I went to bed early last night, just after midnight (early for me).

I got woken up at about 7.40am, Mum came in and asked what time I was getting up. "later" "aren't you working?" "no, it's tomorrow now". She wanted to get the Sat card, before I left, and complained she had no tv over the weekend. I told her to pull out the dummy card and reinsert it (to reset the cam, then the software will work). I expected her to come back a few minutes later and complain it didn't work, but she didn't, so it must have.

I went back to sleep. I got woken by the radio coming on at 9.30am. I don't know how I keep managing to set my alarm clock to radio. I lay there for a few minutes.

Someone tried to send me an SMS. My phone is full. I deleted an SMS, and then it came through a minute later.

It was Dad, asking if it was ok to contact the guy I bought the servers off, (to arrange a courier to pick up the extra bits I need the guy didn't have at the fair), and also to ask me if downloading Debian 3.0r3 was right.

I replied, telling him it was fine to contact the guy, and that I only need the first 3 discs, not all 7 of them (I rarely need the 3rd disk even).

I got out of bed just after 10am.

I checked my email.

My phone rang, a weird number. It was the guy from the place I sent the busted PC to, to get repaired under warranty. It was ready to pickup. He wanted to know what I wanted to do, I said I thought it was getting couriered to Homebush. He asked who it would get couriered with, and I said I didn't know, I wasn't arranging that. I took their address, and I said I would contact the guy who owned it, and get back to him.

I called the guy it belongs to (who I saw on Tuesday morning, and gave him back his other pc) he told me he'd go over there and pick it up.

I called the guy from the PC place back, got stuck on hold. Waited 5 minutes, hungup, called back, selected a different option on their dopey menu, got through, asked for the guy, spoke to him again, told him the PC was getting picked up, and who was coming to get it.

It was now about 10.30. I had a shower, got dressed. I started reading some more best of craigslist.

I left just after 11am. I loaded my mate's PC onto my bike, and his new keyboard. I left the mobo box with all the junk in it, I need to come back to get my tools anyway.

Halfway to my mate's place, my phone started ringing, it was my mate I was going to see. I was at the lights, I thought about whipping my helmet off and talking, but with my luck, I'd get done for riding without wearing a helmet or something dumb. I accidently answered it, so I hung up, he rang again, and I let it ring out.

I got to his place a couple of minutes later, he was there, funny, I thought he was supposed to be working this morning.

I pulled his PC inside, he was just putting a lock on the office door.

Because he was there, I was able to use his tools, so I didn't have to go home and get mine. I wished I'd gone to the hardware and got the stuff I needed on the way, but I didn't know how much phone cable I needed anyway.

I drilled a hole through the floor.

My mate gave me his contractor license, so I could get a discount. I went to the electrical wholesaler, but he really wasn't interested when I asked for 10m of phone cable, "Only comes in 350m boxes. Go to an electronics retailer, or try the hardware".

I went to the hardware I would have gone to anyway. I got the cable, and the wall socket.

I went back, I shoved the cable in, crawled around under the house, pulled the cable across, pushed it up to the first point.

Went back inside, patched it in. I wished I had my tools, so that I had my crappy plastic krone punch down tool.

Forced the cable in with a screwdriver in the end.

I put the wall socket on the other end, plugged the PC all in, booted it. Plugged the modem in, it dialled up first go. Groovy.

I had a cup of tea with them, told them what was going on, just as everyone else has been, they were disgusted.

You go out of your way to do something nice for someone, and this is what happens. I'm worried that I'll come out of this as a suspicious indifferent person.

I bummed around until about 2.30pm, then I left. My mate was going to replace the washers on the taps to his washing machine, chuck his old PC and the monitor I lent him into his van, bring it to my place, and then I'd give him the mobo box with the CDs and other junk for his new PC. I told him I was going to see someone, and would be home after 3.15.

I went to see the guy I at West Gosford where my friend and I installed a wireless aerial last year. He wasn't there. I left a message for him to call me, but he hasn't yet. I might try and see him again on Wednesday.

Oops, I took my mate's contractor license with me. I'll give it back to him when he comes around later.

I decided to get something for lunch. I don't really want anything, but I need to eat something. My bike was out of fuel. That burn down the freeway the other night back from Newcastle with my mate on the back must have chewed up the fuel, I got 25ks less than usual.

I went to the petrol station, fuelled up, paid, left. I wasn't thinking, and I came home instead of getting something to eat.

I got home just after 3pm. Waited around for a bit. I found the contact details of the guy in Darwin who's RAS I've got on loan. I wanted to call him and thank him for the money from the job I did for him recently, and to sort out the details of the RAS.

I found his contact details, hung up my crappy dialup connection, and tried to call him.. apparently he's in Bali for a conference. Half his luck. He'll be back next week, so I said I would call back then.

Mum came in, and I had a chat. She thinks I should get the signed statements from the people I was doing the networking for on Thursday, that I mentioned I could get, as proof that I wasn't trying to crack into the servers on Thursday, as was falsly alleged. I don't know. I doubt the actual logs will be there at the meeting on Thursday.

A while later, just before 5pm, my mate turned up, he gave me his old PC, and my spare monitor back. I gave him the receipt and his mobo box. he took off again.

Damn, I forgot to give him back his license again.

I grabbed my crimping tool, and some ends, and went to see my mate I'm working with tomorrow. Just before I left, I called him to check he was home, he was, so I went there.

Had a great long chat about everything that's been going on.

I'll be getting mod_php working tomorrow, ooh, difficult. First on a staging server, and then on the production server.

The organisation is moving in the near future, and a lot of people are leaving, so they're going to have a ton of jobs available, they'll possibly want to employ me to do database work or something. We'll see, I'll suss it out tomorrow. Might be good, my mate says it's a great place to work, and that's the most important thing to me.

My mate I installed the new PC for called me, "Did you leave my license at my place?", "Oops, nope. I've still got it", "Can you drop it at (my mate who was in the US recently)'s parents place?" "No worries, I'll do it in a bit" "Cool, I need it tomorrow to get discounts, if they aren't there, just put it under the mat.".

We went next door, to see the guy there, I was there to try to fix the network link between the houses, he was busy, his wife has just had a baby, so I left my crimping tool with him (I won't need it tomorrow), and I'll get it back on Wednesday or something.

I'm riding down tomorrow, it's about $6 of fuel compared with $15 for a train ticket or something, and I hate trains.

I said I would see my mate tomorrow. I went back to my bike, the tape holding the busted blinker on had died again, so I started putting new stuff on.

Some guy on the street, asked me if I lived there, I noticed on his shirt he was from an electricity supplier. I told him no, but that my mate was. As I went to put my helmet on, my top earring got caught, and popped open. I spent a couple of minutes trying to fix it. Gave up, I'll fix it later. I shoved my helmet on.

I headed for home, I wanted to get some lunch. I decided to go to Subway near my mate's place I just left, for a change.

I started trying to fix my earring again, gave up. Noticed I didn't have my phone. Damn it, must have left it at my mate's place. That's the second time.

I jammed my helmet on again, went back, got my phone. He reckons I feel too much at home there. heh. I went back to Subway again. I bought some food. I jammed it in my bike, and left.

I headed toward's my mate's parent's place. They weren't there, I put his license under the mat, and I came home.

I ate my Subway, and watched an episode of The Simpsons that was just starting on the tv. Timing.

When the ads came on, I paused it, and went and fixed my earring.

Dad came in a bit later, asked me if I didn't work today. "Yeah, I did" "You didn't go down, I waited for you off the train for a while" (must have been on the way home, I was going to go down on a later train). "No, I didn't do that job, it's tomorrow, I did a different job today".

He told me that he couldn't arrange the courier today, it was too late by the time he contacted the courier company (they only pickup in the morning) and the guy didn't have the parts ready anyway, so he would get it sorted tomorrow. Mum should be home to accept it.

He gave me the first 3 Debian discs, now I need to install them.

I watched the end of The Simpsons, some other stuff on tivo, until about 8.45.

My phone rang, it was my mate I go to dinner with, can I call him back, yeah, no worries. He must have tried my landline first, but now it's plugged into the modem, and I'm not connected, so I didn't notice the AA light flashing, especially since I was in the bathroom.

I called him back, and told him about the work this morning. He asked me about tomorrow, I said I was consulting, that I'd got a phone call, he thought that someone from my friend's company that screwed me over had called me, and that I was consulting to them. I don't think so, they can't afford me.

I told him about the work I was supposed to be doing today, that was tomorrow. He asked if I would be coming up for dinner, because a couple of people want to talk to me. Oops, I forgot it was dinner tomorrow, and I didn't realise I'd made dinner plans, it was just a "we'll have dinner and discuss this further" when I left it.

I said I was riding down, I wasn't sure how long I would be working (~8.30 - ~4.30 is 8 hours, but that's only if I don't take a lunch break. I'll probably end up down there until 5.30). I said I would call him when I was leaving, and let him know if I would be there or not. I should be able to get back in an hour and a half, but it is rush hour.

He's got a pc he needs fixing, it might have a dry joint, I said I wouldn't be able to do much, because I'm not dragging a soldering iron around tomorrow. He told me that he had one, so I said I would bring some solder.

He's also going to be getting some computer parts on Thursday, and wants me to mount the motherboard for him, I said I might come up on Thursday night, and start on it.

I just jumped on the computer, dialled up my crappy dialup, checked my email, there's an email from the club I was at on Thursday, they're having a couple of issues, so I said I could go there either Wednesday or Friday to look at it.

It's going to be a very busy next few days.

I'm consulting tomorrow, followed by dinner, then trying to fix a computer.

On Wednesday, I might be going to the seniors club to fix a couple of problems that popped up, otherwise I'm concentrating on building my servers.

On Thursday, I'm going to the meeting to try to stop all the defamation that's going on, then I'm going to make an arrangement with the guy with the rack space, bandwidth etc, and hopefully get the keys. Then I'm up to my mate's place to put the mobo in for him.

On Friday, I'm going to the club if I don't go on Wednesday, and I'm going to see my mate I setup the new PC for today, and install some software for him to run his business.

I've just spent and hour and a half emailing and blogging (It's taken me over an hour to write this entry!).

The server I built yesterday I have been running burn in tests (X apps displayed from another PC), and it's been going fine for about 24 hours now. Groovy.