Something that really cheers me up... when birds are feeding on the native shrubs outside my window, and filling the spring air with the sounds of their happy industry - I like the little [donk] of my cat hitting the inside of the window just before those birds freak out and leave.

After my 'no more work here' post - work got really interesting. The exec team made some "hard decisions" and we're at a happy point where pretty well all of Head Office have been made redundant and replaced. I am lucky, because an unhappy state made redundancy fine with me. Also - I like making up words like 'redundified'. Someone else did 'redunderiffic', and then my final day became, Redunday. That works with any day of the week.

I counted down to Redunday, and then things went up shit creek and I agreed to defer that day 3 months while they found a replacement for me to train.

Last week I started to find out about shit creek, sometime after a surprise invoice run. Right about when trainee got moved to something more critical. I probably have a paddle, but there's no fucking BOAT. So I made a 'hard decision' and moved Redunday forward again and the management team can earn their bucks by working out what happens when the special account has no expert.

In my written notice I did refer to my hard decision. I really wanted to say 'Your time starts... NOW!' Over the next 30 days there will be quiz show thinking music playing in my mind.