I've been busy the last few weeks. Really busy. Nothing new there, of course, but Wifey's understanding that "working from home" equates to "available for babysitting, helping bring the shopping in from the car, etc." doesn't help either. That's the only problem I've had with working from home though.

Anyway. After hammering out the platform development roadmap, I got cracking on with writing some Java code for the first time in a while. Actually, there was a bit of hacking a couple of weeks back to support a change by one of the operators. But this time I was going to be actually writing code rather than tweaking... a small piece at first, followed by a great big whacking chunk. I was feeling incredibly positive.

So when I heard on Thursday that the agreement with Monilink had been terminated, it was a bit of a kick in the teeth. Nothing had been officially decided by Friday evening as regards how we were going to deal with the termination. To be honest, apart from the fact that we're going to be winding up the business, nothing has yet either. I guess it means I'm virtually redundant.

I've got a meeting in London to discuss how things progress from here. Gavin sounded completely stunned when I spoke to him. I've been with the company just over two years, so I'll get a minimum of two weeks' salary in statutory redundancy pay. It'd be nice if we were kept around to wind things up properly and given a somewhat higher settlement, given that we could have put the company in a very awkward situation if any of the three of us had decided to walk out at any time – we could have held them to ransom, but we didn't and won't I'd like to think that counts for something.

At this stage, I'm not sure how much more I'm allowed to say. But I think I'm safe in saying that I haven't felt this shit in over six years. I guess it's time to dust off the CV and start getting some interviews... and if I'm not left short financially, finally get my own business off the ground. It's tough trying to pull a silver lining out of such news when you're still smarting.