I got up, got ready, came to work.

I tried to make some notes on blogger, but it was totally busted.

I went through my emails, and then I was looking at slashdot, and I saw a link to the hhgttg site, about the movie. I spent a little while looking at that. The movie doesn't look too bad, not as bad as I had expected.

I heard from the senior DBA, that the DR machine had crashed again. Argh, wasting all that time last night, fixing it up, for nothing.

The contract DBA and the sysadmin had gone over there this morning, to get it working again.

I downloaded itunes, and went through and cleaned out my ipod, I managed to get about 100mb of free space on it, so I could copy some files on to it to take home.

I went up and saw the senior DBA, I bumped into the email guy, and the contract DBA on the way up, chatted to them for a bit.

The senior DBA was on the phone, so I went around to annoy the little guy in royalty, to give him a taste of his own medicine.

While I was in the royalty area, I spotted the name sign, for the cranky old guy, it had "Cranky Old Fart" as his job title. LOL.

After that, something was annoying me (not the little guy, for once). The Novell server in that area is really noisy, the fan needs oiling or something. I spent a little while trying to work out how to open the case, since there's a thing of sewing machine oil hanging around, and I could fix the fan.

I couldn't work out how to open the case, so I just gave up.

I went across the road, to get a chocolate bar, because I was starving. On the way back, walking through the car park, the guy driving a garbage truck called me over.

He'd lost the opener for the garage door on the section where the bin is, and wanted to know if I could work out how to open it.

I went around inside the area, (since there's a separate door, for people chucking stuff in the bin), and looked for an opener button, or a function on the motor, but couldn't find anything. I just disengaged the motor from the door, and then pushed the door up manually.

The door weighs a ton, they've put all this perspex on it, to stop crap blowing in or out of there or something, but it's just ended up with the door being really heavy, and not balanced, so it took about 5 goes to actually get the door up (since it's pretty big too, so the garbage truck can fit in there), and stay up.

After that, I left the guy to empty it, and then I went back to my desk. I was pretty bored. I got a call from the senior DBA, he was working on someone's laptop, and the java VM was busted, because they'd installed some Craptusnet thing. He mucked around, but couldn't fix it.

I told him that they'd probably need to reinstall windows to get rid of that crap, I remember it used to be a real pain when someone would bring in a machine to the internet cafe, and they'd had craptus on it.

I went back to work, and continued working until about 1pm.

I'd been thinking about getting a bigger usb drive, for dragging files between work and home, so I went and looked at the website of the place I bought the FTA STB and stuff from recently. They had a 1GB for $120, and a 512MB for about $65, so I bought the 512MB, I don't think I need a gig.

After that, I went up to find out about going for lunch. Someone had put an icecream (in a wrapper) on the senior DBA's desk. He didn't know who had, and didn't want it, so I ate it, instead of letting it get wasted.

Anyway, I wandered around eating an icecream, while we went to see a woman about a problem she was having with TRIM. It seemed that she couldn't login, which didn't make sense, because we don't use passwords.

We spent about 10 minutes mucking around there, not getting anywhere, so we gave up, and decided to go and get some lunch.

Went we went back to the IT area, the little guy from royalty was there, and we asked him about the ice cream, and he told us that he'd put it there, he'd pinched it out of the freezer, and it belonged to the annoying support guy.

The three of us left, and walked down the road to get some lunch, on the way, we bumped into the sysadmin, and he told us that he had got the place he'd put the application in for.

The little guy got some money out of an ATM, so we waited for him, and then we went to the bakery in the mall, and go some pies. The senior DBA bought the little guy a tiny kid's pie.

The sysadmin got a kebab (I don't think he's big on pies, but I find that strange, they're both made of the same thing, crap meat).

We sat outside and ate, and then the senior DBA went to buy smokes, so we waited for him, and then we walked back to work.

I sat and worked a bit more, waiting to go home. I watched a video about ipod batteries these guys had made, when they found out that they couldn't get the battery replaced, and were supposed to buy a new unit. It was pretty funny, they went around spraypainting "ipod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" on all the advertising banners.

I got a call from the senior DBA, that he was going to leave soon. I packed up all my stuff, and then I went an hung around up there. The new guy turned up, since he was after a lift to, and then the senior DBA realised that he wanted to copy some stuff to his laptop.. several gig worth, so we got to tait for that.

Then we went and got in the car, and headed for home. I was dropped at home a bit after 4pm. I sat around for a while, but I was hungry, and there was no food, so I thought bugger it, and I went and jumped on my bike, and I rode to go to the supermarket.

On the way, there was some useless guy waiting to turn right at a T intersection. He had huge gaps, could have easily gone tons of time, but just sat there. There was a big line of cars behind him. I got fed up, and I rode up the left of him, and then I took the next gap, and left the dickhead behind.

I decided to get some fuel, since I don't think there's much left, and I'm worried that what's in there will go crap.

I went into the service station, and I missed kicking the kickstand down properly, because it's seized up a bit, so it slipped out from under my heel, and flicked back up, and then I nearly dropped my bike, I had to use all my strength to pull it back up.

Luckily no one noticed, so I just nonchalantly (sp?) got off, and took the filler cap off, and put in $5 worth of fuel.

I went in to pay, and the chick working in there said that my hair was "unique", it just looks like a total mess.

I went across to the supermarket, and got some food, and then I went into the bottle shop, and Ricadonna was on special, so I got a couple of bottles of that.

I rode home, watched tv, and drank. I got a bit tired, so I went to lie down in bed, and watched tv.

I fell asleep at 9pm, and then woke up again a bit later, and the tv was still on. I fell asleep again, and then woke up at 4am, and it was still on, so I watched it for a little while, and then turned it off and went back to sleep.