Still working on shaders, seems to be taking forever but getting there. It’s just lots of organising odd data. The fun stuff will start in a week or so. But very busy on it. Didn’t take a lunch break today so I could get an early start in the evening.

Went out with my GPS, found another four caches. A very warm and nice evening, was out for about three hours. Still haven’t sorted a holiday yet, but booked the time off from work.

Today work wise was again in shader land, not much more I can really talk about. Megan asked if I approved of her new boyfriend, I said I did but would need to see more cock shots to make a better decision.

Walked the dog. Listened to a huge amount of iPlayer radio, okay so basically it was Sunday’s Radio 2 schedule, with ‘Dan & Phil’ from Radio one, not that I think their show is that good, but they are very cute.

Went to Body Combat, was fun but warm. Came back and did some more work. Jamie has finally sorted his holiday dates out, so then the quest to book a holiday. Now, this is always a bit of a challenge. Okay, so the easy bit first, ‘Turkey’. That narrows it down to about 17,000 hotels. So how do you choose one? Well, that’s where the dear TripAdvisor comes in, you just find the best one, although of course there isn’t one. You can get the top rated hotel with 3,000 people who rate it excellent, then there will be two people who hate it. It’s those two reviews which you will think on. Anyway, I’ve found one which is rated top, hated by half a dozen people, liked by hundreds and costs a fortune. I’m sure it’ll be shit. But I can fly from Bristol at a sensible time.

Lots of work to do this week, very busy. Try and get a fairly early start on it tomorrow, then if the weather is nice I can vanish with my GPS.

Started off this morning, actually correction, started off this afternoon with a bit of sanding. The weather was shit but wasn’t really in the mood. Still, made a good effort and now have two lengths of coving near enough done. I reckon another few hours to finish the rest. Then I need to really get lots of dust sheets in this week as it will be a fairly big wall sanding job coming up and that will make a hell of a mess.

Had a clean up and a shower. Then off to Jamie’s dads. We met Megan’s new boyfriend, he’s as plump as the rest of us. Nice chap. We ate lamb, well I picked at it, not a lamb fan. We made small talk and politely all left at the same time. We’ll probably meet up with him again for sure.

I really must sort some shit out. I want to buy a new AV amp, but I have a cabinet full of stuff that isn’t even switched on, so I feel a huge ebay session coming up shortly and get rid of some of the crap.

Work again was all about shaders, the Effects 11 method appears to have paid off so all coming along swimmingly although there is still tons to do on it. I reckon it will probably take the whole of next week as well before I get there.

My turn to walk the dog. I spent quite some time trying to stop her walking in front of me, but to the side. Almost got there. She actually behaved fairly well, until she came face to face with her nemesis ‘Molly’. I don’t think Sasha has a problem with Molly, rather Molly has a problem with Sasha and goes ape shit when they get within a few feet of each other. Thankfully the owner is a nice chap and we always steer clear of each other. We passed ‘tiea’ the husky without any problems, I was more concerned she was going to leap up at his little girl.

Went to pump. Uneventful, although the gym changing rooms are turning into quite a pleasurable sight for the eyes. There seems to be a mass influx of collage students, I must go earlier next time and spend a good half hour changing socks.

Well that’s it for the working week. Was going to a BBQ tomorrow but Jamie is working late and the weather looks a tad shit, plus we’ve eaten burgers every weekend for a month. And Jamie eats too much fried food. I think I may do one of my Chinese curries tomorrow, haven’t had one of those in a while.

Bath and wine time. Good weeks work though, tough going but thoroughly enjoyed it.

Today work wise was very much like yesterday. Got stuck in. All about shaders, all about getting bits of data compiling from all over the place. Good fun.

Walked the dog although it wasn’t even my day, aren’t I nice. I’m sure the dog hates me, she ignores me all day and spends all night with Jamie.

Anyway, this evening we were visited by a lady dog trainer. She specialises in ‘Dog Listening’, which apparently was made famous by some woman I’ve never heard of. It was all very interesting, and made a lot of sense. She managed to stop the dog jumping up fairly quickly by ignoring her. Then when she had settled down she called her over and made a fuss, as soon as she started jumping up again it was back to ignoring. Very quickly she got the hang of it. She also gave us various other tips on a few other problems, so we’ll put those in to action and see how we get on. I’ve ordered the book, so will give that a good read. Even Jamie seemed to be fairly impressed.