I'm doing some voluntary work when I can but I'll never be off the net or not answering email whatever is going on or wherever I am. Just getting some usefulness out of my brain in helping in the planning of and construction for a specialist college for the disabled which I got "co-opted" into after helping them get their IT and Cisco Academy kicked off as well as pointing them in the direction of "the right people to know" to get some hefty grants and sponsorship. Enough to build a complete IT block with full disabled facilities and some decent living accomodation for students who stay there as well as a facilities centre with fully heated and equipped pool and med centre. We now also have sponsorship from Cisco and Microsoft which will save millions and get real and decent equipment. So I'm going to be pretty busy (unpaid) even if I'm laid up in a bed cos they don't accept lying flat on your back as any excuse for doing nothing as we are going to be taking everybody from autistic and 95% physically disabled (computerised wheelchairs which one of our engineers designs individually) in an age range from 14 to 60 as well as accident and services disabled for the government back to work programs.
So I'll never actually leave you guys, just still contributing a computer or laptops worth instead of the tempting £7.9M of new gear we're getting in the near future as an interim re-equipment to go with the contributed stuff from places including A Free-Dc member who will be nameless (thank you Helix von Smellix where have you gone mate?).
Sorry for the usual bad habit of long posts and hi-jacking the thread but this is my only post until we get our heating and hot water fixed next week sometime so even with an eight core running in here, it's only 5C and I'm getting numb so heading for the caravan to warm up. My trusty old Elddis saved Xmas for us even though it's near 26 year old but the computer has to stay indoors (enjoying the cold and finally running 4.00ghz).
So thanks Lauren and see you guys around. Enjoy the peace and quiet or better still, have some barbecues to keep the winter DC blues away .