I woke up, I was having an asthma attack, there was no ventolin.

I got up, I heard Dad leaving. I went and had a shower, there were millions of ants in the shower for some reason, they were all over the top of the door, and around the top of the shower.

I noticed a small gap in the sealer around the top of the shower, and they seemed to be coming in and out of there, they must all be in the wall or something.

I grabbed some bug spray, and sprayed them all, and the gaps in the sealer.

I had a shower, and then when I got out, my phone rang. I came out of the bathroom, found the phone, answered it. It was the senior DBA. He wanted to tell me that he was going to be there early this morning, because he'd had a better run of traffic that usual.

I got dressed, and then checked my email. I found I had a whole bunch of new email, but 70 of them were spam.

I was having a really hard time breathing, I need some ventolin or something. I went in to the bathroom, and I used the nebuliser. I didn't have any ventolin nebules to put in it though, all I had was saline, which I really doubted was going to do anything, but perhaps the damp air would help.

It didn't do anything, was a waste of time. I checked, and now the senior DBA was there, so I grabbed my bag, and went and got in the car.

I just sat there, not having a good time, trying to breathe. I almost fell asleep in the car, I was trying to slow my body down so much, so that I could handle the small amount of air that I was getting.

We got to work, and I just sat there. I had to wait until after 9am or so, when the chemist would open, so I could go and get a new ventolin inhaler.

I thought I should probably go to the doctor, and get a prescription for some preventer medication, instead of just using ventolin like I have been, but to do that, I need a medicare card, and I never got one, when I applied for one last year.

I looked on the medicare website, to find if there was an office nearby, so I could reapply for a card, there was one, in a shopping centre down the road, but it doesn't open until 9am.

I tried to do some work, filling in time until 9am. After 9am, I slowly walked down the road, and I went to the chemist. I bought a new ventolin, came out, and took a few puffs from it.

I could breathe again. I walked down the road, looking for the medicare office. I looked in a shopping centre, where I thought it was, but I was wrong. It must be in the other shopping centre I thought.

I went in there, found the medicare office. I waited, went to the counter. I spoke to a woman working in there, explained that I'd applied for a card last year, but that it never turned up.

She told me I'd have to report it as lost, and apply for a reissue. This annoyed me a bit, since I didn't lose it, they did, but then again, maybe it got sent to QLD, and my mate's ex gf, who keeps screwing up my mail lost it, so I didn't argue.

I went over to the counter at the side, found a form to request reissue of a lost medicare card, and filled it in.

I got in the line again, waited, and spoke to a different woman. When she pulled up my record, she noticed the date, and told me that they'd had an issue with the card supply last year, and a whole bunch of card requests got lost. Great backup system they must have.

I showed her my ID, tried to get away with using my expired NSW license, but she didn't accept that, so I had to show her a couple of credit cards.


I told her that I thought there might have been some sort of a problem with mail, and briefly explained my issue with QLD transport mail, and losing my license, also to explain why I was trying to use an expired license as ID.

She gave me a print out, receipt thing, which is valid as a temporary card for a couple of weeks, until the proper one arrives in the mail.

I left. As I walked through the shopping centre, something smelled pretty good, like something baked.

I went over to the bakery, but I couldn't see anything really nice there. I decided to go into Woolworths, to see if they had anything nice in their bakery section, but they didn't.

I was about to give up, when I noticed a baker's delight shop near the other bakery, that I'd gone to first. I had a look there, and a date scone looked pretty nice, so I got one of those, and then walked back to work, eating it on the way.

I got back to the main road, and decided to go and get a coffee from the cafe here, I went in, got a coffee, and drank it walking the rest of the way back to work.

It was a terrific coffee, I don't remember the last time I had a good coffee, unlike that shit they serve across the road from work.

I got back to the office, and went upstairs to find out what was going on. I spent a little bit of time up there, and someone mentioned something about music, and mp3 files, and sharing them.

I suggested searching the network for mp3s on people's machines. After that, I went back to my desk, and I sat and wrote a shell script to generate a batch file to run on my windows machine, that mounted people's hard drives, searched them for music, and logged it all in a file.

I kicked it off running, and then I went back to work, recoding more files.

At about 12.45pm, I got a call from the senior DBA, he told me that they'd forgotten to invite me when they'd gone out for lunch. I said I'd be down there in a minute.

I checked the script, realised there was something wrong with it, and killed it off, I'll look at it again later.

I left the building, and started walking down the road. About halfway to the where the senior DBA and the others were, I bumped into the manager of royalty, and his wife.

I chatted to them for a bit, and then I continued to the place the others were.

I got there, found them already eating, so I went in and ordered some lunch. By the time I got served, they'd all finished eating. I ate my lunch, the senior DBA went into a clothes shop near the shopping centre, and bought himself a jacket.

When I finished eating, we all walked back to work. On the way back, we went into the pub, and checked into the room for the night.


The South African support guy was in the pub, we chatted to him for a bit, while we sorted out the room, paying, getting keys etc.

We went back to work, and I went upstairs and hung around for a while. I went back to my desk, fixed the mp3 scanning script, and set it off running again.

I went back to work, and continued coding.

At about 4pm, my phone rang, the sysadmin wanted some help to move some furniture into the house he's renting near work. The senior DBA and I agreed to go and help him, so I went upstairs, and then we all left work.

I went with the senior DBA to the sysadmin's place, and then we helped him move in a few bits and pieces he'd brought up, like a rug, and a couple of chairs.

After that, the senior DBA and I came back near work, parked at the pub, and went up to the room.

We sat in there for a bit, and then went for a walk while the senior DBA had a smoke.

After that, I finally went into the music shop, that I've been trying to go into for a couple of months.

I had a look around in there, for an acoustic bass, the guy had one, which he handed me. It seemed pretty nice.

It would want to be.. it's $600. I told the guy I'd think about it, and then we left.

We went into the pub nearby, to see if the old librarian was in there, but he wasn't. We had a drink, and then I went and wasted a little bit of money in the pokies.

I went back and sat outside again, and then another guy from work turned up. I chatted to him, and then I went back to the pub, where we're staying, the senior DBA had already gone back there.

I waited a bit in there, and then we walked down to the pub near the station. We had a drink, played a game of pool, and then ordered dinner.

After that, we sat at the bar, and chatted while we waited, and then we were served our dinner at the bar, and we ate.

The sysadmin came in, so then he went and ordered some dinner, and was served after we'd finished eating.

He sat at the bar and ate his dinner, while we watched the tv.

We had a few more drinks, and then we ran the jukebox for a while. We decided to leave the pub at about 9.45pm, so the sysadmin gave us a lift back up the road to the pub we're staying at.

I went to bed at about 9.55pm.