I woke up at 6.30, swapped the card in, recorded the show, went back to sleep.

Got up later, got ready, went to the Cafe.

I had a look around my bike for the spider, didn't see him. Found a bit of his leg stuck between the bag and the frame.

I didn't get much done, fixed a machine someone had brought in with a broken modem.. someone had gone in and set that to make a local call, you first have to dial "456456456456456". Hmm, I wonder why it doesn't work.

I went about removing spyware and junk, and virus scanning the machine, no virii? wow.

We've changed the Cafe hours, we closed at 4.30.

just before leaving, I called the guy who gave me my sat decoder, he was at home.

It was raining really heavily, I got soaked moving around the corner to my mates place.

My phone rang when I got there, I missed answering it, I called the guy back and left a message.

I had a look at my bike, the spider was there, getting wet.

My mate got there, I jumped in the car, we went around to the guy's place. I chatted to him for a while, showed him the interface I'd made up.

While we were there, the guy whose pc I fixed on Sunday called me. I told him I would call him back when I got home, around 9pm.

They guy gave me a couple of old Galaxy decoders, and some cams.

I took the stuff back to my mates place.

We sat and chatted for a while.

His wife arrived at the train station, so we went and picked her up, then we went over to dinner.

I came back from there, grabbed the decoder I bought recently for a guy I know, loaded it and the other decoders into my bag, and came home.

I got totally soaked on the way home.

I got home about 9.10pm, I had a shower, and then I called the guy back. I'd forgotten to reinstall the dialup networking adapter and stuff, because the guy was rushing me.

I went through telling him how to fix it all, he didn't call me back, so it must have worked.

I started fiddling with the decoders, I got the better looking one, plugged it all in, found a page on the internet about it, with the installer code.

I set it up to work (not expecting it to) looked for the channels, it sort of worked, but it kept locking up, or rebooting and saying error.

I got the other decoder, plugged it in, I had to open the first one to remove the CAM, since the CAM interface had fallen inside the decoder.

I put it in, set it up, and it seemed to work. I could watch the bloody shopping channel on it.

I pulled it out, opened it, soldered in one of my interfaces, put it back, booted it up.. away it went! No more shopping channel!

Just before my deadline too, if I didn't have this working in a week, which ended today, from when my gold cards died, I would give up. I got it working at 11.40pm :-)

Fox8 doesn't work, so I don't get to watch Simpsons, or Futurama, or King of the Hill.

I found a ccf file with codes for the box, used it to make up tivo remote codes, they work, but not great. I think I'l make my own.

I bopped around watching tv for a while, and went to bed.