Work was fairy dull, but I did manage to get high precision normals all working in the end which has taken bloody ages. There were a few oddities at work today, which I’m not going into. There’s actually quite a lot that I’m not going to go in to. I’m not sure if I’ll be going to this do tomorrow either, yet something else I’m not going into. Went for a ‘quick run’ which took an hour and twenty minutes and was about 8 miles or something. I’m avoiding flying for a while, my mental state isn’t great, not the sort of person you want in the air.

So work was quite dull today, couldn’t get 100% in to it, I’m kind of between a couple of bits and couldn’t find the enthusiasm to move on. So ended up doing some SDK updates and looking at a few bugs. Weather was awful. Sasha only got a walk late in the day. Working on something dental at the moment, no progress yet. Didn’t walk to the gym, so drove there early and did a bit on the treadmill. Did Pump. Then a bit more on the treadmill before driving home. Busy day tomorrow, need to pack some stuff for Friday and plan the journey, which will be a long one.

So started work at 7:30 to take an hour or so in before taking Dillon to the vet for his kennel cough booster. Can back and did more work. Today was all about removing samplers, which is fine in theory, but testing on three platforms is a right pain. Thankfully, it is all working now though. Walked Sasha as Dillon walked to the vet. Had an early lunch and then went to the dentist. Appointment two of three, not sure when the next one will be, depends how the next couple of weeks go I guess. Finished work just before seven. Then went out and ran fifteen miles. The running was fine, although it did get a bit chilly towards the end. Came home and had a shower, then basically seized up, can’t move at all. Think I’ll lie on the couch and drink wine.

So woke up this morning and weighed. Considering I walked almost thirty miles over the weekend I was somewhat disappointed by the result. I seemed to have put on weight. I put it down to not drinking enough water and probably being backed-up with curry. I’ll stick to the numbers and see what happens. Work was okay, I guess. Spent the bulk of it on one glitch bug, but thankfully traced the cause, it will take a little while to fix it properly though. Walked both dogs. Walked to the gym, did Combat. The Fitbit is now all working properly with myfitnesspal. Tomorrow I have to take Dillon to the vet and then dentist visit number two. I’ll probably go running tomorrow night, it’s been at least a few days since I’ve done a half marathon.

So woke up early. No bum sex but a little bit of playing around. Had a single coffee and breakfast, walked Sasha, Dillon wasn’t interested at all. So had a very early lunch and then headed out on a fourteen mile six hour trek across the city. Headed past the station across the university (and picked up a geocache I’d missed along the way). Then over Snuff Mill and picked up the first one, then it was up to Stapleton for the next and finally over to Warmley for the third. Then a long trek back home. Made it in the six hours though. Had a nice sit down and a coffee and then did all the dishes and had a bath. Now treating myself to a nice Jalfrezi (all home made), it’s rather too high in sodium but everything else is fine.

So this morning started with the usual coffee, breakfast for three and reading the paper. Took the dogs for a walk. Then walked to the other end of town to do a home check for a kitten. Walked home, had lunch and then walked all the way to Cribbs to do a home check there for a dog. Then walked to the shopping place thing and did three Shauns. Walked to Argos and got some new kitchen scales, exactly the same as the old ones. They lasted a number of years of abuse. Sorted out my syncing issues between fitbit and myfitnesspal, so hopefully that will fully work now. Walked home. So by the time I was on to the home check this morning I’d knocked up 10,000 steps. By the time I got home I’d knocked up 30,000 steps and 12 miles of walking. Did the accounts. Feel quite tired, tomorrow I think I may do some walking.

I’m going to take the rather controversial point of view here, you may call me a heartless bastard. But lets get one thing straight, I give a hell of a lot of money to animal charities. I’m not talking ‘can you give just two pounds a month’, I give hundreds, sometimes thousands a year (you get good tax breaks). But one thing that has really got on my goat lately is the continued request by certain charities for donations for vet bills for dogs, or rather ‘dog’. What happens is you get some poor ancient animal thats no doubt been abused and abandoned and has ended up in some Welsh pound. It’s scheduled to die. Someone goes in from some rescue charity and drives hundreds of miles to pick up this sick animal and then bring it back to an animal sanctuary where it will get treated by a vet costing tens of thousands of pounds, where hopefully it will be adopted again. All very nobel? Well indeed. But I have a serious problem with this. That person who has driven all those miles to pick up said dog walks down the aisle of kennels where many healthy dogs are there through no fault of their own, young dogs, abandoned dogs, loving dogs who all just want a home. So old ancient dog is picked up and everyone is expected to donate for its bills. What happens to all the other dogs which only required their shots and a bit of worming? I’ll tell you. They get 20cc of sodium pentathol in the leg on the pound floor. The last thing they see in life is a strip light and some lackey holding them down. So, no, I won’t donate to the vets bills. For the cost of one dog you could have saved twenty.

First, yesterdays issues have now been resolved, it all revolved around me being required to teach people something I’m not really interested in, in far reaches of the globe. They’ve now found someone far more suitable than me to do it, I would have thought practically anyone. Still at least I can get back to what I normally do now. May be twenty years ago, if I didn’t have a house and a young family. Anyway, got on with stuff, now finally on top of the last projects bug list so on to new stuff again. Got to a point where I can start on stuff again tomorrow. Walked the dogs, then decided to pop out and pick up some pizzas or tomorrow and a new gadget. Now I’ve been looking at these for a few days and Argos happen to have them at a good price. So I now have a ‘Fitbit Surge’, this is a watch with a built in heart rate monitor and GPS. The heart rate monitor is quite nice as it doesn’t require one of those chest straps, it works by pulsing a light into the veins and sensing the flow, clever stuff. So after work I went for a 14.5 mile run, only the second over half-marathon distance run this week. About 1600 calories in just over two hours. It seems fairly accurate and of course is linked into all the apps. You wear it 24 hours a day and it just maps your activity throughout it. It will be interesting to see what readings I get for a whole day. Did the shopping for tomorrow, I’ve actually got a curry on Sunday if I get all the required exercise in.

Well all the machines worked today. Source control failed several times. One machine failed to boot lots. The other one the backup failed on and all had to be rescheduled. At the end of the day I didn’t end up getting a whole lot of work done. Still, all set for tomorrow at least. Spent quite some time talking to admin about my contract and how to get out of it at short notice, I’m being forced into a situation I’m not particularly comfortable with and thinking I’m better off out of it. I’m old enough and ugly enough to choose who I’m patronised by.

Walked the dogs. Walked to the gym, did Pump and walked home. I won’t comment on my weight again for the moment, but it’s still heading in the right direction.

So started this morning finishing a few bits off and then yet another SSD drive arrived. Thankfully it worked fine and I soon had the last backup restored, just a shame that due to a cock up it was over a month old. Thankfully it was only the system drive, so apart from a few SDK updates nothing much had changed. All up and running again now anyway. I’m going to keep a very close eye on the SMART status incase it dies again, I’ve already set the backup scheme to daily. As Jamie was home he walked the dogs, I ended up working over nine hours. So changed and went out for a run, just a short one, over the distance of a half marathon, bloody slow time though. Still, I did have a doughnut earlier, so feel less guilty now.