Sometime while I was asleep this morning my phone rang, it only rang once for some reason, so I couldn't have got to it in time anyway.

Whoever it was didn't leave a message, because it didn't ring again.

I got up about 11.30am. I was just mucking around on the computer, reading email etc, when it rang again. I answered this time, it was my mate, wanting to know if I wanted to go out to Terrigal today. Why not, not doing anything useful here.

I got dressed, took off, and went around to another mate's place near the station where I parked the other night.

We hung around there for a while, my mate got a coffee machine for christmas, so we had coffees, and then we all left in his car.

We went out to Terrigal, couldn't find a table in the beer garden, it was too packed out, so we just sat near the garden in the middle, near the band.

We got food, and waited for the band to start. They finally started about 2.30pm.

We sat and listened to them for a couple of hours, I went for a walk to the chocolate shop nearby, that sells chocolates from other countries, I bought a "Boost" bar, from the UK, and then walked back to the beer garden and ate it there.

We took off from there about 4.30pm.

My mate stopped in at a shopping centre on the way home to get a milkshake or something, but it was close to 5pm, all the shops were shutting, and they'd already cleaned up.

We got back in the car, and went back to my mate's place.

It looked like it was going to rain, so I grabbed my stuff and took off.

I went over to the supermarket, I didn't get a ticket this time, that's a nice change, bought some dinner, and got fuel on the way home.

I sat and watched tv for a while (tivo's full of episodes of Futurama), had a couple of beers.

My phone rang, it was my mate that works at the phone place. He was trying to back some files up from one hard disk to another.

I'd spoken to him briefly the other day (on NYE) when I was in the shopping centre, and suggested he use knoppix to copy the files.

He'd downloaded it, but couldn't work out how to burn the iso, I told him how to do that, and thought (hoped) that would be the end of it.

About 9.30pm, I was going to put Gattaca on go to bed.

My phone rang again, my mate had managed to burn the iso, boot knoppix, and mount the disks, but it wasn't copying the files. He was trying to copy all the files at once, so it was taking a while before starting.

He called me back again a little while later, still having problems. I eventually talked him through using fdisk to partition the other disk, then we tried to format it (with fat32) but it didn't seem to work properly, so I told him how to create an e2fs partition and format it, mounted it, had to chmod it so he could write on it, and he went about backing up his files.

I was just finishing on the phone when the battery ran out, end of that.

It was now about 10.30pm.

I went to bed, watched a couple more episodes of Futurama, and turned it off about 11.30pm.

I couldn't get to sleep, I put the radio on, and listened to them go on about the tsunami for about an hour and a half, I eventually got to sleep a bit atfer 1.30am.