The phone rang early while I was asleep, not getting up to answer it. If it's important, someone'll ring my mobile next, and I'll see who it is.

They didn't ring again.

I got up about 10am, and mucked around on the computer for a while, and put some tv on.

About 12.45am, my phone rang, it was my mate I went to the Brian Wilson concert with, we wanted to know about going to JB Hifi. I said I'd get ready, and meet him out there about 1.30pm.

I had a shower and got ready, and left about 1.20pm. Doubt I'll get there in 10 minutes.

I went to Jaycar on the way, and got the 8 pin mini din plug I needed for the Sparc.

I went to JB Hifi, my mate and I wandered around for a while, I ended up getting a couple of cheap DVDs, a STYX concert DVD, and a Utopia concert DVD.

After that we went across the main shopping centre, and I got some lunch.

On the way out, my mate wanted to go to the bottle shop, so we went in there, I bought a bottle of Bundy triple filtered.

We left from there, and went our own way, I went to the supermarket on the way home, got food for dinner, and some OJ to drink the Bundy with.

I got some fuel, so I'll get to work on Monday, and came home.

On the way past the showground, I thought I saw a guy packing up computer stuff. Bollocks, I need a couple of hard disks.

When I got home, I checked the wesbite, yeah, there had been a computer fair today. There are 2 on in Newcastle tomorrow, I might have to go up there.

I put the STYX concert DVD on.

I looked on the web, found the pinouts of the serial port on the Sparc IPC, and sat and made up a serial adapter, so I could plug the serial console in, that took me an hour or so.

I plugged it in, and was surprised that I'd got it right first go (the pin numbering of the 8 pin mini din socket/plug was a but cryptic, I thought I had it all arse about).

The Sparc boots, but never detects the keyboard (not that I want it to, since I don't have a monitor to plug in, I'm bidding on one on eBay though).

I realised that the Sparc only has an AUI port, no 10bT port. I've got a transceiver here somewhere, that'll let me put it on the LAN.

The transceiver used to hang around on the desk, but now I can't find it.

I spent the next hour or so looking through boxes of crap to find it, no luck.

I gave up, and sat back down, and then I spotted it on the floor under the desk. D'oh!

I plugged it in, and tried booting again, hmm, no power/link lights on the transceiver come on, after all that, it might not even work, or perhaps it's not compatible.

I gave up at this point, now after 8pm.

About 8.20pm, my mate whose birthday it was last week called me, he and his wife, and our mate from Newcastle and his wife are heading down to Iguana Joes for a drink.

If we get there before 9pm, there's no cover charge, so I sat around for a bit, thought about having some dinner, but there's not time. I ate half a packet of rice crackers, and then took off.

I went in, they weren't there yet, but they got there about 10 minutes later.

We went out to the pool table area, and had a couple of games of pool, and a couple of drinks.

There were some chicks commentating on the first game, so we invited them to play the second one, and then I played the third game against one of the chicks, and she totally beat me.

Someone had put some money on the table for the next game, so that was the end of that. She took off and said that she might have another game later.

All my mates had slowly filtered away, except for my mate's wife, I sat and talked to her for a bit, then my mate came back, and we moved away from the pool tables.

We sat outside for a bit, then my mate decided it was time for some Long Island Iced Teas, so we all got one. We were about halfway through them, when the band that had been playing took a break, and the DJ put some songs on, classic 80s stuff, it was terrific.

We hurridly finished our Teas, and then went inside to dance. We only got about 1/2 a song, and then the band came back, so we sat down again.

They did a couple of songs, and then did some 80s stuff, so we got back up to dance.

We got a couple of good songs, and then sat down again.

The chick singer in the band asked if anyone knew the Nutbush, most of the people on the dancefloor got off, and it ended up with only a couple of chicks left, then a couple more got up there.

They started the song, and only a few seconds in my mates were egging me on to get up there, so I did, it was pretty fun. Hard work though, I was stuffed at the end of it, and sat down again.

The band took another break, and there were more 80s songs, so we all ended up dancing again.

It was the same setup for the rest of the night, have a bit of a dance, the band would come back, sit out a couple, dance more etc.

We finished up about 1.30am, and all left.

I got home, played a bit of guitar again.

I checked the eBay auction for the Sun monitor I've bid on (and was winning), that finished a couple of hours ago. I got outbid by $2.50. Bastard.

I went to bed about 2am.