I woke up, at 7.30am. It was bloody cold.

I got up at 7.45am, and went and had a shower, got dressed, and then had some toast, and walked to work.

I got to work, went to my desk, and sat and started doing some coding. I got a call from the guy upstairs, about disk space, assigned to the people in the group I work in. I said I'd have a look.

After a while, I found some home directories in there, and someone had 80gb worth of data on the server. I was chatting to one of the indexers, and he went around to speak to the guy about it.

I went back to work, and a little while later, the indexer came back. He told me that the guy knew he was using a lot of disk space, and apparently it was because his machine was stuffed, and it was going to be rebuilt or something, so he'd backed his whole hard drive, including the windows directory (duh) to his home directory.

I went back to work, I delegated the task on to the new guy, who's supposed to be looking after our data, and I told him the huge directories, and suggested that he find out if any of the stuff could go off to tape, especially the files belonging to people who have left.

The woman who used to work on the front counter, and took over for the guy that left (who used to stay in the pub, and got sick of our noise), was trying to install a dymo printer on her machine.

A couple of people fiddled around with it, and then they asked me about it, so I went over, and installed the software/printer etc, and configured it for her.

It's Thursday, so we had a morning tea. I went out, did the usual thing, eating, chatting, and then going back to my desk, because I don't like the whole socialising thing, there's no alcohol, and I've got nothing to say.

I continued working on code, until the guy from upstairs came down to my desk, at about 12.50pm.

We went out for lunch, wandered down the street. We went into a fast food place.

We got our food, and went and sat outside, I'd just ordered a salad sandwich, and it was huge, almost too big to fit in my mouth.

After that, we all walked back to work. I went back to my desk, and I continued working, rewriting some code.

I noticed that there was no reception on my mobile phone, I moved it around a bit, and eventually found a spot, balanced up on top of computer, where it got one bar of reception.

It rang a couple of minutes later, the message service. There were a couple of messages on there, from the guy working on behalf of Dell, he wanted to know about coming to fix my laptop, but he didn't leave a number, and only his first name, so I had no way to ring him back.

I went back to work, and I got a call at 5pm from the guy upstairs, he was going to leave.

That sounded good, so I packed up my stuff and then I left, and we walked down to the pub.

We got drinks, and went and sat in the pokies room, where the other people from work were sitting.

We all chatted for a while, and then I played the pokies. I don't recall winning anything.

My phone rang, I went outside, where I could hear, and it was the tech calling on behalf of dell.

We arranged for him to come out and fix my laptop tomorrow at 8.30am.

I went back inside, and drank, and chatted a bit more. I got a bit fed up with the old librarian, being more beligerant than usual, and also the fact that now I have somewhere to live (other than in the pub), and I don't have to spend all night in the pub anymore.

I grabbed my laptop, and I walked back towards the house. On the way, I went into the supermarket, I bought a bunch of stuff, including a timer, so I don't have to eat cold or burnt dinner.

I went back to the house, and I ate some cheese and crackers, watched some tv, and then I went and put the dinner on, and went back and watched more tv, while I waited.

I ate dinner, and then the other guy came back, and asked if I wanted to go to the club, I decided to go over there, just for a while.

We went there, and I had a couple of drinks. My phone rang, it was my Dad, he told me that he'd changed his mind about driving up on the weekend, to bring up some stuff for me, like a matress, because it might rain.

We hung around in the club a little bit longer, and then we left, and walked back to the house, we got back at 9pm.

I sat in the loungeroom, and watched junkyard wars, through the xbox, streaming it off my laptop.

I shut the lid of my laptop, while I watched it, to save the battery. I opened it again, a little while later, and found that the screen was stuck off.

I finished watching the episode, and then I had another go at the laptop, it was still running, I just couldn't see anything.

I switched it over to a text console, logged in (all working blind), and issued a reboot command.

The laptop rebooted, came up fine, so I shut it down again, made up the bed, turned off the tv, and went to sleep.