Ah, here we go, back to the long days at work.

I got up at 8am, since the project manager was coming to pick me up around 9am.

I had a shower, and some breakfast, and then waited for the project manager to arrive.

I got a phone call from him at 8.45am, telling me that he was running late, and would probably be there about 9.20am.

I continued waiting, and he did turn up about then, so I grabbed my bag, and went and jumped in the car.

We drove to work, making chit chat on the way, and got to work around 10.15am.

I went in, and to my desk, working for a while, no one making any comments about the fact that I had a green mohawk.

Eventually I had to go upstairs for some reason, and then I received a few comments, from the people working in IT, and the couple of chicks from Forestry.

I hung around up here for a while, doing work of some description (why I was up there), and just chatting, and then I went back downstairs to my desk.

I asked them how they'd gone using the code I finished just before I left on holidays, and apparently it had all mostly worked, there were only a couple of annoyances they had noticed, but it didn't stop them from doing work.

I went through the main issue, the check that I put in to stop them adding the selected value in a dropdown box.. I found that it was a problem with Internet Exploitme. I had a javascript function to append a newline to the value selected, but IE was overriding this, and adding both a carriage return, and a newline.

Stupid windows and it's CR LF rubbish. I'd tested this in Firefox, and it worked fine, because it did what it was told. I changed the function to add both a carriage return, and a line feed, instead of just the line feed, and then it was working in both IE and Firefox.

Once I'd done this, I went back to working on the table design, and had a discussion about one of the fields, going on for ages, before I identifed that I could just drop the field (which a few days later I discovered I couldn't, and I had to rebuild the field, typical).

I went and spoke to the guy upstairs, and then we went out to lunch.

On the way back to work, we stopped in at the pub, since it had been his 40th birthday on the weekend, and a few people had organised to go for some drinks.

We hung around in there for a while, because it seemed like about half the people from work were in here.

We went back to work after that, I worked with the guy on some table he was working on, and then I went back to my desk, and continued working on my table structure.

I started having a discussion with the manager of the indexers, and a couple of the indexers about starting on a database specific to the maps.

I got a phone call, telling me to go upstairs, because we were having a birthday cake.

I went up, and a couple of women from work had put 40 candles on the cakes (2 cakes, because all the candles wouldn't fit on one cake).

He blew out the candles, and we cut the cakes up.

I was sitting (on a desk) eating a bit of cake, and the building manager came in, and had a go at me and a few other people sitting on desks, saying that was what chairs were for.

I ignored him to start with, thinking he wasn't being serious, "yeah, haha", but he wouldn't give up until I got off the desk. Jesus, it's like being at school.

We hung around here for a while, and then I found out who had bought the cakes, so I tried to give them some money towards it, but they wouldn't take it.

I went back to work, and decided to copy all the music out of my ipod, on to my computer at work.

I plugged it in, and tried running sharepod, that was still on my ipod from the trip in Bundy, but now I had all the dll issues again, like I had trying to get it running the first time.

I had all the dlls I needed last time, I tried force loading them in, but it still wouldn't work. I googled around, and the dll that was causing issues seemed to be something to do with MDAC, so I downloaded the latest version of that, and installed it, but it didn't make it work.

When I installed MDAC, it told me it needed a reboot, so I gave in, and rebooted the machine, which was annoying, because I had so much stuff running.

After the reboot, it still didn't work properly, with exactly the same error. Damn.

I kept googling, and then I found some references to something called
"scripten", containing the dlls I needed, so I downloaded that and installed it.

Finally, I had managed to get sharepod working. What a nightmare. I started extracting the music to the hard drive in my work pc.

I got a call from my mate I went away on holidays with, we was wanting to know about setting up an ftp server, so that someone could send him a file, or he could send someone a file or something.

He told me that he'd followed the help, and enabled the ftp server, but didn't know what to do after that, and I explained that he'd need to configure port forwarding on his adsl router, and he'd need to find out what his routable IP was, and tell that to the person he wanted to connect.

The phone dropped out at that point, and I called him back, and finished the conversation off.

I went back to work, and the phone rang again a few minutes later, it was a message from my mate from Wyong who does the PC repairs, he'd called while I was on the phone, and left a message asking me something about the internet.

I called him back, and sorted that out.

I continued waiting for the music to extract from my ipod, it was pretty slow for some reason. I don't know why, since I run 2000 on my machine at work, and it's got the USB2.0 running properly.

The guy from upstairs came down, and I spoke to him for a while, and then he took my bag, saying he'd go and check into the pub.

I spent a little bit of time blogging, while I continued waiting for the music to extract.

My phone rang again, another message, I'd put my phone down on the desk when I got off it before, and I'd put it where it was out of range of the tower, I must have bumped it a little bit, and put it back in range.

I answered it, it was a guy I went to Tafe with in 1999. I chatted to him for a bit, he was wanting to know about long serial cables.

I talked him for a while, explaining about using cat5, and rj45 adapters, and then after going through all that, he explained that he needed 25 pin cables, and needed all 25 pins, because it was for remoting of detonators, he's doing a course in demolitions or something.

I then suggested he get some ribbon cable, and some db25 crimp connectors, and make up long cables that way.

I got off the phone, and continued waiting for the music to extract.

I gave up, only 1.5GB had come out of it, and I'm not sitting around here at work all night.

I took my ipod, and left work, and walked up to the first pub, where we go to drink after work (to start with).

I sat and had a few drinks, and then when we started talking about going for dinner, I went to the other pub, where we were staying, and got the key from the bar, and went up to the room, and dropped off my ipod.

We all walked down to the Grand Junction hotel, to get dinner, they've just reopened, after renovating the kitchen (I think, maybe this happened the week before, I don't remember).

We had some drinks, and then we went in to the restaurant, and had dinner.

The guy from upstairs had heard something about the house next door to the pub, so when we left the pub, at about 11.20pm, after getting some takeaway drinks, we went to look at the house.

We walked back to the pub we were staying at, and when we got there, a guy from work was there, so we sat out on the balcony, and drank our takeaway drinks.

I eventually went to bed, a bit after midnight, and didn't get much sleep.