I'm getting sick of writing these blogs, no one reads them anyway, so I'm going to get a bit less verbose. I'll need to, if I want to catch up the 50 days or so I am behind now.

I got up, had a shower and got ready etc.

I left for work, I walked to work this morning, instead of waiting for the senior DBA, to get a lift in his car, since he left me there yesterday.

I was about halfway to work, when my phone rang, it was the senior DBA, and I told him that I'd decided to walk to work, instead of waiting, like he did yesterday.

I got to work, and worked on something until about 10.30am, when I went out to have morning tea.

After that, I went up to chat to the senior DBA for a bit.

I decided to go and get some legal advice, the guy I've been emailing has been giving me advice, but it takes a few days to get a reply, and he doesn't tell me all that much, so I'd like to go and speak to someone directly.

I wandered off down the road, there's about 10 solicitors in Maitland, I went to the first one I came across, went in, spoke to the woman at the front counter, said I was after speaking to one of the solicitors, for a bit of advice, and would like to make an appointment, or whatever I had to do.

The woman told me that they would probably have someone available to speak to me, so I waited, she rang in, and a solicitor came out a minute later.

We went into his office, I sat and explained the whole situation, from start to finish, about going on holidays, getting pulled over, being told that my license was suspended, getting the summons (eventually), not having known about the suspension.

I also mentioned the fact that the registration details on the summons were wrong.

He looked up what the penalty was, looked up something in a legal book, and then told me that the best course of action would be plead guilty, by writing details of the whole thing on the summons, and returning it.

He told me not to argue about the registration details being wrong, because they have a bit of leniency in things like that, and it would just get people's backs up,and then I might not get treated as well as I could.

I told him that I thought I would be better off attending in person, which he agreed with, and told me to get letters and paperwork backing up that I've been out of the state, don't have a fixed address, and a letter from my mate's ex gf, who had the mail and didn't give it to me.

I thanked him, and left.

I walked back to the office, and worked for a while, then I went up to find out about going to lunch, but there was no one there.

They must have all gone, and forgotten to tell me or something. I decided to go and get noodles, so I started walking all the way down to the noodle place.

I got about halfway there, in the mall, and saw all the others, at one of the cafes, well, they saw me, I was too busy avoiding being run over by a kiddies train driving through the mall.

I went over, spoke to them for a bit, they'd all finished their lunch, and were chatting, and a couple of them decided to go back to work, so I finished chatting, and continued walking down to the noodle place.

I bought some noodles, and then carried them back to work, hoping the silly little wire handle would hold up for the few hundred metres (probably nearly a kilometre) back to work.

I saw and ate my noodles, and then continued working. I took a bit of time in the afternoon, to book my flights to Bundaberg and back (first I have to fly to Brisbane, and then get a connecting flight from there to Bundy).

I tried calling my mate's ex gf again, to find out about getting a letter from her, explaining that she had my mail, and didn't give it to me, but as usual, there was no answer.

The sysadmin came down to see me, wanted to copy a couple of files across between a couple of servers, but he can't ftp them, because the firewall blocks it, and he can never remember how to use scp, so I scp'd the files for him.

I got a call from the senior DBA, he was leaving for the day, I continued working. I ended up leaving at 4.40pm, making for a 9 hour day.

On my way out, I bumped into the guy from royalty, and the building manager, he didn't have a go at me for once.

The guy from royalty gave me a lift up to the pub, I went to the room, at senior DBA was lying down, the guy from royalty was with me, the 3 of us sat in there having a chat for a bit, and then the sysadmin came in, and we continued chatting.

The relocations chick called up the senior DBA, and he chatted to her for a while. While that was going on, the sysadmin was talking about having to move rooms in the morning, because he's in a different room tomorrow night.

We went down to the bar, to see if we could organise him moving rooms tonight, but the room he was in tomorrow night was taken tonight, so there was no luck. The woman at the bar told us to just pack all his stuff, and leave it in the room, with a note for the cleaners, and they'll move his stuff to the other room, but the whole point of the exercise was that the sysadmin didn't want to have to pack all his stuff up, just to unpack it all again.

We went back up to the room, and the others had just come out of the room. I checked that the door was locked, and then we all walked down to the Grand Junction.

On the way, the sysadmin went into the shops, since it was late night shopping, the rest of us continued walking. I noticed that the hairdresser was still open, and I needed more hair gel, since my stuff had run out this morning.

I went in, bought some, the guy wanted to crap on for a while, but I wasn't interested, and so I just paid, and left.

I went to the pub, the others were there, I got some cash out, and then sat out the back. We waited for ages for the sysadmin, and when he turned up, we went and ordered dinner.

I had another couple of drinks while I waited, then the food turned up, we ate, and chatted for a while, and we left the pub at 8.30pm, and went back to the pub we're staying at.

We sat and watched tv for a couple of hours, and then I went to bed.