Ok, this is nice fast blog to write..

My notes on this day contain bugger all, and I don't remember much of it, so here we go..

I got up, got ready, and went to work, don't know any more details than that.

When I got there, the guy from upstairs told me that someone else from work had stayed in the pub last night, and this morning, while making breakfast, because the toaster has a screw in the adjustment knob stopping you from adjusting how dark the toast goes, had put the toast in twice.

There's a sign near the toaster that says "the toaster's adjustment is fixed, if the toast is not dark enough, too bad. Do not put the toast in more than once, or the smoke detector will go off, and the fire brigade will come out, at considerable cost to the pub".

So guess what happened. The toast was put in twice, no one was watching it, smoke started pouring out of the toaster, set the smoke alarm off, and the fire brigade came out.

I don't remember what happened throughout the rest of the day, I spent a lot of time coding.

At some point, I was upstairs, and the person who caused all the smoke was using the phone to call someone's mobile, and you have to dial 0 to get an outside line, so when they dialed the 0 to get out, and then 0 for the first number of the mobile, I jokingly asked if they were calling 000.

We went out to lunch, I think I hassled them a bit more about the toast incident, I don't remember what I said though.

I worked a bit more, I'd been working on the production code. I need to change the filesystem schema underneath the system I'm writing, because I want to get rid of a few fields in the database, legacy stuff from the jukebox system, that I don't need, and it just makes full table searching slow.

I worked on that, and I finally managed to get a working version written, tested, and implemented, at about 6.30pm.

There was a dinner on tonight, because one of the women from the section I'm in is leaving, it was at the pub over at Morpeth.

I rode over there, found a place to park, and went into the pub. There was no sign of the group yet, I was about to get a drink, when I decided I'd have a quick wander and see if I could find them, because I recalled something being mentioned about having some drinks in the park.

I went across the road, and they were all in the park. I had a light beer, and a chat for a bit, and then we all came across the road to go the pub to get dinner.

We got in, ordered our food, and waited ages to be served. It took so long for all the food to be done, that by the time some people got served, others had finished their meals.

When we'd all eaten, they had some speeches (2 people were leaving, and this was a dinner for both of them), and a bit of chat.

I left about 9.30pm, I was tired, and had to get home at a reasonable hour.

I took off from there, and was home about 10.30pm.

I went to bed not long after that.