Saturday, May 28, 2005

I woke up, not sure what time, but around 10am I think.

I called the contract DBA, to remind him about the computer fair, that'd we'd been speaking about recently, because he wanted to get an external USB hard drive.

He told me that he was just getting there, so I said I'd speak to him later.

I got off the phone, and lay in bed for a minute, and then got up, put the tv on, and sat and watched it for a while.

A little while later, I got a call from the contract DBA, he told me that he'd managed to get a USB disk caddy, with a 200GB Maxtor disk, exactly what I was after, for using with my laptop, for about $200.

I asked if he could get me one too, but he told me that he'd got the last one. We chatted for a bit, and then I got off the phone.

I sat on the computer, browsing the net for a while, and at about midday, I got a call from my drummer mate.

We chatted for a while, and I said that I was really not in the mood to go around to our other mate's place today, but then said I would anyway.

I got off the phone, had some dry toast, since there was nothing else to eat in the place (and God knows how long that bread's been in the freezer).

I went and had a shower, and got ready, and then my drummer mate turned up, at about 1pm.

I packed up my laptop (since I'd put all my tab files on it, and a java app for using them), and grabbed my bass guitar.

We went and got in the car, and went to our mate's place, we sat and played for a while. My mate's dad went to the footy.

I mucked around on my laptop, since I'd managed to get the newer version of kismet going, I found a WLAN, with the ESSID of "v$X%7g9Cc)r@W1i74Ze35jb". It was encrypted though, so I couldn't connect. It had stacks of clients hanging off it too.

I packed up stuff, and got dropped at home, at 4.50pm.

I sat and watched tv, and did nothing, I didn't really have time to do anything, because my mate was coming to pick me up again, because we're going to the pub later, because someone from Target is leaving, or having a birthday or something.

I sat there, until my drummer mate called me, to let me know that he was on his wauy, and then he turned up at about 6pm. I grabbed a bottle of Jack Daniels and some lemonade, and we went back to our mate's place.

I had a few drinks, and we sat and watched a Led Zeppelin DVD that my mate's got for a while.

After that, we walked to the pub, and had some drinks. The others (from Target) where already there, so we chatted to them.

I went and played the pokies, and broke even, so gave up.

We chatted for a while, more people turned up, and then we went out, and ordered dinner.

We sat and waited for that, and then it was served, and we ate, and chatted.

After dinner, a few of them wanted to smoke, so we went back in the section of the pub near the pokies, where we'd been before.

A little bit later, we went in to play pool, and have more drinks. We were there for quite a while, playing pool, running the jukebox, and drinking.

I couldn't believe how bad the pool playing was. I'd think that half these people had never played pool before. The table stayed open (nothing down) for about 20 shots, but then again, I was playing too, and I didn't manage to get anything down.

We had a couple of games, I bought a few rounds of drinks, and we ended up with a large collection of empty glasses, so I took them all back to the bar. The bartender jokingly asked if I wanted a rag (to tipe the counter), and a clean ashtray.

I ordered another drink, and the bottle of JD ran out, so he opened a new one, and put a full shot in it, so there was more than a standard shot in it.

I was waiting to tell the guy why I'd brought the glasses over, ie the fact I've been living in the pub, and spent every night in the pub for the last 3 months or so.

Before I got a chance to, I managed to knock my drink over, before I'd even drunk any of it. D'oh. The guy poured me another one, because I was still at the bar.

We left about midnight, when they closed, and I walked with my drummer mate, and guitarist mate, back to my guitarist mate's place.

We sat watching rage for quite a few hours. Some crap songs came on, like "Total Eclipse of the Heart", to which I recited the joke title, "Chocolate Eclairs Make me Fart", and then we sat there making fart noises during the whole song. Very mature behaviour.

We then had a discussion about the worst songs, and someone mentioned "Mungo Jerry", ie "The Pushbike Song", and "In the Summertime", and we sat there doing the "mmm, ch ch" noises for a bit.

About 20 minutes later, "In the Summertime" came on, on rage. I couldn't believe it. That stuff doesn't happen.

We watched for another 1/2 hour or so after that (well, I did, I don't know about the others), and then I fell asleep, on my mate's lounge, at about 4.30am or something.

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