I woke up at 7.15am when the alarm went off, and immediately went back to sleep.

I didn't wake up again, until about 9.15am, when a garbage truck came up the road.

I dived out of bed, got ready as usual, and went to work.

There was absolutely nothing remarkable that happened all the way to work.

The DBA and a few other people were at the cafe across the road, so I parked, and I started to go across there. They came over, so I just spoke to them then.

I swapped the DBA's access pass back for mine, he's had 24 hour access put on my card now too.

I went inside, and started working on some stuff in Oracle, rather than continuing to try to get the hideous javascript stuff to work.

I had an issue with the Oracle stuff I was trying to do, so I asked the guy upstairs what time lunch was, and we went for lunch shortly after that.

We ended up just going across the road, to the cafe, rather than wandering down the road to a pub, since the main good one, that's close, is closed for renovation, and all the other ones we couldn't be bothered to walk to.

We had lunch in there, and after that, someone was talking about the rubbish they have in their wallet, and cleaned it out on the table. Someone else then cleaned theirs out, I didn't think I had that much crap in my wallet at the moment, I checked, and there was a bit.

We ended up with a huge pile of papers on the table, receipts, dockets, ATM slips, old business cards, it was a ton of stuff.

We left, and went back over to work. The guy was having trouble with a script, so I had a look at it, and made a couple of changes to the logic, and then it looked like it was right.

We got to working on the stuff I was trying to do in Oracle, we worked out it was an issue with NULL values, since NULLS aren't able to be compared against.

We started trying to work out how to work around that, putting extra criteria into the query, and using the NVL function, but it just didn't seem to work, kept just hanging.

The guy got an email, someone had organised some nonsense in the office, it won't make sense unless I explain the situation..

The way the building is shaped, you can see out of the window, and in another window. One guy was staring out, and back in, at another guy. While pretending to talk on the phone, he had someone else dialling a different phone, and hanging up, and was watching the reaction of the other guy.

When the other guy found out, he wanted to get back at the guy in some way, so someone suggested that he pose in a pair of boxers, and someone take some pictures, and change the guys login script to display them on this pc.

Anyway, they'd arranged for the "photo shoot", so we went around to one of the small offices in the building, went in, here was the guy in his boxers, and another guy with a camera, about to take pictures of him.

We went in, along with the chick who'd suggested the whole thing, it was so funny, we couldn't stop laughing. The guy in the boxers jumped on the lounge, and posed around a bit, it wasn't lude or anything, just funny.

The other guy took a few pictures of him, and then he put his clothes back on, and we went back to work.

We mucked around more with the Oracle stuff, it was still hanging for some reason.

The chick and the guy taking the pictures went off to get them out of the camera, and they came back about 1/2 hour later with a CD with all the pictures on it.

We went about putting them on one of the servers, and modifying the guy's login script, to copy them down from the network to his local pc, and display one of them, immediately upon him logging in.

Once that was all done, we tested it, it should work, and then got back to the Oracle stuff again.

We put all the commands into a script, rather than running them interactively in sqlplus, since sometimes when you copy and paste a bunch of stuff, it can get confused, it still didn't work though.

Eventually we went into the enterprise manager, kicked out all the sessions to do with the stuff, managed to truncate the tables, and run it again, back with the original code which I had successfully run originally (but the result wasn't right).

I went back to trying to run my modified script, now it was having some sort of an issue with using NVL in the criteria.

It was almost 5pm now, and the guy and the chick from before wanted to go for a smoke, so I decided to wander outside with them, and think about it.

They lock the visitors car park at 4.30pm now, and some people had left their cars in there, and because the door is broken, it has to be locked with a chain and a padlock, so they had to try to find the building manager, to get the door unlocked. We didn't have anything to do with that though, we just came back inside.

It was now a bit after 5pm, we were about to have another go at the database, when the DBA said he's taking it down in a minute, to do a backup, so that was the end of that.

I went back downstairs, and spent a few minutes looking at something else.

The guy came through, said he was going up to the pub, to check in, so I should wait 5 minutes or so if I was going up there.

I kept working. I remembered that I had brought some blank CDs with me today, so I burned the iso image I downloaded yesterday. When that was done, I grabbed my stuff, and went and parked behind the pub they were going to (but not checking into).

I went in, there were a couple of guys from work there, but not the guy I'd been speaking to.

I sat there for a bit, and he came in there about 15 minutes later.

They had beers, I just had softdrink, and then a packet of chips.

A bit after 7pm, they decided to go down to the pub (where the fire in the kitchen was) to get dinner, I decided to stay for dinner.

I was going to leave my stuff (helmet etc) in the guy's room in the other pub, but he didn't have his key, turns out someone had locked it in the room.

When we went into the pub to speak to the bartender, we found a bunch of guys from work in there, so the others came in and chatted to them for a bit, we spoke to the bartender, and got the spare key for the room.

I went up, and dumped my stuff in there, and found the key for the room, on the counter.

I locked the door, went back down, gave the bartender back the spare key, and my mate the key to his room.

The others from work had left the table, and he was left there looking after someone's beer and pack of smokes and lighter.

I decided to move my bike from the carpark of the other pub, so nothing stupid happened, like my bike getting locked in there.

I couldn't be bothered getting my helmet out of the room, I just went out the back of the pub, through the carpark, across the road, and into the other carpark.

I started up my bike, and rode it out, and up to street (it's a deadend road) and into the other carpark, and parked up.

I went back into the pub, and now everyone was gone, and the pack of smokes,

I wandered out the front, to see if they'd just moved out, I couldn't see them, but I did see the chick and another guy who we'd been with, so I wandered down to where they were.

Someone had left a box from a doll on the seat, and the chick had torn part of it off, she showed me it, and it said "Plastic Head, Rooted Hair". heh.

The others came out of the pub then, and we walked down to the pub we were going for dinner.

We got down there about 7.30pm, and went in. The bartended joked that we were early, since this is where we came late (after 8pm) and weren't able to get anything.

We ordered dinner, paid, and then went and sat out the back.

The food came a little while later. It was ok, nothing terrific though, we finished that off.

I ended up sitting there chatting with them until just after 10pm, then I decided I should be heading for home.

I grabbed the room key off the guy, and walked back to the pub. On my way, I saw someone riding up the road on a pushbike, then I realised it was the crazy cowboy from the pub. He stopped and put his bike down about 50m up the road.

I went into the pub, went up and got my stuff, locked the door, and hid the key in the lounge in the common area.

I went back downstairs, and out the front door, I saw a cop car come up the road, and the cowboy dived behind something, and was jumping around to stay hiding behind it. Clown.

I went up the alley, jumped on my bike, and took off, it was about 10.15pm.

It was a pretty good ride home, nothing remarkable, I got home a bit after 11pm.

When I got off my bike, I remembered that I had my backpack in the saddlebag.. because I had to go to the supermarket, and buy breakfast cereal, since I finished it off this morning. D'oh, now there's nothing for breakfast in the morning.

I went in, checked my email. I found a packet of rice crackers I opened yesterday, ate some of them, and then went to bed.