Wednesday.

I'm not really sure what happened on Wednesday (I'm writing this on Friday, the last couple of days have all been really similar, I might update it if I remember things).

On Wednesday I researched ways around this card blocking. I basically need to make us pcbs to fit in the card slot. ugh. I really can't be bothered getting all the chemicals and mucking around, to make such a simple pcb.

I chased up the guy who was going to get some made up, he made them up, he's got the manufacturer to sell them directly. $45 each. hmm, all I want is the card pcb, should only be a few dollars worth.

I borrowed the working card so I could continue my dvd archiving.

This is no good, I need to get this working again.

I sat and worked out how to make up the interface circuit on veroboard, I'll find a way to interface to the box later.

I wished I'd gone to the shops and got the parts (6 resistors, and 3 transistors, about $4 worth).

I went and talked to my parents, I'm sick of watching the home shopping channel.

I complained about the fact there's no hot water again. Dad went and reset something in the fusebox. Hmm, I traced the power, and it didn't appear that the hot water tank had it's own fuse/circuit breaker.