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Flip the switches! Run around like a madman! Push down a plunger! It’s time to de-materialise and go backwards over the last few days, before I can go forward. We’ll start with today, I guess.

• It takes a major effort to just get out of bed, and Amanda wasn’t happy with me as I’d spent the night dreaming, twitching and snoring, apparently. This is how I get when I’m extremely tired.
• Stumbling out of the door, I go to return our rented minibus. I always get paranoid there’s going to be some tiny thing wrong that’ll cost money… but Strafford are generally pretty good at not screwing us over.
• Back in the office, the first order of business is to gather everything we rented for the weekend and put it all in a big pile to be collected Radios, lights and a PA system are all piled up near the door.
• Next up: petty cash receipt count. I’ve done myself a favour this weekend and not obsessively counted and re-counted my receipts as I accumulate them; frankly I just didn’t have time. I manage to get pretty much the exact right amount, but then I have to go explain to accounts what certain things mean, and why I have receipts in some cases for double amounts (We only paid half of a train fare, for example, because it was for one person).
• Next up… expenses. With one credit card swipe costing me £556 this weekend (the entire CrewNC food + drink tab for four days) it’s pretty urgently needed. Ends up well, well over four figures… but Mr Finance doesn’t blink. Phew.
• After that, it’s clean-up time. Chris and I manage to do a pretty good count of our stock and clear space around our desks. By 12pm though we’re both ravenous and massively dehydrated.
• Out to the coffee shop for lunch and the first event post-mortem. Over the next few hours we come up with dozens of ideas for a return to Omega Sektor. Lots of refinements, quite a few bits of new stuff. It’s really productive but eventually we have so much that the mindmap looks insane (see right) and the program I use to make it slow to a crawl!
• Good time to return to the office… so off we go for, yes, more clean-up. Loading up trolleys with loads of stuff and rolling them between buildings is so fun.
• In-between one run we sit and chat with the COH/V community team, just talking about the weekend and so on. Alex, AKA Ghost Raptor, has put together a spreadsheet with all the Task Force: Omega times in it, and has even done graphs. Mmmm. Crunchy.
• Couple more trolley runs and I feel like I’ve been run over. This is officially The Wall. Both Chris and I are taking the rest of the week off, but we can now go home with a (relatively) clear conscience that there isn’t a load of stuff waiting for us when we go back.

So, now I intend to do a few things with the rest of my week…

1. Rest.
2. Write.
3. Play.

Not in that order, mind.