I ended up going to bed at 3am. I didn't get to sleep until after 4am.

I woke up at 6.30am. Ugh, have I reached the point where my body doesn't want more than 3 hours sleep or something.

I went back to sleep, and woke up again just after 9am.

I got out of bed about 9.40am. I had a shower, ate some breakfast, and left home just after 10am.

I took the street directory and my mp3 player with me, so I can go from the club down the freeway to get a new powersupply.

My bike was really mucking around when I started it, misfiring and wanting to stall. I decided maybe one of the spark plugs was failing, it's not felt right for a couple of weeks now.

I stopped in at the motorbike place on the way to the club, and I bought a pair of new sparkplugs.

I went to the club, wandered into the snooker room, got in there about 10.30am.

I watched my mate and one of his mates finish their game, then I played against my mate. I don't remember the finish, it was close, I either won or lost by only a couple of points.

I played another game, against the other guy, I got beaten by a fair bit, he's a really good player.

The other 2 played again, I went and got a drink. I was going to play the poker machine that I usually win a few dollars on, but it was gone. They've changed all the pokies. I played a different one, lost.

I went back up.

Watched the end of the game, there was about 50 points difference at the end.

I played another game, against the guy who's really good, I played appallingly, and ended up losing by about 75 points.

My mate reckons I need glasses. Maybe I just have a problem with depth perception.

It was now about 1pm. We decided to leave, to get some lunch. My mate had his car in getting serviced, so he was being picked up by his daughter, and taken to get his car.

I wandered around with him for a minute, to find them.

I came back to my bike, and put the sparkplugs in. It didn't make much difference, The old ones were all black and crappy looking though, I put them in before I went to Brisbane nearly a year ago. I adjusted the idle screw a bit, that made it a bit better, but it still wasn't right. This thing really needs a service.

I took off, went up the freeway to go to Burger King for lunch. On the way up the hill, my bike didn't sound very good. I think there might be a hole in the exhaust, or the seals have failed. I know when I got it serviced last year (10000kms ago), the guy told me that part of the exhaust was failing, and would need to be replaced on the next service. I don't think I've changed the oil recently either.

Anyway, I got there, when I put the stand down, the engine didn't cutout until the stand was right down, weird, normally it cuts out about halfway. I noticed the little bit of metal that presses the cutoff switch had rotated again, like happened when I had the crash before Christmas getting out of the way of the ambulance.

I loosened the bolt, forced the part back around where it is supposed to be, and tightened it back up, oops, a bit too much, now the stand is really stiff to put up/down. Oh well.

I called my mate, I'd been waiting a few minutes now. He answered the phone, told me where he was, and said he was on his way.

I had a good few minutes. I decided to go and get fuel instead, nearby. I went in, did that, then I had to get back to the burger place, because the road is so busy, I had to go left, find the next road, and then come back. That wasted a kilometre.

I pulled back into the car park,and hopped off. Just as I did, my mate came into the carpark and parked.

We went in, got our food, sat and chatted for a while. My mate had his grandkids with him.

We all left, I checked the map (wasn't sure where I could get off the freeway when going south), put my mp3 player on, and took off.

I went down the freeway, got off, rode to the place. It was 58km there (I was arguing with my mate how far it was, I said it was about 45km there, he said it was about 65).

I bought the powersupply, they only had a 400W, nothing bigger. Damn, we'll see how long it lasts. I also bought the CDRs I was supposed to buy the other day while I was here (I asked for them, but the guy didn't list them, so I didn't get them, but wasn't charged). The guy totalled it up, and I paid.

He sent the lackey off to make up the order, he came back a minute later, "we haven't got the CDRs". Hmm, so I got a refund.

I got my PSU, chucked it in my bike.

I was feeling really fatigued for some reason. I wandered over to the cafe near the parts place, to get something with some sugar in it. They had a single chocolcate bar left in the place, a cherry ripe. Yuck, but I need the sugar. I got it, and wandered back over to my bike.

There was some dopey fat dog wandering around, from one of the other units, it kept wandering over, it wandered over when I had my chocolate, and sat and watched me eat it. I gave him a bit, and then when it was finished, and I said "no more", he immediately wandered away. Typical.

I put my earbuds back in, helmet on, and took off. I got back on the freeway, and came home. When I got home, the trip counter was on 103km. So we were both right.. from my place to the parts place it's 45km, like I estimated, from my mate's place down there, it's about 56km.

I got home, there is some mail shoved under the door. A Dell brochure as usual. I'll look at it and then throw it away. There was also a letter, from ITP (place that does tax returns). Hmm. I opened it, it's claiming I haven't put in my 02/03 tax return yet, and if I don't arrange to do it in the next month, I'll get a fine.

I'll have to get that sorted. I checked my group certificate from the work I was doing for my mate's dad who own's the aircon business, I paid $1400 in tax, and I should get it all back, based on what I earned for the year.

I'll get it sorted, get my money back. I'll get my bike serviced (and a new tyre probably), and then with what's left I might see if I can buy a new PC. I've put up with an 800Mhz machine from over 3 years ago being my best machine for long enough now.

My brother came and gave me another easter egg, from my Grandma this time.

Oh well, I'm out of here in 20 minutes or so, going back up to have dinner with my mate at the club.

I'll take the svideo extension cable and a couple of blank cds with me, I'll stop in at my mate (who was in the US recently)'s place, give him the cable I made, and get him to burn win2k SP3 on a CD for me, to give to the woman at the college where I'll be networking.