I woke up even later this morning, about 8.30am.

Got up, got ready, and left a bit after 9am.

I got to work at 10.30am.

I started working on the database schema for the system I'm building. The whole database design just about needs to be redone from scratch.

I printed out the table designs, and then I had a meeting with a couple of other people in the group for their ideas, since they used the database heavily, and have ideas of the procedure for adding new data.

We spent a couple of hours, and worked out all the stuff we could do, move fields, dump fields, change sizes, all trying to make the whole thing a bit faster.

I went upstairs to chat to the oracle guy, to find out if there's a way to query oracle based on the length of fields, yep, easy too, ie:

select count(*) from table_name where length(field_name) > size;

and you get the total of records where a certain field exceeds a certain length.

I went down the road to get something to eat.

I went into the useless Dick Smith shop, to find out about getting a ps2 extension cable to butcher to use the cord on the Model M keyboard that's still in pieces.

Typical.. they have one ps2 extension cable, a useless coiled cord (which I hate), and they want like $14 for it. Piss off.

I think I've worked out how Dick Smith works now, they stock shit that people don't really want, and don't offer a cheap alternative. Because you went in there because you need something, you end up buying it anyway, and paying 6 times what you should. Not me.

I left, and kept going, got some money out of an ATM, went into the mall, bought a kebab, and ate it on the way back to the office.

I got back to work, queried the database, worked out the field sizes I could make changes to without too much grief, totalled it all up, and sent out a couple of emails about it.

I started working on the form for adding new entries.

At 4.10pm, I got an email from the guy upstairs, he said he'd had enough, and was heading down th pub if I was interested. Sounds good, I'll go down there and have a couple, then come back and get back to work.

I wandered up to see him, on the way up I noticed I'd spilt some krud from the kebab on the front of my pants, yuck. He'd wandered off somewhere. I went back downstairs, and hung around near the front of the building for a couple of minutes, to see if he'd come out, or drive his car out.

I didn't see him, assumed he'd already headed down there. I wandered down the street. I had a look behind the pub, his car wasn't there, he mustnt've come down yet. I called him, he was just about to leave.

I wandered across the road, and bought another scratchy. As I came out of the newsagent, I saw him driving down the road. I scratched the scratchy, won nothing.

I crossed the road to where he'd parked, he'd brought down another guy from the building who was staying in the pub too, and we went into the pub, and we grabbed beers, I had a Lowenbrau for a change. We sat out the back and chatted.

Apparently the other guy, staying in this pub, is only paying $25/night. Gees, it costs me $15 in fuel everyday. I might start staying up here a couple of nights a week, then I can get totally pissed, and also not waste a couple of hours riding to work and home again.

I finished my beer, and bought the second round.

More people from the building filtered in, and after chatting about a few different things, we ended up chatting about work. I just sat annd listened, one of th guys went on about the stuff I ended up working on until Friday night, how it was supposed to be done months ago, and still doesn't work properly.

At that point I told him that I'd ended up doing it, and was sick to death of the whole thing.

The other guy bought the third round, now we're square.

The conversation continued about other stuff after that, how people can't get vpn accounts because there aren't enough licenses, and other such stuff.

The guy who's taking over IT had turned up shortly before that, so I commented to him that if someone had been taking minutes, it would have been the most productive meeting we've had for months (mainly because we're all in different departments, and rarely speak to each other during the day).

I noticed it was almost 7pm, and I think my access pass only works between 7am and 7pm, so I headed back, to make sure I could get in to get my helmet and stuff.

I got back a couple of minutes before 7, no worries getting back in. I sat and did a bit more work on the data entry form, read some email and left about 7.45pm.

On the freeway on the way home, there's been a car dumped on the side for the last few days. As I got near it tonight, a big car carrier truck was just pulling in near it, they must be finally dragging it away.

I rode home, got stuff for dinner at the supermarket on the way home, and then came home.

No sign of the tivo again.

The cats were whinging around, I don't think they've been fed. My parent's aren't home, strange.

I went and checked the mail box, to see if there was any mail (telling me how long they'd not been home, or perhaps if there was a mail delivery card from the post office about my tivo) but it was empty.

I went into the house, couldn't find any mail for me, got some cat food, and went out and fed the cats.

I watched some tv, ate dinner, and typed this.

Hmm, it's 11.36pm, and my parents still aren't home, they didn't mention anything about going anywhere to me, usually they do, so that I'll feed the cats and the rabbit.

Update: Just after I wrote this, I went to bed (about midnight), and my parents turned up from somewhere. I heard Dad feed the cats again, heh.