I got up, about 8am I think, got ready.

I dug out a hawaiian shirt, I haven't got much else left that's clean anyway.

I took off for work a bit after 8.30am.

I got on the freeway, and got fuel as usual.

When I got to the service station, I realised I didn't have my phone. Crap, I don't remember getting it this morning, it must still be sitting there on the bed with the charger plugged in.

I fueled up, paid, and continued to work. A bit further up the freeway, I passed an amusement ride truck, "The Twista" I think it was.

I kept going, and about 30km further, I passed another one, the "Supa Spinner" or something like that.

I got to the end of the freeway, and started on my way between there and work.

About halfway to work, I was waiting at set of lights, and I realised I was sitting next to another ride, the "Magic Wizard" I think that one was.

I assume they're dragging all these up for the Maitland Fair, on Friday and the weekend.

I got to work at 9.45am.

It's lucky the time they wanted to have the thing this morning was changed, it was originally 9.30am.

I got into the car park, went to park around the back where I park now, there was stacks of cars there. What's going on here?

Then I noticed that a couple of the utes and 4wds had been parked in the way of getting to the side of the building, where most of these people usually park.

There was one car parked in that area though, over near the bbq area, must be someone who got in early.

I'm suprised the building manager hasn't told them to move their car.

I parked, had a quick look over near the bbq area, there was a few chairs setup, and a podium.

I went inside (found the fire door open as usual), and went to my desk and sat down.

I started doing some work, and saw a few people going down the fire stairs to go across to the bbq area.

A few minutes after 10am, a bunch more people went outside, and I was told to go outside, so I went out with them.

I wandered across, found a place to stand, with a few of the guys from the section I work in. I stood there for a few minutes, someone kept being smart and going "I'm giving them one more minute" etc.

It was several more minutes than that.

I spotted a few people I know, so I wandered over to speak to them.

I was there for a few more minutes, and then some important looking people started coming out of the fire stairs.

They started walking across to where we were all standing, and I noticed that one of the people was Bob Carr.

Once they'd all walked across the carpark, Bob took his jacket off, and some guy came running in to grab it off him. Gees, he can't even look after his own jacket.

The Director General came to the podium, and spoke for a few minutes, and then introduced the Mayor of Maitland.

He came up, and spoke for a few minutes, and introduced the Minister for Mineral Resources, Kerry Hickey.

Kerry spoke for a minute, and then introduced Bob Carr, who spoke for quite a while.

Across the road, there's been some road works going on, they're putting in extra car parking or something, and the road workers all stopped to listen to Bob's speech.

During the speech, there were a couple of photographers taking pictures, and a guy with a video camera.

When he was done, everyone clapped, including the road workers across the road, I found that quite humerous.

Bob and Kerry then walked up and opened the curtain, showing the plaque to represent the opening of the building (that we've been in since November).

The guy with the video camera rushed in to film that.

After it was all done, a lot of people just went back into the building, the rest of us just stood around. I'd recalled them saying something about food.

A couple of people commented on my bad shirt, and I said I'd threatened to do it (I don't usually make idle threats).

Someone came up to the mic, and said that there was scones in the bbq area for anyone who wanted them.

A stack of people rushed over there, the rest of us just stayed where we were, chatting.

We eventually went over to get some food, and hung around in there for a bit.

I spoke to a couple of people I hadn't seen this morning before, they were talking about bikes, and commented on mine, so we chatted for a bit.

We all went back inside after that.

The couple of guys I've been speaking to about bikes work up on the second floor, and wanted to go the quick way (up the fire stairs) but the doors are shut, so they can't get out.

I can, because my work pass has 24/7 access to all doors, so I said I'd open it for them.

I went up to the top of the fire stairs with them, and found that the door wasn't shut properly anyway, so I could just pull it open, and didn't need to use my card.

I went back downstairs, and I nearly ran straight into the Minister as he came out the door, oops.

I waited for him and the rest of his group to come out, and then I went back to my desk.

I did some more work, and then we went out for lunch about 1pm.

We went to the cafe down the road again, and hung around in there for a bit, and then went back to work.

About 2pm, I got a call from the woman at reception, she said there was a package there for me. I hung up, and went out to collect it.

I assume it's the birthday thing from the temping agency I'm with, the DBA mentioned it on Monday.

There was a reasonable sized box there, the woman came over, and I signed the book for it, and went back to my desk.

I opened it up, it's some food and stuff.

There's some sort of cheese and pistachio savoury snack biscuit things, a box of tea bags, a big bag of coffee grounds, a box of chocolates, some packets of biscuits, and some loose chocolates.

Pretty cool.

A couple of days before, when the DBA mentioned it, on Monday, he'd said I should call up the woman at the temping agency, and try to wind her up, because she's getting married soon.

He told me that I should ask her things like what colour my mohawk should be, and to confirm the date and venue, because we're still arranging the minibus to get there.

I wrote an email to her, thanking her for the gift, and asking to confirm the date of the wedding, so we could finalise the minibus.

I went back to work, and did a few more hours work, and then I left, and headed for home.

I went to the supermarket, and got some dinner, and then I came home.

My phone was there, sitting on charge like I thought.

5 missed calls, not too bad. I moved it to the computer, so that I could answer it when it rang again, assumedly it's the message thing trying to ring me back.

I looked through the missed calls, and found that I'd missed a call from the guy from upstairs at work, at about 5.30pm.

I went into the bathroom, and of course the phone rang while I was in there, so I missed it again.

It rang me back again, and I finally got the message at about 9pm.

The guy from upstairs was just telling me that he'd left, and was in the pub down the road if I wanted to go there.

I mucked around on the computer for a bit, watched some tv, and went to bed.