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

I left with the senior DBA, we drove to the service station, and he dropped his car off to get serviced.

The little guy from royalty was waiting there, I jumped in the car, and waited for the senior DBA to finish talking to the mechanic.

While I was sitting in the car with the little guy from royalty, we were making fun of what the senior DBA and mechanic were saying, since we couldn't hear them, we were ad libbing, things like "there's a door over here", and "that's a wheel", to go along with the gestures and pointing that was going on.

Eventually the senior DBA finished, came and got in the car. The little guy from royalty dropped his guts, I had to open the window and stick my head out, we drove to work, it seemed to take forever.

I went to my desk, and sat and cleaned up some data in the database I'm working on, trying to get some classifications right, so I can put support for filtering into the interface.

I looked on the Dell website, there was a special on the laptop I've been looking at, the 2200, you get the screen upgrade for free, and a bigger hard drive, and a DVD burner, instead of a DVD rom.

I finally decided to buy it, customised it as I liked, with a bigger capacity battery (Li-Ion, instead of NiMH), and wireless. I went to pay for it, and found their website to be broken. It didn't work in Firefox, I couldn't submit my payment.

I ended up having to "save the cart", and then use IE (yuck), so retrieve it, and pay. This should have been warning enough, that I should have been looking somewhere else.

What I didn't notice, was that an svideo cable wasn't available as an option, like it normally is. I didn't realise this also meant that the unit has no video out.

Anyway, I submitted my order, and then I went back to work.

A little while later, I was going through my drawer, looking for something, and I found the 32MB USB drive I thought I'd lost. Cool. I sent an email to the email support guy, letting him know I'd found it, since I'd thought I'd lost it in his car.

A while later I went out to lunch, someone had organised a farewell for someone at the leagues club. We walked down there, went in, and got food.

I realised that it was the cute chick from the office that was leaving. Apparently she's transferred her job to Orange, and is moving to live in Bathurst.

We sat and had lunch, there was a big group of us, close to 20, and then we went back to work.

I sat and spent the afternoon recoding a few more files, and had a short meeting with the project manager.

After that I went back to work, until I got a call from the senior DBA, he was leaving for the day. I said I'd do a bit more work, and find him in the pub later.

I continued working, and at about 6pm, the senior DBA called me again. I decided to leave work at this point, and walked to the pub we're staying in. I dropped off my stuff, ipod, glasses etc, and then went down, across to the other pub, and sat and had a beer.

I played the pokies for a while, and then we decided to leave, and went back to the pub we're staying in again.

While the DBA was mucking around in the room, I sat and watched the TV. The reception was even worse than usual. When I checked the aerial cable, I found that someone had tried to unplug it for some reason, and because the connector was tight in the socket on the tv, the cable had been pulled away from the plug.

I fiddled around with it, and managed to force the plug back into the moulded end of the connector on the cable, that the wires made contact again, and the reception was back close to what it was before.

I sat and watched the tv for a few minutes, and then when the senior DBA was finished in the room, he came out, and we walked down to the club.

The others from the pub were in there, we got some drinks, I noticed they had Havana Club, so I had some of that. I remember my mate that works at ABC going to great lengths to buy a bottle of that, since almost no bottle shops stock it.

We eventually ordered dinner, and then I went in and wasted some money in the pokies while I waited.

Dinner was served, and we ate, and chatted for a while. We played a game of pool, and then left the club, walked back to the pub, and I went to bed.