13th April 2026 - An Annoying End To A Project
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Today I was called into a meeting about the status of one of the 2 
projects I lead teams on. Unfortunately it was a 'we are not bidding' 
outcome and so after 3 years of fun, I stop. It makes sense. The 
project being a one off never made sense. However, with some strategic 
thinking, it could become a common control and instrumentation 
platform. Ah well. That has technical risk and no one wanted to 
pay for it. What was annoying is that this decision could have 
been made before we produced the technical pack. Lots of stress for 
nothing. 

I still have a lot to do with the other project. It just is something 
I did all the design effort on before 2018 and I am turning the handle 
on updates and responding to the various verification and validation 
queries. It is dull and frustrating. Everyday seems to bring more 
annoying problems. There are some interesting aspects so it is not all 
doom and gloom. It just feels a bit rubbish most of the time. 

There will be interesting work once again. Thankfully someone is 
always looking for hardware to control power systems. Just a case of 
keeping an ear out for the next opportunity.