I've long known it.  People are kind, but I can't really escape the inevitable conclusion that I'm actually really rather dull.

Yes, I'm fully aware that this morsel of self-pity does nothing whatever to improve that.

I'd have to say that prospects are looking up.

The redundancy settlement is due to be much more generous than we'd all feared, so that's one definite plus.  All that remains now to be settled, is the timing.  I've opted not to apply for any of the jobs in Zurich, so the future of the Build Lab (my little empirette within the company) is a bit uncertain as yet.  It currently lives on twenty or so rather aged machines in a 19" rack.  Can't see them wanting to move all that to Zurich, somehow.  Maybe the Lab will simply be discontinued - there's a vaguely similar facility already in Zurich that might be expanded to perform some of the tasks... or maybe it'll just stop.

A quick departure with Pay-In-Lieu, or a multi-month migration?  I wonder which it'll be.

Meeting this morning.  There probably won't be any firm details, but we shall see...

"We would like to apologise to customers at Romford.  Due to overrunning engineering works in the Southend area, all services from Southend are delayed"

1) "We would like to apologise".  Go on then.

2) I'm a passenger, not a customer

3) "Delayed"  Now, it's really rather silly to lie, isn't it?  They're not "delayed" at all, are they?  Look at your own information boards.  See that word in red?  What does it say?  That's right, and what does "cancelled" mean?  Does it mean the same as "delayed"?  No.

4) When there are overnight engineering works, it's very common for them to overrun.  Not good, but hardly a surprise.  So why is there no contingency?  Why no buses, no extra trains run on the part of the line (the majority, in this case) that's not suffering the overrun?

5 It's fashionable these days, not to speak of  "a train", but to say, "a service". Are you familiar with what the word "service" actually means?