I woke up, got up, got ready, had a shower/breakfast etc.

I left the pub, and went to to work. I did some work for a while.

About 9.30am, I decided to go and see what was going on upstairs, and see if I could annoy the cranky old guy with the bouncy thing he stomped on and broke, that I sort of fixed.

When I went up there, I bumped into the contract DBA, spoke to him for a minute, and then went across the road with him to the cafe, and got a crappy coffee, and chatted for a bit.

He wanted to know about what some of the production servers are doing, because I have more to do with them than he does.

We finished our chat, and went back across the road, the DBAs and a few others from IT went into a meeting, with some people from Orange, to talk about the servers.

I went back to my desk, and continued working, until about 10.30am, when we had a morning tea, so I wandered out to get something to eat.

All the IT staff were still in the meeting, I had some food, and then went back to work.

I didn't end up having lunch, just kept working all afternoon.

I spent a little while working on some javascript for the TV guide database, and then sent it off to the guy who looks after the server for that.

The senior DBA was leaving a bit early today (which is why I didn't go for lunch). We left about 2.40pm.

I jumped in the car, and we left, I got dropped at home, the trip back was unremarkable.

I sat around at home for a bit, but then I got hungry, because I hadn't had lunch, and there was no food in the house, because I don't bother to keep anything here, when I'm not here during the week.

I rode to the supermarket, and bought some cheese and crackers. There's a healthy lunch.

I went into the bottle shop to get some alcohol, I was paying for it, and the woman at the counter was going on about my green hair, after saying something profound like "your hair is green".

I would have stayed to have a bit of a conversation, but my phone started ringing.

I answered it, it was a message from someone, so while it crapped on "You have one new message, message received at 3pm this afternoon" etc, I picked up the alcohol, and walked out of the bottle shop, and started walking back to my bike.

I got back, put the stuff down, and listened to the message. It was from the guy at Orange that looks after the content of the Department's website.

He was going on that there was a problem with the site, it seemed to be down. There was nothing I could do at this point, I couldn't write down his number or anything, because I didn't have a pen.

I hungup, packed the shopping into my bike, and I rode home.

I sat around for a bit, and then I found the guy's number, and I called him back, and explained that I couldn't do anything, because I don't have a VPN account, or any details for anyone else's account.

He told me that it seemed to be working again at the moment, must have been some strange issue that fixed itself.

After that, I sat around for the next few hours, eating, playing the guitar, watching tv, and I wentt to bed about 3am.