Didn’t start work until late, the usual Monday morning problems. Fixed a few crash issues and then it was on to the joys of constant buffers again. Having a bit of a dilemma about using one whacking great constant buffer mapped to 16MB and then using an offset to reference it. You can set an offset but not a size, but the shader can only access 64K anyway. Very dull stuff. Another nice day, so Sasha got a long walk. Walked to gym, did Combat, it was Nick tonight, so he would have just finished the first track by now, his timing is so far out. Did far too much work. So now in the final week of sobriety, but thanks to it being a leap year it kind of cocks things up a bit.

My sister popped round first thing, thankfully I’d already had one coffee so was vaguely coherent. After that we set up the cameras and did a new YouTube video with the ‘Pie face’ game. That was great fun and somewhat messy. I then walked Sasha until it was dark. Came back and edited the video and then did the accounts. Also managed to get a rather pricey wine kit on the go, so that’ll need checking next week. Had a bath, now time for a curry.

So I made up for yesterdays lack of energy by spending a great deal of the day in bed. Read the paper, cruised porn, drank coffee. Eventually got up and walked Sasha. We managed to pick the exact time it stopped raining, but it was seriously windy. Was waiting all day for a courier to arrive, didn’t get here until almost five. We then went to Cribbs and did bit of shopping. Came home and had about a two hour bath where we booked the remaining Disney restaurants. Jamie is now going to cook.

Today has been hellish on a work front, fucking long and fucking hard, I’m absolutely shattered. Spent all day tracing a timing bug causing a rather interesting flicker, found it in the end. Now on one which is causing a crash in completely unknown code and it’s now 11PM and it still doesn’t work and it needs to be finished as I’m well behind.

Walked the dogs with Jamie, while we were going down the road round the corner we spotted a speed camera van. It was parked in a lay-by, right outside a school, just before ‘picking up time’. Whats more fun is just before it was one of those flashing speed signs which tell you how fast you are going. I did enjoy every car coming past that went above 33 MPH. Now why don’t they do this outside every school rather than on random A roads in the middle of nowhere.

Spent the day tracing a memory leak that was actually in debug text, wasn’t wasn’t really too much of an issue anyway. Still, nice to track down. Then it was more on placement buffers. Another nice day, Sasha had a long walk. I worked too late, still, short day tomorrow. Went for a run and had a bath. Now going to watch a film. Mother mailed, apparently Hotpoint aren’t going to do her tumble dryer until July, so still a good chance she’ll catch on fire before then.

Apparently she’s said that she never planned to sell or give away anything. I think she’s lying. She told me not to treat her like an imbecile, I’ll treat her like a lier instead then. I’ll be keeping an eye on it, I’m still planning to have a little chat with her neighbours and lodge something at the land registry, they can make building regs. rather more problematic.

Apart from the joys of that, work was on that bloody laptop again, but managed to shelve it for today. Did console placement buffers instead, all working nicely, a shit load more memory saved now that it’s implemented properly. Had some issues with atomics and threading again, it’s always a pain in the ass. Walked Sasha in the rain. Walked to the gym, it stopped raining at that point. Did Pump, walked home, it was dry but cold. Did a lot more work as catching up for a short day on Monday, up to date now, fourteen and a quarter hours left to do this week, so short day on Friday I think.

Didn’t have a great deal of enthusiasm today, took a long time to get into work. Still buggering about with that laptop, pretty much have to install everything from scratch again so I can get all the profilers working. Was doing a couple of other things with placement buffers as well.

Weather was nice again, took Sasha out for a long walk. Eaton far too many carbohydrates today. Went for a run, still over my carb count.

Got a text from my wiser (sorry, was downstairs watching Endeavour with the dog). Apparently mother has agreed to sell/let the neighbours have some land that she doesn’t own so they can build a bigger garage. Now, there are a few problems with this. 1) She doesn’t own the property, it’s on a life-time mortgage. 2) She certainly doesn’t have the legal papers necessary, plus the solicitors costs to do the transaction legally. 3) I have a feeling that the neighbour, nice as they are, are taking her for a ride, and I really don’t trust her mental capacity. So I sent her a rather curt email to the effect that what she’s doing is illegal and that I will be speaking to her neighbour. I’ll be writing to them and also logging a copy of the letter with her mortgage company, and that if any boundary changes occur they will be fully liable for any costs incurred. I also told her not to piss me off.

Okay, so there are 29 days in this February. But I’m on the second half now. My giant box of bags of tortilla chips arrived, they are high in salt but quite nice, and a damn site cheaper than Doritos. Weather was nice again, sun was shining, but very cold. Spent all day doing GPU analysis on a laptop. Walked to the gym, did Combat, walked back and then we went to the cinema and watched ‘Dead pool’, which for a super-hero film was very good, if a tad violent.

So this morning started off with coffee and cereal once again. It was a lovely day so I gave Ben a call. The helicopter tail cone had been bent, they are not sure how it happened but the aircraft was now out of action for a week. That pissed me off somewhat as it was the best the weather had been in weeks.

So in the end I just sat in bed and wrote a new video script. Went straight downstairs and filmed it. Popped out to find two geocaches, but in the end only found one of them. Came back and picked up Sasha, we then went out until it was dark. Came back and edited and uploaded the video:

Had a bath. Now time for food.

Started the way I like to start Saturdays. Coffee, cereal, papers. Could have done with nicer weather, it was bloody freezing. Walked Sasha. Came back and did a bit of music practice, I have a new course video, it’s very good, I picked up chord structure and all major and minor keys in about ten minutes, oddly you just need to be able to count to eight. Had lunch, drove towards town. Parked up and walked about three miles in the wrong direction to pick up a present for Jamie, lovely little shop, again would be nicer if it wasn’t pissing down with freezing rain. Walked into town, browsed. Went in the Apple store and browsed the staff, nothing which took my fancy. Picked up a card and some wrapping paper, that cost a fiver, very overpriced. Drove back via Asda, hoping Doritos were still on offer, they weren’t. Picked up bean sprouts. Came home and did the accounts, paid the balance on the holiday and had a bath. I was supposed to be cooking tonight, but I got Jamie to do it, I always burn noodles anyway.