I remember some time ago, in a land far far away, there was a man (well, young man) who had a weekend off.  Free from work!  I am not this man.

9:00am, client rings me on the mobile.  Is his laptop ready yet?  That’s $35 for waking me up, and NO, it isn’t.  So I get up and play with his laptop.  Took me a while to find something wrong with it, but I did.  So I tried my account on it and it went straight through and worked perfectly (of course).  His account doesn’t seem to want to work.  So I rang him.  He has had his iNet account disabled.  Nice one cretin!  Right, that’s fixed then.  Just get your account enabled and everything should work fine.  Call me tomorrow if it doesn’t.

Rocked up at Dr. J.’s place at 12:00pm to be greeted by Santaclaus (ok, it was Dr. J. in a bathrobe).  Oh, you weren’t serious about getting here at lunch time?  Tough.

I locked my keys in the car.  That kept me entertained while Dr. J. woke up.

Well, I then spent the next six hours writing ASP code to get an advanced search page working.  Thankfully I was taking it slow and easy, for I knew that while my brain and body were functioning neither was truly running at optimum speed.

Dinner wasn’t very exciting.  I think I ended up eating a tin of two fruits (pear and peach cubes) and (later) a pastie.  All hail the pastie packet!  It’s too hot to make anything, even if I had anything to make something with.

Drove back from Lysse’s.  Had a shower and was out the door by 1:00pm.

Arrived, ready for work, at Dr. J.’s and began building an advanced search page for a web site.  This site is going to be displayed to the purchaser on Monday.  Yes, he DID leave it a little late, didn’t he?

Half-way through the page, we decided to build (upgrade) the machine I was on to a Pentium 200.  Brilliant idea.  Bad choice.  Three hours later I hade a new machine with Windows 98 freshly installed (it used to be Windows 95) sigh.  Will boys ever learn to leave things alone until after they are being used.

I think not.

Dinner was take away.  Well, Dr. J. got Vietnamese take away food and brought it to me, does that still class it as take away?  More like brought to you.  Anyway it was nice.

After that, we went night clubbing.  Dr. J., Turtle Girl, The Unknown Soldier and myself all went to The Loft.  The music was great, there were tons of people there and we didn’t leave until 4:00am.

Arrived at work at 9:00am.  Did three systems before Atoning and Hypatia arrived.  After last night I am not feeling much compassion for the office gerbils.  So what if they can’t do their work because the idiot on the server machine (that is his PC) keeps stuffing it up.

Dinner?  What dinner?  I have no idea what I ate.  I think I just fell asleep.  Oh, hang on, that’s a lie.  I drove down to Lysse’s mum’s place (with Lysse) and we watched Wild Things and THEN fell asleep.

Late start to work today, because we are expecting to stay late so we can switch the network over to TCP/IP.

Which means Atoning will setup the network 100% the easy way.  Then, when we reach the testing part (about the 95% mark) something will go wrong that will be bad enough to have to start it all over again, except this time going the hard way.

Whaddayanoe (What do you know)?  We left the office around 11:00pm.

Dinner was great though!  I had chicken vindaloo with rice and “naans” that we got from the Royal Indian restaurant.  It was beautiful food!

Sorry, I have absolutely no idea what I did today.  mostly mundane work things I expect.

Alas, dinner has also been erased from my databanks, which leads me to believe it is a good thing.

Working for Dr. J. again!  Well, work has resumed after being interrupted by Christmas and the new year.

Spent the majority of the day trying to figure out how a database was constructed.  Someone had written this amazing package that used the database to store information and I was to figure out HOW the database tables were (or rather, SHOULD) relate to each other.  It was obviously done in a visual language because all the tables names were prefixed with “ft” and the field names (of which there were probably 200-250 in total) were named like: “db” + <table name> + <fieldname>.

Brilliant if you don’t want to confuse the (simpleton) visual basic programmer who doesn’t need to type much, but not if you are trying to figure out where everything goes, or doesn’t go.  Oh well, I figured it in the end.

I have NO idea what dinner was, probably something with little taste and even less nutritional value!

This is the day I should have really really REALLY relaxed on.

Silly me, I still can’t see into the future.

Can you tell something horrible is going to happen tomorrow?

Oh, I read Turtle Girl’s Sister’s cards this evening.  It was interesting.  It still works, even for people I don’t know, cool.  (Some of you might not understand this last bit, but that’s ok, nobody is perfect <grin>)

He rested.

And that about sums up this Sunday.  It was great!  I haven’t really appreciated weekends before.  You see I used to work on weekends, or for a few days during the week… but this working five days a week really makes you thankful for the weekend.

Went into the city with Turtle Girl to buy some tickets for “The big day out!” thing later this month.  Had some lunch while in there, but mostly spent the time walking around thinking about how long it’s been since I have been in the city proper.  Everything is different, but at the same time, nothing has really changed.  Oh, gee, how prophetic!

Lysse came up later in the afternoon and we were going to watch a movie or two but there was nothing on that we hadn’t seen already (or one of us had seen, and didn’t want to see again).  We got pizza for dinner and had a reasonably early night.

Slack.  Slack.  Slack.

When I got back from Lysse’s I had to get ready to go out with another woman!

I had agreed to have some mysterious woman follow me around the shops as I tried to buy some new shoes.  She sounded nice enough on the phone, so I figured I wouldn’t be trailing some little old lady behind me the whole time.  Anyway, it turned out that Julie was nice.

Aside from having somebody ask you how you felt about things you never really thought about it was good fun.  We went looking for work shoes, but not before she had taken pictures of me, my boots, my shoes and the rest of my footwear range (which isn’t very big).  After that, we were off!  The sales girl that was helping me was a little worried about this person that was writing down everything I said or did.  When I looked at shoes, Julie recorded it, when I frowned at the sales girl, Julie recorded it, when I casually remarked that the chairs at the shoe shop were too low (’cos I’m 6′6″) she wrote that down too!  Corr!  Talk about lab-rat-itus.

Putting all that aside it was a fun two hours.  I tried on a heap of shoes, the sales girl kept bringing out more size 12’s and Julie happily asked me questions and recorded answers.  I think Julie has an interesting job.  Watching people for a living could be lots of fun, it certainly wouldn’t get boring.

Once I had my new shoes, Julie took me home.  That would be, Julie took me back to my house and then drove off, for those of you out there with weak and feeble minds that always tend towards the naughty.  Not that there is anything wrong with that!

I cooked/created a pork vindaloo for dinner.  It was great.  I am still living in fear of going to the toilet after that one.

Finished work early today.  At 14:45 I left the office.  When I got to my car, it was 2:45pm.  Oops, I must have missed that “1″ at the front there.  Oh well, nothing else for it but to go buy that phone I was looking at yesterday.

Bought the phone, a little blue Ericsson GF768, and went home to have a shower and get ready for movies tonight.  Rang Lysse and told her I would be coming down to Mandurah soon so she could get out of her pyjamas and get ready!  Sheesh, these uni students are SO slack!

Arrived around 6:00pm and proceeded to have dinner.  Sticky fried rice and satay mince.  It tasted better than it sounds!

Went to watch Rush Hour.  Lysse knew just about everyone in the cinema!  Talk about small town syndrome.  Anyway, the movie was great, very funny and very fast.  When we got home we collapsed into bed.

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