I got up about 6.45am, and went to work at DMR again.

Nothing really eventful happened on the way, it took me a bit over an hour to get there as usual.

I sat and started working on the script.

I had a chat with the technical guy I'm working for, he gave me the box containing the software they hope to use to replace the proprietry database with. I don't have high hopes for it, however.

He told me to take it home, have a look at it, work out how it works.

I went back to my export script, and verification scripts.

I got a call from my mate who does the plastering. Apparently he can't get on the internet, he got his camera going however. He wants me to go and see if I can work out what problems he's having getting on the internet. I said that Saturday morning as the earliest time I had available, and he said that would be ok, and I arranged it for 9.30am. Ugh, I wanted to be sleeping then.

I worked out the syntax of the request for the export script (since noone ever got me the cgi script I was after).

I went up to run a test, and was able to get a few files to come out. Woohoo.

The log files from the request ended up in the wrong place, so I had to find a way to sort that out, and a few other little problems, like the filename now being set properly, but that's a fault in the web export script I will have to try to work around, but otherwise, it was a successful test.

I went for lunch with my mate. I have a terrible memory, I don't remember what we went and had. I think we went for pasta, but that might have been Monday, I remember getting a salad roll from the shop next to the building, where I get my coffee in the morning, that must have been it.

I went back in after that, worked a bit more on the scripts. The technical guy and others that could have helped at that point had all left, and gone to the data centre to do some work, so there was not much I could do at this point. I said I would work on the stuff a bit more at home tonight.

I left about 4.45pm today, early :-)

I rode towards home. I got off the freeway fairly early, a bit after 6pm, so I decided to go and visit my mate I had arranged to see on Saturday morning, so I could sleep in hopefully.

I went down there, to find that he wasn't there. His son was, so I was at least able to get in the house, but he locked the computer room, so I couldn't look at the pc.

I chatted to his son for a while, who had just got home from labouring all day, and wanted to have a shower, so I left at that point, I possibly still have to go and fix a PC tonight, that I'm really not in the mood to do.

I left, I went to the supermarket between his place and home, that I go to every now and then, and usually bump into a guy I did the motorbike course with a while back, but he wasn't there this time.

I bought some greasy frozen thing for dinner, and came home.

I was in the middle of eating it (after cooking it obviously), and working on my scripts, when I got a phone call.

I didn't recognise the number, so I was hesitant to answer it, in case it was the woman who's pc I was supposed to be fixing. I was going to call her, to reschedule, but I've lost her number.

I wasn't in the mood for getting an ear bashing right at this minute, but I risked it, and I answered it anyway.

It was one of my mates, whose birthday it is in a couple of days (oops, found out later it was actually his birthday yesterday). He was wanting to know if I was available to go to his birthday dinner tomorrow night.

I told him that I would most likely be available to do that, depending on how long I was working tomorrow, but that I would almost certainly be there, and he told me the details.

He then said he was at work (explaining why I didn't recognise the number), and that he had to get back to work.

I got back to eating and scripting.

I had brought the software home I'm going to be trying to use with the 2 million files from the database, but I didn't end up getting a chance to look at it, I spent all my time scripting instead.

About 11pm, I decided to copy the cds, to look at it later (perhaps on the weekend), then I found that 1 cd had 65mb on it, another had about 3mb, and the other had 600k on it. As a result, I just copied the files off the cds.

I got all my stuff ready for tomorrow, and I went to bed about 11.30pm.