2 months of sheer hell, all this started with me wanting to get my models into a game-engine to see what the texture efforts looked like...however as I have Max 2009 I needed Crysis Wars SDK...and as I'm stuck on this feckin island I had to order it and wait 2 weeks. Then when it arrived it had a typo on the serial keys, so another 10 days to get a version that would install. Then all hell broke loose and I had the yellow orbs of doom all over my map and in the SDK database...another weeks free time messing around trying to fix that and I gave up and got a copy of Win 7 that has sorted out that problem for me thankfully (although not without problems as it wouldn't accept my genuine win 7 key as valid initially as I had installed it on a partition and no-one knew why that wasn't working.... so backups, re-installs and partition resizes took me the rest of my free time).

A weekend of helping a friend move house turned into me & the wife taking the week off to help her move, shifted about 30 friggin tons of stuff for the friend who we know refer to affectionately as "that mad bitch" (she had at least 3 of everything, plus she even took the stones from her garden and her pine-cone collection WTF???).

So here I am now, with a stable OS and a good install of Sandbox and the Cryexporter plugin working, I should be excited but I'm more exhausted and P'd off than anything else.....looks like I picked the wrong time to give up smoking (I'm climbing the walls and biting my sons head off everytime he asks a question which is NOT good)...so I'm dedicating most of my free time for the next few weeks to my gym routine and dancing, because when I'm rowing or on the cross-trainer or struting my funky stuff I'm venting my nicotine addiction safely....ARRGGGhhhh!