I have accepted the my employer's redundancy package. I will miss them.

Meanwhile, I am an experienced .Net developer at large in London. Job offers and suggestions are welcome.

I haven't done any large blog posts recently. It's been just over a month since I started with Conchango. (Their Google-fu is such that when their name is uttered and linked, they hear it. Hi guys.) It seems less time than that, and much longer too.

I've been busy. It's demanding, and tiring. This is a good thing. I'm not bored. It's also exhilarating. I expected my fairly-new C# skills to be pushed, but I'm doing fine there - the demanding part has been well, everything else. It's a case of rather than asking the right person to consider doing something, you just get in and do it if you want it done. And this requires expertise, or rapid learning, in any number of technical wizardries. Your work certainly doesn't come fed to you via a well-defined slot, it's a lot more open than that.

Not that I haven't been coding C# like a demon, I have. On Thursday evening I wrote a few lines and test cases while waiting for a train at Elephant and Castle, and then carried on, on the train. It's the larval stage, but of what I don't know yet.

I have a company laptop. It's a dell Latitude 610. No, it's not one of the explodey ones, I checked. I have a new phone, which I will discuss in its own post. The "whole walk in to the client site with the laptop and get to work" thing is great, the downsides being the 15 inch screen (and no possibility of multiple screens - I spend a lot of time playing hunt-the-window) and the lack of my favoured MS natural keyboard.

Other downsides are that a laptop may be cool, but after lugging it around for a few weeks, it's the weight on the shoulders that you remember. My gym attendance has also been less frequent and less extensive, but hopefully that will stabilise.

As for client location, I've been lucky. Another new starter, Mike, has been shipped to Aberdeen, and I think of how a similar posting to Nottingham affected kekhmet. I'm near London bridge, minutes from the amazing Borough market. I've discovered the joys of onion squash, tiger tomatoes and the tasty "crown prince" pumpkin, which short_mort says is a lot like a queensland blue in Australia.

I'll miss the market when we move on to another job (probably December or so) Sooner or later I'll be out in the sticks for a while. But hey, I hope I'll do Ok at that. It's the knowledge of new challenges on the horizon that keeps it interesting.