I spent all day looking at cache issues. Well, not issues really but performance. For a 4K memory clear I have to flush 512K of cache. It’s very annoying. That really did eat up pretty much all of it. Rang up the hire company, they completely managed to fail to get a chisel bit from Swindon to Aztec West. So moaned. They have now requested it again, plus the same bit from Heathrow. All to pop a few tiles off.

Went for a run, worked out a new night route. It’s about an hour and ten minutes, so spot on. Came back and washed bottles with what can only be described as a spring loaded bottle douche. Anyway, thirty bottles now all prepared.

Work was quite interesting. As in I managed to get a reasonable gain in frame rate by changing very little. Which was quite a result. Then ended up fixing a few odd bugs. I’m now rather intrigued by a stalling problem with graphics synchronising with compute. One to investigate tomorrow. Walked Sasha, it is rather cold. Dug in the garage and found an SDS drill. Went to hire shop and ordered a tile remover chisel thing for it. It’s like six quid for a week. I’ll hopefully pick that up tomorrow and give it a blast in the evening. Went to Combat, that only had about six people in it. Think I’ll have an early night and read new book. I decided to do radiotelephony a bit later as I’ll get a lot more practise in as I go along, so studying human performance and limitations, it’s a small book, which says a lot about human performance and quite a lot about it’s limitations.

Started off this morning with an extra hour in bed, but still not long enough. Breakfast, coffee, Staverton. Now we had a hell of a wind today, so practised auto’s to full run on landing and towering take-offs. We got a couple of phone calls apparently as we were causing noise problems, “Please review your circuit profile”, as ATC said.

Drove back. Posted a quick video of the days activities and ate a couple of eggs. Picked up the dog shit. Then it was on to removing tiles. I did nine hours. I’ve got to about three quarters of the way across the bath. So probably about another twenty to go. But I’ve been sanding along the way and filling it all in with jointing compound. Which I’ve kinda fallen in love with. Goes on a piece of piss, easy to sand and sets like concrete.

Had a bath in the alternative bathroom, this confused Dillon.

Got a couple more plumbers to ring tomorrow who are interested in the job. Curry time.

So started off this morning, oddly, tossing Jamie off. I think I was just in the mood to annoy him as he was off to work. Had breakfast, read the paper. Then got the chisels and lump hammer out. Started beating crap out of the bathroom tiles. Did that for an hour or so. Then Jamie came home, said he’d actually booked the day off and forgot as he planned on drinking the night before. My theory with him and alcohol therefore still holds true. Belted crap out of the rest of the tiles on that wall. Then went and picked up the solid marble tiles and some bonding compound. Also got some thick rigger gloves as I was getting pissed off shoving a chisel through my hand. Went into the mall.

Came back and sanded down that wall a bit, then started coating it with compound. That’s all done now, will probably need a couple of coats. Now moved into the other bathroom. Did the accounts, worked out that I’ve totally maxed out one of my cards. Had a shower, in spare bathroom.

Flying tomorrow, then yet more tile thumping. I’ve only got a couple of weekends to finish the whole job.

Got an idea for a new video as well, may give that a go tomorrow.

So working on the joys of constant buffers, well there was a bug in it to be honest. Then another bit of fun with shadow buffers. I upgraded the iMac to Yosemite, which was fine, except Final Cut Pro X no longer worked. I’ve been running off various demo versions for almost a year now, so the time had finally come to open my iTunes account and shell out £200 on it. At least with Apple software it will install on as many machines as you want, so latest version is on the MacBook Air as well. Yosemite looks like you machine has been turned into a tablet of three year olds.

Lunchtime I did more paint stripping, then walked Sasha as Jamie was going out and it was his turn, so she had no chance. Went to the gym and did Pump, my wrist played up a bit, but did a session with Laverne afterwards and it was fine. Came back and did yet more paint stripping, ended up finishing it just before midnight. Added finings to wine. Jamie came home after about three cocktails, which for him is about three too many. I’ve finally sat down to eat at about 1AM. Still, fairly productive day.

Got up this morning to an email from new plumber and the existing one. The original one decided that £220 was a typing error and it should have been £120 and only £50 for tiling the side of the bath. I don’t care how bad a lier he is and his grammar and spelling are appalling, but at least he had the decency to modify the quote before blowing it completely and almost managed to save face at the same time. Second plumber called around mid-day, after a full break down of everything he texted me back a quote of £2,500. So were all about the same ballpark, this one though liked the sound of his own voice and obviously was a bit short of work as he dropped a hundred quid and said he would do rubbish clearance in about four minutes. So I’ll let number one stew for a bit.

I had a hell of a day with MSAA and clouds.I’m not going into it, it was shit.

Went for a run. It wasn’t long enough and it was too dark. Really need to work out a proper night route. Came back, had a shower. Then stabilised the other lot of wine. Gave it a good whirl with the drill to get the gas out. One more lot of finings to stir into that tomorrow, then its just waiting for it to clear. That one will be ready before the other one I think.

Applied a bit more paint stripper. I may do the tiles yet. Tried to organise flying for Saturday, doesn’t look likely at the moment.

Got up at 6:30 and took Dillon to daycare. Went back to bed. Got up late. Spent all day looking at clouds, no really I did. Rendering the bloody things, well to be more precise, speeding up the rendering of the bloody things. It’s a pain in the ass and very mind numbing. The basin tap has turned up.

Now my wrist has been hurting all day (the other one), so I went to Pump, but did it with rather light weights to stop irritating it. Came back, did a tad more work, then decided to do parts of the remaining bathroom paint with ‘cling-strip’ as I have shit loads of it left. It’s all gone a bit stodgy, but plastered it on anyway. Still got a bit more to do, but see how this bit goes. Covered it in cling film, waiting for it to drop off (the paint).

Then I got an email back from the plumber. Apparently I would only save £120 quid if I removed all the tiles and cleaned the walls up myself, but the under floor heating will cost £220 to install. This is under floor heating that only cost about £100 and requires one link to the mains. Laying it takes about five minutes. I think that’s far too steep. Plus we want the side of the bath tiled rather than using a panel. This currently takes the fitting to over two and a half grand, which to be honest, even if he’s the greatest bathroom fitter in the world is too expensive. Considering the only materials required are some plasterboard, grout and a bit of pipe. So I’ve gone back to mybuilder.com and myhammer.com and requested more quotes. It may get to the point where I rip it out myself and get a tiler in and stuff. It’s all rather annoying.

Can’t remember what I did at work, oh actually it was rather dull. Something to do with environment maps. It’s been very windy. Went out for a run at about five thirty, managed about eight miles. Had a shower. Did a but more work. Then took some wine gravity readings. One was ready, so added the stabiliser and gave it a stirring with the drill. Then added the finings and another stir. The other one is about 996, so I’m going to leave it a couple more days to see if it drops some more, it won’t harm. The other one takes around fourteen days to clear, so hopefully this one I can do the finings on Thursday and Friday, that one only takes about a week to clear, so probably ready for bottling next Thursday. The other one will be a week after. Then it’s on to the red and the other white, which I can’t even remember what it is now.

Haven’t heard back from plumber. I think I’ll cling-strip the rest of the paint, I can’t be assed to steam it.

So started off by finishing off what I was doing last week, that basically took all day. Walked Sasha. Got most bits finished then went to the gym and did Combat. Came back a did a few more bits. Looking at some parallel reduction stuff, which sounds more impressive than it actually is. Got the quote through from the plumber. It was a bit higher than I’d like, but it looks like he wants to remove all the walls and replace then, which is a hell of a job. I was contemplating removing all the tiles myself and making good the walls. But to be honest, I can’t really be assed. So I think I’ll just strip the rest of the paint off and fill in all the crap plaster, then it’s all his problem. Still have the ceiling to repaint, but if I get a good run on it on Sunday I should get the lot done. I can then move on to the lounge, although the entire decorating budget has now been used up. Still contemplating putting a TV in as well though….

Oh, I think the wine fermentation is complete. I’ll take a gravity reading tomorrow and then degas it all if its ready.

So woke up at 9AM, couldn’t really get back to sleep. So printed out all my ‘evidence’ for ‘Bathstore’. Headed over there at 11AM. Started cruising at towel rails. Eventually got to the guy I saw yesterday. Said I was after a towel rail after taking his advice and that he’d got his figures wrong. He went through them and saw it was actually the web site that was wrong, but had no problem at all in honouring the figures. So basically for an extra sixty odd quid I got four hundred quids worth of towel rail. They made 0.3% mark up. Came home, put some paint stripper on the glass above the bathroom door then started working on digging in the alarm cable. I then noticed a major problem, none of the paint was really keyed into the plaster properly and it was coming off in handfuls. If you put a weighty tile on that it would just rip off and fall on the floor. So I decided just to steam the lot off and be done with. Eight hours later and three quarters of it is done. I’ve let the plumber know that I’m quite happy to take all the tiles off and make vaguely good the backing if it reduces time and cost. At least then I’ve kinda had some hand in it. Finished just before eight, then with an hour cleanup, in bath by nine. Now time to make a curry. I even went for a run, for a break! I worked hard today, but it’s very satisfying. Jamie wonders why we don’t have sex anymore, it’s because I’m knackered as I do everything, while he does nothing.