Ok, so I headed to my mates place, I got there about 5.10. He wasn't here. hmm.

It took me all of about 2 minutes of being here before I found a sliding door that I could lift to bypass the lock, and open the door.

I started watching tv, waiting for him to arrive. A storm warning was issued on the tv, I thought about going home again, I didn't want to get stuck here for the storm.

I decided to wait until 5.45, at about 5.44, just as I was about to leave, my mate turned up.

I helped him move the trailer in, and his shopping.

I had a look at his linux box I built for him, it doesn't boot, I think the root partition is stuffed.

We sat and played GTA Vice City for a while, that's a pretty cool game. my ADSL mate turned up with some bits and pieces, including my crimping tool.

My mate left to pick up his coffee table and a few other things, I had a beer while I waited.

He came back, I showed him how to make cat5 cables.

We decided to get some pizzas, they came a fair while later.

We chatted, my adsl mate tried to perk up our spirits about trying to pick up chicks at clubs, after that, we all decided to go to the club. Another mate turned up,we all jumped in his car and went to the club.

I played the pokies, after I lost all my other mates. I won $5.

As I was wandering around looking for my mates, some guy came up to me, and said "it's you". I'm thinking "who TF are you?" I told him that I didn't recall who he was. He told me that I was the guy on the roof of the butcher's the other day.

Yeah, while I was down in Wahroonga trying to work out what was going on, and tracing cables, I was inspecting the cable modem installed on the roof of the butcher's. I vaugely recalled some clowns across the road jeering at me.

I asked him if he had seen the news item recently about the guy who died in the plane crash. "Yeah", "well that guy was my friend, and I was trying to sort things out for him" "oh", and the guy gave me a break. I can't go anywhere.

We found each other, and decided to leave. We jumped in a taxi back to my mate's place. It cost $15, there goes my huge $5 winnings, oh well, it didn't cost me anything.

I grabbed my bottle of grog, jumped on my bike, and came home.

I'm playing around with the tivo video files again. That rendering finally finished, and gave a pretty good result, now I need to process some more episodes.