‘Have you started winding down yet?’

I must have been asked that question twenty times last week.

It’s become annoying and I’m starting to be selectively rude up to the ‘why the fuck would I be doing that? I’ve got six weeks left and I’m still doing my fucking job’ point with one person.

It’s alien to me.

Why would I abandon my team or the colleagues that I actually like before my last day?

Weird.

The thing is though, politics has started to rear its ugly little head and something that I’ve been trying to get sorted for the whole group of companies could be derailed by somebody in my organisation who’s too scared to cross the road on their own, let alone take over some very interesting ( and very classified) stuff.

This could hurt my team in the long run and I’m not happy about it at all..

I’ll come back to this in a few paragraphs.

But otherwise, life is chilled and relaxed – I went to the launch party of a book written by an old friend —- https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0DJQ2LC61/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

And then had drinks with a friend who’s recovered from a brain inflammation, a pretty good night really.

The guy that I was talking to about the veterans’ concert sent me a song from ‘his’ band

And today, my little Milo who’s got arthritis and is taking some more drugs for doggie Asthma was so fit at the end of a four mile walk that he ran ahead of us.

And disappeared altogether.

He got home about FOUR MINUTES ahead of us.

I was relieved and so fucking proud that the little bastard still wants adventures.

So back to winding down and politics.

Until I leave I won’t and can’t say who I work for, but I was approached by somebody on Friday who is part of a joint venture with Italy and Japan.

Their part of the company has money like you wouldn’t believe.

But very little expertise in what my teams do.

They want a data centre (two actually) to be built and managed by my team.

I’m going to go to war for my staff to secure their future.

I’m not winding down for the next six weeks at all.

Milo’s showed me the way