One of the things we said we were going to do a few months back was actually use the office as an office - i.e. Actually work in the fucker. With my new job I’ve taken some steps to actually making this happen - but to do it properly will require some plumbing jobs from an IT perspective. If I make this list public, it stands a good chance of actually being something I get round to doing. I’m not married to any particular company, brand or action so if you have any better ideas or experiences to share, I’d *really* be interested in hearing them.

1) Bite the bullet and spring for BT to come and put a landline back into the house. Hopefully they’ll do it for free.

2) Get Zen Internet to swoop in and give me some form of obscenely powerful pipe with a static IP

3) Get myself setup with some form of cloud storage so I can sync music and files across locations. Ideally G-Drive - so hurry the fuck up and launch it, Google.

4) Reformat cranky old 300gig warhorse hard drive and use it as a physically present backup drive probably using Time Machine or something automagic. I will rename this drive “Failsworth” as it will be a failover and this is howlingly amusing.*

5) Think about finally and forever throwing away the 5 year old, 1.8 MHz Pentium 3 Shuttle PC that currently powers the office UNLESS networking it and using it as some kind of central music repository turns out to be easier than it sounds.

*All drives and computers in the Saunders household are named after Manchester boroughs - except my new one which is currently named “Serious Callers Only” after one of the ships in Excession.** I may have to change this as I hate inconsistency almost as much as I love a good naming convention.

** Many have expressed surprise at how dorky this is. My reply? Go boil your head.