oh man!, the stress. today's my last day in the vodafone offices at paddington. the last few weeks have been crazy hard. SLA, the mob that pay me, only confirmed our move to Kuala Lumpur a couple of weeks ago, 23rd sept to be exact.

my parents came over to visit, as planned months ago. but instead of staying in a nice timeshare, they got to squat at ours and help us move everything from under us all into storage. so, there we were, for the last two weeks, living cheek by jowl, and packing everything into cardboard boxes. the farewell was painful in the extreme, as we don't know when we'll see them again, or when/where they'll get to visit their little grandson again.

to sell this move to VF, who really pay me, i agreed to move to Duesseldorf for a week & a half, to sit with the guys how're deploying the stuff i wrote, fixed, re-fixed etc.etc. so tomorrow evening, becky, alfie and i are leaving in a jet-plane. firstly to live in a holiday-inn in germany for a week and a half. then back to Heathrow, to pick up my mountain bike (hopefully from storage) and change terminals to fly to KL.