I heard the phone ringing. I ignored it, I couldn't have got up to answer it if I'd wanted to.

I slept more, and was woken again, by the phone ringing again, at midday, this time it was my mobile. It was the guy at Wyong that fixes the computers. I didn't answer it. I wasn't in the correct mental state to talk him at the moment.

I got up, and I felt massively hung over. Ugh. It was a tragedy, there was no panadol. I ventured outside, went to search my bike, since I used to carry some in there, but I must have eaten them all at some point.

I sat around, feeling like I was dying. I called the guy at Wyong back, and spoke to him for a bit, and worked out that he was having some problem with a motherboard, which he kept saying was a "Foxconn" motherboard.

Uh, hello, no. Foxconn make cables and connectors, not motherboards. I'll bet he's read it off the side of the PCI slot connector.

I eventually worked out that it was in fact a nasty SiS based board, and I told him to just get rid of it. He also told me that it had problems booting with the floppy drive, and I worked out that he didn't have it connected backwards, but that I suspected that the drive was stuffed.

I watched some tv, and then I got a call back a few minutes later, and the floppy drive was stuffed, as I suspected.

I went back to watching tv, while feeling like crap. I sent a message to my mate, about my ipod, and asked him to drop it around when he got a chance. Then I watched more tv.

I was felling really tired, so I lay in bed again, and fell asleep for a while, an hour or two, then I woke up, and watched more tv.

I called my mate, since I'd not had a reply to my message, and he said he would drop it over "later", there's that "later" crap again.

I decided to muck around with the development TiVo, for some reason the video quality is nasty, all black and white, and flashing colours.

I mucked around, and eventually narrowed it down to the FTA STB.. I'd set it up with composite out to start with, so I had the output on the STB set as such, and then once I had it working, I switched the TiVo over to use Svideo, and plugged the svideo lead from the STB in, but what I hadn't done, was switch the output format to YUV or whatever it had to be.

Once I did that, it was fine.

I went and got the washing in (that I'd hung out yesterday), but it was damp, so I found some alarm cable, 6 core stuff, that's useless, and strung it up like a clothesline, and hung all the clothes up.

My mate turned up a while later, and gave me my ipod, he didn't hang around for long, because he was on his way out somewhere.

I sat around, watched some tv, and then went to bed again.

So much for a day of drinking, and playing 2 up. Oh well, next year.