I got up about 10.30 am.

I called up a guy who had offered rack space earlier.

I told him what was going on, he has had some dealings with the business, and he couldn't believe it, we had a bit of a laugh, and then I told hime I was investigating starting up and ISP, and I wanted to find out if the previously made offer of rack space and bandwidth etc was still open, yeah, he had rack space, bandwidth, dialin lines, ip addresses, everything, all spare, sitting there doing nothing. Wow.

I went and spoke to Dad about it, he's leaving this sort of stuff to me, but he thought it sounded ok.

I called the guy who called me last night to find out if I was going to be starting up, I told him that I'd spoken to the guy, and everything was there, so I'd probably go in there, and do it.

I spoke to Dad, we looked at the prices, and it seems like it will work.

The guy from last night called again, to ask about the details, I said I was still working it out.

I called up the colo guy, and told him I wanted to do it. He had checked the prices, and some where a bit cheaper than he told me before, it was now looking even better.

I just need to pay for some of the bandwidth he's got sitting there doing nothing, there are already 30 dialin lines available, he just wants his cost for those, he's got 60 spare IP addresses, and I need to pay a bit of rent, and electricity.

I setup a meeting for next Thursday with him, to make an agreement, get keys etc, and then I can start setting up.

I need to supply my own rack, because his are full, no worries, I've got one.

He's got a couple of spare RAS, I've already got mine on loan, so I'll use it, and either buy it, or buy a different one from eBay or somewhere.

I got off the phone with him.

I ran the figures again, I now need 58 customers to break even, that shouldn't be too hard.

I left it at this point, everything I can do has been done.

I watched some episodes of The Simpsons, nearly fell asleep.

About 8.30pm I called my mate who called me earlier in the week (the guy who was in the US recently), to find out if he wanted to do something tonight. My other mate answered tha phone, told me they were down at Bondi for another mate's birthday, and did I want to come down. Bit short notice, I don't feel up to riding ~100kms, through Sydney, to get to a party or whatever it was, especially when it looked like it was going to rain.

And then I had to get back at some reasonable hour, to sleep, to get up early, to go to the computer fair tomorrow and buy my servers.

My mate and I decided we would just go to the local club, and play pool, have a couple of drinks. It was still before 9pm, and the club is a bit sad at that sort of time.

I still had "The Parole Officer" recorded on my Tivo, so we watched that. when it finished, my mate had a shower. I thought about it, but time was getting away, I wanted to be in bed at a reasonable hour (since I was so tired), and it's not like anyone would be able to smell my BO over the stale smoke, and general manky smell of the club.

We headed down there about 11.30pm, grabbed a drink, headed up to the pool room. We played a couple of games a pool, bit embarressing, my mate with a broken wrist plays better pool than me.

He sunk the black ball in the first game, giving me the game, we played on for a while, with a different ball set as black, and then he "won" the game.

We played again, and he still played better than I, at the end I had 4 balls left on the table, and he was on black. I came from nowhere, put my 4 balls down, and then sunk the black.

The pool room closed at this time, so we headed downstairs.

I put a couple of bucks in the pokies, lost it, put a $5 note in, played it for ages, lost it.

I then put a $20 note in, played $2 out of it, pulled the rest, and changed it back to notes.

We left at this point, nothing left to do in the club but get ripped off by the pokies.

My mate commented it was too bad we couldn't get any alcohol, I've still got most of a bottle of vodka.

We stopped at a petrol station on the way home, bought some soft drink, and lollies, and came home.

It was now close to 2am, I wanted to be in bed at 2am, oh well.

We watched "Dazed and Confused", drank a few vodkas.

After it finished, about 3am, we chatted for a while, I went to bed at 4am.