I was supposed to go to work today, but it was pissing down with rain when I woke up, so that wasn't going to happen.

I wasn't going to ride to work, for the first time in 8 months, and end up soaked through when I got there.

The rain didn't last, the sun came out towards the afternoon, so I took my new camera, and I rode out to the beach.

I planned to take a couple of photos of my bike, parked in front of a nice view, but there were too many people parked out at the beach, so I couldn't pose my bike like I wanted, and I also probably would have looked like a bit of a tool.

I just took a couple of photos of the ocean, for some tests of the camera's quality.

After I put the camera away again, I realised that I'd left it on VGA, and not 4MP, so they aren't even a good test of the camera, though they are pretty good quality pictures.

On the way back, I stopped in at the beer garden. It felt wrong to go into a bar, and order a soft drink. It was free though, surprisingly, so that wasn't too bad.

I noticed a few days ago that my 32MB USB drive has gone missing again, it's not in my laptop bag where it should be. I figured it must have come out of my laptop bag, when I was around at my mate's place, helping him fix his bike last weekend.

I went around there and had a quick look for it, but I couldn't see it anywhere. I hope it hasn't gone for good, because there are files I want on it, and I don't have them backed up (stupid).