Why?

Because I have (as of tomorrow) started another stage of study. I am going to do a Bachelor of Applied Management at CPIT, majoring in Business IS and Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thankfully work have effectively let me have a day a week for classes (paid! woo!) and most of my papers are online. I’ve also managed to arrange it so that I get a New Zealand Diploma in Business as well – the combination of these and my other degree should increase my repertoire quite well.

Also on the cards is the birth of my first son – scheduled for June (fingers crossed it doesn’t clash with Exams ).

As for my own business, well finding time to get any development done is a bit tricky at the moment, with everything else. But thankfully everything else with it is ticking along quite nicely, and it will be up for its official first birthday in April – really good considering the minimal amount of income is just enough to pay the bills and that I am effectively working for free. But that’s what it’s all about right? I’m doing something I enjoy, learning skills whilst I do it (Web Design/Development, Business, People, etc.) and I have a bit of opportunity to contribute back – put some money into different people and tech that I feel will benefit the community and the environment. Oh, and the number of clients regularly paying for hosting and such is increasing slowly

Finally, my hobbies are going well too – the garden is full of heaps of different shapes and sizes of green tomatoes. I wonder if they will ripen this summer properly or not – the weather has been kinda crap. Crap like a summer with only a handful of good sunny days. This, of course, makes the tomatoes take longer to ripen. And when coupled with the sheer amount on each vine takes even longer. But I’m not complaining too much – there are occasional red ones which get scoffed before anyone sees

My trains are coming along quite well too – I have been building up an N gauge layout which takes my mind off other stressing factors. Just purchased come carriages off TradeMe which should look good with the new platforms I just built.

Oh yeah, and to top things all off I am going for my restricted driving licence next week…

The before photos are approx Autumn/Winter and the after photos are Summer. (Before/After Spring)

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First trip to the library in a long time today. See if you can guess by the book titles what my current interests are…

Also, I am so into this Project365. Having the motivation to get the camera out and take a photo a day is good. It helps me to take a few photos each day because I take the camera where I think we will be.

This is a test post…

I hereby will take one photo per day from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010. Oh boy…

Expect to see lots of garden and train photos… possibly with some IT stuff too…

finished baseboard

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Well, timber with plywood top done, bolts done. now just to sand down and prep for trains. oh, and to drill wiring holes…

(Warning: Lots of pics. Small ones, but still lots.)

And with other projects associated with it:

Silly little diagram of the garden how it is at the moment. Not to scale

Brown = vege beds
Yellow-brown = brick bed. currently with borage and weeds….
Red = compost bin
Blue = shed
Green = tree
Grey pentagram = Washing Line
Grey = path
Pink = herb/little bed

So much I would love to do to this if the house was ours…

Not so pretty frost: