I woke up this morning, got up.

The phone rang, my mate was having a discussion with the solicitor, and wanted to know the minimum time I could agree to work.

I was still asleep, I don't know what I said.

I bummed around for a while, watching tv.

When I went to watch some tv, I noticed the channels were all mixed up again. Argh. It took me 1/2 hour to sort them all again. SBS and ABC and a couple of other channels were missing this time. Bugger.

While I was fixing the order of channels, so Tivo will stop recording History channel instead of Comedy channel, the guy who lives next door to the guy I was going to start the ISP with called me, he wanted to know about the second hand pcs and ram available, I told him to call me back after 1pm when I was at the Cafe.

Mum went out, she backed the car out, stopped at the bottom of the driveway, checked the mail, got back in the car, started going again, then pulled over at the side of the road. I wondered what she was doing. On the tv, the show I was watching, a guy started going "shit, shit, shit", then I noticed mum walking towards the grass holding her shoe. Oops, she must have stepped in it.

I watched a bit more tv, then I went and had a shower, loaded up my bag, with the laptop.

I went to the guy's place, picked up his stuffed laptop, my mate (his son) turned up, along with my adsl mate, had a chat to them for a bit, turns out my mate is moving again on Sunday, back to the place he lived in 3 houses ago. I think I might skip moving all his junk again.

As I was here, my phone rang, it was the customer from yesterday with the static IP, complaining that DNS was broken again. I said I would look when I was near a PC.

I took off, went and checked the post office box, then headed up to the Cafe.

As I got in there, the phone rang, it was the guy who called me earlier, I told him I had just got there, give me 45 minutes.

I started working on the laptop, the network cable I tried to use didn't work, wasted time with that, found another one, tried to find SP1 that had been downloaded, someone must have deleted it.

Went to download and install it, before it could install, the battery ran out. End of that.

I asked about the second hand pcs and stuff.

I had some conversation with my mate I go to dinner with, about my hours getting limited. I'm not interested in getting $100/week to work 1 day/week, and 50% of the PC repair stuff. It's a setup link this that caused me to leave the first time. I'm also very unimpressed I was not included in the discussions with the solicitor.

The guy called back, I told him what was going on.

I then went to fix something apparently wrong with the admin pc. No virii, I don't know what your problem is.

Then someone complained that the printer wasn't working, I tried to fix that, my friend's De Facto came in, I explained to her about the Wahroonga setup, and that we should try to get rid of it.

She was in there for a while, we chatted about other things, but not my dissatisfaction.

After she left, I continued mucking around with the printer. Need to download 173MB driver. WTF. Stupid HP, how can a driver be 173MB? I tried to download it, it claimed it needed 670MB free on the hard drive. Far out.

I left that going.

I contacted the guy at Wahroonga I had been speaking to, he can have the setup.

I collected the motherboard and ram I ordered for my mate a couple of days ago.

We closed the shop.

I went to my mate's place, sat and had a big chat about everything. I'm not really interested in this 1 day/week, or even worse, 2 4 hour days/week. As if. If I leave, then when something breaks, it's all over.

We're pretty certain this is the end of the business. It might last another month or maybe 2, but it will die, without techs on hand to run it.

We might start our own ISP after this one falls down.

We went to dinner, some of his friends were there, they have Chinese wives too, they were celebrating Chinese New Year.

After dinner, I went back to his place, sat and had another chat, and then I left, I was tired.

I stopped in at my mates place (I was going to start the ISP with), and told him bits of what was going on. Had some discussions about perhaps starting the ISP we had been talking about. We looked at the figures, and with really rough estimates, something has be seriously wrong with the incoming money of my friend's ISP.

It pissed down with rain, when it let up for a second, I came home.

I realised I hadn't blogged yesterday, so I did it, and today's. I'm going to bed. It's nearly 1 am.