I got up, got ready, and went to work, and got there at 8.15am.

I spent the morning working on a script to rename all (600 thousand) files under the system I'm writing.

The IT department had moved, they'd been thrown out of their area, that they designed in the new building, because of people coming in from Dept of Forestry.

I went to the new area, and we went out for lunch at midday.

The senior DBA went into a real estate agent, and then the guy from royalty went to the bank, after they came back, we bumped into the guy from Orange who looks after IT, we spoke to him for a minute, and then he went back to work.

We went to a cafe, and a ordered a "Big Kahuna" burger, which came out a few minutes later, and was one of the biggest hamburgers I've seen.

There was no cutlery, so I had to pick up and eat the burger, which was very difficult, since it didn't fit in my mouth. I managed to eat almost all of it, before what was left of it became so soggy from the sauce and meat juice and whatever that it fell apart, and I couldn't pick it up.

We sat and chatted for a while at the cafe after finishing, and then we continued walking.

I had in my notes for this day that I paid my Amex bill, but I think that actually happened tomorrow..

I don't know what happened on this day, I think we walked back to work.

We stopped in at the pub on the way, and we confirmed the booking of a room in there for the sysadmin from tomorrow night, because he's coming back to work tomorrow.

We went back to work after that, and I continued working on some table design I was doing before lunch.

Some woman from some other group came around after a file, I left the project manager to speak to her, but then I ended up getting roped into getting the file.

I pulled it down on to my desktop, but then realised that I wouldn't be able to send it through email, since it was too big, so then I copied it into the production server.

I emailed the woman with the address of the file, and then I went to delete it off my machine. When I clicked on it, stupid windows tried to put the thumbnail of the image in the left pane of the window, and in doing so crippled my machine, trying to open a 40mb TIFF file.

I was in the middle of writing some scripts when the woman came around, and I hadn't saved them, so I didn't want to reboot my machine.

It was a bit responsive to start with, while I frantically tried to get the task manager up to kill off explorer.exe, which was spinning out of control, using up to 700MB of memory, and growing (when I only have 512MB in the machine).

Even after trying to kill it, it kept growing, and then the whole machine stopped, but the hard drive was still thrashing away as it tried to page around.

I figured I'd just wait, and see if it was able to kill it off, and then have the machine come back responsive so I could save my files.

It said 4.15pm on the clock at that point, and I sat and waited for 5 minutes, but got fed up, and didn't want to sit waiting, because it was obvious I wasn't doing any work, and I was tempted to just reboot and be done with it, but then I'd have to spend about an hour rewriting the scripts.

I decided to go and see the senior DBA, and see if I could do anything useful up there in the meantime.

While I was up there, he was telling me that the chick from work was going on about going over to Newcastle tonight, and I was like "what for?", but she hadn't given him a good reason either.

It was to go and do something that took 5 minutes or something, and then come back. What's the point of that? If we'd been going to go to dinner over there, or something like that, then fair enough, but to go over there, and then come back again, forget it.

I stayed up there for a while, ended up being almost an hour, and then I went back down to my desk, to find that my machine had not recovered, still had 4.15pm on the clock, and the hard drive light wasn't flashing away anymore.

I gave up, and turned the machine off, and back on again, and started rewriting the scripts I'd lost.

I was really annoyed, so I took a break to put some notes on blogger, and vent a bit, but that was even more frustrating, because Blogger was so fucking slow, it was painful.

I gave up, and went back to see the senior DBA again, and then we left, and went to the pub we were staying at, rather than the other one we usually go to after work.

The was because I was pretty annoyed, having lost all that work, and I didn't want to deal with talking to the guy who was the librarian before, who almost drives me up the wall at the best of times, and I couldn't have handled him today.

We sat and had a beer on the back balcony of the pub, and then we went up to the room, and I dropped off the stuff I didn't need.

We decided to walk down to the pub we go to for dinner sometimes, where the guy who was the Newcastle Knight works.

On the way, we bumped into this wierd guy from work, he was saying that the others had gone to the Leagues Club for dinner, but he didn't know where it was, so we told him and then we kept going.

We didn't want to get stuck with him for the night, and we kept going where we were going.

We got there, and I ordered my dinner, because I was starving.

The bartender knew that I liked screwdrivers, and he told me that they'd got a new vodka in, so I had one of those, and it was a bit nicer than the other vodka they have.

We waited a while, chatting, and then the senior DBA decided what he wanted for dinner, and ordered.

We played pool, and just after starting to play, some other people in the bar came and put their money on the side, wanting to play the next game.

We finished our game, and then I went to the loo, while I had a chance before our food was served.

When I came back, the senior DBA had disappeared, I looked around for him, but I couldn't see him.

There were a few people from the CCB group at work, so I sat with them, and then about a minute later my phone started ringing, it was my mate's brother in law from Bundaberg.

I spoke to him for a few minutes, apparently he's having a lot of problems with the computer we took up there, the internet doesn't work properly on it or something.

I told him that I was in the pub, and couldn't hear him properly, and I needed some details to give him (thinking he needed to use LSDfix or whatever it's called to fix DNS problems), but then the phone dropped out.

I went back in, and continued looking for the senior DBA, but I still couldn't find him, so I decided to go and play the pokies instead.

I was just starting to play the pokie when my phone rang again, it was my mate's brother in law calling me again.

I answered it, finished explaining how I neeed some info before I could help him, and arranged to call him tomorrow night.

I got off the phone, wasted the end of the dollar I'd put in the machine, and went to another one.

I was just going through the end of that dollar, when the bartender came in and told me that my dinner was ready.

I finished wasting my dollar, and then I went back out the back, where the CCB guys were, and sat down to eat my dinner, the senior DBA was out here now too.

When I sat down, the senior DBA had shouted me a drink, that was good.

While we were eating, the chick from work and her boyfriend turned up.

We finished eating, and then we all went inside. I put some money in the jukebox, and queued up a bunch of songs.

The senior DBA and I played against a couple of the people from CCB, and beat them, twice.

After that we sat around chatting, and I went to put some more songs on the jukebox, and the bartender told me that they'd just had a new sound system installed, and he could put a CD on for us.

He did, and we played against the people from CCB again, 2 more games, and beat them again, making 4 for 4.

The left after that, and it was just the senior DBA and I left.

The bartender closed the bar, with us still in there, we sat and chatted with him for a while, and had a few more drinks, and then we left the pub at 11.20pm, and walked back to pub where we were staying.

We got in the room, the senior DBA passed out on his bed, and I just turned off the light and went to bed.

I was having a terrible sleep, I lay there for ages, got to sleep, I woke up at 2am, and then managed to get back sleep, but I was woken up again at 3am by the sound of water pouring.

I opened my eyes, and saw the senior DBA standing near the end of my bed, and I thought "fuck, he's pissing on the floor!", and I said "What The FUCK?!", and then he stopped pissing, and went "oh".

I jumped out of bed, and threw him out of the room, then I turned on the light, and found that he'd just pissed on my towel that was on the floor at the end of the bed, so I moved that away, washed my hands, pinched his towel, and went back to bed.

The senior DBA came back from going to the toilet, after I'd thrown him out of the room, and went back to bed.

I lay there, and I didn't get back to sleep until 4.30am.