I woke up again at 7.30am, the other guys were gone, and the tv was off. (See yesterday's blog for an explanation of why I'm sleeping on the lounge at a mate's place).

I thought about getting up, but was too tired, and dozed off again.

I was half woken up a bit later, perhaps around 8am, by someone rattling around in the kitchen area, and then the door closing.

I went back to sleep, woke up again at 8.30am. I couldn't get comfortable again, so I got up, grabbed my stuff, and went out.

It was still humid and warm outside, it had pissed down with rain, and was all overcast and crappy. I dried my bike seat off, put my gear on, and took off for home.

I carefully rode home, because the roads were all wet everywhere, got home, had a drink of water, put the fan on, and went to bed.

My watch beeped 9am just as I got into bed.

I went to sleep, and didn't wake up until midday exactly, there was a massive gust of wind, and something blew off the desk and made a noise, and woke me up.

It looked like a nice day outside, sunny, and the clouds had mostly buggered off.

I'm supposed to go and see the DBA from work today, and fix up his network at home, at Terrigal, I don't think I'm in a state for doing that today.

I lay there for a bit, noticed my phone said "no space for new messages" as usual. Went in, deleted one, and waited a minute, and the new one came in.

My mate (who was too pissed last night), asking if I wanted to get some lunch. I checked the sent time, an hour ago, so I didn't reply, but got up out of bed, it was about 12.30pm.

In hindsight, that must have been when he sent it, not an hour before, and there's a stuff up in the time stamping somewhere, we were talking about sms issues in the pub last night, when we were waiting for my mate, and I mentioned that I suspected there was something funny going on, because a message from my mate yesterday to see if I was still going, was timestamped an hour earlier than he sent it. Anyway..

I took a couple of panadol, and sat on the computer for a bit, went through my spam.

About 1.20pm, my phone rang, it was my mate who sent the sms, about lunch. I said I'd just got up, he had too, nd the other guy (who's place we were at) he too, and called him just before.

I said I'd have a shower and get ready, and go over there, so I'd probably be there in about 1/2 hour (around 1.50pm), he said he'd do the same, and I hung up.

I called my other mate, to let him know we were both going to get ready, and turn up in about 1/2 hour, and then I got off the phone.

I went out and got the rest of my clothes off the line. Don't know why I bothered washing them yesterday.. might as well have just hung them out, and let the rain wash them.

Anyway, I had a shower, got dressed, looked like a nice day, so I put on a hawaiian shirt I'd washed yesterday, grabbed my open face helmet, sunnies, ipod, keys etc, and took off.

I rode around to my mate's place, my other mate who called me wasn't there yet.

On the way, there was debris all over the roads, branches, sticks, leaves, it must have been bloody windy out here.

I went in sat and watched telly for a bit. I don't know why I bothered going home really, but I felt better after having a shower and changing my clothes.

My mate looked stuffed, he said he was too. We chatted briefly, and then the other guy turned up. We sat there for a little while, had a chat, then my mate got ready, and we left, just after 2pm.

As went out the door to get in the car, I mentioned that I had a sore throat this morning (and my asthma was stuffed up when I got up too), and they other guys said they did too. I said I thought it was probably all the smoke in the Bowling Club last night, but they said that one of the guys serving behind he bar had kept coughing on to his sleeve. Lovely.

He said he wanted to get lunch from a place at Erina, rather than going out to Terrigal, I thought about riding, since I could then go out to Terrigal to see the DBA, but I decided to jump in the car with them instead.

We went out to Erina, went into the pub there, got there about 2.30pm. The woman in the kitchen area said they were closed, so we went out, and got back in the car.

My mate started going back towards Gosford, my other mate and I asked where he was going, since there's no where in Gosford to get anything to eat. I said there was La Porchetta, but I really don't want pizza.

We decided Terrigal was the only place to get food, so he turned around, and we went out to Terrigal. We went and parked in the parking lot of the Bowling Club where we had been last night. I joked we should go in and complain about the sick guy working there last night.

We went over near the beer garden (I went up the ramp this time :-) and then went in. It was totally packed out, not a seat anywhere, we wandered around for a bit.

My mate wanted fish and chips from there, I didn't really want to pay $18.50 for a plate of fish and chips. I've had it before, and it was good, but not that good.

I said we could just get fish and chips from across the road, and sit on the beach, but he didn't want that, because it was too greasy, I worked out he was talking about the fish and chip shop across the road, it is greasy, there's a better one up the street.

We started walking up there, and then my mate said we could go to Hog's Breath, I haven't been there for ages, said it sounded good, so we went in there.

We sat outside, ordered, chatted for a bit, we all ordered the cheeseburger, they were served a little while later.

it was good to eat something.

There were a couple of chicks sitting at a table near us, one of them was going on and on and on. I put up with it for a bit, but about halfway through the meal, I nearly lost it, I couldn't stand it anymore, and just wanted to tell her to shut the hell up. But I didn't, I just kept eating, and finished my meal.

The waitress brought the bill out, we sorted out the money, and then went in and paid, $16.50 each, not too bad, for a huge burger, and 2 drinks (each).

It was now 3.45pm. I thought about calling the DBA, to find out if he wanted me to come look at his network, but he would have had to drop me back at Gosford after that, because my mates would have left me there.

I didn't call him, we walked back to the car. It was really windy, some guy lost hold of a kids floaty board thing, and it took off along the footpath, and across the road, with him frantically chasing it, with a little kid frantically chasing him, it was pretty funny.

Some chick droped her thongs she'd been carrying to put them on, they nearly blew away, hah.

We got back to the car, and my mate drove back to his place. We went back inside.

We chatted for a while, I was nearly falling asleep, so was my mate, so I asked him to make a coffee, and he cranked up the espresso machine. The grounds were a bit old, but it still did the trick.

After that, we got to talking about tshirt printing, and photos and stuff, and then he put on a video of another mate's 21st Birthday from a couple of years ago (which I wasn't invited to for some reason).

It was quite funny, we made comments on it, and were cracking each other up. After that, there was footage of some other party (again, which I hadn't been invited to), it ended up mostly being footage of my 2 mates (that I was there with watching it) and another mate, who's bass guitar I've borrowed at the moment, playing their instruments.

It was pretty bad, and we were laughing at how bad it was. They want to set up a camera the next time we play, I don't know about that :-)

The video went for about 40 minutes I think, and then my mate said he was leaving. I decided to go too, since the clouds had blown over, and it looked like it was going to rain.

I took off, and rode over to the supermarket, I went in and got some stuff for dinner.

As I was heading to the checkout, someone said gday to me, I turned around, and it was my mate that works at the phone place in the shopping centre.

I chatted to him for a bit, he asked what I'd been up to, then commented on my choice of food, a "Lean Cuisine" meal, and asked if I was trying to slim down, yeah, because I'm a fat bastard I told him.

I wandered along, and then said I was going home, see you etc.

I lined up at the checkout, and spotted a guy I did my motorbike Ps course with serving at one of the registers. The chick serving at the other register said "next please" first, so I went there.

She did the usual niceties of "how are you [even though I couldn't give a shit] ?" etc, so I just said hello, fine etc, then I turned around and said gday to the guy on the other checkout, and ended up chatting with him.

He asked if I'd been riding, what I'd been up to etc, had a bit of a laugh, then I turned back, the chick had finished ringing up the stuff, I paid, grabbed it, said bye to the guy on the other checkout, and left.

I got back to my bike, took off, and came home.

I put the dinner on to cook, even though I really didn't want it, started blogging, and just finished eating it.

I'm stuffed, I think I might go to bed early tonight.