Thats my man Jay!!! Im hearin ya, try 3 months of Survey modelling etc (same as you Jay in essence). Then laptop shuts down...EATS the damn thing, the backup file is corrupted! Then have to get a wriggle on as there is 10k an hour in machines and men waiting for setout. I had a 'L' plater Surveyor here, he literally shat and cried bahahaha. Lucky this old boy can keep a cool head whilst under fire 
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"A Darkness at Sethanon", a book I aspire to model some of the charcters and scenes