Nearly up to date..

I got up at about 9.40am. I had a shower, Just after I got out of the shower, the power went off. Argh, not again.

My mate got ready, left some of his stuff here, and we left.

Just before leaving, my mate (who I worked for plastering before) called me, he was at the computer fair, I said I would be there shortly. He rang me back again about a minute later, to say that he didn't have any money, and couldn't get in. Again, I said I would be there very soon.

We jumped on the bike, and I dropped my mate off at the station, I think he was going to get the train to his Mum's place.

I went back to the computer fair, saw my mate there, we went in.

The first stall, where I started looking at the prices of prebuilt systems, was the stall of the guy down in Lidcombe I went to see several weeks ago. I told him what had happened to me, and he didn't think it was very nice.

We decided to buy one of the systems he was offering, so he started building it.

I bumped into the people from the Neighbourhood centre I went to help on Thursday, they were having a couple of issues, so I gave them some advice. They were also looking for a different PC to act as the router for their network.

My mate told me that since he had picked out his PC, that the cash he had on it's way could be given to me, I could sort the guy out, and take the PC with me, so he didn't have to be there, no worries, I'll sort it, and he left.

I saw another guy I know from the fairs, I told him what had been done to me, he didn't think it sounded very nice.

I started wandering around, trying to look for prices. I hadn't brought a pen with me.

I saw the dopey guy from the Cafe that fixes the PCs. I ignored him, and he ignored me. I wouldn't have said anything to him even if he had spoken to me I don't think. I'm not taking my chances speaking to any of these people without a solicitor present.

I saw a guy I went to TAFE with in 98/99 (who I recenrtly bumped into at the supermarket), told him what was going on.

My phone rang, my mate (who was in the US recently)'s Mum had arrived, with the cash for the PC (the guy is her cousin).

I had a quick chat to her, and took the money.

I called home to find out if dad was coming down, Mum said he was just leaving. Power was still off.

I went back to pay for the PC, it was finished being assembled, and then the guy did the BIOS setup for me, it all worked, groovy, so I paid for it.

Dad turned up, I grabbed all the bits, loaded them into the car, after getting past the security nazi woman.

Went back, to look at his prices for bits to build my servers. He was giving me very good prices.

I goit a ful cost, and had a quick check around. I found some bits a little bit cheaper elsewhere, and he didn't have the motherboards or disks I wanted.

I went back, and got the bits I needed, he matched the cheaper prices I had seen.

I had a look at the different board he was trying to sell me, it actually looks better than the one I wanted.. it's got "dual gigabit LAN". I decided to get them instead.

The guy didn't have 3 of everything (to build 3 servers), so he owes me a couple of bits, including 2 of the monster cases. I'll get it all couriered on Monday.

I just needed disks, he didn't have Maxtors, so I wandered around. I only managed to find a single 120gb disk, I need 6. The woman said she could ship them to me if I couldn't find them.

I wandered around, couldn't find them. Decided to buy 80gb disks instead of 120gb disks, one stall only had 3, I bought 2 of them (so they are somewhat "matched", since they are for RAID), I then went back to the woman who had the single 120gb, and I bought 4 more 80gb disks.

My mate who was in the US recently called me, to find out what time the fair went until, because he wanted to get a new video card, I said I thought it was 2pm. I asked if we were going to do anything later.

I then grabbed a couple of 3 1/2 - 5 1/4 adapters, so I can mount the hard disks in the bigger bays, for better air circulation/cooling.

I got some CDs for my mate I go to dinner with. He also wanted a keyboard, but I forgot to get that. I probably should have got one for building the servers too. Maybe I'll just use my IBM type M typewriter.

I left the fair after that, came home. Dumped all the bits in my place. I've got enough to build a single server at this point.

I have to wait for the couriers to get extra cases/video cards/memory.

I grabbed my cd player, and left to go to my mates place (that I go to dinner with), I was supposed to be helping him put up an awning/shelter thing, to extend the one we put up a couple of months ago.

I left home, and then realised that I should have brought some of my tools, socket set, drill etc, like we used last time.

The batteries ran out in my mp3 player about 2 minutes after I left home. Crappy batteries.

I got there, he'd started on it, I started helping him, he put up the brace on the wall, put the end piece across, this was all easy.

We started putting the roofing sheets up.. this was a mongrel, the join in the middle is not something it's designed to do, normally you would run the roofing 90 dgress to the way we did it, but we started out using scrap roofing, so we used it the best we could (and it was fine as it was, the issue only appeared when we tried to add to the existing structure).

The people next door were having a party, they must have been annoyed with all the banging and drilling and shouting going on, and me climbing all over the fence. Oh well.

We eventually managed to get the roofing clipped together, then I realised it would be very difficult to reach to the middle.

I pulled an old door out of the garage, chucked it on the roof, and climbed up on the door, I was then able to get across to the middle, and force the roffing down, and screw it down.

I didn't take any of my tools, and we didn't have the right size socket, so I couldn't use my drill/socket converter to use the drill for putting the screws in.. hmm. I thought I could probably tighten the chuck of the drill onto the hexagonal head of the bolts.. yep, it worked, you just had to be careful.

I got it all done, a couple of the bolts went dodgy, because I couldn't see the underside to see if I was lined up properly.

I dragged everything down, and got the door off the roof.

Just as I sat down, my mate's daughter and son in law arrived (both police), with his grandchildren.

We picked up the tools, and went and had afternoon tea (it was about 4.40pm).

My mate and I told them about everything that was going on, how I got sacked, not that anyone has contacted me yet to tell me, and that my mate quit. We also told them about the threats of getting the police involved, with the false allegations of me trying to break into thier systems. The both thought it was all rubbish.

I noticed my phone was full of SMS again, I deleted one, got a new one, it was my mate (who called me to find out the times of the fair), saying he was home.

We sat and chatted for quite a while, they left about 6pm.

I intended to leave too, but I kept thinking of things I wanted to discuss.

My mate's wife made me dinner, because she didn't realise I'd said I was leaving, and was trying to leave :-)

It was a ton of spaghetti, it was good, I haven't eaten anything for the last couple of days.

I left a little while after that. I was leaving, the party next door was cranking into full swing, apparently it was a chick's 18th birthday. They had CCR pumping out, and they were saying that they were sorry for the noise, but it was a birthday party etc. I didn't care (it's not like I live there, and I was leaving anyway :-) so I told them to turn it up.

They were going on about "come over for a drink", mainly to my mate, since he's their next door neighbour. He said he'd be over in a few minutes, and then I left.

I headed back to my mate's place, and had a chat. He'd got to the fair, and bought himself most of a new computer. I think he bought most of the parts off the guy I know, and had bought my servers off.

We bummed around there for a while, and then we all decided to go to the Leagues Club (not again, I feel like I just left there). A couple of my mate's jumped in a taxi to get there, I doubled my mate on my bike.

We went in, wandered around, couldn't find the guys that came in the taxi.

We started playing the pokies, $1 machines. I put $5 in, on the 3rd dollar spin, I won $23. I pulled it out and went.

I bought myself a drink, one of my mates who came in the taxt called me, found me.

We went in and all sat down, had a chat and a laugh, another dribk, and we stayed in there until they closed that section of the club.

We ended up back at the pokies, I put $5 through a $1 machine, lost it.

They were all heading up to the nightclub upstairs, I'm not interested, it's a waste of money (even though I won it), it stinks up there, and I'm too tired and not in the mood.

I came home.

I had to find my dialup details of my account with the ISP I was with years ago before I got my account with my friend's ISP, I was getting sick of having no internet, having not been on the Internet since Thursday afternoon.

Took me a bit of fiddling to find them, but I'm now back online.

I'd be interested to know how they claim I've been trying to crack in for days, when I've had no internet connection, and no power for some of the time, that is, during the time when I'm even near a computer.

Hmm, I've been blogging for nearly 2 hours now. Bedtime I think.