Friday..

Got up late again, didn't get to work until 11am.

I was working on the Oracle querying stuff, for about an hour, then I got an email about an Oracle outage.

I emailed the guy upstairs to find out what Oracle instance it effected, and it was the one I was working on, but it was Oracle Application Server, not the Oracle tables themselves, so I was still ok, because I don't use OAS, because it's so dodgy.

I kept working, then I got a phone call from the guy upstairs, telling me they were going for lunch.

I wandered up, and we went across the road to get something.

There were a bunch of guys from Orange at work, so they followed us, and we set with them.

It took the cafe forever to make my burger today, useless. After lunch, I came back to work.

I went upstairs at one point, to find out about the tape archive database. The guy upstairs showed me the searching tool he'd made up in Jdeveloper. It took forever to load the form to get the details of the file you wanted to search for, it was hopeless.

I went back downstairs, and rewrote it in php, it took me about an hour, half that time was spent making my php version look like the java version.

I went back up, showed him, but then he complained that it took longer to return the results, once you actually get to the search form (which his took several minutes to do), and only because he was viewing it in Internet Exploder, and it wouldn't render the table until it had all the rows, and also because my search finds more files than his, because I'm using wildcard searching.

Anyway, he then complained that I didn't have the email function, which sends an email containing the details of the file to be restored (tape it's on etc) to the sysadmin to restore.

It was now 5pm, so we decided to leave.

I went back to my desk, and quickly put in the button to click on to generate the email, (but none of the functionality), then I burned the beta tivo image I'd downloaded a couple of days before on a cd, and we left.

I went down to the pub with them, I had the worst headache for some reason.

I had a couple of soft drinks, we sat in the pub until about 7.30pm, then we went to the pub where we went for dinner the other day.

I rode down there, so I got there early than the others, I waited around until they got there.

We went to order, and were then told that they don't serve food on Fridays. (Normally everyone goes home for the weekend, but a couple of the guys have to work up north over this weekend, so they were staying over the weekend, rather than going home.

We stood there for a bit, no one was really making a decision what to do, where to go for food etc.

A couple of the guys had beers, and then they decided to have a game of pool.

I was getting a bit fed up at this point, I was starving, and had a headache. If we don't get some food soon, I'll just go home I think.

They finished their beers, and then we decided to go back to a pub near work, where they were staying, to get some dinner.

I rode back up there, and the guys wandered back up a few minutes later.

We went in, grabbed a menu, and went and worked out what we wanted.

We went in and ordered, I think it was about 8.45pm now, the food turned up a little while later, a bit after 9pm.

We ate our meals, then they had more beers, and we chatted for a bit.

Just after 10pm, I decided to go home, so I went down, jumped on my bike, and took off.

Some of the the trip back was interesting. I got to the road which leads to the freeway, there was some idiot going 50 in the 60 zone, with a car sutck behind them.

I thought about overtaking, in the median turning lane, but it would just be my luck that I'd get busted doing it (since I'd have to be in there a while to ovetake 2 cars), so I just put up with it, I knew a roundabout with an extra lane where I could overtake was coming up.

We got to one roundabout, if I'd hammered on, then I could have got around, but it had been raining a little while before, so I decided not to push it, the proper roundabout where I could easily pass was coming up very shortly.

We plodded through the first roundabout, then as soon as the second lane to the next roundabout started, I got straight in there, sped up, passed the first car, was just about to get past the slow idiot, when without looking, they changed lanes, and I had to brake as hard as I could without the back wheel losing traction to slow down. Stupid idiot.

I was about to change back to the other lane, but the car I had just passed had sped up, and blocked me from getting in front of it. It managed to get around the roundabout in front of the slow idiot, leaving me stuck behind it, because the 2 lanes on the roundabout then merge back to one.

As soon as the second lane started again, I got in there, starting speeding up, and was just starting to overtake the slow idiot, when their blinker went on, and they started to change lanes on top of me, hadn't looked again.

This time I blasted the horn, they stopped changing lanes, I screwed on to full throttle, flipped my visor up, and as I went past the car, gave them a mouthful, and kept going.

GVees it was a thrill, I was still really annoyed though, stupid driver, get off the road.

The rest of the trip was uneventful, didn't see any cops.

I got to a couple of kilometres away from home, and I had to stop to wait for an oncoming car to pass me, before I could turn. While I was waiting there, I heard this terrifically loud noise. I didn't know what it was, it sounded like a truck thundering past, and the road was moving, but there was nothing there.

Once I turned, I realised it was a freight train going under the road I'd been waiting on, it scared the shit out of me.

I got home just after 11pm. I sat and mucked around on the computer for a while, started backing up an 8gb disk out of an xbox, to replace the 2gb or so disk in my proxy server, that the bearings have started to go in, and then I went to bed about 2am.