I woke up, I had a shocking headache. I got up, took some panadol, and lay in for a while, trying to rest, since my head was killing me.

I got up a bit later, still felt rough, but not as bad, went and got ready, and went to work.

I sat around, feeling really seedy. I got some emails from Dad, it was all the mail that came through yesterday, he'd scanned and mailed it through.

I couldn't be bothered arguing with this stuff anymore, I'm not going to get anywhere, I'm just going to get frustrated, and I'm already stressed. I can't handle any more stress.

I rang up Bundaberg court, asked if I could pay the fine, gave the guy my credit card details, and got off the phone.

Next, I rang up SPUR, or SPER, or whatever they're called, the QLD counterpart of NSW's SDRO. I went through the hideous phone system, and then got parked on hold.

I listened to their crappy hold music for 20 minutes, fuming, before getting totally pissed off, and giving up.

Useless, I should not pay it, and then say I tried, I sat on hold for hours, and they obviously didn't want my money.

I'll just go and pay it at the post office at lunch time.

I went and took more panadol, and then did some work. One of the indexers came and saw me, apparently they'd set up a machine for the "Open Day", (it was "Open Day" today, where anyone could walk in off the street, and see what the Department actually does), but the video drivers were missing off the machine.

I went and had a look, worked out that it needed the nvidia drivers, which I'd downloaded the other day, and were on my machine, so I installed them, and then went back to my desk, and continued working.

A couple of hours later, I got called up by the senior DBA, he wanted to know if I was going for lunch.

I went up and we hung around. The senior DBA told the little guy from royalty that he had to go and drop his car off at the service station, and asked for a lift back to work.

We went out to the carpark, and the senior DBA and I got in his car, and we waited, and waited, and the little guy didn't come out.

The senior DBA called him, asked where he was, and he said that he thought we were joking about needing a left back to work. He got off the phone, came out, got in his car, and followed us to the service station.

The senior DBA had to get some more work done, he'd replaced the tyres the other day, to stop them from catching the front wheel guards, but it was still doing it, and I noticed that the guard had chewed up the front left tyre.

It turns out, that after getting the new tyres on, the guards were still all bent from the old tyres, and the guy at the tyre place wouldn't fix them, so it was only still catching because the guard was still bent from the old tyres.

We left the car, and we jumped in the little guy's car, and we drove to Hungry Jacks, we went in, got food, went and sat outside. After lunch, I was still starving, so I went back in, and got an ice cream cone.

While I was in getting that, the senior DBA was rustling around in the little guy's car, looking for a lighter so he could have a cigarette.

He must have found one, because he came out of the car, and sat and smoked, while I ate my ice cream.

We got back in the car after that, I got in the front passenger seat, and there was a pornographic magazine on the floor. I asked why that was there, and the senior DBA said he'd found it in the glove box, while looking for a lighter.

I don't want to know why someone would have pornography in the glove box of their car.

We drove around a bit, taking a long way back to work, almost going to Walka Water Works, but the little guy was going about 180km/h, so he missed the turn off.

We went back to work after that, and we decided to have a look at the display for Open Day, and find out what the Department actually does.

We spent a little while down there, looking at the maps we produce, some of them done in a special stereographic way, where using 3d glasses makes the maps look 3d.

There were also some cores on display (the bits of rock they drill out of the ground, to see what minerals occur at what depths in the ground), and the mine safety group had a stand, showing photos of accidents, like tip trucks tipped over.

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

There was a message on message on my phone, I listened to it, it was from Dell, they needed the address to fix my laptop.

I called back the call centre, and gave them the address to fix laptop, but this caused an issue, because the spare part, the new keyboard, had been sent to Gosford, so they'd have to recreate the whole ticket or something.

I got off the phone, and went back to work.

I realised I hadn't paid that fine, and while I've still got a couple of days, if I forget, and don't pay it, then I could have to go to jail for a week.

I walked down the street, went to the ATM, and got $500 out, then I walked to the post office, and paid the fines, which brings the total fines paid today to $800, and I paid my American Express bill while I was there.

I went back to work, and paid the senior DBA half the cost of the room in the pub for this week.

I went back to my desk, worked, and then got called up by the senior DBA, he was going to pick up his car, and wanted to know if I wanted to go.

I'd had enough today, so I said I would, and he asked me to go out to the little guy's car.

I headed out there, on the way I bumped into the chick from work (makes sense, since I'm at work), and she wanted a chat, but I wasn't really interested, and I had to get to the car.

I left the building, went around to the car park, and went and got in the car with the little guy.

The senior DBA came out a few minutes later, got in the car, and we drove to the service station. The senior DBA and I jumped out, the little guy went home, and we went across the road (a bit like playing that chicken game on the Atari 2600), the senior DBA spoke to the mechanic.

He'd fixed the guards, and they worked out paying for it, the senior DBA got a refund for the amount he'd paid for the wheel stud, that the mechanic couldn't get, and ended up paying about $20 for the work.

The mechanic gave us a stack of brochures, to stick around at work, and then we left, and we drove back to town, and parked behind the pub.

We went into the pub we drink at, had a few drinks, and chatted. There were quite a few people from work in here.

A little while later, a few more people turned up, they'd come up for Open Day today, but mainly because in the morning, before Open Day started, the building at Thornton was being opened by the minister.

I chatted to them for a while, ended up having about 12 drinks while we were in here.

I played the pokies, broke even. While I was playing them, I got a call from the relocations guy, he was trying to send an email to the senior DBA, but it kept bouncing.

I confirmed the email address he was trying to sent it to, and then I got off the phone.

We left the pub a little bit later, and went back to the room, and then we left, and walked down to the club.

We got some drinks, and ordered food. We played pool while we waited for dinner, before we finished the game, the food came out, and we stopped to eat.

A couple of guys came in, wanted to play pool. We told them we were playing, just stopped to eat, and they'd only have to wait a little while, but they just left again.

A few minutes later, the social club guy, and a few guys who work in Woollongong (sp? I should know that one) turned up.

We didn't want to chat to them while trying to eat, so I said not to look at them, and they won't know we're there. It worked for about 15 minutes, before we were spotted.

They came over chatting, and at this point we tried to finish our game of pool.

We sat and chatted to them, and drank, quite a few drinks.

Ages later, I went and played the pokies, I broke even again, gave up, and went and sat down again.

I drank more, and chatted to the guys. After quite a few more drinks, I looked at my watch, and noticed it was 12.45am. Holy Crap, how did that happen? I couldn't believe it, and the bartender saw me looking at my watch in disbelief, and confirmed that it was a quarter to 1 in the morning.

We finished our drinks, and left the pub, not long after that, and walked back to the pub, where the room is.

The senior DBA was totally pissed, great, he's going to snore all night, and make me feel like throwing something across the room at him.

I went to bed at 1am.