I decided to go a bit later today, to see if I could miss all the rush hour traffic.

I didn't get up until a bit after 7am, had a shower, and got ready.

Apparently it's going to rain later today, so I brought my drysuit, and different gloves, I just shoved them in the saddle bag, I don't want to have to drag my bag around again today.

I realised I hadn't put my phone on to charge last night. I'll charge it on the way..

I went down, loaded up my bike. I put my phone on charge (I've got a car charger in my bike, I plug it into the cigarette lighter socket I wired on a couple of days after I got my bike).

I left about 7.50am.

The freeway was a bit lighter this morning, and I just came straight off the freeway at the end.

The traffic flowed pretty well this morning, and there were a few gaps at the lights I was able to take advantage of.

I got to DMR about 9am. Typical, I left about 1/2 hour later, and got here 10 minutes later.

I grabbed the bits and pieces out of my bike, and headed to the building. I grabbed a coffee on the way in today.

I came in, sat down, and started working.

I wanted internet access, and the machine I was using had no proxy settings. my mate's machine is outside of the firewall, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

I went over, checked if he still had putty on his machine, nope, so I grabbed my memory key, plugged it in, copied it off to his machine.

I setup an ssh tunnel on his machine (I tried this before, but when I investigated it later, it's because tunneling is blocked by the machine I was trying to tunnel through last time). I came back to my pc, and I tried sshing into one of my servers, where I had setup a tunnel.

It asked me if I wanted to log in, because the signature was unknown, woohoo, this might work, and then I got a connection closed error. "Software caused connection close" or something. Hmm.

I tried connecting again, now I just got connection refused errors.

I went over to see if putty had crashed or something, "oh, did you want that running?" asks my mate. Hmm. I started it back up again.

I came back over, and tried logging in, this time I got a login prompt. I was successfully able to login. I reconfigured squid on my server to allow the ip address I was coming from (although the tunnel would probably have taken care of that), and then I was able to browse. Woohoo.

I started going through the documentation from yesterday, making a few updates, and writing these blogs.

At about 11.45am, I realised I didn't have my phone. Oops. I left it charging in my bike.

I went out and got it, 19 missed calls, and only half a battery, it must have moved around, and stopped charging, d'oh.

My message service just rang me again, I only had one message, from 8.08am (Who the hell would ring me then? they're lucky I'm working, or I would have been bloody annoyed).

It was the guy who I went to see, and fix his wireless ADSL recently.

I guess I'll call him back now.