll have an early night. Can’t get into this Grand Prix, not while Vettel is winning everything, it’s all a bit boring. Hopefully with the technical changes next year it’ll make it more interesting again.