Oops. Have car insurance coming up and 400 quids worth of bills as well as the 300 odd quid I've just shelled out on the new kit.. um.. I'm kinda very skint again *grin*. Oh well I'll have to pay the insurance in installments then.
Ric had come back from his long weekend away and it was really good to see him again. We chatted at length at lunchtime about some worries of mine and I decided to write a long private post to myself to get it all down somewhere as a theraputic aid.
I did feel a lot better after I had written it down. I hadn't really decided on a course of action, but when I next had a chance to speak to

Anyway I've got round to installing the new HDD - that gives me the grand total of 0.5TB on my gateway machine... WoooT! I am chuffed :) Although I fear that the 230W power supply is struggling with the 5 HDDs in there atm.. it hung once already. There is also not enough room for all the HDDs in there - they're floating loose atm anyway, so I will have to invest in a tower case and put my spare 300W power supply in it. Hope it doesn't die before I get round to that. Might have a look at tower cases in PCWorld tomorrow...
One last thing that I must say..
