The phone rang and woke me up about 9.30am.

A guy whose computer I'd fixed a few weeks ago, apparently AVG had come up saying it was a trial, and what did he want to click on.

Ugh, can't people work things out for themself. I said he should go to the website, and download the free version.

I fell back asleep. I didn't wake up until 11.20am. Bugger.

I got up, I had a shower, had some breakfast.

My phone rang again, it was my mate who was in Thailand recently (and wants me to start an ISP for him).

Apparently the place he's contracting to at the moment, where I worked a couple of days, a few weeks ago, have a bit of work for me, at least 2 weeks worth, maybe a month.

Great, just what I need, more work. I mentioned to him that I didn't think I had been paid for the couple of days work I did there previously, and I'll need to chase that up.

Anyway, he said he wanted me to try to find some time to make up a proposal for setting up his isp, and some sort of an arrangement to look after it. I said I would have to see, based on the amount of work I have at the moment (and that he's just lined up more), and the fact that mine isn't even running yet, so I don't even know what is involved with running mine.

I got off the phone with him, and I left, about 12.30pm.

I went to the electronics shop, and got the parts I need to make the tivo serial cables.

I went across the road to where the colo guy's shop is.

It was now about 1.30pm. He wasn't in, he'd gone to a job a bit up the coast, would be leaving in about 10 minutes, and so wouldn't be back for probably an hour.

I worked out that would make it about 2.30pm he'd be back, and I'm supposed to be going to see the accountant at 3pm, so I said I would come back after that, she told me they would be open until either 5 or 6 tonight.

I went around the corner to the shopping centre, I went in to get some lunch. I had a look at the DVDs in the music shop first, nothing worth buying.

I got some food, and sat and ate.

I was about 3/4 through my meal, when my phone rang.

It was my mate who broke his wrist on his bike a while ago.

He wanted to know what I was up to, and how I was going, I chatted for a bit about what's been going on.

He asked me if I had heard what was going on in his life, and I told him that I hadn't heard anything.

Apparently his Mum had suffered some sort of a brain injury, and wasn't in a very good way at the moment. They expect she will make a good recovery, but that it will take a while.

He's going to start looking after his brother, and his wife, who's over in the US still, is coming out in the next month to help out.

I spoke to him for quite a while in the end, maybe 20 minutes, and then I got off the phone, finished my meal, and decided to go home, to start looking at the cisco stuff I needed to do to get the dialin working.

I forgot about the stupid traffic lights again, 20 minutes to get through them again.

On the way home, as I got into the roundabout near the club we always end up at (and where I play snooker), I saw some guy about to come blasting into the roundabout without looking.

I put my brakes on, enough so that I could pull up and he would just go flying across in front of me, but he noticed me at the last second and locked up his brakes to stop.

I then just shook my head at him (what else can you do, really?), and took off.

I got home about 2.45pm, Dad asked what I was doing, and I said I was just dumping my stuff, and then going to the accountact.

I put my stuff inside, went and jumped in the car.

We went down to the accountant, as I got out of the car my phone rang, it was message service, a message from Dad asking what I was doing. useful. delete. hangup.

We went in and saw the accountant, it was pretty much a waste of time for me to be there, nothing really concerned me.

We were in there for maybe 1/2 hour, and then we left.

We came back home, I got my stuff.

I chatted with Dad for a minute, about trying to get things working, and then I took off.

I went back out to see the guy, he was there. After about 20 minutes of him dealing with customers and phone calls, we got into actually looking at configuring his cisco ras.

We fiddled around, dumping the exsiting config to a file, then we tried to work out how to add in extra modem pools, radius server settings, didn't really get anywhere.

We looked at a few different documents on the subject, but there's nothing really clear, that tells you the basic idea of how to configure it.

In the case of my ras, you put in "contexts", where you define an incoming number, ip addresses to assign to connections, and what radius servers to use for calls coming in on that number, it's easy (if only the damn thing worked!), but over in cisco land, it's a pain in the bum, because everything's backwards.

You have to add a modem pool, with a calling number, this just allows you to limit connections, not specify different radius servers or anything.

You then add in "dialler" settings, which refer to ip addresses to assign (which you then set up separately again), and it seems you can only have a single radius server configured globally.

While going through the config, my phone rang again.

It was the guy from the senior's club that I'm supposed to be giving a talk to on Monday, he just wanted to know that I was still going to do it, and some details about getting a network card for one of the machines at the club.

He also mentioned that one of their overhead projectors is very blue looking, he tried changing the settings, and factory resetting it, but it didn't change anything.

He called up Sony, and they told him it may be caused by the unit getting bumped or dropped, and the mirrors getting out of alignment.

The unit is not in warranty anymore, so I said I would have a look at it first, to see if the mirrors just need adjusting, before they send it off to be fixed (because Sony don't even fix their own stuff).

He asked if I wanted to ride to his place on Monday morning, and jump in the car to go to the meeting, I said I would think about, if it was raining or something.

I said I would talk to him on Sunday night, or see him on Monday at the meeting, and I got off the phone.

We tried setting up an extra dialler config, so that we could limit my lines so I don't take all his, but that didn't work either, because when we dialled in on the number we had configured as "my number" it was randomly assigned to one of the lines on one of the E1s attached to the other ras.

After a couple of hours, it was now after 6pm, we decided to investigate setting both of his ras up to query my radius servers, because I'm using freeradius, and within freeradius on my machine, I can setup fallthroughs to proxy the request to his radius servers, rather than just failing.

If that works, then at some point I'll build him a new radius server, using freeradius, instead of the cistron stuff he's running now, and also change him to freeside, and get rid of the accounting thing he's got now, that he says isn't great.

He grabbed a pc out of the office to give me (I suppose I would have just strapped it on the back of the bike), then decided he would get a pc from home for me, so we'll work that out next week.

I asked him about opening in the office up in Gosford, to collect payments or whatever, for a couple of hours one day a week, and he said something like that would be fine.

I got on my bike, remembered I had to get fuel, and I took off.

I went to the service station. I filled the tank, damn, $15.75 worth of fuel, I don't think I've ever spent that much on a fuel up before.

I came towards home. I realised I had nothing to eat for dinner, so I went to the supermarket.

I went in, got some crappy frozen dinner thing, and decided to get a personal pizza too, since I'm always hungry again, and I got a bottle of Coke.

I was lucky enough to find an empty checkout, paid, and left.

As I was putting the stuff in my bike, a couple of bogans outside the pub in the carpark of the supermarket were shouting at each other, then they started shoving each other.

I watched for a bit, then I put the stuff in my bike, watched a bit more, then I sat on my bike and just watched it.

I think they had been thrown out of the pub for arguing, and now they were just continuing to argue with each other outside.

There was a fair bit of shoving going on, but no real fighting.

Some teenybopper guys turned up to the car in the spot next to me, they started watching it and laughing.

One of the guys arguing went away, and a woman came out, so the guys in the car thought it was all over. They started the car up.

I saw the flanno wearing guy come back again, so I told them, and they turned the engine off again, to watch a bit more.

A car turned up looking for a parking spot in the aisle between us and the fight, they saw it, and stopped to watch.

Some woman came out, and started getting in here car, she saw what was going on, and stopped to watch.

There was now about 8 people in my close area all watching these idiots carry on.

The woman came back to try to talk to them again, and then it just turned into a three way argument, before the flanno wearing bogan went away again.

One bogan and the woman remained talking, then arguing, and the bogan shouted "go away you fat c***" to woman, and the flanno bogan came back again.

He shoved the other bogan down on to a seat, and that was pretty much the end of it.

The guys in the car next to me had seen enough, so the driver said "see you later mate" to me, and he shut the door.

I took off, they took off a bit after me, and I came home.

My phone just rang again, it was the lady I put a new hard drive in for a little while ago, apparently when they try to play music cds is says there is no cdrom drive attached.

Perhaps I forgot to attach the IDE cable back to the cdrom drive after I replaced the hard disk.

I said I would call her when I find some time (yeah, right, I'm not booked up until like halfway through June).