I went back to looking at the config file. It seems you can't have different radius source address details depending on what telephone number the dialin comes from, you can only have 1. That's some of the issue.
I'm not sure what the rest of the issue is however. More investigation is needed.
About 5.15pm I put some pizza in the oven, and jumped in the shower.
I gelled my hair up, I think I need a haircut, this isn't really a mohawk anymore, it's just sort of mixed length mess.
I ate my pizza, just as I was eating the last slice my phone rang a couple of times, my mate letting me know he would be here to pick me up in a few minutes.
I sat and waited, he turned up, I went down and jumped in the car.
My other mate with him asked if I had the tickets. Duh. I came back inside and got them, and went back and got back in the car.
I had specifically thought earlier this afternoon that I had to make sure I took them with me. Oh well, doesn't matter, I have them, and we're going now.
My mate told me his rego sticker on the window was expired by 4 days, but that he had the new one. Well, there's nothing to worry about. I carried my rego sticker around in the saddle bag of my bike for months before I got around to getting a washer to attach the holder, like they are going to worry about the sticker on the window being out by 4 days, when he's got the paid sticker waiting to go on the window.
He wasn't convinced, so I got to sit there scratching the old sticker off the window so the new one could go on.
The other guy who was supposed to be going said he couldn't if we were going down at 6pm, so someone else could go.
We went and picked one of our other mates up. Just before we got on the freeway, we stopped at a service station and my mate ghot some petrol. One of the other guys in the car gave me half the price of The Who ticket I bought for him a few days ago. Apparently the others (who weren't going to this one) hadn't given him their money yet, so I'll have to chase that up.
Then we got on the freeway, and drove to the city.
As we got off the freeway, I had just finished removing the sticker from the window.
I didn't put the new one on, the window was far too grubby, and there was nothing to clean it with. I stuck the new sticker (still attached to the letter), in the gape between the glass and the seal, so it just held it there.
My mate can clean the window and put the sticker on later.
We were getting near going across the harbour bridge, at about 7.15pm, the traffic got really slow. We thought there must have been an accident it was backed up so far, but we didn't see anything as we got near the toll booths.
My mate missed the entry to the parking station, so we had to go around the block to go in. Halfway around the block, while waiting to turn the corner, some asian woman attempting to park her car just starts backing towards us without looking.
My mate reveresed, and whipped out of her way quick smart, apparently his horn is too hard to find.
We went into the parking station, it was fairly full. We found a parking spot, someone pulled up really close behind us, we waved for them to pass us, but there must not have been room. My mate moved forward a bit to pull in, so they could pass, and instead, the idiot behind just leans on his horn, and then drives into the spot we were trying to park in.
We kept looking, there were a few more spots close by, so it wasn't worth having an argument over nothing.
A couple of spots were far too tight, we found one that wasn't too bad, and my mate squeezed in.
We wandered out of the carpark, and towards the Entertainment Centre. It was now about 7.50pm, the show starts at 8pm, but that will be the accompanyment, for an hour or so.
We walked to the Entertainment Centre, and we decided we wanted a beer. It was now about 8pm. We wandered back away a bit, to an Irish pub. It took us 15 minutes to get served, appalling.
We drank our beer. The only place to stand was in near the pokies.
I put a dollar through one, got nothing. I played another one, won 2 dollars, so I took it out. Back where I started.
I'd finished my pint, so had one of the others. My mate who drove has a cold at the moment, and is on antibiotics, so he wasn't drinking, we were just waiting on the other guy, who ordered a pint and a half.
He dumped some of the half pint, my other mate dumped what was left of his Coke, and we went back to the Entertainment Centre.
Some guy outside near us said "$180 for a ticket", not sure if he was selling them (ie a scalper), or if he wanted to buy one, it wasn't clear.
We went in, we looked at the merchandise table. Not much there, a bunch of different shirts, all pretty ordinary, $40 each, for probably some $2 made in China shirt. They also had a "poster set" which was a few A4 sheets of different designs, album covers etc, $40 for that too.
We went in, found our seats. We were in about 9pm.
Row M in the nosebleed section. We were at about 60 degrees to the stage on the left side. It was an ok position.
The people in the row next to us, a guy and (presumably) his girlfriend commented, somewhat sarcastically, that we had missed the warmup band, "the bumblebees". Whatever.
We sat and waited for a few minutes, there was a guy selling drinks, ice creams, chips etc, but he didn't come up the stairs far enough, and I'll be buggered if I'm going all the way down those stairs and back up again. That would defeat the purpose of consuming the sugar.
Radiohead came out on stage about 9.10pm.
They went through, played all really good songs, it was brilliant. They played "Just" early in the piece, it was different from the album version, but still good, in its own live way, they played a few more new and old songs, all really good, before playing Paranoid Andriod, an unreal live version if ever there was.
It was pretty cool seeing them drag a piano out a few times for Thom to use.
They played a few more songs, and went off the stage the first time about 10.20pm.
My mate thought they would only do one or two more songs, so he snuck down into the floor area, where people could mosh (not that Radiohead is really moshing music).
They played about 4 more songs, went off the stage again, about 10.45pm.
They came back out, and my mate came back up, he'd been found in the floor area and sent back, they played another 4 or 5 songs, with a brilliant ending, a massively entended version of "Everything in its Right Place", and left the stage again about 11.10pm.
I was very impressed. I didn't expect to get 2 hours worth, I was thinking maybe an hour and a half.
They didn't do Creep (surprisingly), High & Dry, or Optimistic, which I would have liked to have heard (and maybe Blackstar), but I was still impressed. I heard Just, and Paranoid Android, so I was happy.
I can't really remember all the songs they did play, there were so many, here's some of the ones I remember hearing:
2+2=5
A Reminder
Airbag
Everything in its Right Place (finale)
Fake Plastic Trees (unreal, didn't expect to hear this one, it went off).
Go to Sleep
How Can You be Sure
I Might be Wrong
Idioteque
Like Spinning Plates
Nice Dream
No Surprises
Sit Down, Stand Up
We Suck Young Blood (in one of the encores, eventually people got the hang of the clapping)
You and Whose Army (with the "come on" used by Thom to encourage us to make noise)
Some they may have done, but I'm not sure:
Electioneering
I Will
In Limbo
Lucky
Morning Bell
There's probably a proper list of what they played somewhere, or some hardcore fan was there writing them down.
It doesn't help that I've only listened to Radiohead for the last 2 days. I now can't remember when I heard the songs.
We filtered out of the Entertainment Centre, had another look at the merchandise, it's still ordinary, and we kept going. If they had had a Paranoid Android shirt I would have bought it.
When we got outside, one of my mates mentioned the bogans behind us that were annoying. Throughout the whole show, at the end of each song, one of them would shout "Play it again", and I thought they were also shouting "Thong" for some reason, and it wasn't until then that I realised they must have been shouting "Thom", pronouncing the silent H, illiterate fscks.
If I had realised it earlier, I probably would have turned around and corrected them, or just told them to shutup.
Other than the bogans (because it's impossible to go to a concert without that sort of nonsense), this is easily the best concert I have ever been to. It's going to take a lot to top this one.
We walked back to the car park where the car was (along with a bunch of other people, popular car park). Got in the line, paid for the parking, got in the line for the life, got in the car, and left.
We decided to go for a cruise through Kings Cross (Red Light District) on the way out of the city, for a quick perve.
There were some really attractive girls in there, it's sad to think they do that sort of thing.
On the way out of the city, my mate missed a turn, and so we went around some empty streets to get back and get out of the city the quicker way to get home.
We stopped just before getting on the freeway to come home. It was now about 12.15am. We got some junk food, and drinks, stood around and ate, drank, chatted, before getting back in the car, about 12.35am.
We came back up the freeway, my mate dropped off the other guy at his place, on the way, a traffic light turned orange, and my mate just gunned it through, very clever considering there was a cop car sitting at the other corner of the intersection waiting to come through it. They didn't even look.
My mate dropped me at home after that, saying that he would call me tomorrow afternoon, to work out what we are going to do tomorrow night, because it's a long weekend.
Hmm, Anzac day, I think this is the day you can play 2 up.
2am. I'm going to bed.

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