I woke up early for some reason. Lay in bed waiting for the alarm to go off.

I went off, I must have it set on radio for some reason, a song started playing, and it scared the crap out of me.

I went back to sleep a bit.

I got annoyed by people loudly talking just below the balcony. I was going to yell at them to go away (well, F$^* off really), but thought better of it, turned out it was Mum, and some guy she's got in to do the gardening.

I got up, started checking email.

I got called up, "theres a problem, can't get to any of the servers" "yep, you're right. Hangon, it's ok now" "oh, yeah" "bye".

I listened to some music, bummed around getting ready. Sent a bunch of emails trying to help a guy having trouble getting his tivo to connect to his XP machine.

Checked that phone number, $68000.

I took off, headed to the Cafe.

I started dealing with email, replied to a bunch of messages from days ago. I'm surprised we have any customers, they never get helped.

We then had to modify an invoice we issued to one of our clients, this should have taken 20 minutes. Remove 2 phone numbers from the invoice, send an email, add up some bandwidth usage, and print the invoice.

After 2 1/2 hours, I lost my patience. While trying to explain all that needed to be done, someone mucking around at the back of the computer managed to unplug it.

I lost it.

I just got up and walked out.

I thought about not going back. I thought about going back, collecting my stuff, and going home.

I can no longer handle this.

I went to the fish shop, bought some fish and chips, waited, took it back to the Cafe, sat out the back and ate my lunch.

I then sat and mucked around browsing on the internet.

The phone number is up over $200000. Ridiculous.

I just basically wasted time for the rest of the day. I don't care anymore.

Just before leaving, I started looking at the telephone bill someone was making a major issue of. Do you think 100 ISDN lines are free? What do you think will happen when you don't pay the bill? yes, it will get bigger.

Here's a charge for a PAPL link with nothing attached to it. Ring up, find out how to disconnect it.

What is this charge for disconnection/reconnection? call and query it.

1/2 hour later, I end up talking to them, trying to explain what are lines are, and work out what is going on.

No, this PAPL link is not for a fire alarm. How many times do I have to explain this? It had SDSL equipment attached to it. It was installed without permission, the equipment is no longer installed, there is nothing attached to the line.

Ok, I'll go through our convoluted method to cancel the line.

Ok, I'll wait for you to get back to me tomorrow as to why I have been charged disconnection/reconnection, when it never occurred. (I think I would know if 100 dialin lines were disconnected).

My friend's De Facto arrived, she asked me how I was "at wits end". I explained what was going on.

I didn't say I was planning to leave at the end of the month.

If I get pushed one more time, I'm walking, and that's it.

We left. I went to my mate's place, jumped in the car, and went around to see the guy that gave me my Sat decoder a couple of months ago.

I was just going to install another card. Uh oh. Channel Scrambled. I hope this is one of those isolated issues like I've seen before. "yeah, it broke 20 minutes ago" I'm told.

I tried a different card. No good, waited long enough for the card to update, no show. Maybe it got EMKd, and I just need to reprogram the cards.

I tried calling home, engaged. I tried calling a mate, no answer. I tried calling Mum's mobile, no answer. Far out.

I got a call back a few minutes later. "Is the Foxtel still working?", "yeah, oh, hangon, nope".

Great. Shit. Game over.

I setup the guy's VCRs so he could copy NTSC videos, tried to fix his printer, crappy Canon thing that keeps complaining about "invalid access to memory location".

I got the tuning details for the FTA Sat service. I set him up with FTA. Great, there's nothing on here worth watching.

Left here, went to dinner. Went back to my mate's place, set his that was also broken to FTA.

I came home. I decided I wanted some alcohol. I drank everything last night, and was left to drink Gin and water.

I went to pull into one bottlo on the way home, shut. Went for the next one, shut. Damn.

Went into Gosford, they were just shutting. Got a bottle of Black Jack, and came home.

After all that, I haven't even opened it.

It must have been windy, the wireless device had fallen off the monitor, I found my makeshift aerial by standing on it (oops, still works though), and there were bits of paper everywhere.

Fixed all that up.

Wasn't interested in fixing the Sat tv. Just looked at the error LED for a while.

I started dealing with email again.

I read some sat forums, looks like most of the cards have been killed now, to the point where even some valid subscribers that haven't got their new cards yet are getting cut off.

Apparently some cards still work, but probably only for the next few days.

I really need to get my card sharing stuff setup. I need these interfaces, I don't feel like hacking into the box and soldering onto the card interface, I'd rather have a pcb that just fit in. Maybe I can make something by drawing on some plastic with a conductive ink pen.

I tried putting a few different cards in I have hanging around, all no good.

I watched home shopping channel (not encrypted) for a while. It became unbearable.

I'm now listenening to streaming mp3, and trying to find the details of making card interfaces again.