I was woken up by the phone ringing, it was about 9.50am.

I answered it, it was one of the contractors from work.

I chatted to him for a while, he wanted to know something about one of the systems at work, and if the ecommerce stuff was working, I told him that it was as far as I knew, but that I was currently off on holidays, 1300km away, and I hadn't been at work since last Wednesday.

After that, we chatted about tivo for a while, because he bought one a few months ago, and set it all up.

After about 10 minutes, I got off the phone, and lay down again.

My phone rang again about 30 seconds later. Argh. I answered it again, it was the message service.

My mate's dad, who runs the air conditioning business I used to work for had called me a couple of minutes earlier, while I'd been on the phone to the guy from work. I listened to his message, he wanted the details of the guy who could fix the equipment his son broke, who I gave the details to yesterday. Argh.

I deleted the message, hung up, and called him back. I chatted to him for a couple of minutes, gave him the details again, and then got off the phone again.

I wasn't feeling too bad this morning, even after all the grog last night. maybe it was the bit of activity last night, running around smashing cane toads.

I sat on the computer, and out the window I saw my mate's wife leave, she'd been talking about going snorkeling this morning.

I checked the itunes download that I restarted last night, it had crapped out again, around the same time. d'oh.

I mucked around, and tried seeing if starting it again while it was still going would resume it, but no luck.

I decided to get wget, because then I know I can resume the download.. that gave me an idea, maybe I can resume this download, from firefox.

I downloaded wget, and set it up, and then I did a find on the hard drive, and I found the partially downloaded itunes setup file in firefox' cache.

I copied it into the wget directory, and attempted to continue the download with wget, and it actually worked, it resumed downloading the partially downloaded file from firefox, that was pretty cool.

It finished downloading, and I installed it, and connected my ipod, everything looked like it was working properly.

I checked my email, went through all that, that wasted an hour or so. There was no sign of my mate, still in bed I'll bet.

My mate's wife came back from the beach, and stuck her head in the door, I just said gday to her, and then she went to go and get something to eat or something.

We bummed around for a while, my mate finally got up, and then we all got ready to go back down to the beach.

Because the surfboard won't fit in the car, my mate was a smartarse, and joked that we should take the crappy little boogy board down to the beach, so I climbed up and got it from on top of the roof beam in the garage/guest area.

I went in the car with my mate, and his wife and mother in law went in his mother in law's car, and we drove to the beach, went to a different beach this time.

We parked, walked up the beach for a while, and then dumped our stuff, and went into the surf.

My mate's mother in law wore her sunglasses in, and my mate said she was daring, and she said she'd never lost a pair of sunglasses at the beach, and had been wearing that pair in for 7 years.

About 10 minutes later, she was hit by a wave, and lost her glasses.

We all went over looking for them, but we weren't able to find them, they must have been dragged out when the wave went back out.

We mucked around in the surf for quite a while, my mate's mother in law left, she had to go to work or something, and my mate's wife went off to go somewhere, just leaving my mate and I on the beach.

We sat on the sat for a while, he read a book, and I just lay there.

There were a few chicks sitting a little way along the beach from us, one of them got up and went down to the surf, she was pretty good looking. My mate told me to go and talk to her.

She stayed down at the edge of the surf for a while, didn't go in, came back up and sat back down again.

My mate was going on and on at me to go and speak to her. I said I was just taking my time.

I got up, and I walked over there, not really knowing why I was doing this.

I walked over to where they were sitting, there had been 3 chicks earlier, now there was only 2 here. They said hello first, I found that surprising.

I chatted to them for a bit, telling them that I was up here on holidays, and asked if they knew any good pubs or clubs to get a drink etc, just trying to make some small talk.

The chick who'd gone down near the water just told me to talk to the other chick, so I chatted to her for a few minutes, she told me about a pub in town, and somewhere else that had karioke on Wednesday night (but we were leaving on Wednesday anyway).

She asked if I'd been at the other beach yesterday (since not many people have green mohawks up here I guess), and we chatted for a bit more, and then I said I'd see them later, and walked back over to where my mate was, and sat down again.

We chatted for a bit, and then his wife came back and sat with us, we stayed there for another short while, and the third chick came back, went over to the other two, and a little while after they they got up and left.

We stayed on the beach a bit longer, and then we took the boogey board, and jumped in the car.

I figured we were just going back to my mate's mother in law's place, but we went to the shops instead. I didn't have my wallet with me, so I wasn't able to pay for anything.

We went in the bottle shop first, and grabbed quite a few bottles of wine, to try to replace all the stuff we'd drank last night, and then we went into the supermarket.

We wandered around, grabbing food to replace the stuff we'd eaten in the last few days, and to get some stuff for us for the next couple of days before we left. We got a bunch of junk food too, ice cream and cakes, what's a holiday without junk food?

On the way out of the supermarket, we went into the bakery and got cakes and stuff, ate them in the car on the way back to the house.

We sat out the back again, listening to music, the speakers and stuff were still out here, so we just plugged our ipods in again.

I had a couple of VBs, and then went and had a shower, and got changed.

When I came back from having a shower, my mate's mother in law was serving the dinner, a lasagne. Everyone had special requirements for having theirs served, someone wouldn't eat some vegetable, someone else wouldn't eat something else etc.

I said that I was easy, I'm a garbage guts, and will eat anything, she said that suited her.

We sat and ate, listening to music again, and having a couple of drinks. My mate realised he was out of smokes again, so he wanted to go and get some.

We wanted to go out cane toad hunting again, so we drove to the supermarket we'd been at this afternoon, to get some supplies.

We went in, grabbed a bottle of metho (apparently that does wonders to them), but then we needed a way to spray them, we tried to get one of those trigger action bottles, but they were sold out. My mate asked some chick working there, and she went and looked for more stock out the back, but they didn't have any.

I suggested that we just get a sauce bottle, we can spray them with that, and it's got a bigger nozzle too. We went around and found one, and then went up to the checkout.

My mate got his smokes, and we ended up chatting to the checkout chicks for a bit, they asked where we were from and stuff, and my mate commented that they probably don't see many people looking like me up here, but they said that we'd be surprised.

We left there, and we drove back towards the house. On the way we saw a couple of cane toads, so I filled the sauce bottle up with metho, when my mate saw the next one, he stopped, I jumped out of the car, sprayed the toad, and then tried to light it up with a lighter, but the wind was blowing too hard, and kept blowing the lighter out.

The toad got a bit annoyed, and hopped off the side of the road, so I had to give up, because otherwise I would have ended up lighting a grass fire or something.

We got back to the house, and grabbed the golf clubs (my mate's brother in law had found a proper golf club somewhere today, rather than the silly pitching wedge we had last night, but we took it anyway), and then we went through the back garden looking for toads.

We found a couple, my mate would hold them down with the club, I'd spray them with metho, and then light them on fire, it was pretty cool.

He'd let go of them after that, and they hop away on fire, I was pissing myself laughing.

My mate's brother in law came out after that, and he helped us look for them.

We ended up grabbing a bucket, and collecting them. We found a few in the backyard, while I was rummaging through the garden I hit my leg on a tree stump, and scratched my leg.

We figured it would be easier to get them off the side of the road, so went walking along the road collecting them.

We spent about 1/2 hour, and we ended up getting about 10 or 12 in the bucket, so many that they were stacked high enough that the ones on top could jump out, so then we had some fun.

We went back out the front of the house, and one at a time, we'd flick them out of the bucket, spray them with metho, light them, and we took turns belting them across the road with the golf clubs.

I was able to get a bit of practice in, and my shots weren't as crap as last night, I even managed a cracker of a shot where the toad flew clean across the road, and into the field on the other side.

My mate's brother in law said it was one of the best toad shots he'd seen. It was just a fluke though, I couldn't manage to do it again.

When we had about 4 toads left in the bucket, we dumped the 4 of them out in a heap, sprayed them with metho, lit them, and let them hop around for a bit, that was so funny, to see some flaming mess hopping around.

Once they stopped hopping, we belted them across the road.

Ah, that was enough fun, we went back and sat out on the back verandah again, and cracked into the bottle of Bundy that we'd got at the bottle shop this afternoon.

I was feeling a bit sore, I think I'm sunburnt. My mate's wife looked, and my shoulders and back were all sunburnt. They had an aloe vera plant there, so I put some of that on my burns, and felt a bit better.

We ended up sitting here drinking until who knows what hour of the morning, and then went to bed.