We finally shipped PRMan 13.5 yesterday. Wow, has it been that long in gestation? Just about as bad as giving birth to a giraffe.

The toughest release I’ve ever had to work on; and that included 13.0, the first multi-threading capable release. (And I moved in the middle of 13.0.) February and March of this year were particularly killer months. I was a particularly mean SOB during that period, and not too proud of it. Refactoring a lot of code and redesigning rendering algorithms in multi-threading land does that to you. Anyways, I’d take a bunch of time off now, but there’s the small matter of getting another dot release out the door within a month to wrap up some ends here and there. And so the software treadmill churns along..

Three smallish reasons why last weekend was not, in fact, the best weekend ever:

• I took the dog to the vet and got her the one shot I wasn’t supposed to get (live vaccine, dangerous to immuno-compromised sweeties). As a result, Kaylee was quarantined from Susan until yesterday.
• Susan fainted. Very scary. I’m glad she’s okay.
• I hit a jogger while driving, turning right around a corner. Just nudged him, braked hard thankfully. I like to think I wouldn’t have run him over even without Susan yelping a warning, but I wasn’t looking right when he came jogging along. I’m bad like that. Fortunately the jogger was nice enough not to sue my ass over the incident.

Just one more day to the long weekend. Should be a marked improvement.