Untethered

The network engineer responsible for maintaining the firewalls at work moved onto pastures new a month or two ago (or was moved on to pastures new - I don't think he was an entirely willing participant in the process). I can't say I was terribly sorry to see him go, since he struggled to help me with my numerous connection problems and even after a year a half-hearted compromise was the best we'd been able to come up with. Although it mostly worked, the biggest nuisance was that my vpn connection to the server at work didn't work over a wireless connection. It would only connect if I was bound to my carefully configured ethernet router via a cable. Yes, yes, I know, I know. It was a stupid state of affairs, and despite my best efforts, there was little I could do about it. My dreams of idling away afternoons in coffee shops and elsewheres quickly faded.

But as I said, that particular network engineer is no longer with us, and his replacement (admittedly with the addition of a couple of new state of the art firewalls) has solved the remaining problems. I'm now officially unbound, unchained, unshackled. Free! I'm free, free to work wheresoever I want. Now, if I can get work to agree that I can work whensoever I want, the possibilities (coupled with the 4 weeks of holiday time I still have outstanding) become genuinely interesting.

If anyone fancies having a houseguest for an extended period of time do let me know...