Woke up fairly early. Felt bloated all day. That’s roasts for you, they back me up all week. I must have had about four poo’s today already. Last one smelt of apple, that’s be the red cabbage. Work wise I built and awful lot of data. Then spent the bulk of the day looking at grass. Actually it was nuclear grass, caused by a bad boolean in a material. Took hours to trace and milliseconds to fix.

Went to Body Combat. Still had the effects of last weeks man-flu, so couldn’t give it 100%. Came back and fixed the material problem. Then tried to get the rest of the insurances sorted, failed, but slightly further along now. Need to get the normal travel insurance, plus excess cover for the car. Sat down and ate salad. With pickled onions, I really know how to live it up. Flying tomorrow if weather holds up.

So this morning started very much like the afternoon, mostly in bed. I didn’t sleep well last night so tried to make up for it a bit in the morning. I successfully managed to nap quite a bit. I had breakfast (supplied eventually by Jamie) and then we ventured out to the Mall. I ended up buying him a blazer in return for not having to cook tonight, he got off very lightly. By the time we got back I had just the chance to eat a couple of boiled eggs before mother arrived. She brought me a birthday card with a cutout of a helicopter on which looked like it had been made by a five year old. There are handmade cards and there is complete tat, this was by far to the extreme right of that equation. She brought this stupid weed extractor thing that she paid about fifteen quid for from Kleenezi or some crap like that. It really was shit. It can’t of been made in China as even they wouldn’t have stooped that low. It’s good to see that now she isn’t buying shit off QVC she is able to divert funds to tat elsewhere. I put it together, give it ten minutes and it will break. I told her to take it back as it was shit, but she was happy to give it a blast, complete waste of money. She didn’t stay long. I think she had got the subtle hint that I had really nothing to talk about, except laminate flooring. She kept banging on about not having access to any of my blogs and how would she be able to follow my trip, and would I be posting to FaceBook. I just said that no she can’t have access and that she has a very limited access to my FaceBook. She then tried to go through my diary for an available time for me to take her to bingo, thankfully I don’t have an opening until 2027. Apparently it’s her birthday present, I’d quite happily buy her a weeder instead that wouldn’t fall apart in a millisecond. I just don’t think i can socialise with her anymore, not without murder taking place anyway.

I still had a bit of a cold so didn’t do any DIY. Instead I did my YouTube channel trailer, which I’m quite pleased with. I paid six quid for the music license you know. I also spent ages redoing the artwork for the channel, only to find out afterwards I should have used the template as it all looks a little bit crap when compressed. Still getting the hang of PhotoShop now anyway.

I didn’t sleep at all last night, so I made up for it this morning. I eventually got out of bed just before three. Still felt like absolute shit. Walked Sasha. Came back and made a new video. Then spent the rest of the day just sat in my office doing video editing. I really wasn’t in the mood for doing anything else.

Anyway, the fruits of my labours are now on YouTube, “I Poke Badgers With Spoons”. Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow.

This morning the coughing had stopped. It was replaced by a thumping headache and blocked sinuses. I eventually fired up the system, but it was a hell of a combo of pain killers and coffee. Saying that, work wise, today was actually quite productive. There were a couple of long outstanding ‘flicker’ bugs. This is stuff that just glitches to piss you off and then every time you go to look at it it stops. I got lucky. Managed to fix the ….. lol …. just had to delete the platform I’m working on! pretty early on. Then I tested it on PC, it still bloody flickered. After lots of delving I finally worked it out, so that was pretty cool. That leaves me clear next week to sort out MSAA, will be good to have a clear week to do it.

Shopping arrived, no paper. Dragged myself to the gym, Pump was okay, but the session afterwards with Laverne was bloody hard going. Came back and checked in all my work. Then I got into the bath.

Oh, Jamie’s driving license has finally turned up, so that’s one less worry.

I picked up the phone and dialled a number that I haven’t for a hell of a long time. I wished my mother a happy birthday and asked if she enjoyed her day in Cardiff. She did, she also mentioned that she didn’t buy anything at all. I didn’t ask why she has three active credit cards logged on her QVC account. I then talked about me, helicopters, our USA trip, laminate flooring, she didn’t get a word in for forty-five minutes. I then said I was feeling ill so that was the end of it. Quite painless and quite tolerable. If only she can keep that up we will be able to communicate. She has invited herself over on Sunday to delivery my birthday cake. We’ll see how that goes.

After I got out of the bath I washed my hair and then went to bed for an hour. Had to get up as I haven’t eaton, and I would have had major stomach acid tomorrow. Just tried to explain to two dogs that if they behaved then they could have a slice of pizza each. Both are laying down nicely, I think they kind of got the message.

So Jamie had some lurgee a couple of days ago. Now I’ve got something. Okay, it’s not that I’ve got lost a limb or anything, but it’s yet another bloody annoying cough. The last one lasted about three months, I only stopped coughing with it about a month ago. Still, better get it out the way now.

Actually started work early this morning. Too early, so I stopped and went to the bank and put a couple of cheques in. They’ve both been credited to the account, but I still have a feeling one of them is going to skip. The cheque for Jamie’s license still hasn’t been cashed, I don’t think the DVLA ever want him to drive, probably wise.

Today actually I spent most of my time working on PC stuff while data was building. Not the most exciting task in the world. Walked Sasha. Went to the gym and did Spin with Laverne. Oddly managed to get through that without coughing.

Came back and was still waiting for some data to build, so I finished off my latest helicopter video. This one’s uploading. I have an idea for another one but it will be really challenging. I may do a new video on Saturday, plus a channel trailer which I’m missing, plus I need to do a constant end screen. Lots of work, lots of editing.

They’ll be a new video up tomorrow, I just need to add the annotations.

Had one bit of a surprise today, I rang up the insurance company to increased the value of personal possessions. No issue with that, the odd thing is they didn’t actually charge for it.

Still need to sort out normal travel insurance though.

Torture porn night.

Still very tired this morning, woke up by the alarm at 6:30am. Took Sasha to daycare then went back to bed. Got up eventually. Today was all about materials and sorting out shader parameter arrays. Basically it all needed a bit of a re-write. Got it all finished, just a bit more testing to do before I check it all in.

Now, got an email this morning. A returned item to QVC. This was a Nina Lemon bolero, I still don’t have a clue what one of those is. Now QVC has a thirty day return policy. So if I got this email today then it must have been purchased in the last thirty days? I may have to do a bit of account hackery here. I hope she isn’t up to her old ways. But as she has refused our help then I think I just need to let her get on with it. Shame, I was perhaps planning on seeing her for her birthday, we shall see.

Picked up Sasha. Went to Body Pump. We had some of the new CD today. As it’s a new month I increased my bar weight by another 2Kg. All was fine, except for biceps, which due to the movements was pretty much impossible. Came back and did a bit more work. Feeling tired again, so will head off to bed in a minute. Got a good idea for a new helicopter video.

Taking of which, if you can’t find my YouTube Channel, it is here.

Here are my last few videos:

Helicopter Flight Over Tewksbury

Prohibition and Prozac

USA Road Trip – Pt1

USA Road Trip – Pt2

Don’t forget you can also follow me on Twitter using @mannmansion

Felt very tired this morning after Jamie and I kept each other awake. No, not through rampant sex, but through his snoring and my tossing (…I give up). So started quite late. Working on the excitement which is array alignment in shaders. Here’s a fun thing, if you declare an array of floats in a shader it will pack them with sixteen byte alignment, which is rather inconvenient when the source array is packed with four. So several hours later it’s half done, but at least its all correct now.

Jamie is still coughing up mucus so i walked Sasha. Went to the gym and did legs on the cross-trainer. This is to stop me looking like an ‘ice-cream cone’ according to Jamie. Came back and edited another helicopter video. Got all the footage together, now adding the effects. Ate salad. Followed by more food. Decided to try and eat a bit more (but less crisps and cheese), to try and bulk up a bit before we go away. May have arranged something rather fun for Las Vegas hopefully. Sasha at daycare tomorrow.

Woke up this morning to what sounded like a diseased cow eating a tractor. Jamie was in full flu mode, which was quite impressive as he was right as rain last night. I think it is flu as his sister has got it as well. The rest of us are fine as I imagine they have had the injection the same as me.

Work all went according to plan. No major upsets. I have some compiler additions to sort and then finally it’s on to the MSAA implementation.

Walked Sasha. Went to Body Combat, it was fairly empty. Talked to my sister. Apparently mother started babbling about, ‘I have no idea where Tim got his calculations from as they are wrong, blah blah blah’. She told her to shut up. We’ve offered her help, which has kind of refused by just ignoring us. She did ask if she was going to see me for her birthday. I was actually planning on it, but if she wants to just have a go at me over my calculations then it’s an evening that I’ll be doing my hair. She hasn’t bought anything off QVC since, but she’s got a hell of a long way to go to repair the damage.

I was about to say that I was going to have an early night, except it’s now 1AM.