The usual.. got up, got ready. The shower was a nightmare this morning, the water kept going freezing cold, and scalding hot, within a few seconds. It was horrid, I couldn't win. I hate living in this pub.

I decided I needed a coffee this morning, after that shower, so I made one, and sat and watched the news, and then headed to work.

I did some work for a while, and then I sat and got my court stuff in order. I went and found a folder to put all paper work in order, and highlighted all the payments for accomodation on the senior DBA's credit card statements.

I tried calling my mate's brother in law, in Bundaberg, to confirm getting picked up, when I get there on Thursday afternoon, but there was no answer on his mobile, or on the house number.

I went and sat the senior DBA, and then we eventually went out to get some lunch, at the cafe down the road.

After lunch, I went to the bank, to pay for the watches I'd won on ebay the other day, and then I walked back to work.

When I got back, I called up my mate's mother in law, in Bundaberg, to arrange getting picked up. I would be arriving at 2pm, and that was when she was starting work, so she wasn't able to pick me up. I got their address, so I could get a taxi back to their place when I got there.

I got off the phone, and went back to work, until I got a call from the web services guy, something about the website, but for once not that it was stuffed. I was expecting him to say that, so as soon as I answered the phone, I started checking it, and found it to be down, but because he didn't mention it, I left it, figuring that I would just fix it anyway.

I answered his questions, and then got off the phone, and went about trying to fix up the website. This time it was caused by something running away, and eating all the memory again, and the machine running out of swap, and the cpu getting pegged trying to swap stuff out.

I couldn't even log into the machine, it was so busy swapping, it took ages to get a login prompt, and then even longer to spawn a shell.

While I was waiting for a shell, so I could start killing stuff off, and getting some memory back, to sort the machine out, the external guy at Woy Woy called me, to find out why he couldn't get into TAS, and I explained about the fact that the whole server was in a bad state, so all external services would be unavailable at the moment, TAS, the website, MinView, DIGS, it all runs off that one server.

I told him that I was trying to fix it, and just to give us a bit of time. I got off the phone, and then immediately called up a few people in IT, the senior DBA, the contract DBA, the sysadmin, but none of them answered their phones. I'm left to deal with this one on my own this time. I hoped I could remember the process for shutting down oracle, because the senior DBA usually does that.

I was still waiting for the shell to spawn, from a login attempt about 15 minutes before, when the web services guy called me. I gave up waiting, and went upstairs to find who was there, or where they were. They were back by now, and I explained that we were having problems again, and we spent about the next 1/2 hour restarting all the services, once we could login.

After that, I went to speak to the email support guy, to confirm that I could get a lift home with him this afternoon, and that was fine, he was planning on leaving at about 5.30pm. I had a quick chat with him, and then went back to my desk.

I spent a bit of time mucking around with the music in my ipod, because it's going to have to keep me entertained for quite a few hours over the next few days. It'll take me about 7 hours to get to Bundaberg on Thursday, and a little bit longer to get back on Saturday.

I got a call from the web services guy, he wanted to arrange updating mysource in the next couple of days. I told him that it wouldn't be possible, because I wasn't in for the rest of the week, because I had to go to court. We arranged to do the upgrade early next week.

I got off the phone, and went back to work, and worked until about 5.30pm, and then I packed up my stuff, and went upstairs to hang around, and wait for the email support guy to finish, to get a lift home with him.

He was busy, working on something and talking to someone, so I just went and sat in the sysadmin's cubicle, who had left for the day, and used his Sun machine to fix up the crontab on the production server that I accidently trashed the other day. We'd had the backup of the crontab restored, so I went through and compared the files, and added in a few missing lines.

Just as I finished, the email support guy finished up what he was working on, and said he was leaving, so I grabbed my bag, and left.

I got a lift home, and when we got back, I sat in the car chatting to the email guy for a couple of minutes, finishing up our conversation, and then I came inside.

I went and got my mail from my parents, nothing interesting there. They offered me some dinner, I didn't have any food to eat, so I accepted the offer, sat and ate, and watched some tv.

Some rubbish show came on, so then I went back out to where I live, watched a bit of tv, and went to bed.