Tuesday, April 12, 2005

All the usual, I got up, got ready etc, and got to work at 8am.

I worked until 12.45pm, and then I went up to find the sysadmin, to find out about going for lunch.

He wasn't at his desk, I wandered around a bit, and I found him in the computer room.

He was mucking around with a tape drive, apparently there'd been some issue with it, and the South African support guy had found that the drive wasn't mounted properly in the unit, and so the robot arm was putting in the tape in the slot of the drive, but it couldn't push it in far enough for the drive to load it.

Now they'd found that, and fixed the drive mouting, it should work. They were running a test, to see if it could properly load a tape into that drive.

While we were waiting for that, the email support guy came in, and bitched and whinged about the annoying support guy. I don't remember the details of it, I don't bother worrying about other people's bitching.

When we saw the tape unit work properly, we came out, the sysadmin went back to his desk, and called someone. I waited around, and spoke to the annoying support guy while I waited.

He wanted to come along to lunch, I didn't want to look like a bastard, so I said he could come with us. The sysadmin got off the phone, and the three of us left.

We walked down the street to get some lunch, on the way the annoying support guy bitched and whinged about the email guy, the other side of the squabble they were having.

He went into the bank, and then told us to keep going, because he wasn't going to have lunch, he only needed to go to the bank.

The sysadmin and I kept walking down the street. I didn't know what I wanted for lunch. The sysadmin suggested that we go and get kebabs, from the kebab shop we were at last night.

Hey, that didn't sound like too bad of an idea, maybe that good looking chick will be working in there.

We walked all the way down there, went in, she wasn't in there, d'oh. We ordered our lunch, and then sat and ate the kebabs in there.

We had a bit of a chat, and then we started walking back. I remembered that I needed to buy shorts, so about halfway back, I told the sysadmin I'd see him back there, because I was going to Kmart.

I went into Kmart, to look for shorts, and didn't have any luck, they only had 2 different styles, and I didn't want either of them, one style was tiny little shorts where your arse hangs out of them, and the other style wasn't as bad, but they didn't have any in any size near what I would need.

I left, and I went into Lowes, but that was a complete waste of time, I couldn't find any shorts at all in there, so I left, and I went to Best and Less, and looked around.

They had the same style as the ones in Kmart, but they had some that looked like they are close to my size, so I picked out a pair of those.

I went to the counter to pay, and got stuck behind some woman whinging about the shirts she's bought, with her kid's school's logo embroidered on them, and they keep getting stains on them or something.

How is it the shop's fault if your kids are grubs lady?

Eventually they finished dealing with the woman, and I paid for the shorts, and left.

On my way back to work, I stopped into the Reject shop, and bought a bag of lollies.

I walked back to work after that,and continued on the stuff I'd been doing this morning.

The guy from CCB came down a while later, to tell me what was going on later. Apparently we're all going to the pub as usual, and then after a few drinks there, we're all going to go down to the club where the bartender was the footballer, and get dinner.

I went back to work. The sysadmin came down a bit later, about 5.30pm, to find out what was going on.

I told him I was thinking about going to movies tonight. I looked at the movies, and the session times, but I wasn't interested in anything showing at the moment.

I went back to work afetr that, until about 6pm.

I left work, taking the shorts I'd bought, and the phone charger from work, because I forgot to charge my phone today.

I walked up to the pub, had a look, but didn't see anyone from work there. Just as I was about to leave, the bartender told me they all left about an hour before.

I went back to the room in the pub I was staying at, and dropped off the shorts, my jumper, the phone charger, and my sunglasses.

When I came out of the room, a manager from CCB was there, so I spoke to him for a few minutes, telling him what was going on tonight.

I walked down to the club the others were going to for dinner, it wasn't a great turnout so far.

The guy from CCB was on the phone to the woman from the mail room, and the old librarian was in there.

I got a drink, and spoke to the old librarian for a while, until he left.

I played a game of pool against the guy from CCB, and I lost, just, we were both going for the black ball at the end.

The woman from the mail room, and the social club guy got there, and we chatted to them for a while.

I had another game of pool (don't remember the details of that one), and had a few more drinks.

The sysadmin came in, I chatted to him for a bit, and then had another game of pool, and more drinks.

The guy from Orange who took over IT arrived about 7.30pm, we'd been talking to him earlier, and we worked out he must have been going about 140km/h to get there that fast.

We played pool again, and drink a bit more, and then we eventually ordered food, at about 8pm.

I played yet another game of pool, and then the food was served, and we ate.

We all sat out back and chatted, and I got tired, and left at 10.40pm.

The sysadmin and I walked back to the pub we were staying at, and went to our rooms.

I put my phone on to charge, noticed that the messages were full again, and had "no space for new messages", so I deleted on, waited a while, and then got a new one.

It was a message from my drummer mate, reminding me about the "F" themed fancy dress on Saturday night.

I went to bed, put my ipod on again, it was about 11pm.

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