I got up, at 6.10am, had a shower and got ready. It was a shitty day, pissing down with rain, and I felt crook.

I had some breakfast, in the few minutes I had before 7am, and then waited.

7am came and went, with no sign of the guy from working giving me a lift. I checked the messages in my phone, and found the one he replied with yesterday said that I should let him know by 7am if I wanted a lift, I hadn't read it properly yesterday.

I called him at 7.15am, asked where he was, he had gone past, was on the freeway. He was about 15 minutes up the freeeway, so he said he'd come back and pick me up.

I waited, and he got back to my place at 8am, I went and jumped in the car, and we took off again, I was really appreciative of him coming back to pick me up.

We headed to work, and before getting to the exit from the freeway, to go the back way to Maitland, (which is slightly quicker than going the full way on the freeway), we saw the email guy.

He didn't see us though. We got off at the exit, and headed the back way to work. Before getting to work, the guy wanted to go and look at a house that he'd seen was for rent on the internet, so we went over to Lorn, and looked at it, didn't look too bad, had a tennis court, but with all the rain, it looked more like a swimming pool.

We drove to work after that, and when we got there, the email guy had just got to into the carpark at work, so it must be about 10/15 minutes faster to go the other way, because we were able to go and look at that house and come back in the same time.

I went to work, spent the morning working on something (don't remember what, it was a month ago), and then I went up to see the guy upstairs about going to lunch, but he had to change the tapes in the autoloader first, because the sysadmin is on holidays at the moment.

We went in, and changed the tapes, but weren't terribly successful, because the tapes that someone from Orange had told us to replace, were mostly not in the autoloader, only 2 out of the 8 tapes were loaded.

We went to lunch after that, along with another guy, and on the way we went into the pub, and checked into the room, and got our keys.

From there we went to the bank, and the guy upstairs went to pickup his replacement credit card.

We went into a cafe, and got lunch after that, and then when we were finished in there, I said I'd see them back at work.

I went to the chemist to get something for my cold or flu or whatever it was I had, because my nose kept running, and I had a sore throat.

I ended up with some generic brand cold and flu tablets, and they were totally useless, I found out later after taking them, and having no effect.

I walked back to work, and took some tablets, and then continued working.

A couple of hours later, I found that the internet access was busted, it didn't effect me much, since I was busy working on a file, but had wanted to check my email.

I got a call a few minutes later, from the guy upstairs, he told me that he was leaving for the day, and I asked "Why, because the Internet is down?" and he said "Something like that", and he left.

I continued working, and then I remembered about the mail from QLD again, apparently the guy in QLD had brought some mail down, and had left it at the place of the guy that owns the aircon business, because my mate's ex gf was staying there or something.

I tried calling the guy, to find out if there was any mail for me at his place, but he didn't answer his phone, so I left a message. (He never got back to me).

After that, I called my mate in Newcastle, who'd been trying to get me to go and stay at his place, to let him know I wouldn't be over there, because I'd already booked the room in the pub for the week.

He didn't answer his phone either, so I left a message.

I went back to work, and a little while later I noticed that the internet access was fixed. I checked my email, and then went back to work.

I got an SMS from the guy upstairs, said he was in the pub, and wanted to know what I was planning to do.

I worked a bit more, and then I decided to leave, I'd had enough of work for today, so I walked down to the pub we start drinking in.

The old librarian was there, but no one else. I decided to sit and speak to him for a bit, rather than be rude and keep going, looking in other pubs, so I did.

I was chatting to him, he told me the others had left a while before, and then I got a phone call from the guy upstairs, telling me that they'd left, gone down to the pub near the station, and he'd come back and pick me up in a bit.

I got off the phone, and continued chatting, and then about 5 minutes later, I went to wait out the front for the guy.

While I was waiting out here, 2 fire trucks came down the road. One stopped out the front of the pub right near me, and a couple of the fire fighters jumped out of it, and the other truck did a U turn.

The truck that had pulled over near me put it's siren on, and it scared the shit out of me. The fire fighters jumped back in, and then the truck did a U turn, badly, having to make a 3 point turn, and raced off after the other one.

The guy turned up right then, and beeped his horn, I went across the road, and jumped in the car, the chick from work was in there.

We drove back to her place, and we all sat in the loungeroom chatting, her boyfriend and I playing the playstation, some GTA game, San Andreas I think it was.

The chick's boyfriend said that it was the new one, but I joked that I thought the new one was "GTA: Macquarie Fields", like the picture I'd emailed around work a couple of days before.

We ended up hanging around here until nearly 8pm, when I said we needed to get back, if we were going to get dinner anywhere, so we left.

We drove back, and parked behing the pub we stay in, and then we walked down the road to the pub near the station, where he'd been before, to get some dinner.

We went straight into the restaurant, and the guy said I should get the pies, which was the special of the day, because he'd had them before, and they were really good, so we both ordered that.

Once we'd ordered, we went into the bar, and got drinks. It was really quiet in there, only a couple of people in there.

We sat in there for a bit, and then I said that dinner was probably ready, so we went back into the restaurant, and the woman was just bringing the plates out of the kitchen.

We sat and ate diner, the pies were really good, I ate the whole lot, but it was a huge meal.

We went back into the bar after that, and the annoying cowboy guy was in there.

We had a game of pool, I don't remember what happened there, if I won or lost, but after that, we watched the end of Pizza on the widescreen tv.

After that we sat at the bar, and watched South Park, and then the chick changed the channel, and we watched a bit of "Who Wants to be an Old Age Pensioner" (by the time they answer the question).

After a few minutes of that, the chick changed to "Battered Housewives" (Desperate Housewives, but the guy I was with had inadvertantly called it "Battered Housewives" a few days before).

Anyway, we watched the end of that (after explaining the story about Battered Housewives to the chick behind the bar), and then the show with the guy who used to be in Sliders came on, so we started watching that.

I was feeling tried, and feeling pretty crap, so we left, and walked back to the pub we were staying at, and went to bed, at about 10.30pm.