I got up, got ready, and went to work.

I got the laptop out, and spent a little bit of time trying to get the video drivers working. I'd downloaded them from Intel, and discovered that they were just an old tarball of the cvs stuff that the DRI people put out, an old snapshot.

I found a newer one, and tried those, but still wasn't haven't any luck. On the Intel page, I noticed links to a couple of commercial drivers that were available for X, for this chipset.

I went and looked, and downloaded one of them, the other company that they linked to, I couldn't find the driver package for my chipset.

I installed the commercial drivers that I'd downloaded, and bang, X just started straight up. Hmm, it's only a demo of the drivers though, and after running for 25 minutes, X just died.

Ok, so that's the demo obviously, and I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for a video driver. I'll have to try to get the open source ones going.

I gave up wasting time on the laptop, and started doing some work. I worked until lunchtime, when the senior DBA called me, and told me a few of us were going to the pub for lunch, the pub we drink at, that's just finished renovating the kitchen.

I went up, and then we walked down the street, and went into the pub, 4 of us, the senior DBA, the manager of royalty, the little guy from royalty, and myself.

We sat down, and waited, for quite a while. The senior DBA went and bought us all drinks, I ordered a beer, I suspect we're going to be in here for a while.

A chick eventually came and gave us all menus, while the senior DBA was still getting the drinks. He came back, and we looked at the menu, worked out what we wanted, (there's not much that grabs my fancy anymore), and then waited to order. Waited to order. Waited to order.

Eventually the chick came back, and we ordered our meals. Now we waited, and waited, and waited.

I finished my beer. While I waited, I started reading the label on the beer. I noticed that the beer was 3 months out of date.

The power went out. Hmm, this is going to be good. I hope they don't have electrical appliances in the kitchen, we might be waiting even longer for our meals.

I went to get another beer, expecting it to be rather difficult, since the power was still off, and hence the cash register was off, so I'd not easily be able to pay. I told the woman that the beer was out of date, and suggested that she check the other beers.

She found that the one I had was the last one. Someone came in (who worked there), and said he'd just been across the street to check, and the whole street had no power.

The power came back on at that point. I got another beer, a different beer obivously, since there were no more of the one I'd just had left.

I went back in to the restaurant, the others had been served their meals. I waited, and the waitress came over, and told me that mine would be a bit longer, because they'd forgot to make it. Uhh, great.

I sat and drank my beer, while the others ate. I noticed that this beer was out of date too, only a month out though.

Eventually they came and served me my food, which wasn't great, somehow I think it's been cooked in the microwave, and this is supposed to be an italian restaurant.

I ate, finished my lunch, the others didn't even eat all theirs, and then we got the bill, paid, and left the pub.

On the way out, I bumped into the email guy. I asked him what was going on, if there'd been power issues at work. He told me that everything had gone off, and I started chatting to him.

The other's I'd been with, just left me, and kept going, so once I finished speaking to the email support guy, I walked back to work on my own.

I got back to work, went back to my desk, and found my machine turned off. Obviously it didn't come back when the power did. I booted it up again.

I did a bit of work, and then I had another go at getting the graphics drivers working on linux, on my laptop, to try to get X working.

I ended up staying at work until 7pm, trying to get X working, and then I gave up, locked up my laptop in the drawer, and left work. I walked back to the pub, went to the room. The senior DBA was in there, he'd been asleep.

We sat around for a bit, and then decided to go to the pub (where we'd got lunch). We went there, drank, I played the pokies.

A woman that works in CCB was there, we chatted to her for a bit. We decided to go to the club for dinner, and we left that pub, and walked to the club.

We had some drinks, and ordered dinner, waited, ate dinner.

We ended up sitting at the bar, talking to the bartender again, and the others left, it was just the senior DBA and I, sitting chatting to the bartender, and then we left the pub at 11pm.

We walked back to the pub, went to the room, and I went to bed.