Friday, April 02, 2004

I went to bed after watching the movie last night.

I got up about 8.45am this morning, had a shower, got dressed, ate breakfast, and left.

I grabbed my crimping tool, some cable, rj45s, the switch, tivo serial cable.

I rode to the seniors centre, I left about 9.25am, the police didn't chase me there this week.

Just as I go there, about 10am, my mobile was ringing, it was my message service, I answered it, a message from the woman whose network I support.

Apparently the mail server had been changed, and they'd forgotten about the domain that her (and at least 50 others) use for their email, so her email address no longer worked, and did she want one under a different domain.

She wanted to know if I could get her a domain name, and sort it all out.

What a joke, they've changed the servers, and forgotten to move half the configuration, LOL, they have no idea, useless.

I went inside the club, said hello, and then I called the woman back. I sorted out getting a domain name for her, and setting up email. I would sort it when I finished at the club.

I got off the phone. I checked if the domain was available, it was, so I registered it.

My mate in the US who does my hosting (you know who you are :-) was a champion, and he set it all up for me immediately.

I got out of irc, and stopped mucking around, and got to work.

I plugged the switch in, crimped up a couple of cables, patched them in, and it was all done, I was finished about 11am.

I had lunch, and chatted for a while.

They paid me back for the switch I bought for them, and a few dollars for the rj45s.

One of the machines had problems running freecell, we mucked around for about an hour, and discovered that the nvidia utilities were causing it to go white, and then have an invalid page fault in cards.dll. I thought it was the virus scanner causing it, but it wasn't, just nview.

I ended up leaving the club just after 2pm.

I went back to the shopping centre (where I found the bag etc). I posted the tivo serial cable.

I decided to pop into the department store next to the post office, to see if I could find Tron on DVD.

While I was in there wandering around, some guy asked me if I was the "Sea FM Fugitive", no, I'm not, and I left.

I went into another department store, didn't find Tron, and as I left, the woman on the front door came straight over, here we go, no, I'm not trying to shoplift something, I don't have anything tucked into my jacket "Are you the Sea FM Fugitive?" she asks. Argh, "No, for the second time, I am not".

I went for a bit of a wander, went into Electronics Boutique, I'm looking at the DVDs, and some guy asks me if I'm the Fugitive. Oh, for God's sake. No.

I asked him why he picked me "oh, you look a bit strange, and you're keeping to yourself, just minding your own business".

Yeah, take a hint I thought, I'm minding my own business for a reason.

A couple of people talking behind me started talking about it, and I commented I had been asked 3 times so far.

I left there, and I looked in the next music shop, some chick came running up and asked me. I'm getting sick of this.

I then headed into another shop, some guy came racing up behind me and asked. No.

I went in, didn't find Tron, I left the shop. As I was walking back from the shop, some woman pushing a stroller with a bunch of snotty kids asked me. "No, I am not" "oh, is everyone asking?" "yes, they are" and I kept going.

That's 6 now.

I got a bit fed up at this point, and started heading to leave.

I stopped caring at this point, 2 more people asked, I can't remember their details.

I went into a music shop, found Tron, it was $19.99. Bought it.

I left, as I came back near the exit, some chick came wandering out of a shop and asked me. That's 9 times now.

I thought about hanging around to go 10 for 10, but I couldn't be bothered.

i went back to my bike, and left.

I went up to see the woman I registered the domain for, and set it up on her machine.

Apparently they'd fixed the mail server, but she still wanted to change over, because when I get my stuff up, she will move over to my service.

I set it up, had a chat for a while, and then I left.

I went to my mate's place (who went AWOL last night). He wasn't there, or my mate down from Newcastle, but his wife was.

I sat in for a while, she was watching Evolution, we finished watching that.

My mate's wife's phone rang, it was my mate, he was down in Sydney, with our mate who came down last night. I spoke to them after a few minutes, and they asked if I was interested in going down to the city tonight, since they mighe be staying down there. I said to call me when they knew what they were doing.

My mate's wife said she was going out tonight, but didn't have a way to get there, so I offered to take her. She had a shower and got ready. I sat and watched the tv for a while.

We took off, went to the supermarket, she bought lemonade and icecream to make snowballs, and I got some Coke to drink with my Scotch when I get home.

We went over to my mate's ex girlfriends place.

I went up, and setup kazaa on her machine, easier said than done, it's really hard to find kazaa lite now, it's just about been killed off the web.

I had a snowball while I mucked around.

I found it in the end, waited a while for it to download, and set it up.

I was wearing my "bridge climb" t shirt, and my mate's ex girlfriend asked if I had been, and if I got the photos. I found them on the web, and brought them up.

I've still got them up.. here.

We chatted for a while, and I left.

I came back near the supermarket, I got fuel.

I decided to pop in to my mate's place and find out if anything was going on.. noone and no cars there.

I went around to another mate's place, his car was there, but he was not. He didn't answer his phone either.

I gave up, and came home.

I'm about to put some fish and chips in the oven, and start getting pissed on Scotch. Then I'll watch Tron.

Yet another dissappointing Friday night.