I woke up, it was about 11am I think.

I realised the dog must sleep on this bed, because I had hair all over me (I hadn't got into the bed when I came in last night, I just literally crashed on to it).

I went and found what was left of the pizza from last night, and had a couple of pieces.

I just sat at the dining table, enjoying not having to do anything.

My mate's got a bunch of guitar books in the bookshelves there, so I looked at a couple of them. There's some pretty good songs in there, but there aren't any bass tabs, so it's of no use to me.

My mate's wife got up, and came out, she said she was going down to the supermarket, and asked if I needed or wanted anything. I couldn't think of anything I needed.

She took off, and I went back to just sitting quietly.

I sat there a bit longer, and then I decided to go an check my email, so I went into the computer.

I ended up sitting there for a couple of hours, until 1.30pm or so, when my mate came in.

I spoke to him for a bit, and then he went out to have a smoke or something.

I went back to clicking around on the computer, about 2pm, my other mate, from Newcastle, came in.

I spoke to him for a bit, he said something about looking for a flash cartridge for his brother, for GBA, because the games are so expensive, so I started googling around for that.

He came back in a few minutes later, with some more of the pizza from last night, and offered me some, but he'd heated it in the microwave, and I can't stand reheated pizza, I'd rather eat it cold.

I continued looking for flash cartridges, and the others made breakfast (though I didn't realise this, or I would have helped).

Someone came in a bit later, and told me it was ready, so I went out, and ate some of the food.

They said they were chucking anything that wasn't eaten, so I sat and ate as much as I could, after everyone else was finished, but a fair bit still got chucked, oh well.

My mate got ready to go to work (he works night shift, and was back on tonight, which is why he got up so late).

He took off a bit later, along with our other mate, on his pushbike, since now the tyre was fixed, they went to get a coffee down the road. After that, my mate from Newcastle was going to ride to the train station, and get the train back to Newcastle.

I went home, and I got my gearsack, and I went back to my mate's place again, and I loaded it up with all my wet stuff (which I had hung out on the line the night before, but because it rained all night, the humidity stopped it from drying), and then I went home again.

This time when I got home, I sat down for a bit, and realised that we'd had a blackout the night before, it must have been during the storm we got pissed wet through on our way back from the beach.

When I went to use one of my computers, it was sitting there saying it had no swap file. Ugh, this doesn't look good.. it wouldn't have no swap file unless a disk had gone bung or something.

When I investigated, I found that just like before, the partition table on one of the disks was stuffed.

I started to work out what I was going to do. I pulled the SATA controller out of the machine again, so I could Stellar Phoenix (which BSODs if the SATA controller is in there), and found that it could see both partitions on the disk (two 60GB partitions on a 120GB disk).

Dad came in, and told me that there'd been another hail warning. I'm getting sick of this shit.

I went down, and I shoved my bike in the garage next to the car.

I came back up, and continued working on the machine with the stuffed disk.

I don't have any more disks to recover this stuff on to.. except for the 200gb ATA disk in the tivo I've been setting up.

I ripped the disk out, it did have a couple of recordings on it I wanted, but so be it, I need to recover this data. I put it in the machine, booted up, windows reckoned it was a blank disk (even though it had all the tivo/linux partitions on it, typical).

I repartitioned it, and then I started rescuing the data from the lost partitions on the 120gb disk.

As soon as I'd started that, and was able to sit back and relax a bit (because I knew it was working, I'd been able to successfully restore all the data from the other disk that did this the other day).

I then realised that my mate had left his bike out on his driveway when we got back from the beach yesterday, and now it was going to hail (possibly).

I called his wife, and told her about the hail warning, and his bike, I told her that if she couldn't move it (because it might have been steering locked or something, or just too heavy to push), that she should call me back, and I'd go around and help her move it.

I got a call about 5 minutes later, and she said that she couldn't move it.

I asked Dad to give me a left around there (it looked like rain or hail was imminent, and he would have had to move the car anyway, so I could get my bike out of the garage, and then I didn't really want to be riding in hail), so we got around there a few minutes later.

I dragged my mates bike into the garage, having to turn it around on the kickstand a few times, because the steering was locked.

Dad helped me a bit with the last bit, and when we had it in the garage, I realised my mate's phone and smokes were sitting in there.

I came home again, and helped Dad to put covers back on the car, in case it hailed.

A massive storm came in a bit later, but there wasn't any hail, just stacks of thunder and lightning.

I was a bit worried that we'd have a blackout, because I was still recovering the data off the disk that's gone wobbly, but the power was fine.

I really wish I knew what was going on with the machine. I'll blame Windows, since I find it hard to believe that 2 independant disks, on separate controllers in the machine both corrupted their partition tables within a couple of weeks of each other, it just doesn't make sense.

I sat around, watched the weather channel for a bit, and some other stuff that I had recorded on tivo.

A bit later, my phone rang, it was my mate who'd gone to work, he just wanted to thank me for moving his bike in (his wife must have called and told him) and to aks what the brand of the case was that he'd bought at the computer fair yesterday (Antec), because he was talking to a guy at work that knows a bit about computers, and he'd mentioned it

I probably had some dinner a bit later, and I went to bed 11.40pm.