I got stuck into coding for the rest of the afternoon.

At 5.45pm, one of the guys called me up, to find out if I was still at work, and to let me know that everyone was going down the pub.

I said I'd go down in about 10 minutes, and he said he'd see me then, and we'd go down there.

A few minutes later everyone around me said they were going down, so I grabbed my stuff, and left with them.

I moved my bike down the road, and parked behind the pub.

Went in, and found tons of people in there, apparently 3 people are leaving, so they're all going to dinner.

I had a couple of beers, and then just before everyone left to go across to the Thai restaurant, one of the guys bought another round, so we had to drink those.

It seems they didn't want to go to dinner, and that was the excuse. We stayed drinking in there for a while, I think I had another beer.

We decided to go to the other pub where we played pool (just before Christma), to get some dinner.

I went up and dumped my stuff in the guy's room again, so I don't have to drag everything around. When we were in there, the guy said I could stay in there if I wanted, because there was 2 beds in there.

We locked up, and went back down, and started towards the other pub.

One of the guys had to get money out, so he went to the ANZ atm, since he's with ANZ. There's a Newcastle Permanent closeby, so I went down there to get some money out, and avoid a charge for using another bank's atm.

I went back, and then we headed to the other pub. We got there about 2 minutes after 8pm, and they stopped serving food.

We had more beers. We played a couple of games of pool, I was crap, and lost both games. We had more beers.

While I was playing pool, one of my mates that works at Target called me, to follow up on the sms from earlier, about me dropping in to pickup some of the money he owes me for concert tickets on my way home.

I told him I didn't know what time I'd be back, if at all, since I might stay up here.

After the games of pool, one of the guys I was with started sending silly sms to people, having a bit of fun with other people that work there (who weren't there with us).

I put some money in the jukebox, and put a couple of songs on. Something by the Rolling Stones, and The Who I think.

A bit after 10pm, we asked the bartender if he knew anywhere to get food, and said there was a couple of places down the end of the road.

We had more beers, and I put more songs on the jukebox.
Some Led Zeppelin, a Fleetwood Mac song, and a couple of others I don't remember.

After only a couple of them had played, we decided to go and get something to eat, down the road, apparently there's a pizza place down there.

We got down there, the pizza place was closed, there was a kebab place next door, so we went in there.

One of the guys I was with asked if they had pizzas, somehow I don't think so.

The three of us ordered beef kebabs, and the chick starting making them, then said she only had enough meat for 2, and did one of us want a chicken one, the guy who's room my stuff was in said he'd have a chicken one.

She asked what we wanted on it, sauce etc, he ordered hot chili, I'd ordered tomato sauce on mine.

She finished making them, and we paid for them. I asked to make sure which one was which, and she looked at them, then said "It's all the same to me".

We left, and started wandering up the road eating them.

I got a couple of mouthfuls in, and thought the tomato sauce I'd ordered was on fire, I then realised I'd ended up with the chicken one, with hot chili on it.

Oh well, I finsihed it. We kept wandering up the road, and a couple more sms were sent.

Someone called the guy I was with (who he'd been sending sms to), and he had a conversation while we wandered along.

We went back to the pub with the pool table again, it was still open until 11pm, and it was only 10.30pm or so.

We had more beers, and sat and chatted, the other guy was wandering around on the phone outside.

The bartender put a bunch of money in the jukebox, $12 I think, since he picked a song, and then told us there was a bunch of credits there, and there were 17 left when I went to pick some, and it was 6 for $4.

I put on Rocketman by Elton John, and then a couple of Brian Ferry and Roxy Music songs, Love is the Drug, and Let's stick together.

We sat and chatted a bit more after that, and then we headed off to another pub, since this one was closing soon, and the other one was open for a while longer.

We left, and wandered up to the other one, went in, we bumped into another guy from work, the guy from Orange who's taking over the IT stuff. The crazy cowboy guy from the other pub when we were in the before Christmas was in here too, but he left us alone.

I had been thinking about riding home, before the last couple of beers I had at the pub where we played pool, but then decided bugger it, I'll stay up here, so I had another couple of drinks, a couple of cans of Beam and coke, since this pub was really seedy, and didn't have any "exotic" beers, ie imported.

I put more songs on in the jukebox in there, a couple of The Doors songs.

Just before midnight, we were told it was last drinks, and they were packing up the bar. The guy we'd bumped into from work bought 4 cans of Beam, takeaway.

The pub had all foreign money stuck up above the till, which we were looking at, and I commented that it looked like my wallet, and got out the 4 USD notes I've got in there.

We started looking at it, and talking about all the crazy stuff on there, lots of triangles, the pyramids, the "all seeing eye", and the Latin which says something about "a new world order".

One of the guys had gone to the loo a bit before, and disappeared, the others went to find him, I just waited at the bar, they came back a couple of minutes later, he'd wandered into another part of the pub, looking at all the architecture.

They'd closed the doors, and packed up all the chairs, and were printing out the sales for the night from the til, so we left. It was just after midnight.

We wandered back to the pub we were staying in, one of the guys was in the other pub across the road, so he left.

We tried to go into the after hours entrance, but the key wouldn't work. We were there fiddling with it for a bit, apparently the door jams up. The guy from Orange managed to get the door unstuck by jamming his key inbetween the doors, while unlocking it with the other key.

The three of us went up, and sat out on the balcony, and we got into the cans he'd bought.

We sat and chatted about all the stuff that was going on at work, and then we talked about tivo, and then the guy's who room I was staying in mentioned about how people know my name from the tivo mailing list, and I think I'm some sort of a hero, that was pretty funny.

He then went inside, and came back a minute later with a glass of Tang for me, apparently it's some sort of a running gag.

I drank that, they'd opened the fourth can of Beam, which was for the other guy, but he'd gone to bed in the other hotel, so I filled the glass up from that, and we finished that off.

About 2am, the guy went in and made us cups of tea, we had those and chatted more.

We eventually decided to go to bed, about 3.15am.

I went in, and got into bed, it took me a little while to get to sleep, and it was a pretty restless night, it was too hot, even with the air conditioner on full blast.