I woke up, got up, had a shower, and got ready.

I shutdown the stuff (NSLU2, disk etc, since I'd left it running while extracting recordings from the tivo last night), and packed my bag.

I went in, waited around, and then Mum gave me a lift to the service station.

I hung around in the carpark for a little while, and then the email support guy turned up, and I got a lift to work.

I did some work, and then my mate in Melbourne told me that he'd got a new XBMC build.

I gave him my gmail login, and he used that drive mount hack thing to put the files in there, and I was able to get them out again, at work, using the same thing.

I did some work for a couple of hours, and then got called up by the little guy, he was asking if I was going to lunch.

I went upstairs, and hung around for a while. I chatted to the Senior DBA, about the stuff over the weekend.

He told me that the cops had told him not to go back in the laundry, they eventually turned up on Sunday, and took some fingerprints, and a report.

I doubt anything will happen though, the stuff is gone.

I went for a walk with the little guy, and we went to a cheap shop, he was looking for a piping bag, for making a cake.

While we were there, I bought some batteries, a power point timer (for the heater), and a cheap knockoff xbox remote.

We walked back towards work, and I went to subway, and ate it on the way back to work.

I hung around upstairs for a little while, and then went back to my desk.

I worked for a while, but I couldn't think straight. I went and got a drink from the vending machine, and tried to work a bit more.

Eventually I gave up, and packed up my laptop, to go. Then I remembered that I needed to get the tivo guide data slices, so I setup my laptop again.

I downloaded the guide slices, and then packed up my laptop, and walked back to the house.

I think this is when I put the bed together, but I'm not sure.

I setup the gear I'd brought back, the AP, and NSLU2/disk etc.

It was weird, the NSLU2 booted up, but was running off the internal config, instead of the disk.

I wondered if it was because I turned the disk on before I attached the USB cable to the NSLU2 or something.

I fiddled around for a bit, and after powercycling both the disk and the NSLU2, it came up properly.

I got the wireless working again, with one running as a client to the other, since only one has OpenWRT on it, and the other has the stock firmware on it, which doesn't do WDS.

I found that xbox routing doesn't work properly, it wouldn't connect to the NSLU2, which was on a different subnet, because of the wireless bridging.

I tried to install the new XBMC I'd got this morning, but I had disk space issues.

I fiddled around, and eventually, after moving some other stuff off the disk, had enough space to install the new XBMC.

I hadn't realised that it had run out of space while copying a couple of times, and I'd wondered why it didn't boot, or had errors about missing files.

Anyway, I finally got it running, but then I couldn't get it to connect to the NSLU2 anyway.

I put some stuff on the harddrive in the xbox, and tried playing that, but it didn't seem to want to play movies for some reason. I wondered if it was something dumb I was doing, pressing the wrong button or something, but I couldn't work it out.

I even tried using the xbox remote, but that wouldn't play movies either, I could only get it to play music.

The senior DBA had come back a little while before, and he'd arranged for us going to dinner at the mailroom woman's place.

The chick from work and her boyfriend turned up, and they hung around for a while, and then we all got in the car, and took off.

We stopped in at the bottleshop on the way, and got some grog, and then we went to the mailroom woman's place.

We chatted for a while, and then had dinner, and desert.

We sat around for a while, and then all the others ended up in the laundry smoking, and I sat and watched some of a DVD that was on.

We left, and we got dropped back at the house. I watched some tv, and setup the serial link, and loaded the new guide data.

It took ages to index for some reason. I went to bed after that, did a bit of blogging, and then went to sleep.