I got up late, I was really tired. I went and had a shower and got ready.

The little guy from royalty turned up, and the senior DBA let him in. I had breakfast while the little guy looked around, since he hasn't been in the pub before.

Once we were ready, we grabbed all our stuff, bags etc, and left, and loaded up the car. Another Friday, going home.

We went to work, when we got there, we grabbed our bags out of the car again, and went inside. I went to my desk, and sat and rewrote another file, to avoid code duplication.

I spent a little bit of time mucking around with itunes, there's a new version or something.

One of the indexers came to me about a file on a CD, one of the archive images.

I sat and tried to work out what the story was. It was a JPEG file, but with a TIFF header in the file.

I eventually worked out what I had to do to fix it, how many bytes I had to strip off the front of the file, and fixed the file.

I inadvertantly opened the image, and for some dumb reason jpg files are associated with Internet Exploder, so it launched, tried to display a 20mb jpeg file, and promptly caused my machine to hang.

As soon as IE popped up, I tried to abort it, and kill the process, but I wasn't fast enough.

I sighed. I rebooted the machine.

Luckily this time I had saved my work before mucking around with the stupid files, so I didn't lose any work.

I continued working, and then got a call about lunch, I said I'd be ready in a bit. I was just finishing up coding a file, when the others came down.

We left for lunch, we all got in the royalty manager's car, and went for a drive. The first place we went was a lolly factory at East Maitland. They sell to the public, and they sell the seconds too. I bought a big bag of mixed lollies, and a big bag of aniseed rings.

The others bought jelly beans and stuff, we left, got back in the car.

We were going to go to Hungry Jacks for lunch, but it was closed, so we went to McDonalds near the shopping centre instead.

We had lunch, and then we left. As I was putting the rubbish in the bin, the little guy from royalty was being smart, and said "why don't you just put the tray in there?" so I did. heh.

We got in the car, and left, and drove back to the service station, were the senior DBA's car was in for a service.

He'd asked the mechanic to replace a wheel stud that had got lost a little while ago, but the one that Merc had sent was totally wrong.

I got in the car with the senior DBA, and we drove back to work.

I sat and worked, I finished off writing a function to delete records from a table, with an undelete function.

I got a call from the senior DBA, he wanted to leave, so I got off the phone, packed up all my stuff, and went upstairs.

We left, went down to the car, loaded our bags up.

On the trip back, the left side of the bonnet wasn't shut properly, and was lifting a little bit as we went on the freeway.

When we got back to my place, the senior DBA got out and fixed it, and then kept driving.

I got to the door, and I realised I didn't have my keys. Hmm. Either I didn't take them with me this week, ie I locked myself out on Monday morning, or I've lost my keys.

I wasn't sure if there was anyone home, so I dumped my stuff near the door, and went back down the stairs, to prepare to climb up on to the balcony.

Just as I was about to, Mum came out the side door, and asked me what I was doing. I explained that I didn't have my keys (and I didn't think she had any anyway, Dad has them, as far as I know, and he's not here).

She said there was a key. I came back up, and Mum tried to open the door, but the key wouldn't work, so she thought it was the wrong one.

I said it was right, but that the lock is all stuffed, and the key doesn't go in properly, you have to jiggle it all around.

I took the key, managed to force it into the barrel, and opened the door.

I dumped all my stuff inside, and sat down. I just sat there for a while. Then I made a drink, and sat and watched tv.

I just sat there, drinking, staring at the tv, until about 9pm, when I decided to make some dinner. There was bugger all food left, I found some frozen chips, so I shoved them in the oven, and waited.

My mate, whose wife left him recently, called me, wanting to know if I wanted to go around to his place. I said I wouldn't mind, but that it's a bit difficult to get there, since I'm not riding my bike, while on a court ordered ban.

He said he'd come and pick me up in a little while.

I ate my chips, and then waited around, and my mate turned up. I went to his place, and we sat and had a couple of drinks, and a chat.

About 11pm, my mate's sister gave us a lift down to the club (she was going down there anyway, and hadn't been drinking). We went in, to the pool room, and sat around for a while.

A couple of guys my mate works with were there, so he played pool with them. I played against his sister.

After that, she went off to wander around, or dance or something, so I went over to the table with my mate, and his workmates.

I chatted with them for a while, and ended up playing against both the guys.

My mate's sister had come back, and was playing pool on a different table with a pretty good looking chick.

We finished our game, I played against one of my mate's workmate's sons, and only just beat him.

After that, the guy that runs the pool room came over and asked if we were going to play another game. We told him that we were finished, and he then announced that it was last games.

We sat around a little bit more, and then moved downstairs.

We tried to find somewhere to sit, my mate wanted to sit somewhere that he could smoke.

We went and sat in the TAB area, as soon as we sat down, a couple of security blokes came in, and asked us to move out of there, because they wanted to close that area, and when I rolled my eyes, they said "I'll bet you just sat down too?".

We moved out of there, and found a table, but it was near the noise room, and trying to have a conversation was a waste of time.

We decided to go and sit back near the stairs, even though it was a no smoking area.

We moved back, found a table, sat down, and started chatting. I was sitting with my mate, and one of the people he works with.

My mate had put his cigarettes and lighter on the table, and a couple of minutes after sitting down, a security woman came along, and told us that we couldn't smoke there, that it was a no smoking area.

My mate told her that he was not smoking, and she said that she realised that, and was just telling us not to smoke. Well, believe it or not woman, we can read, and we can read the
"no smoking" sign about a metre away from us.

She went away, and we continued our conversation.

My mate's sister was still with the chick that she'd been playing pool with, they came to the table, and my mate's sister spoke to him for a minute, and then they both went to play the pokies.

We were having an discussion about debating, and arguing (ie, talking about arguing, not actually arguing), the guy that my mate works with was claiming that he could argue anything.

We then started having a discussion about "life commitments", and what a life commitment acually is, and a whole bunch of stuff like that. That went on for about 45 minutes.

At the end of that discussion, the guy said that we'd proved the point that he was trying to make previously, the fact that he could argue about anything.

At about 1.30am, my mate who works for his dad, who owns the aircon business, and my mate who works for ABC turned up.

We chatted to them for a short while, but there was something weird about them, like they'd been popping pills or something, and I couldn't handle them.

They weren't up for having a simple chat, like my mate and his workmate and I had been doing for the last couple of hours, so they decided that they were going across the road to a different club "Mojo's", or whatever they're calling that place this week, since it's had about a thousand different names.

My mate and I'd had enough of the leagues club, so we left too.

My mate and I went and waited in the taxi line, got in the next taxi, and headed back. We stopped at the side of the road, opposite my mate's house, and he jumped out, and then I got the taxi driver to drop me at home.

As I was getting my money out of my pocket to pay, I managed to drop a couple of dollars worth of change down the side of the seat. I said the taxi driver could have it.

I paid the fare, and got out of the taxi, dropping a bit more change, a few 10c pieces, on to the road.

I'm not even going to bother looking for it. I hate change.

I went inside, it was about 2.30am I got home.

I got into bed, put the tv on, watched it for a while, and then turned it off and went to sleep.