It's been a day of excitement.

I got up about 8.45 to head to the club to be there for 9.30am. I checked my email, got dressed, grabbed the tivo cables I made up yesterday, and the addresses, and left.

I about 2/3 of the way there, I got stuck behind someone in the outside lane going about 15km/h under the speed limit. I sat behind them for a while, then when I saw a gap in the inside lane, where they should have been, I decided to overtake them.

I indicated, changed lanes, hammered down, indicated back, and changed lanes back in front of them.

Just as I was changing lanes back in front of them, I heard a siren go on. There was a cop car going the opposite way, on the other side of the divided road. Uh oh.

Bugger this, I'm not getting another fine.

I hammered down, there was a fair bit of open road, then when I came across some more vehicles, they were nicely scattered in each lane, perfectly setup for some weaving, I went back and forth between the lanes, between the cars. The cops will be back there somewhere, they've had to turn around, giving me a bit of an advantage.

I got stuck behind a pack of vehicles, I thought about going between, but there was a slight curve in the road coming up. I sat behind for a second, thinking I would be hearing the siren any second (although I did have my music one).

I saw a turning lane to the left, I used it to over take a couple of vehicles, now if the cops do come up, they'll have difficulty getting past there. I thought about getting off the main road down that turn off, but that might be what they are expecting me to do, and it might be a dead end. I was going too quick to turn anyway.

I kept going, weaving through more, getting further in front (I hope). I saw another turn off, a reasonably big road, so I went down there, into a residential maze. I looped around in there a bit. There was service station, I thought about hiding in there, but it was too close to where the residential area went back onto the main road I had got off, so I just kept going.

I copped a bunch of sand in the face off a trailer, it really hurt (and it's taken hours for my eye to stop watering), I kept going to the club, uneventfully after that.

I got there, about 3 minutes after I planned to be there, not too bad, considering the detour I had to take to shake the cops.

I stayed there for a couple of hours, the problem seemed to be with the network cable going into the router, it worked with a different cable (and port, since I was using the uplink port, but only had one crossover network cable).

While they went to get another crossover cable, I looked at another machine they were having difficulties with, it worked. Hmm.

They got back with the new crossover cable, I put it in, still didn't fix it.. I then realised it was an issue with the switch.. port 16 and the uplink port are shared ports.. the router wasn't working in the uplink, because the shared port was being used.. by the machine they couldn't get to work.

I have to buy thwm a 4 port switch on the weekend, and crimp up some cables, I'll pop back up there (hopefully without the police chase) next week sometime, and put it all in.

My mate I go to dinner with was there, apparently the woman who owned the machine I had to kludge up the switch in a few days ago got her machine back yesterday, and while trying to put it up on a shelf (why?) she managed to drop it on to the monitor, and on to the floor. The case of the monitor is damaged (I didn't see it however) and the machine hit the floor.

I had a look at the machine in the back of his car before I left.

It smashed the front off the PC, including the switch I fixed, and the front of the floppy drive.

Apparently it makes a very loud noise when operating now. The disk I would suspect.

So now.. my mate is off to buy a new case, he has a spare flopy drive, and he's arranged a new hard disk, he's going to drop them (along with what's left of the machine) at my place tomorrow. I'm off to the computer fair on Saturday to look for a "new" motherboard for the Pentium MMX 200 chip (about $5 for this, last time I bought one), and at some point I get to put the "new" mobo in the new case with the "new" hard disk, and move everything over, and copy her old hard disk contents to the "new" one. Great.

My mate who was in the US recently called me. They've booked the rooms in Sydney for Saturday night, not the usual place we stay, a different place, and they want the money. Ok, I'll sort that out. D'oh, no card.. and the cash I withdrew is at home, so I have to go home, get the cash, and come back out to give the money to my mate.

I left the club, I started heading back, I avoided the route where the cops where earlier.

As I came towards the shopping centre (where I got my haircut recently), there was a cop paddy wagon heading down the road, I kept my distance, they kept going, and I pulled into the shopping centre, there's a post office here, I can post these cables, and get some lunch.

I parked in my usual spot, up on the footpath outside one of the entry doors.

I wandered through the centre, there was a cop walking the other way, I knew there was nothing to worry about, I'm not paranoid, so I just wandered past.

I went to the post office, posted the cables.

As I came out of the post office, I noticed a branch of my bank where I put my card in for replacement yesterday, I had the slip they gave me, so I decided to get the money I needed out of the bank, instead of coming home to get it.

I expected them to ask for my license, so I dug my old NSW license out of the back of my wallet while I waited, to avoid any nonsense with me having a QLD license. I got the cash.

I wandered back through the centre, got some lunch. On my way back to my bike, I decided to buy a lottery ticket. I went down to my bike, scratched it, won nothing.

I was just about to leave, had my bike all ready, and I noticed a trolley left in the carpark just in front of my bike had a bag left in it, there was something shiny in the bag, and my light was reflecting off it.

I thought maybe it was just rubbish someone had left, but I decided to check anyway. I put the stand down again, hopped off, and had a quick look, the bag had a pair of kids platform sandles or some similar footwear in it, and a couple of other things.

I went back, parked up my bike again, locked my helmet on.

I grabbed the bag, it had the shoes I saw, a CD, a double adapter, and possibly something else. I didn't look too closely.

I'll have to hand it in. I grabbed the bag, and headed back into the centre.

I found the information desk, and handed the bag in, I wasn't going to leave my details, but I decided to anyway.

I went back, took off from there, and headed over to my mates place to pay him for the hotel room.

There was no one there, so I left the money in the letterbox.

I noticed the tape holding my blinker on had died again, so I replaced it. Can't risk it, if the cops saw my blinker hanging off when I burned away, they might be able to spot me (and I don't know if it was hanging off, but I'll fix it anyway).

I then noticed that the one remaining bolt in one side of the chassis was half out. Oops. I tightened that back up. I think I should go to the fastener place and get new bolts again, and not the crappy black ones I got last time that rusted in about 3 seconds.

I forgot where I was going, and came home (and I only just realised I was supposed to fix that bolt). I think I'll put the crappy black one back in for the time being, and maybe use some locktight to stop them from rattling out.

I have to call one of my mates and find out what the plan for going down to Sydney on Saturday is.

I think I'll put that bolt in while I think about it.