Contractual

So yes, as I alluded earlier in the week, I’ve got a new contract starting a week on Monday.

It’s not a long-term one for the moment, and is currently “just” for a month, but will be based in London, so I’m going to be going back to my old ways of leaving on Monday and coming home on Friday.

I *could* go down by train every day, but I’d be homicidal by about Wednesday. In addition, bizarrely it’s cheaper to stay down near the office in London than it is to get peak-time train tickets on a daily basis. It’s £78 for staying down there, vs. £91 for a train return – and the loss of (at least) four hours, assuming the trains are all on time. (We will only briefly touch on the fact that the trains would also be packed like the Black Hole of Calcutta)  Travelling off-peak is cheaper by far, but would mean being home even later, and not getting into the office on any day until at least 10.45 or so, which is kind of frowned-upon.

Driving down would most likely drive me crackers too – the office is South of The River, so I’d likely be looking at at least 2.5 hours each way, plus fuel and [swearwords] Congestion Charge.

Which means that staying down there is actually the best (or at least the most sensible/fiscally responsible) option. Herself’s not so sure of that, for obvious reasons.

So I’ll be down in London for a month during the week. We’ll see how things go from there.

D4D™ will of course continue to be updated – although I’m not sure yet whether I’ll be able to do so during office hours, I’ll have plenty of time in the evenings, I’m sure.