I woke up at 7am, got up, went and had a shower, got ready, and had breakfast.

We were at work at 8am.

I was working on something, around 9.30am, when my phone rang. I answered it, having difficulty hearing it, because of the crappy mobile reception in Maitland.

It was some chick calling me back from Australia Post, about my enquiry yesterday.

I started explaining about the registered mail, and wanted to know if I could get it redirected to the Maitland post office etc, she said something back, but then the phone started dropping out.

I asked if there was a number I could call her back on, and she gave me the number I'd called ysterday, got trapped in the menus, and ended up getting hung up on.

Oh no, I'm not doing that. I kept moving around until I found a spot, with my head on the side, where I could get just enough reception.

The chick said that she would find the mail addressed to me, waiting in the Eatons Hill post office, and redirect it to Maitland, and it would probably take about 3 days to get there.

She asked if there was anything else they could do for me, but I told her that I couldn't think of anything else at the moment.

I went into a quick meeting with the project manager, trying to sort out some status codes, so we have a proper flow in the new system, didn't get very far however.

I went back to work, working on something else, leaving the status codes alone for now, and then had to go and have another meeting about it.

This time the project manager, and the woman who looked after the old system and I went into the managers office (since he was away) to have a meeting, and discuss some functionality that the old system had, that hasn't been described in the scope of this project.

I went back to work for a while, and then I became freezing cold, because of the stupid airconditioning running far too low.

I locked my machine, was just about to head up to see the guy upstairs about lunch, and my phone rang.

I answered it, it was the guy upstairs, using someone elses phone, and wanted to know about going to lunch, so I went up there, and then a few of us went out to get some lunch.

We walked down to the shipping centre in the mall, and went to the bakery, and got pies, and then we went back out into the mall, found a bench, and sat down to eat.

When we finished eating, we were just sitting chatting, and some guy went running through the mall, followed by a cop, chasing him, who yelled "give it up mate!".

The guy running went into the shopping centre, and a couple of seconds later a guy from IT came out of the centre. We were joking with him later, asking what the handoff was, as it looked well done, guy running went in, he came out.

The cop kept running, ran into the shopping centre, nearly bowling over a couple of people dawdling in the door way.

He came out about 10 seconds later, dragging the guy he'd been chasing, and walked him back through the mall, where they'd started from.

He sat the guy down, and held him for a while, and then a cop car turned up, and another cop was there.

We sat and watched the whole thing. About 5 minutes later, a paddy wagon came screaming through the mall, going about 80km/h, which was really unnecessary, and dangerous, when there are people, kids, strollers and stuff everywhere, and the guy is clearly under control.

They loaded him into the paddy wagon, and then the 4 cops hung around for a minute.

We got sick of watching at that point, so we started walking back to work.

I was thirsty, so I went into the newsagent to get a drink, got some green cordial drink or something, and an instant scratchy ticket.

I kept heading back to work, bumping into a ton of people from work on their way out, to lunch or whatever.

One of the people I bumped into was the building manager, who for once didn't have a go at me for something, but had to jokingly make some smartass comment about me drinking a green drink (considering my green hair).

I got back to work, and wandered up with the others to the IT area. The guy from Orange who's looking after IT was there, so I spoke to him for a few minutes, and then I went back to my desk.

I did some work for a while, and then I went to go and see the email guy, to find out if he'd got the gmail invitation I'd sent him.

He was on the phone though, so I spoke to someone else for a while.

This guy was annoyed with the one of the support guys at the moment, so when he went away from his desk, the guy went around and stole the other guy's LCD screen.

I decided to get in on these shenanigans for once, I usually keep out of it, I popped a couple of keys off the guy's keyboard, and I put a couple of packing bean things in there, and then put the key caps back on, so the keys wouldn't press properly.

I then sat down with the email guy, since he asked me to have a look at something for him. He was trying to configure the backup client on a few servers to send him mail, but he couldn't work out how.

We went through, looked at all the tabs, configured it with his email address, but there was no where to specify the mail server or anything.

I figured it probably used the default MAPI settings (or whatever they're called), so I asked him to send a test mail from the machine, and found that it didn't have mail configured on it.

Once we configured mail, then we were able to send a test message, and the backup mail notifications started coming through.

I asked the email guy if I could get a lift home today, because I'm going to see R.E.M. in concert tomorrow night, and there's no way I'll get into the city in time if I'm at work tomorrow.

(I'm taking Friday off too, because there's no point spending half the day on trains to get to work, to get there in time to go home again).

He said that was fine, and then realised that he had to leave immediately, because he was supposed to pick up his son from football practice.

I went down, grabbed my stuff, and went and jumped in his car, and we drove back. It pissed down with rain on the freeway.

About halfway home, the email guy called his son, to find out where he was (because he was already going to be late to pick him up), and he said that they'd cut the practice short because of the rain or something, and he'd already been picked up.



The email guy dropped me at home, he knew the area, because they practice on the sports oval around the corner from my place.

I sat around for a bit, and then put some dinner on.

My mate (the drummer) called me, to find out what was going on tomorrow, and I told him that I'd just got home etc. I said I wasn't sure of exactly what the plan was, I said I'd have to speak to our other mate (the guitarist).

I got off the phone, and I called our mate, to find out what he wanted to do tomorrow. He wanted to go down around lunch time tomorrow, wander around the city, and then go to the concert, and come home.

I got off the phone, and had my dinner, and then after that, I called my mate back (the drummer), to tell him what the plan for tomorrow was.

I watched some tv, and drank a bottle of Riccadonna I'd left in the fridge from a couple of days before.

I spent a bit of time modifying the TiVo install script I wrote and look after, and then I reimaged the disk for my test TiVo.

I went through and setup the TiVo again, this time to use the digital STB, and then I went to bed.