Well, thats that contract done with - can finally spend some time back in the office, tying up loose ends after 4 weeks, 9 till 5 in someone elses office. Good news - the company were glad to have me working there and everyone said nice things about me and my abilities/manner. Bad news - come home and fire up the server machine to put some stuff into source control, to find out its pretty much toast.

So, will probably strip the machine and build it back up with the older motherboard/CPU I have - its much slower, but unless I get to the root of the reliability problems I’ve been having with the machine, its pretty much useless anyway. All I really need is a CPU, disk, network card and CD-ROM and it’ll suffice, but it has to reliable (and preferably be a bit quieter than the current one, which sounds like a hoover running - not a good thing for a machine that serves its purpose best when its on 24/7).

Will have to look at a list of objectives for the company as well; things have been somewhat slow recently, I want to get a handle on where we are going, how fast we want to get there, etc. Priorities really - the one thing you get from working a contract full time is a list of things you want to work on when you get a chance.

In non-company news - the Insolvency Payments people have come through on the unpaid protective award I was due from VIS - so thats a nice little bit of cash to help things along over Christmas. Yay for slow but steady government bureaucracy!

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