Well, I went to the beach like I said I would yesterday. Not a great day however..

I got out of bed about 9 something am, had some breakfast, put my beach gear on, loaded my beach stuff into my bag, grabbed my friend's keys so I would have access to the servers, I managed to find the door/alarm code scribbled on a piece of paper, it was what I remembered, good, I wasn't sure.

I couldn't find my sunglasses, I spent 20 minutes looking for them, I gave up, started putting my shoes on, and saw my sunnies in a box of junk near my shoes.

I took off about 10.30am. I headed straight into where the servers are, unlocked the door, entered the door code (good, not been changed) entered the alarm code (good, it unarmed, not been changed). I then went into the room where the racks are. Uh.. there's no server here, there's a keyboard sitting in the rack where it belongs. I also noticed one of the other servers is missing.

I unlocked the back door into the carpark, went to unlock the area where more equipment exists.. the lock is broken, so the door just pulls open. Not very good.

No servers here either. I'm now a bit worried. The server was running until at the latest Thursday. I hope someone didn't pinch a couple of servers while everyone was down in Canberra. We have another place in Gosford where the servers could be, I might check in there tomorrow.

Anyway, while I'm looking in the area in the carpark for our equipment, I noticed a security guard outside. Great, now I have to deal with wasting time explaining who I am, and why I have keys/codes. My bike is parked just outside the door too, surely this will have to get his interest up.

I left the front door unlocked when I entered, he's going to find that unlocked and start poking around, so I closed the area in the carpark, went back in the back door, closed and locked it, headed around to the front door for the confrontation.. there was none. Great security guard, he didn't notice doors open in the carpark, me standing there, or the fact the front door was unlocked. Remind me not to hire this firm.

I put the alarm code in, armed it, went out and closed the internal coded door, closed and locked the front door.

Got back on my bike, and rode out to the beach.

There were about 6 million people here, great, I was looking for a park, ended up way away from the beach, screw this, I went back and parked on a footpath under a ramp.

Wandered down to the beach, it was 11am.

Lay on the beach for a bit, nice and warm, went and slopped in the ocean, it was a bit rough for my liking, too strong undertow, and the waves were all dumpers. I mucked around in here for a little while, went back and lay down again. I listened to my mp3 player while I lay there.

I lay there for an hour or so, got too hot, went in the ocean again for a bit, went back and lay down again. it was now about 12.30. My adsl mate called, he wanted to know if I wanted to come out to the beach. I told him I'd already been here for hours. I lay back down, and fell asleep (oops). My mate turned up, woke me up, commented I was looking a bit pink.

It was close to 2pm now.

We went and mucked around in the ocean again, came out, lay down, I listened to my mp3s again, and he read a book.

We both decided to leave about 2.45, ended up leaving around 2.30pm. went and had a shower to unsuccessfully attempt to wash the sand off, only managed to soak my shorts again. I got dressed, packed everything back up, loaded it on the bike, decided I was hungry and wanted something to eat.

I rode down to Terrigal, took me ages to find a parking spot again.

I walked around, bought a loaf of bread, and a Heinekin (to honour my friend), went and bought some chips, and started eating chip sandwiches and drinking beer. There were too many chips, I can't stand waste, so I ate them all, started to feel slightly crook. My mate with the new hard drive called, I didn't want to think about computers today, so I didn't answer it, I left it, he left a message saying he couldn't get Windows to work. What a surprise, it's designed that way.

I returned to my bike, got on, took off. Got around to heading out of Terrigal, heard some weird noise, realised I wasn't wearing my glasses. Oops, I must have left them on the seat behind me. Oh well, they're recked now.

On my way home, I went past Erina Fair, decided to scrounge all the cheapshops for some new glasses, as I rode around the carpark, some mates saw me, and shouted at me, I parked, found them, had a chat about the last few days. They wanted to go to HMV, so we all went inside.

I followed them, lagging behind a long way chatting to one of my mates, we ended up in Big W, and I bought a DVD, Escape from LA, I already have Escape from New York.

My mate I had been chatting with disappeared at this point, I wandered around with my other mates, it was now 4pm, and all the shops were shutting. We walked to some juice bar thing, and I got a fruit juice.

We were just leaving, and we bumped into my other mate, who we'd lost, we went down to the carpark, someone decided to have a LAN party, and wanted to know if I wanted to come. I said I would, but they'd have to pick me up with my stuff.

I went home, had a (cold) shower, changed my clothes, felt ok, realised I was really sunburnt. My mates turned up, said I would only need my monitor/keyboard/mouse/network cable, since my mate had brought his pc, because mine was not fast enough.

Loaded the stuff in the car, went around to a mates place, helped him load his pc, then we went to another mate's place where we going to have the party.

On arrival, he was getting in trouble for not going to Church on Sunday (apparently, we waited outside) and we were told we could not do it. After a few minutes of discussion, my mate convinced his parents to let us do it.

We went inside, I went to chat with his parents, we ended up having a long discussion about what had happened, the funeral etc.

At this point, all the machines/LAN were setup, so I went inside. I was feeling a little bit crook again, I assumed dehydration, I got some water and sipped it, felt a little better.

My mate got his machine setup for me, and we started a game. It was pretty cool, I haven't played a game in ages.

My mate I go to dinner with called me, he wanted to know about video capture stuff. I told him I was busy and that we would see what we could work out for tomorrow.

My mate's dad offered to buy pizzas for us, if we picked them up, I was ok, I still felt full from lunch I'd had.

We contined playing, someone went to get the pizzas, they ate, and then we played again.

I was starting to feel crook, I put it down to staring at the monitor while sitting in the dark. Around 9.15 I started to feel really ill, I was hot and cold at the same time. I lay on the lounge for a bit, I got up just after 10pm, and went and spewed, it was all the chips I'd eaten for lunch, probably not a good idea to drink beer after being in the sun for ~3.5 hours either.

I went back and sat at the table, hoping sitting up would help me feel a bit better. My mate offered me a lift home, I took it, dragging all my crap with me.

I wet a washer, drank a bit of water, and went straight to bed.

Nor sure what time I got to sleep, but I've been having the worst nightmares, my head is killing me, and I keep dreaming about trying to sort out all the issues my friend has left behind.

I gave up, got up about 3.30, spewed again, felling a bit better now. I'm sitting and drinking water while I write this, I'll go back to bed in a minute. I've got another long day ahead.