Before I lay down, I'd set the alarm for 7.30am. I woke up 7.28am, but I was physically unable to get out of bed.

I went back to sleep, and woke up again at 8.30am. I just lay there, knowing that I had to get up, because I had to walk home to get ready, and get around to my mate's place to go to Cockatoo Island today.

I got an SMS on my phone at 9am, telling me that I had another hour (because daylight savings ended last night), so I just lay there more, until 10am (only 9am on the clock).

I knew I had to get going soon, but I ended up falling back to sleep.

I was woken again at 11.30am (10.30am) by my phone ringing, I spoke to my mate for a few minutes, said I was going to start trying to get organised in a minute.

I got off the phone, and lay in bed for a few more minutes, I heard my mate's phone rining, he ignored it, and it rang again a minute later, and was ignored again.

I got up, and I went around and collected all my stuff. I'd left my jumper in my mate's car, he just woke up, so I asked for his keys to get my jumper out of hs car.

I went out, and got my jumper, and then came back inside, to give him his keys back.

He asked if I wanted a lift home, that suits me, rather than spending about the next hour and a half walking home.

I got dropped at home, I was feeling really seedy.

I had a shower and got ready, I was feeling a bit better now.

I knew my mates would have left to get to Sydney already, so I had to find my own way there.

I looked at the train timetable on the internet, there's a train in about 15 minutes.

I went down, jumped on my bike, and raced to the station, parked, ran to the station from the parking lot.

Terrific, there's a line in here, only 2 windows open, everyone's waiting in the eftpos line, and I need to use it because I have no cash.

Eventually they opened the 3rd window and it had eftpos, so I went over there, and told the guy I wanted a return ticket to the City, or Circular Quay or whatever.

I put my card through the window, and the guy said it was only $9 for the ticket, and pointed out that it was a $15 minimum for eftpos. Argh.

Then the train I wanted to be on arrived.

I fished in my pocket, and found that I did have a stack of change, I grabbed it out, and found at least $12 worth of change, so I furiously through $9 through the window, grabbed the ticket, and piss bolted down on to the platform.

I got down there just in time for the guy to shut the doors on the train. Fuck. Like he couldn't have waited 2 seconds when he saw me come piss bolting out of the stairs heading for the train.

I turned around, and sat down, fuming. I had a look and luckily, because of the Easter Show, there was another train in 20 minutes, rather than an hour.

I used some more of the change to get a drink, and then I sat and waited.

I tried to call my mates, no answer. I eventually gave up, and sent an SMS, telling my mate that I was waiting for the next train.

Eventually the next train turned up, late, and I got on, and headed for the city. This train was going to take longer than the one I missed, because this was almost an all stations.

I put my ipod, and just sat back, and rode the train.

I got to Central, jumped off, and headed around to the City Circle line, to get a train to Circular Quay to get the ferry.

I tried calling my mate again, no luck, sent an SMS telling him that I was waiting for the train to CQ.

I got a call back, and I told him I'd be around there in a few minutes, they were still at CQ, waiting for the next ferry.

The train turned up, and I jumped on, it went to the next station, Town Hall, and then to Wynyard, and when I looked at the indicator board, it said the next stop was North Sydney, that's not right.

I jumped off the train, before I started heading home again, and then I went and checked the indicator board, the other train on that line, going the other way, was going to the airport. WTF is going on here?

I went and checked the map, and worked out what line I wanted to be on, the one I was on. I kept checking the indicator board, and the map, and it just didn't make sense.

I gave up, and decided to just walk to CQ, it's not far from Wynyard.

I headed out of the station, up to the street. I went past an ATM, and thought about getting some money, but it's more important to get to CQ to get on the next ferry with my mates at this point.

I started walking down towards CQ, and as I got close, my phone rang, my mate wanting to know where the hell I was. I told him that the train had been all stuffed up, and I'd ended up walking down to CQ.

He told me they had gone on the ferry, and I'd have to get the next one, in 1/2 hour.

I went to buy a ticket, and realised I needed to get some money first, so I went to find an ATM, found one, with a huge line. Great.

Eventually I managed to get to the ATM, and get some money out, and then I went back, and bought a ticket.

I headed over to the wharf that the ferry for Cockatoo Island was leaving from. On the way there, there were some Aborigines putting on some display, and a whole bunch of people standing around watching it, blocking the whole walk way.

I had the shits by now, with the trains, having to walk down here, having to line up for ages at the ATM, and now people standing around blocking the way, so I just walked straight through the middle of the Aborigines.

I'm here to get a ferry, you can dance around anywhere, so go somewhere else.

I got on the ferry, and sat and waited, for the ferry to go. Ugh, in my current state of seedyness, sitting on a ferry going up and down was not where I wanted to be.

Some woman was wandering around handing out little bits of paper, she gave me one, advertising The Vagina Monologues on at the state theatre or something. Yeah, like I'm going to go to that.

After about 15 minutes, the ferry left, and headed for the island, it took about 10 or 15 minutes to get there, once it was going, it wasn't as bad as when it was stationery (or is that stationary?).

I got over to the island, and was about the 3rd person off the ferry. I called my mate again, and told him I was over on the island, and I needed the ticket to get in.

There was a security bag check, I didn't have a bag, or anything, so I didn't need to get checked, and I went through there.

I waited for my mate to come out, he called me again, and I said I was waiting at the gate to get in.

He said he was at the gate too, but couldn't see me anywhere. Eventually we worked out that there were 2 docks, and our ferrys had come in at different ones, so I waited a bit longer, my mate came and gave me the ticket over the fence, and I went and got admitted to the island.

I had to have my ID checked, apparently they'd just arced up about people not checking IDs, so then I got the ID check wrist band, and then went to walk in, but they told me I needed a second one, an admission band, or I'd get thrown out.

I got that one, noticed it was a 3 day pass band, but they're probably using them because it's the last day.

I went in, and my mate and I started walking back to the shed they were in, watching Eskimo Joe, on the way, there was a beer tent, my mate told me he had a few drinks inside, so it was just if I wanted anything.

I went in, and was wondering if I'd regret getting anything to drink, but I got a can of Bundy and Coke anyway.

I went into the shed with my mate, and we made our way through all the people, to where the rest of the group were. There was the guy whose dad own's the aircon business, and a couple of other people that I've met before, mates of my mate whose wife left him.

We watched Eskimo Joe, pretty good. My mate told me to go and get more to drink, and after the first one, I was actually feeling better.

I made my way out of the shed, and decided to go and get something to eat first though. I went in to the food place, and bought a hamburger.

When I turned around to leave, I noticed a chick standing there, wearing a Rocket Science Tshirt, I nearly wore my Rocket Science shirt (the same) today.

I went out, and ate the burger, and then went and bought 3 more cans of Bundy and Coke, and I managed to get the chick in the beer tent to give me 2 of them unopened, which she said she wasn't supposed to do, but what would it matter really.

It's not like I can really leave with them, from an island.

I went back into the shed, and found the others again, putting the extra cans on the ground.

My mate had gone to get more too, and he came back a few minutes later with more cans.

I think someone took a picture of me with a cheesy grin in front of the can collection on the ground.

We watched the rest of Eskimo Joe, and then we filed out.

My mates went to the loo, and then my mate realised he needed more money. I told him I'd seen a portable ATM thing near the gate I came in, behind the loos.

We went around there, there were 6 ATMs on the trailer, but only 2 were working, and everyone was lined up behind one of them.

While we lines up, my other mate went around to check the ATMs on the other side (there were 3 on each side), and then people cottoned on, and moved around there.

While we were waiting, some hideous stench came from somewhere, must be something to do with the toilet block we're standing behind.

When my mate got his money out, we decided to see what was going on up the hill, so we started wandering, and it was a bit too much like hard work getting up there.

We got to the top of the hill, and sat down, we were only there for about 15 minutes, and then I checked the programme I'd got on my way in, and realised that Pete Murray was starting in a minute, which the others wanted to see.

We went back down the hill again, and back into the shed we'd come out of before, made our way towards the front, standing behind the sound board.

Pete Murray came on, and did a couple of songs. Behind us, a guy started mucking around in his bag.

Next thing, he's blowing up a blow up doll, dressed in a leopard skin skirt and blouse.

Once he'd done that, he stripped down to his undies, and climbed into a leopard sking car seat cover, to look like Tarzan.

He climbed up on a pillar in the shed, and started dancing around, and we noticed he had a sign on him, saying "Cave Bitch".

He was up there for quite a while, and Pete Murray got really pissed off, because about half the people in the place had turned around to look at the idiot.

It was pretty funny though.

I went out to get more drinks, having finished the cans from before (and a couple more I'd been given during leaving the shed last time, and coming back).

We watched Pete Murray until almost the end (the "Cave Bitch" got down off the pillar).

We filed out of the shed again, and found a little bit of grass to sit on.

While we were there, my mate whose dad owns the aircon business started talking to some chick sitting there.

My mate (whose wife left him) and I wandered off, to have a discussion about how he's been going the last few days etc.

We ended up wandering up the hill again, and having a look around up there, there were stacks of pubs up there.

My mate wanted to get some food, I couldn't find anything I really wanted, and was too full of grog anyway.

While he got something to eat, I went to find the loos. I bumped into the others we'd been with before, told them where my mate was, and then kept going.

I found some portaloos, it was now dark, and going into an unlit portaloo in the dark was an interesting experience.

I went back and found my mate, waiting for some nachos or something.

He got his food, and sat and ate it, and then we wandered back down the hill again, on the way bumping into the "Cave Bitch" on his way up the hill, dragging the blow up doll by its hair.

I tried calling my mate that we'd left before, and I told him we were getting on the ferry leaving in a minute.

He told us that he'd just gone up the hill looking for us, so we told him to pissbolt down, because the ferry was going in a couple of minutes.

We spoke to the guy boarding people, and asked how long we had, and if he could wait a minute.

Our mate came running over, and we jogged onto the ferry, and then it left.

We headed back to CQ, our mate was a bit pissed, and so I was able to take the piss out of him, he got fed up and went inside to lie down.

I sat with my mate outside on the ferry, enjoying the view of the harbour at night, it was terrific.

When we got back near CQ, we went in to find our mate, and bumped into the chick he'd been talking to before.

We got off the ferry, and walked back to the trains, the 3 of us got on the next train.

We all got off at Central, and our mate left, since he had booked a room in the city to stay in.

My other mate (whose wife left him) and I got on the next train for Gosford.

It got back to Gosford, and I walked back to the parking station where my bike wa parked, and once I jumped on, and started heading for home, regretted not having a jacket, it was freezing, and I wa just wearing a tshirt and jeans.

I got home, sat around for a while, had some dinner, and then I got back on my bike again, and rode over to my mate's place.

Our mate from Newcastle had come down (that was why we came back from the city so early).

We sat out on the front verandah, and chatted for a while, they were talking about going out to the club tonight, I really couldn't be bothered, but I'd just drag along anyway.

While we were out on the verandah, my mate had put some music on that we were listening to through the window, and some music from the Boondock Saints came on.

Our mate from Newcastle got ready, had a shower, ironed a shirt etc to go out, but then our other mate decided that he was too tired, and couldn't be bothered (which was fair enough, because it was now really midnight, but daylight savings made it 11pm).

My mate decided that he'd rather just watch the Boondock Saints, so his sister gave me a lift back home (rather than having me riding around with no license), to grab the DVD, and go back to his place again.

When I got back, my mate was on the computer, so I sat in the loungeroom with our mate from Newcastle.

There was some rubbish on the tv, so my mate was a smartass, and he turned the volume down, and put the radio on over the top, which made for something fairly interesting to watch.

Our other mate came off the computer, and we put the DVD on.

They paused it a couple of times to go and have cigarettes, I wasn't going outside in the cold for no reason.

We finished watching the movie, and they went out to smoke again, I sat and watched some of the deleted scenes on the DVD.

They came back in, and we finished watching them.

Our mate from Newcastle had been really beligerant all night, wanting to go to the club, and then wanting to smoke pot, and just being a really annoying pain in the ass, so by this time, I'd had enough of him, and I went home, and went to bed.