Went to bed at 5am this morning.

Slept until the alarm woke me at 11am. Lay in bed half asleep until 11.45.

I decided I had better get up, because I had that guy coming to get this pc fixed.

I got up, bummed around on the computer, cleaned up the bits and pieces hanging around.

I dragged out a power cord, found a keyboard and mouse.

midday came and went. I bummed around on the computer.

I ate some breakfast.

The guy finally turned up about 1.30. He wanted to watch the grand prix, so I grabbed my remote controls. (Another pic here). And put it on.

He watched the grand prix for a bit, while I fiddled on his pc, there wasn't really anything to be done. I checked the settings, dumped the temporary internet files, and the temp directory, just fiddling stuff wasting time.

After about 45 minutes, he asked me to see if I could restore a file he had accidently deleted a few days earlier. He has some "go back" program, which I tried to use, it looked ok, but all the versions of the file I restored were all the same, and corrupt.

I dug out Norton's old Unerase, but it kept complaining "Unable to read disk", I tried using "lock", but that made no difference. It's probably because it's FAT32 or something.

The guy had tried to pay for the modem I sent him too, but the payment was rejected, so he gave me a cheque instead. He asked me what I was going to charge him, I should have charged him $25 or something, but I didn't, because most of the stuff (besides the deleted file, which I didn't end up fixing anyway) was stuff that should have been done originally, but he rushed me, and it didn't get done.

He left, and I've just bummed around with email and stuff.

I decided to get my camera out to take a picture of all the remotes, and it won't work, doesn't power on. I'm trying to use a 5v adapter, which should work, even though the camera wants 6v, since it also runs off batteries, and 4 batteries won't supply 6v for very long. I can't use the normal adapter (which I can set to 6v), which I know works, because it's powering my phoenix programmer.

I eventually found some batteries, and shoved them in. The camera will power on and work fine, as long as I only want to look at pictures in the memory. As soon as I open the lens, all these white lines flash across the screen, and it turns off. Must be buggered.

I dug out my ultra crappy pencam thing, and used it to take the above pictures. This camera is crap, looks like about 100 kilopixel.

I don't really need all those remotes, there are:

4 sat remotes there (and I rarely need to use 1),
3 dvd remotes (I only need 1, and I usually use the receiver remote anyway),
2 vcr remotes, that I never need,
1 tv remote (that I need for one button)
1 receiver remote, that I usually use for changing the input or running the dvd player
1 tivo remote, that replaces the remotes for the sat, vcr, receiver volume, tv power.