It's now nearly 3am, I can't sleep.

I didn't end up doing anything useful today, so now it looks like marmalade on toast for breakfast tomorrow.

Around 8pm, I noticed that my ISDN connection had crapped out again. No amount of reconnecting/changing connections/disabling firewall/rebooting made any difference. I couldn't get any NATted traffic to work. It was only after a reboot that a dialog from the crappy firewall popped up, did I want to update it?, yeah, go ahead and try. So I waited 20 minutes for the update to download, installed it, rebooted, and then things seemed to start working again.

I'm sick of this ISDN rubbish, and I'm sick of this dumb Windows machine. If it had not been 8pm on a Saturday night, I would have rung up and arranged to have this rubbish removed, so I could get my ADSL on.

I found that TiVo was getting pretty full.. stuff that I had marked as "Save Until I Delete" was disappearing. I went through, and found that I had a truckload of duplicate Sabrina episodes, so I fast forwarded through them all to check them, and then I deleted the duplicates I didn't need. There's still about 25 episodes in there, and 5 more will start recording in a few hours.

My Turbonet card should turn up in the next few days, I think, since it was sent on New Years Eve, actually, I'll probably be waiting another week. Hopefully I will have my computer fixed by then, and I can start archiving the stuff off the TiVo, it still has 106 of 160 GB used.

Ironically, I didn't even sit and watch any of the stuff on TiVo. I spent a while changing all my Season Passes to Wishlists, since they work better, especially after the changes with the guide data recently, which resulted in the TiVo claiming there were no upcoming episodes of The Simpsons.. Hello.. there are like 10/day. I think the Wishlists are better anyway, now I just need a "Simpsons" Wishlist, instead of one to record the episodes on Fox8, and on 10, and the Simpsons Hour on 10. I also chucked a Wishlist in there for "Life Support", so when it starts again, TiVo will be recording it for me.

I have still not been able to contact the people I bought my motherboard from. I called the mobile number on Saturday, and I left a message, but what a surprise, I have received no call back. I can't find any listing of the company in the Yellow Pages to check the phone number either.

I sent an email to Abit in Taiwan to let them know what was going on, since according to their website, Taiwan is the Australian branch office, gee, that's convenient. However, they got back to me, and told me about a couple of different companies over here that are designated as branch offices.

I've sent an email to the first one, in an attempt to arrange an RMA, but as yet have heard nothing back. I did not expect to, the website says they are closed until the 5th, and it is the weekend (somehow I think, that unlike me, they won't be at their PCs at 3am Sunday).

I really wish I had won that money the other night. I could have bought a projector, maybe a laptop, I would have bought my DVDR drive, and probably a new player while I'm at it, instead of this shite Philips one. Oh well, not worth spending any more time thinking about it. Maybe I should just go and see an accountant and put this (oops, last) years tax in, I should get a refund of at least a few hundred dollars.

I wanted to hear "She Sells Sanctuary" which was stuck in my head, that's why I got up again. I just listened to, it's a cool song. I thought I might watch Rage, but rather than turn the TV on, I just checked the playlist on the website. It seems they are showing old episodes of Recovery from 1998 until 5am, at which time the crap 20 start. So it's just all crap.

I have instead put Radiohead's "Capture the Thief" album on again. I'm going back to bed to lie awake in the heat. Ironically, the Radiohead song "Go To Sleep" just came on.

I am writing this bit the next day. After I went back to bed and lay there, I thought about my events of the last few days. I haven't done anything. I just get up, watch tv, eat, watch tv, eat, watch tv, and sleep again. With a bit of email and irc thrown in there. I have become a useless waste of space, I'm not of any use to anyone at the moment. I should really get a job, I'm running out of money as well.