I couldn't be bothered to fix the time on the alarm clock, so I just left it flashing, when I went to bed.

I woke up, at some unknown time to start with, and later found it to be 4.30am.

I was having an asthma attack as usual, and I couldn't find my ventolin. I must not have put it in the bed last night.

I got up, and felt around near the chair, but couldn't find it, so I turned on the light, looked around, still couldn't find it.

I then looked, and found that after all that, I did put the ventolin inhaler in the bed, so I didn't need to get up, and I could have just done my usual, of taking a couple of puffs without waking up.

I turned off the light again, and then on my way back to bed, I had to step over the xbox, I wasn't sure where it was, so I stepped a long way over it, and stepped on the controller, and to avoid breaking it (or hurting my foot), I didn't put any weight on my leg, and nearly fell over.

I went back to bed, and back to sleep.

I got up at 11am, and started watching tv. I had something to eat, and then read through a lot of documentation for mplayer, trying to work out how to get the ty files to display in the correct aspect ratio.

I found that the -zoom switch worked for that.

I then tried to play a DVD on my laptop, but didn't have much luck.

I tried using both mplayer, and "totem", neither of which would play a DVD. I figured it was something to do with the encrypted vob files on the DVD.

I looked at the output that mplayer was dropping, when I tried to play the DVD, a pointer to a text file.

I read it, something about the libdvdcss library not being able to be distributed with Debian, fair enough, after all the crap about deCSS a few years ago. It had a script to run to install it though, so I just ran that, and about 36kb was downloaded, and the library installed.

I realised that I'd have to recompile mplayer, which I did, but it still didn't work. Argh.

A little while later, I tried again, and both mplayer and totem would suddenly play encrypted dvds, maybe I didn't have to recompile mplayer again, after all that.

I mucked around with the xbox a bit after that, with some of the extracted recordings, watching them, everything seemed to be working.

I decided to try watching a dvd in the xbox, and discovered that it wasn't interested in playing encrypted dvds either. D'oh.

I googled around, found a way to decrypt dvds, using "vobcopy", which even had a debian package, so I just "apt-get install vobcopy", and then went about decrypting my copy of Beverly Hills Cop to the hard drive in my laptop.

I went back to the xbox, and mounted the laptop's drive, and was able to play the unencrypted vob files on the xbox with no problems.

I watched the first few minutes of the movie, and then I put some dinner on.

I remembered about the old analogue reciever I've got up in the roof cavity, that I want to take to Maitland with me, so I used the ladder from the bed, and I climbed up and got the box out of the roof.

I sat and watched tv, I went to go and get the washing in off the line (the second load I did yesterday), but someone had already got it in, so I just brought it back.

I sat and watched more tv, ate dinner, mucked around on the laptop, and copied more recordings from the tivo to the laptop.

Dad came in for a chat for a while, and he said that he'd help me move some furniture up next weekend.

He went out, and then I packed my bag for work, and packed up the xbox, and a few other bits and pieces.

I went to bed, and watched some tv, before going to sleep.