OK, time for a boring update.

I couldn't sleep, I watched boring documentaries on Discovery channel for a while, then I sat back on irc for about an hour, then I watched another couple of hours of documentaries before I finally felt tired, after 4am.

I got woken about 10am or something, my mate who's been over in the US recently, "is there a computer fair on today?" "dunno, the Terrigal one was last week, there might be a Gosford one" "Nah, I've just been past there, and there's not". "Oh, well there's not then". "Coming out [drinking] later?" "probably. I'll give you a ring later when I'm awake" and I briefly explained how I had to watch boring documentaries all night.

I went back to sleep.

I heard the other phone ringing at about 11am. I wouldn't have got out of bed in time to answer it, so I ignored it.

It stopped, then my mobile started ringing. My mate I go to dinner with. Telling me he's ordered the bits for the awning we're going to put on the side of his house, and that the guy is going to give him a replacement bit of deck for the one that's got fungus or something growing on it, apparently it can't be controlled, and it will rot the timber.

He went on to say he was going out to buy a fishtank, and that I probably don't want to do anything today since it's a wet rainy day. I hadn't noticed. I chatted for a few minutes, not really awake.

I got off the phone, slept a bit more, then I watched the end of the documentary I turned off earlier when I finally felt tired.

I got up just after that, and checked my email.

My hair is really pissing me off now, it's all long and messy and itchy constantly. I mucked around with it for a while. I think I might get a mohawk.

I mucked around on the computer for a while, emailing and stuff.

I checked the sat forums, someone told me to check my private messages on the forum, oops, there's about 10 private messages in here.. some from last month.

I read them, and replied.

I finally had some breakfast about 1pm.

I mucked around with the crappy sat decoder I can't get working again, someone suggested I try factory resetting it.. oh yeah, I never tried that.. so I did, and it didn't work, what a surprise.

I then watched some tv.

One guy on the forums wanted access to a card server, why not, it'll be a good test, and when I don't want him on there anymore, I'll just take his public id out of the access list, and that's the end of that.

Mucked around sending private messages back and forth for a couple of hours trying to get it working.

I gave up, I was just about to put some dinner in the oven (one of those slop/shephards pies that don't really work in the toaster oven).

My mate rang me again, he'd bought his fishtank, and then he thought it was too small, so he want back and got a bigger one. We chatted about the business for a bit, I really don't care anymore, I'm sick of the whole thing. I chatted for a while with him, said I'll see him on Tuesday to go to dinner, if not before. While I was on the phone, my mobile started ringing, I ignored it. My message service called me back while I was on the phone too, I ignored it.

I put the food in the oven. I needed to wash up, I couldn't get to the sink, for all the junk. I collected up all the recycling that was slowly getting strewn, and took 2 trips to dump it all in the bin.

I started washing up, my message service called back again, I answered it this time, it was the guy who's computer I fixed a couple of weeks ago, who rushed me, and it didn't get finished. He want's to drop and get his pc fixed tomorrow.

I finished washing up, came back to the computer. The guy had managed to get access to my card server, but it wasn't great, keep dropping out apparently. I think there is a network bottleneck somewhere causing it, UDP is a crappy protocol for this stuff.

I got my dinner, ate it.

I tried to call the guy back, line busy.

I started cleaning up a bit, I'm sick of the mess.

I sat on irc, I started looking in my access logs, I setup webalizer and ran it against my logs. I started going through them. I found John Kerry listed in my referers. "Who the hell is John Kerry?" I'm thinking. I went to the address, and the first thing I see is the titlebar, "John Kerry for President", I chuckled, I thought it was some teenager or someone being funny, like the "Ron Jeremy for President" poster.

Then the page loaded, and I realised it was serious, oh, that's right, the US is having an election soon, I thought I saw that while fast forwarding a news break on the tivo a few days ago.

I doubt my blog is linked on his page. I started looking in the logs, and I found the following:

acae5f3d.ipt.aol.com - - [25/Feb/2004:19:45:53 -0800] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "StarProse Referrer Advertising System 2004"
ac96d432.ipt.aol.com - - [27/Feb/2004:00:13:31 -0800] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "http://blog.johnkerry.com" "Paid for by John Kerry"

What a joke! Spamming my logs!

I think I should find some free (or cracked) referrer advertising system, use it to dump porn urls in people's logs, along with "Paid for by John Kerry".

I didn't call my mate back about going out. I can't be bothered, it's too cold and wet and yucky out there. We'd only be down at the crappy Leagues Club anyway, where there's nothing to do but drink overpriced watered down alcohol, and waste money on the pokies. All the while, I'd be down there with either wet clothes, or at the least, wet shoes and socks from the spray off the road.

Hmm. I think I might watch Temple of Doom.