I got up, and I got ready, having a shower etc. I went to make a coffee, but I couldn't find the jar of coffee that I bought the other day.

I looked all around, in all the cupboards, including the one under the sink, and then I saw the jar, empty. Hmm.

I asked the senior DBA where my coffee was, and he told me that is was "gone". Seems strange, since one of those jars usually lasts me a few months.

(It was used though, since the senior DBA usually made the coffees, and when I went in with him one time, I saw that he was putting 2 heaped teaspoons of coffee in, and I usually only put 1).

Anyway, I had a coffee, because he had a huge jar of coffee, some brand I'm not a huge fan of. I finished getting ready, and I left the house. There was a bunch of junk mail in the letterbox, so I grabbed it out.

I put my ipod on, and I looked at the junk mail on the way to work.

One of the catalogues had a really cool looking bike in it. I wondered if it was just easier to buy a new bike, rather than pissing about trying to fix my other bike, which needs new tyres, the handlebars fixed, and something done about the gear change mechanism.

When I got near work, the woman from the mail room that's going out with the contract DBA was going somewhere, we said hello, and kept going.

I got to work, and sat at my desk, I set my laptop up, and I put some music on. I'd listened to "Rocket Man" on my way to work, and I wanted to hear it again, so I put that on.

After I'd listened to it, it randomly selected the next song from the playlist, strangely, the same song came on after as when I walked to work. Maybe the random code from xmms is the random code used in the ipod.

I worked on some code for a while, and then I went up to see the senior DBA, to talk about going to the shop to look at the bike I'd seen in the catalogue. I shoved the catalogue in my pocket.

I went up, and found the senior DBA on the phone, I spoke to the manager of royalty for a while, he told me about a restaurant he'd been to, where they have a mechanical bull.

He'd been on the bull, and someone had videoed it, so he showed me the video of that on his laptop. He lasted a fair while on the bull, and then got thrown off, and ended up on his head or something, quite funny.

The senior DBA got off the phone, and we all decided to go across the road, they wanted coffees, I don't drink the shitty coffee they serve, but I went across anyway.

We had a chat while we were over there, and on the way back to work, I showed them the bike in the catalogue.

I went back to my desk, and I did a bit of browse to find an NSLU2, because I'd decided to buy one, so that I could setup more disk space for my laptop, and not have to worry about dragging it around, and connecting it to my laptop.

I also wanted one because I'd seen them mentioned on hackaday a couple of times, and were supposedly very hackable, which sounded like fun, and the WRT54G I bought recently is supposed to be pretty hackable as well.

I also browsed for a wireless bridge, so I could setup the access point and the NSLU2 (if I got one) in another room, and still have the xbox and the tivo in the loungeroom connected, without having to run wires between the rooms.

I figured I'd try and find Linksys' wireless bridge, because equipment (especially wireless) usually works better together when it's the same brand.

I didn't really find what I was looking for. (sorry for the overlapping blog posts).

I'd received an email from someone upstairs, about going to lunch, but I'd missed it, I hadn't noticed it arrive, or checked my mail.

A little while later, someone from upstairs called me, asked me about going out to lunch. I went upstairs, and waited around for a little while, and then a few of us went out to lunch.

We walked down the road, the senior DBA, the contract DBA, and the woman from the mail room he's going out with. As we walked down the road, a guy rode past on a bike, the same as the one I'd seen in the catalogue, it looked pretty groovy.

We went to Subway. The senior DBA waited in the line with us for a minute, and then left, and went and got food somewhere else, but sat outside with us to eat.

After that we walked back to work, and I went back to my desk, and worked for a while.

A couple of hours later, I sent an email to the senior DBA, and asked about going to the sports place to look at the bike this afternoon. He replied immediately, and asked if I wanted to go up there and look at it now.

I said I'd do a bit more work, and then we'd go. I did a bit more work, and then I packed up, and I went upstairs.

When I went up, I started talking about the bike I was going to look at, and the annoying support guy mentioned that he'd recently bought a couple of bikes at an auction house recently, and didn't really need 2, so was going to get rid of one of them.

We went down to the carpark, the senior DBA, the annoying support guy, and myself, and we looked at the couple of bikes, since they were in the back of the annoying support guy's car. He said he still had to work out which one he wanted, and which one he was going to get rid of yet.

The senior DBA had ridden his bike to work today, so I started walking back to the house, and the senior DBA rode back, since his car was there.

We got back, and I dropped off my laptop and stuff, and then we got in the car, and drove to the sports place at Green Hills.

We went in, and I went and found the bike, it looked a bit smaller than I expected. I dragged it off the rack, and sat on it, and found that it was much too small, I couldn't even peddle it, because my knees hit on the handlebars. Useless.

I got off, put it back on the rack, and we started to leave. Some guy asked if we needed help, and I told him I'd come in to look at that bike, and found it too small, expecting the guy to say they had a bigger one, but he didn't.

We left, and got back in the car, and I then I commented on the fact that Strathfield car radios was next door, and I was still looking for speakers, so we drove over near there, and went in.

The senior DBA mentioned that he was after a new CD player for his car, I said he was looking for a head unit that's compatible with Sony stackers (since that's what's in the car already, and just the head needs replacing).

We browsed around for a while, I didn't see much in the way of speakers worth having, and then we left. On the way out, I noticed they had a DVD/disc player thing for about $60, that played divx, and xvid etc.

We got back in the car, and drove back to the house. I sat around for a while, and then I setup the access point in the loungeroom, and connected the xbox to it.

I still had to run the serial cable to the tivo, since I didn't have an ethernet interface for it yet. I'd breifly looked for a serial to ethernet adapter, but I couldn't find anything reasonably priced, they were all hundreds of dollars.

Anyway, I ran the serial lead, and loaded some guide data into the tivo, a little while later, the guy from Orange who looks after the IT group, and the woman from the mail room he's going out with turned up.

We chatted for a while, and the 4 of us decided to go to get some dinner in the restaurant next door. We left the house, went to the pub, and found that the restaurant was shut.

We stodd there for a minute, trying to work out what to do, and decided to go to the club for dinner, so we walked over there.

When we got there, the guy from CCB was in there, we spoke to him for a little while, ordered drinks and dinner, and sat down for a while.

I went in and played the pokies, don't recall winning anything. I came out, and sat down for another while, and then the senior DBA and I decided to play pool.

There was some really crazy woman in the club, claiming that her mother had passed away a few days before. Either it was effecting her badly, or she was just a nutbag.

Before we started playing pool, our food came out, so we sat and ate. When we'd finished, we played our game of pool.

The crazy woman had sat with the guy from Orange, and the woman from the mail room, and they didn't look too impressed, trying to eat their dinner with this crazy woman sitting at the table.

The senior DBA and I couldn't handle her any more, we got more drinks, and then we snuck away, and went and sat outside.

I went back in and played a couple of dollars I had through the pokies, and then we left, and headed back towards the house.

On the way, I remembered that I needed to buy breakfast cereal, so the senior DBA and I headed towards the shopping centre/supermarket.

We got near the door of the shopping centre, and there were a couple of odd looking people hanging around there, a guy and a chick.

The chick came over, had all shit in her face, piercings etc, and asked if we'd buy her a pack of cigarettes (so they were both under 18). The senior DBA said he wouldn't, and while I briefly thought about it, the thought of it possibly being a sting, and me getting busted and a $10000 fine wasn't really worth it, so I told her I wouldn't.

We went in, and I bought a box of cereal at the supermarket, and then we walked back to the house, and the senior DBA went to bed.

I put the tv on, and watched it for a while, and I mucked around with the access point a bit.

I decided to move the heater up in to my room, to try to dry the mattress out, that was still leaning against the wall, so I took it up, plugged it in, and set it up to try to dry it, figuring I'd just leave it going all night.

I went back down, sorted out my clothes, and went and put a load of washing on.

I continued mucking around with the access point, there wasn't much I could do with the standard firmware, and I wanted to be able to use some of the extra features the device could do, that I'd read about (and saved a bunch of files about on my laptop).

I had a copy of "freeman", I put that on there, since it still retained most of the standard features, and a web interface, that "openwrt" doesn't have, and I wasn't prepared to put that on yet.

I have no problem with "freeman", I think "talisman" is the problem, since there's a company trying to make money out of Linksys' GPL firmware, and not releasing their code under GPL.

Anyway, I found that the boot_wait hack documented in the openwrt twiki worked, and then I flashed freeman in, and fiddled around with that for a while.

I went and put the washing in the dryer, watched a bit of tv, before I went to bed, on the lounge again.