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.

Back to the fun of the working week. Bit of an odd one, needed to move over to the client platform to test shaders. All mainly went according to plan.

Walked the dog. Went to Body Combat, which was the new release which was quite fun. Came back and did some more work. Then watched a very odd documentary about a man with 10 stone testicles. It was very bizarre. The guy did manage to keep up a good demeanour, even with these massive nuts. He did get an operation in the end to chop them off, all a bit strange.

Got up. Actually got up fairly early for a Saturday. Now I didn’t have to do any shopping. So I popped the dog in the car an we shot up to Almondsbury. Found a great fully enclosed and completely empty field, so let her off her lead. She ran off at an incredible speed. Thankfully every time I called her back she came though. She’s a hell of a mover, she can really shift.

Came back and had some lunch. I loaded up the GPS with sites around Westbury-On-Trym. I then headed over and parked in Henleaze. There were no sites near here so I headed for Westbury. Now last week when looking around this area I noticed that the junior school fate was on this weekend. This is Westbury-On-Trym C of E E school. It’s now actually an academy. I will have left this school thirty years ago in September. It seemed somewhat smaller, may be I’ve just got fatter. It’s also grown two port a-cabins, which are rather ugly. I went into one of the class rooms, the old black boards have been replaced by a projector. It just seemed all so small, thinking we used to get about forty kids in there. Even the field where I’d spent endless football sessions just walking up and down looked about the size of my lawn. I bought a tenners worth of raffle tickets on a stall, I think it was thirty tickets. I one a whole load of tat, bottle of wine, candle, wallet, some sowing kit and some tea bags. I then sat down for an hour and watched some really badly organised tug-of-war. I bought a tenners worth of tickets for the main raffle, there was an iPod shuffle up for grabs. I then went and bought another load of raffle tickets, I won more wine and candles. Then when the main draw was announced, I didn’t win the iPod, but I did win two prizes (the only person to do so), I won a months trial membership of David LLoyd and a meal for two at the White Lion, so I think I made a profit. It was a fun afternoon I guess, it just seemed to be much better organised when I was there as a kid. Still, fun memorise. I imagine all the teachers who were there when I was there are all past now or in their 80’s. I never did get to any caches.

I came back home, had a coffee and then re-partitioned the network, I’ll rabbit about that tomorrow.

Still on shaders, the good news I’ve finished the first pass on the compiler, it now produces a shader binary output that I can reload. So more fun work on it next week.

Mid-morning, doorbell goes (dog removed to garden) and ‘Tim’ appears. ‘Tim’ appears far too jolly. But brings three trays of shopping which was ordered online. All I have to do is put it away. I’ve paid for six months of deliveries, I have a feeling I may be extending this. One thing though I will have to peruse the shopping list more carefully, as Jamie has access to it. This I found out to be by mistake as I started putting away a small ‘Angel Cake’ in the cupboard, together with a whole selection of ‘cheese nibbles’. Talking of which I forgot to order cheese.

Walked the dog. Went to Body Pump. Came back and did some more work. Pizza and bath time. Good week, lots of good work done.