I got up at about 9.30am.

I dragged myself out of bed, and went and sat on the computer for a while, I ended up having a shower at about 10.30am.

My mate (the drummer) arrived just as I was getting out of the shower, so I finished getting ready, and then we left, and we around to our other mate's place.

He bummed around for ages, and finally finished getting ready, and we left his place about 12.30pm.

I was starving, and so was my mate, so we drove around to McDonalds, and went through the drive through.

We ordered our meals, and then had to wait, because there was a hold up at the next window, to collect food.

We chatted to the chick working at the window for a while, but because of the logistics of a car at the drive through window, I couldn't even see her, so I couldn't speak directly to her.

My mate (who was driving) ran out of things to say after a little while, so then we just sat there in an uncomfortable silence until the car in front got their food and left, and we rushed to the next window.

We got our food, and left, and headed for the freeway.

We drove down the freeway, down the highway, into the city, and to Surry Hills. We couldn't find a park very close to the drum shop, ended up in a parking spot on a hill about 300m away, that took my mate 3 goes to park in.

We walked to the shop, and started looking around. We were in there for ages, before I gave up and asked someone to help us.

My mate wanted to look at the drum kit at the front, since the guy last night had told us that they could set it up with the Ziljian (sp?) set of titanium symbols my mate wanted.

The guy said he'd be with us in a minute, and we could look at the drum sticks until he was ready. We went and looked at the sticks, and waited.

They set the kit up, and he had a bash on it for a bit, it sounded pretty good, a ton better than the pile of shit kit he's got now.

He said he wanted it, I'd told him last night that I'd lend him the money for it, and he could pay me back, rather than getting a personal loan, and paying interest.

We didn't like the colour much though, and asked if it was in other colours, and the guy said they had a black set, in the boxes, good, we'll have that then.

They went and found it, checked it was all there etc, and then I went to pay.

They threw in one of the sets of sticks, which was pretty good.

I tried to pay with eftpos first, since it's easy to put my PIN in than to have to sign, but it didn't work, must be because the cost is over my daily limit or something.

I put it on credit instead, that worked, so I signed, and then we were set.

We asked if there was somewhere to park while loading up the car, instead of carrying the drum set to the car, they said we could just park out the front, on the road, while we loaded the car.

My mate walked back to his car, and my other mate and I moved the kit out on to the path to wait for him.

We chatted to the guy who served us while we waited, apparently he'd been on tour with some band, and was taking a break for a while, to work in the drum shop.

My mate turned up in his car, and we went about loading it up.

We got some stuff in the boot, but we ended up having to put the bass drum (with another drum in it, in the box) and a smaller drum box in the back of the car.

This ended up with my seat moved forward, and my drummer mate sitting in the back with one of the drum boxes on his lap the whole way home.

I'd wanted to go into Parramatta, to go to the full music shop, rather than just the drum shop, but now it was too late, Parramatta is the last place we want to be on a Friday night.

We headed for home, and stopped at a service station on the north shore on the way. My mate who was driving complained that he couldn't see out the back with the bass drum box there, so my mate jumped out, and I moved the box to the other side.

We kept going, and headed for the freeway. As we got close to the on ramp, some guy sitting in the back of a car hung out the window, going "great hair mate!" and giving me a thumbs up.

We got on the freeway, and headed for home. We got back to our mate's place, and we unloaded all the drums from the car, and carried them into his place.

We unpacked them all, and started assembling it, we spent about 20 inutes on it, but we really couldn't be bothered, and then when we realised we'd put the bass drum skin on sideways or upside down or something, we gave up, and decided to do it tomorrow.

My mate gave me a lift home, and on the way we stopped at the bottleshop, and I got a bottle of Riccadonna.

I got home, watched tv, drank the bottle, and spent some time modifying the TiVo install script, before going to bed.