Various blog entries have probably alluded to me not being quite right at the moment. I'm still not sure what's causing it, but today I had a whole raft of nice things happen which have cheered me up somewhat.

Firstly, I had an e-mail today about one of my contracts which is due to finish next Thursday asking if I'd be interested in continuing for another semester (about 3 more months), since they're impressed with the quality of the work I'm doing. This is rather nice, as I was preparing myself for the financial drop associated with this. I've asked for further details (as it would involve a slight change to times that I do stuff), but they've prepared to get a contract out immediately. Which is nice.

Secondly, I put an e-mail out yesterday asking for cashmoneyplease for work I did on another contract 6 weeks ago. Reply within a few hours saying something like "Oops, forgot! Want more work?" - obviously, I shall wait for payment from the first lot of work first, but it's good that I had an immediately (near enough) reply, and also that I'm being offered more work here.

Thirdly, I spoke to someone in another department at the University who is extremely interested in some of the work I'm doing within the University, and wants to use my work elsewhere. This gave me a good push to get my code tidied up so that it's ready to go live shortly. I've got to write in the error catching, but then I'm happy that it's good to go to bug testing/beta. I'm quite pleased and proud that someone is prepared to take my work on for pretty wide usage. Whilst it's not paid work (I've got enough of that at the moment, to be honest), I'll be getting my name spread around, which is perhaps more useful to me.

Fourthly, arriving home elicited a nice surprise in the shape of a cheque from my secret project, with an e-mail later on in the evening leading me to expect another one. It's all rather woo.

I was wanting to go in on the bike to the University tomorrow, but with the weather being like it is at the moment, I'm really not going to risk it. The car was getting blown around horifically on the way home tonight. This week is probably going to be one of the last chances before Christmas with the panto coming up.

In other news, probably one of the few times that I'll ever be picked first for a team (remember when you were at school all the sporty kids got picked first for football?) - I'll be representing the University Snooker & Pool Club at a match on Sunday night, which I'm rather looking forward to.

I also now have a standard answer to When did you last take a day off?"