So after last nights ’24’ marathon I didn’t exactly start at the crack of dawn. Today was about converting the last of the shaders to a new generalised system. I managed that. Although I’m having a bit of a crisis about linear depth. Walked Sasha in the drizzle, it was heavy by the time we got back, so Dill’s missed out. I think Jamie did actually take him out later. Went to the gym and did Pump. Then did my first session with Laverne in about four months. That hurt. I’ve lost a lot of muscle, so entirely her fault. Still we will build it back up again. Spoke to an Indian woman in a call centre, she did actually fix my Virgin router, which is a first, but still I am somewhat pleased. James called and said tomorrow is looking good for nav, so let’s see what happens.

As usual I can’t go tint too many details, but lets just say that today I had to set up a console dev kit, built by a certain operating system maker. It was fucking painful. Multiple zip files, had to be unarchived and then copied across the network, multiple things had to be flashed and then the speed of debugging is just atrocious. I had to test a very small module I was working on. It took over seven hours. Thankfully then I swapped back to my favourite console and did the same thing in about three minutes.

Walked the dogs, one at a time. Went out this evening and looked for a cache. Failed. Came back and went out for a run. More shader work tomorrow.

Can you remember that I actually run two blogs? No, neither can I. Today the domain for the other one expires, so if you’ve never read thetorturepornmovieblog.com, your opportunity has now vanished.

It’s also the 3rd anniversary of this blog, and it’s still going strong.

So this morning was all about one Jira bug. Five hours later and I was none the wiser, looks like some sort of memory trasher. Cleaners came, I kept Sasha inside and actually she was quite well behaved. Walked both dogs. Walked to the gym, did Pump and walked home again. Then spent a couple of hours redoing some input layout code. This is stuff which maps vertex declarations to shaders. Very dull. Made a good job of it. Captain James texted to say he had a plan for the weekend if the weather was shit. Back to more shader work tomorrow.

So work was a pain in the ass. I basically had two bugs which turned out to be unrelated. One was a complete pain to track down. I ended up going round and round in circles until a simple mistake was found. The other one just turned out to be a typo. So now all the shaders are at a stage where they do what they did before, but in a much more friendlier way. Walked Sahsa, Jamie walked Dillon, badly. More work. Jamie’s family arrived just as I was going out for a run, so cut it a bit short, but didn’t want to deal with the initial dog interaction. Came back and got on with the cooking. I did almost a kilo of chicken and five bags of rice. The whole lot was devoured with no complaints in about five minutes. Jamie made pudding. I caught up with the Grand Prix’s. Tomorrow I have some more bug tracing to do.

Started a bit later than I planned, never mind. Spent the whole day on shaders again, almost there now. Well almost at a position where I can start doing things, rather than having to change them to be able to do things. It will all make sense in the end, just a huge amount of work involved to get there. Weather was a little bit changeable. Walked the dogs, it went from pissing down to boiling hot and it was very humid. My legs have ached all day, not sure if it’s because I’ve walked too much recently or they are about to drop off or something. Was going to walk to the gym, but weather was crap so drove and did Combat. Did more work. Think I’ll have an early night and rest up.

We got up and walked the dogs. I then ventured into town as I was after some shoes. It was the harbour festival and it was heaving. Walked through Queen’s Square, it was horrendous. Failed to but any shoes. Came home, showered and then we walked to Lisa’s where once again I drank my own bodyweight in lager, which is getting a tad boring now. We didn’t leave until gone 4AM.

So this morning wasn’t exactly a rocket start. I had a couple of coffees and read the paper. We then took the dogs to the field and they played with the ball for a bit. Came back and had lunch. Then headed to Severn Beach, cocked up a bit with the GPS there as the caches for that area were not stored, so actually headed slightly further back towards home and did a few outstanding ones that way. It was a lovely afternoon. Came back and did some gardening, then cleaned out the lizards and did the accounts. I’m now going to have a bath. The excitement.

So got up far too early to face all the rush hour traffic that didn’t exist. So we got to the hospital about half an hour early. It’s all very space age, from the ANPR car park to everything being marked as ‘gates’. You sit in a departure lounge to be called. Jamie was actually called early, everything was fine and we were back home well before my normal start time. Walked the dogs, shopping arrived. Finished bang on five as I’d already clocked up far too many hours this week. Walked to the gym, did Pump, walked home. Went to the pub with my sister, drank my own bodyweight in lager.

Had a bit of a headache this morning, soon shifted by a few cups of coffee. Working very hard on shaders again, another nine hour shift on that. Which was a shame as I was going to go out this evening. Walked the dogs. Lots of Amazon parcels arrived. Worked more. Got shafted by a nasty shader compiler bug. It was optimising things out of a structure when it shouldn’t have. Ended up going for a long run in the end. Not sure what’s happening the weekend, weather all over the place at the moment. Taking Jamie to the hospital tomorrow morning for his throat scan thing. They will start at the top chin and work done, the scanner thing will be like being on a roller coaster.

So started this morning quite well after a good nights sleep. Got straight on with it. Lots more shader twiddling, getting things running from various functions. Was successful at the end of a very long day. Walked the dogs. Walked to Pump, walked home. Lots of walking.

Today was also, ‘Amazon Prime’ day. So basically I spent a few quid on some almost complete tat. After all, how can anyone live with a bike pump, a bbq tool set, or an Avicii CD?

Didn’t sleep well, never mind. Started early and got on with it. Had a lot of shader compilation issues to sort out. Managed to get to the bottom of it eventually. Fixed up a few other things. Everything is going to plan at the moment, I’m sure it will all go horribly wrong soon. Walked the dogs with Jamie. Weather awful, but still managed an hour run in the drizzle this evening. More of the same tomorrow I’m sure.