I got up, went to work.

Worked all day, except for a bit of time I spent putting Jazzed Dailymail on my tivo, it's pretty cool.

I couldn't get it to run from cron though.

I went for lunch for once. I mailed out a tivo serial cable I should have sent about a week ago.

I left work about 6pm, a bit earlier than usual.

My headlight adjustment was good, it wasn't bouncing all around, or far too low.

I went to the supermarket, got some dinner, and went home.

There was a letter for me, another payslip for my work. Still got the wrong payrate on it. I'll have to ring them up again.

The temping agency called me on Friday, to let me know the pay would be a day late this week because of the public holiday, and I gave them my email address, but they never sent me anything.

It's just been one thing after another. First it took me about 8 weeks to get paid for the first bit of work I did, then the pay rate was wrong, then they charged over time, and they send the invoice for my work to the wrong person. I've spoken to them several times, and my pay rate is still wrong. Argh.

Apparently a computer had been dropped off. I went and looked, the pc that belongs to the guy at the college. Oh well, no one rang me or spoke to me, so it can just sit there until someone wants to tell me what I'm supposed to be doing with it.

I put my dinner in the oven, and watched some tv.

I noticed the tivo trying to change channels on the sat decoder, but it didn't change, it just flashed. Hmm, the card server must have gone wobbly again.

I checked it. It's off. Hmm. The board is very warm too.

I tried booting the machine back up, it booted, ran for a couple of seconds, and went off again.

Ah, last time this happened, was because the fan was not spinning in the power supply.

Looks like the same problem again.

I forced the fan around a bit, it was really tight. I tried booting the machine up again, still no good.

I ripped the cover off the power supply, hmm, looks pretty toasty in here, the board is all discoloured. I don't like my chances.

I unscrewed the fan, poured some oil in it, and got it turning again. it needed a ton of oil.

I put it back in, screwed it all back together. I plugged it back in.

Dad came in, yes, I'm aware the machine is down, the power supply is stuffed.

I tried booting it. It came up, it ran for about 15 seconds, and then went off again. Ok, PSU is toast. I need another one.

I tried another one I had hanging around, it did the same thing.

I tried another, it was dead.

I pulled out one machine, it had a proprietry connector on the PSU. D'oh. I pulled another machine out, aha, an atx power supply. I grabbed it out of the machine.

Dad went back inside.

I plugged the power supply in, tried to boot it, it's dead.

Argh!

aha, one more machine I'm not using here. I pilfered the PSU out of it, plugged it in, and booted it up. Woohoo, back up and running.

I now have a stack of 5 dead PSUs (there would be 6, but I ratted one yesterday for the tin from the cover to fix my bike).

My dinner was now over time in the oven, great, it'll be burnt, nope, it was just right, luckily.

I ate my dinner and finished watching Junkyard Wars.

I put the MotoGP on, I had to fast forward most of it (I don't have 6 1/2 hours to watch it all).

I found how to get Dailymail running out of cron, you have to redirect the output for some reason. I've never seen such nonsense before, but then a lot of the stuff on the tivo is like that, you have to do things that you normally don't have to.

I didn't end up going to bed until about 1am.