Today was warm. No actually today was hot. Sarah arrived and picked up the carpet shampooer, the dog almost behaved. Then Mr Tesco arrived and substituted by chili tortilla chips for cheesy ones. I’m sure they are awful. Walked the dog lunchtime, she was fine, enjoyed the sunshine. Came back and ate a chicken salad sandwich. Put the washing on.

I opened the bedroom window and dear Buzz Lightyear made a bid for freedom and dived over the window sill. I then had to get a chair outside and retrieve him off the living room flat roof. Today was working on shaders again, the good news being is they now all build. I’ve still got the fun problem to solve with default parameters though. One for Monday.

Went to the gym and did Body Pump. Was fun, except I think I put more weight on the bar than usual for biceps and now my arms are killing. Came back and loaded up the GPS with caches ready for Sunday. Tomorrow I think I’ll walk the dog over to Almondsbury and then in the afternoon I’ll walk into town and go around the docks and stuff. Cooking tomorrow night, making pies. Need to pick mother up from some wedding.

Woke up and actually managed to start work early, well early for me. Got straight on with it and changed something that was annoying me, took until early afternoon to get back to where I was, but I was happier about it. Went out for a quick run then did a second session. Almost there on shaders now, I reckon another day and a half and it should be sorted.

The weather was looking shit but held out as we had a meeting with Kate the dog trainer woman. We took Sasha up to Almondsbury and met there. She brought her two quite elderly but lovely dogs. We let Sasha off her lead and walked across all the fields, she stayed within sight of us and had a great time, no problem with the other dogs at all. Her recall was also pretty good. So we came back and she got a nice bone as a reward, which she’s still having a bash at now.

Watched the Silverstone British Grand Prix, first one I think in many years that’s actually been any good. Lots of overtaking, lots of tyres exploding. I wish they were all like that, well, may be not the tyres exploding, that’s a tad dangerous.

So woke up this morning very angry. I wanted to ring up someone and complain about the appalling service. Then I realised that that the service was actually in a dream. For some reason I dreamt about trying to hire a carpet shampoo-er. I had waited over two hours, finally I spoke to someone and they said they would help me, I said I’ll give them twenty minutes and then leave. I ended up leaving, but only after I had recovered my shoes. It was a very strange dream. It was about the highlight of the day though.

Still working on shader stuff, decided this evening I need to do it a slightly different way as I’m just not happy with it. Again, nature of the job, these things happen. Need to sort out default parameters I think as well.

Walked the dog. She barked and went for other dogs a lot, which was rather annoying. Went to the gym and did combat, which was fun and quite tiring, it was very hot in there. Came back and did some more work. Now watching Silverstone Grand Prix qualifier. Will have an early night, want to start fairly early tomorrow.

After a very disappointing film last night, that only lasted 25 minutes before I decided it was awful and switched it off, I went to bed. It was called ‘Severance’, I may give it another blast.

Woke up this morning sounding like I was losing a lung. Don’t know where that came from but I hope it pisses off. Working still on shader conversion, it’s one of those tasks where you leave any joy at the door and just get on with it. I’m probably about half way through it, at least it’s a dull job to get on with on Monday.

Walked the dog. She’s coming round to the idea of spending time in my room now. Actually she’s here now, which is pretty good considering Jamie is in his orifice. She does get the odd biscuit in here though. May be it was because we had a nice walk today. See what the weather does tomorrow. Mother wants me to go with her to look at tumble dryers, I’m sure that will be exciting. I may offer to drive as I don’t really want another near death experience, I haven’t got over the last one yet.

Meant to be having a BBQ tomorrow, want to get some firewood from somewhere.

So I had every good intention of going out for some good walking this evening. Instead it started pissing down at about 2PM and hasn’t really stopped since, so I haven’t been out at all. This is rather annoying as I now feel fat. I really need to start going running again, but when it’s hot out it’s not very pleasant. Anyway, pump tomorrow at the gym and then hopefully have a more energetic weekend. Shopping being delivered again tomorrow.

Work wise, lots of shader conversion work from one platform to another. I was speaking to colleague about conversion work and said, ‘We don’t invent a new wheel, we just change the tyre’. Which I thought for a Thursday was very deep. It’s true though, as each new platform comes along, you end up doing the same stuff over and over again, just in a slightly different way. Still, it can be quite fun though.

It’s torture porn night, but I think I may go for an episode of ‘En-devour’ first.