Got up, got ready, rode up to my mate's place.

We drove down to Rosebery, to the Optus facility, mucked around checking in. Some guy who worked there, and had a pass, walked in, the fat security guard asked him who he was and if he was supposed to be there, he told the fat guy he'd worked there for 3 months and if he didn't recognise him then it was his bad luck, and then he wandered into the building.

The fat security guard went after him, and came back about 5 minutes later.

As we were checking in, he told us that the car would have to be moved, because it was in the disabled parking, "yeah, and it's got a disabled sticker on it". Oh.

We got past him, and into the people that manage the "Telehousing". While I was there getting a proxcard (10.43 check in), I was told that the car would have to be moved "why is that?" I asked, "because it's the disabled parking", "yeah, and it's got a disabled sticker on it" "oh". For God's sake, twice in 2 minutes, can't you people get a life? just because you can't park in the disabled parking.

Went around to the colo facility, the guy opened the rack, I unplugged everything, ripped everything out, carted it out to the car, loaded it all in, we were done in about 40 minutes. Brilliant time. Oh yeah, and I noticed in the bottom of the rack a shelf and a keyboard shelf, so I took both of those, they should fit in my rack :-)

Went back, checked out (11.21), left.

Drove over to a guy's place, unloaded all the gear in his garage, and started packing it. My mate went and got lunch (McDonalds again) I stopped and ate that, then got back into packing. He called up TNT to arrange it being picked up, at 3pm.

I called the guy in Darwin, arranged to hang on to the RAS (I thought it had 120 ports in it, but it's only got 62). He gave us some of the other equipment he doesn't need, that was cool.

We packed up everything he wanted returned, servers, voice gear, and some other misc equipment. Finished packing at 1.30pm.

A guy I've done work for before called me, could I come and sort out a problem with his computer, yeah, sure, on Friday (oops I forgot that's my birthday, oh well, it's not like I'm doing it for free).

Rang TNT to see if they could come earlier. I sat and watched some of "Changing Lanes" while I waited.

TNT finally turned up at 3.40pm. Took all of 5 minutes to give him the stuff, we locked up and left.

Got about 10 minutes away, the guy who's place we were at called us, we had to go back. We went back, he wanted to give us a pop rivet gun for putting in wall plugs or something. We left again, went to the shop where my mate's wife works, picked her up, and headed for home.

We decided to stop in at my place on the way, and drop off the equipment we didn't have to ship.

Coming off the freeway, there was a big traffic jam, very unusual to be backed up that far. There was no traffic coming up the hill, and a lot of people were turning around.

We went back, and went down the hill the old way, went to my place, dropped off all the equipment, and then headed back towards my mate's place. Heard on the radio that apparently there had been an accident between a motorbike and a truck, and it was still backed up.

Got back to my mate's place, sat and had dinner with him, my friend's De Facto called me, apparently the Gosford service is slow and full.

Maybe I caused an issue when I was in there mucking around, but it could just be that too many people are dialling in, and that when you can get on, too many people are downloading.

I said I would have a look at my next available time, probably Friday afternoon.

I came home not long after, I fiddled around getting the shelf to fit in my rack.

A DVD I burned last night was finished, I tested it, fine. I went to delete the recordings from Tivo (need the disk space, desparately) I then found that tivo was not recording Jackass, but Evangelion. hmm. Argh! the bloody channels have moved again.

I spent about an hour working out what the channels were doing now, and reordering them all again.

I'm now going to bed, I'm tired, and I have to get up early to go back to Sydney again in the morning, more meetings.