I wish I had written up our trip to Gran Canaria as it went, but I didn’t so I’ll just have to move on and hope I can get enough out of twitter when I get around to making the scrapbook.

Sunday July 12th - I was thrilled that we’d left the house in a pristine state.  Got home to fresh sheets, empty washing lines, clothes to wear to work and even meals in the freezer!.    We enjoyed walking in the sun in Dublin before it started lashing rain to welcome us home.   I imagine my summer clothes will be going back in their dusty box for a long time now.

Monday July 13th - I met up with Laura for a pint at O’Donaghues.    We booked the back room and agreed it’s a sweet spot for a couple of drinks after our geeknic August 2nd. Vishal joined us for a while and we joked around for a couple of rounds.  It was fun being back in dublin, out in an old bar too.

Tuesday July 14th - Jan hit the town tonight after we went to the gym.  I think I maintained my fitness and weight which is pretty cool after such a wild 9 days away.   I relaxed with Jan out.  Mud mask, my tv shows, feet up, hot chocolate.  It was so nice.   As I went to sleep I was listening out for the ocean like in our hotel room, but our suburb is completley silent.

Wednesday July 15th - We went to see Harry Potter, The half blood prince.   I really loved this movie, at one point a door knocked and I forgot where I was and thought I was in my lounge room.  I was immersed which was great, I really needed to escape for a while.  The movie is so dark like the books at this stage.  Can’t wait to see it again and to see the last book come to life over the next two years.

Thursday July 16th - At work I learned a lot about JQuery and Boxy this week which was kind of fun and pretty frustrating too.  Though always good to get a new set of skills.  Declan announced his new podcast Code Mongrel which ROCKS.  it’s a quick update of open source news over the last week.  He give our OSSBarcamp a plug as well.

Friday July 17th - Jan and I sat chatting about our future over crepes, then went to the science gallery and saw the Infectious exhibition.   We really love the science gallery,  they always have really interesting exhibits including some electronics,  art works to do with the theme as well as demonstrations of the science as well.    One of the rooms was set up to explore how laughter is contageous.  You would lie back (beer in hand) and watch videos of people laughing,  eventually a smile did spread on my face and I laughed along… I would catch the eye of Jan or another person in the room and we’d both laugh.  Fun.  We went tonight to see ‘Richard Wiseman’ talk about his Laughter Lab project to find the funniest joke in the world.  Richard told a lot of jokes, did some magic and connected his stories to psychology which is his area of expertise as well.

Jan Science

Saturday July 18th

Today was the big day.  We’d been training for months for this.   Andrea drove us over to Pheonix park and we ran in the 5 mile race with over 5000 people.   I came in at 1hour and 4 minutes, and Jan sped ahead of me in the last mile and got to the finish in just under an hour.  The course was pretty easy,  there was a hill but it wasn’t so nasty.  I had fun along the way stopping to look out over the city, and see the runners go past the tops of old buildings.   I even spotted a deer but it bounced away before I could get a photo.   Doing the distance was my goal all along and we got through 8km with no worries.   I enjoyed the finish line where we got Tshirts and goodie bags.  The bag contained a lunch box with cheese sandwiches and an apple.  There was chocolate, popcorn, toothpaste(??), a running magazine, a guide for running the marathon, which we’ll use to train to run for 30 minutes in a row, then set other goals.

We napped in the afternoon and brought home some curry.  We watched Slumdog millionare which I mostly found depressing, not sure why people enjoyed watching so much terrible poverty so much hrmn…

Sunday July 19th

I bought some size 12 jeans which don’t quite fit me but I’ll keep trying on as I lose weight.  I also bought some size 14 jeans that fit fine, first blue jeans I’ve owned in a long long time.  I’m alergic to the metal studs but I painted them with nailpolish.  I wrote up a training plan to jog 15 minutes in a row,  aiming to do that by the end of October.  I chatted with Dad about doing a trip to South Island New Zealand…

I’ve been pretty good at keeping up with a monthly report and setting new goals, here’s some for May:

* Launch GingerRobot site
* Complete all four Django tutorials
* Do the couchdb tutorial
* OSSBarcamp September 19th website launched.
* Washington letter written and sent
* 3 strength training workouts a week, 3 cardio workouts a week.
* The 5 mile race training plan on saturdays
* Have read the Ireland guide for our Kilkenny/Bunratty trip.
* Washington album planned out.
* New York album completed
* Have Washington photos ordered and on their way + Swift pic for Nanna.
* Lose ~ 4 pounds ~ 2 kilograms by June 1st.
* Track what I eat every day in May.
* Order some moo cards for Ginger Robot.
Yep this includes some things I didn’t finish off in April, but I’m making progress.

Monday April 20th A gorgeous sunny spring morning. I was up early and took a little time to take photographs in St Stephens Green.

The big news of today was that Sun bought Oracle for 9.50 a share. As Jan works there this news effects us, we’ll have to wait and see what happens with this over the next few months. At lunch time I went for a walk along the canals and enjoyed the sun. I took pictures of little clusters of tiny daisies growing in the grass.

I was thrilled to find on my walk home the park was filled with happy picknickers lazing in the sun. I watched some old Italian guys attempting to take pictures of pretty girls sun bathing, probably to take home to show their mates. We cooked a yummy chicken stir fry and discussed what to do next for Ginger Robot, Jan worked on a design while I did some Sys Admin for it. A very productive night.

Tuesday April 21st
After work I went for a drink with Laura at the Ely bar on the Canals. We discussed the next OSSBarcamp, and what we’d like to change this time. For one I’m going to add a registration module, rather than using blog comments, maybe some threaded commenting to encourage discussion too. The afternoon was just beautiful and I sipped my Champagne out on the terrace in the sun. Some other girls joined us and we wore sunglasses and enjoyed the view across the water.

We continued on in the restaurant next door, for the Ireland Girl Geek Dinner. I got to meet some new people this time and had some great food and wine. Amanda Scott gave a talk about taking charge of our careers, getting us to plan the next step we want to take and an action item as soon as this week. mine is to learn more about Django to work on my next open source project. Martha showed off her Roombas, talking about the educational value of owning one as well. Luis and I caught the last train home. As I walked home I noted the beautiful scenery ‘Large beautiful cherry blossoms on a clear navy spring night but add to the images of the future in my thoughts.’.

Wednesday April 22nd
Again a gorgeous day, I stopped while in the green just to take in the view, enjoying the colours of spring and the silence from the traffic outside. I am worried that so many people have commented that this is our summer. After work I wandered up Grafton street, I was curious why there were hundreds of people lined up, I assumed a football match had special tickets for sale. I found out later that they all were there to hand in their resumes for jobs at Londis, a common convenience store here in Ireland.

That night I booked all our accommodation for our trip to Scotland in August. I’ve booked mainly hostels, including a haunted castle where Jan and I will have to sleep in separate dorms, SPOOKY. It’s going to ROCK. I’m looking forward to the Isle of Skye and our hostel that’s walking distance from Loch Ness. Let alone being able to pick some more Fringe shows back in Edinburgh with Miki and James.

Thursday April 23rd
I joined my workmates over at the Barge for a farewell for one of our workmates heading to South America. We discussed her trip and I can’t wait to do the same thing myself some day, maybe 2011 for my 30th. Some girls joined our group early in the night and wanted to do a demonstration of the makeup line they were trying to sell. Most of the girls jumped up and moved out of the room leaving the girls to sell to a group of mostly guys, they even suggested breaking the eye pencil in half to split costs and that the guys might want some bronzer! We ran out of beer before we ran out of daylight, so I had a safe enough walk home. A saxophonist was playing jazz as I walked up Grafton Street. I walked through some low lying mist towards home but could spot the dark navy sky above me.

Friday April 24th
A miserable day with plenty of rain and fog. I upgraded my laptop to Jaunty Ubuntu 9.04. I edited pictures of New York and got an order in ready for my next scrapbook. I signed Jan and I both up for a 5 mile run in July held in Pheonix Park. We have a lot of work to do to be fit enough for that.

Saturday April 25th - ANZAC Day 2009
Jan and I jumped up early and went for a run. This is very unusual for us, but we had fun though Jan finds my pace a little slow. We went to the Woolshed who’d promised an ANZAC day tribute, but unfortunately they delayed it until more people would fill the bar. Instead we had our own minute of silence remembering those lost to the pointlessness of war. We did enjoy some Australian treats as well, a lamington and a Coopers Beer, I bought some Cheezels for later.

Jan and I went shoe shopping, hoping to find us both some new sneakers for our jogging sessions. Jan found some cool Nike airs and a pair of summer sandles for GUADEC on the Canary Islands. I found nothing. All the womens shoes seemed to be for show rather than practice. I just want the same as Jan found, but black and in my size. One shop only had shoes that went up to size 5 womens! I’m a size 6, who knew that was so large.
Me eating Cheezels THE RIGHT WAY! :D

We met up with the group celebrating the release of Ubuntu Jaunty at Jimmy Chungs restaurant where we ate some yummy things including mango pudding. Later we crossed the road to Messr McGuire’s for the official launch party. Quite a few people showed up and we had a really chilled afternoon. We looked at the sunny day outside, over the Liffey. We had a few pints, and many laughs with everyone. I won third prize in a quiz about Ubuntu, but unfortunately the cool brown shirt was far too big for me to ever wear it so I gave it away.



I love this image of Maciej marking our papers with the great features of the pub behind him.
There’s some more great pictures in Lauras Jaunty Release Party Collection

It was only 8pm, still daylight, and unfortunately our night was nearly ruined when a severely drunk guy decided to urinate all over the floor of the train carriage then walked up and down the aisle waving his penis around. Luckily he decided to do this moments before our stop and we (and everyone else on the carriage) jumped off, and security were making their way up the platform.

We spent our night relaxing, watching TV, we’ve found The Big Bang Theory which is fantastic, it’s about a group of academics who hang out in a share apartment in California, many nerdy jokes, and situations we’ve found ourselves in at times.

Sunday April 25th
Today we got so much done. Although we started slow with popcorn and TV and relaxing. Our weeks groceries were delivered and we cooked for the whole week. I made some ANZAC biscuits, Jan made salmon tartlets, a lemon chicken and new potato bake, and some white wine and shallot chicken to have on salads later in the week. OOOH yum it’s all delicious and so healthy, our fridge is also now filled with colourful salad veges ready to finish making all these meals. YUM.

Later in the afternoon Jan and I went jogging again, this time doing an extra interval on a slightly longer path. I was envious of Jan having new shoes though, can’t wait to find mine. On the final stretch we noticed the Kilbarrack shops has a new gym that has opened, it turns out they’ve got a great deal where we can just pay for 7 days at a time, and not pay if we’re not going to be there! That is amazing. We both want to sign up soon, I can’t wait to use the exercise bikes.

I’m so proud of us going for these jogs, we started slow so should be able to keep it up and make it to the race in July fit and ready! I think the gym is a sign.

I was tagged by Ken Guest to share seven random/weird things about myself.

1. Apparently I first met my husband at Linux Conf Au, 2001 (Jan 2001) but I only remember meeting him for the first time at the Sydney Linux User Group meetings. We got to know each other over many events over the next six plus months, however we didn’t go on our first date until July 2001, Jan hired a car and we drove 300km away from Sydney, to a cocktail party in Canberra, ACT
2. I first used PHP to write the software for my Thesis, I wrote a web based application for children to collaborate ideas and come up with an invention in small groups to then present to the whole class. I picked PHP at random, ignoring languages I already knew and had used during my degree. I’ve pretty much worked with it ever since
3. I sometimes wear a communicator while we’re watching Star Trek - my favourite series is Voyager
4. I’m a natural blonde, something a lot of people I’ve met in the last year don’t know or realise, because I dye my hair dark now
5. My hobbies include Travel, Reading (mostly Fantasy), Photography and Scrapbooking, I’m active in the Irish paper crafting scene
6. I love the outdoors Camping, Swimming, Fishing but I don’t do them since moving to Europe at all, I would rather live in the countryside, except I love the events and activities that happen in cities.
7. I once, as part of a small team, had to count the lightbulbs in the whole of our university, UNSW, this included monitors and fax machines, it was to figure out how many were left on when no one was inside, most were on.

Tagging Others
I’m going to wuss out with just three people, because I’m not really into this sort of thing, it was a compliment to get tagged by Ken though, and has been pretty interesting getting to know a bit more about the developers whose blogs I read.

• Laura Czajkowski - She’s organising OSSBarCamp here which should be a great event - I’m trying to help her and she always deserves a shout out!.
• Stella Power - First other PHP chick I heard about here in Ireland, and I’m curious to learn more about her
• Gita Malinovska - I find her blog posts interesting because she’s new to running her own business, and bettering herself daily, by learning ways to improve herself and the business. I have a goal to go back to working for myself some day.

Rules:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post - some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter

Last night Jan and I went to the Dublin Science gallery for a lecture “The personal side of personal robots” by Dr Cynthia Breazeal. Dr Breazeal is from MIT and is the director of the Personal Robots Group. She studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and now specialises in Social Robotics and Human Robot Interaction. I thought I’d write down what I remember of the talk and link it up so I can do some more reading through the research later.

The topics covered gave us an insight into what is going on to bring robots into our homes. Starting with looking at the history of robots through seeing that robots are already in some of our homes, for example the roomba. Next up is where is the current research is going on and where it’s heading to. Surely we all want robots at home and soon. Asimo as part of a family

The desire for robots to be in the home brings up a range of questions outside of the current tasks of existing robots. Scientists now have to look at the way robots will interact with humans to achieve tasks and make that interaction interesting for the longer term.

Dr Breazeal’s research has been covering social intelligence including having a parent for a robot and making the robot an infant. Then she is able to test the robots ability to mimic and learn by mapping to that parent. We saw the robot Leonardo at this stage. Not only did the examples with Leo show him learning the difference between safe and dangerous and divergent belief systems with positive reinforcement, Leo is fluffy, cute and just gorgeous. Dr Breazeal was very excited when the demonstration video was played that showed Leo using information he had just learned from a teacher to solve a problem. She emphasised that this was ground breaking behaviour.

The next fascinating robot shown to us was ‘Autom’, This robot was designed to be integrated into peoples lives to help them reach long term weight management goals. Results from experients with Automa showed people preferred to interact with the robot than pencil and paper and still more than a computer program with exactly the same information provided. More interesting agian was the the participants named their robots and even dressed them. Some even needed to say goodbye when they were taken away again. This showed emotional relationships with the tools in their homes and something I think those of us desiring a robot buddy want.

The goal of how to have a robot integrated into the owners social network was worked on with ‘Autom’ where the data Autom collected could be shared with the health maintainers support network, including nutritionist or doctors. Having a robot become part of the team or group of contacts as well as being a useful communication tool is something I’m looking forward to.

Dr Breazeal’s current research is into having robots become another communication method for us. The robot used in this case is “The Huggable”. The huggable is designed to enhace the users current social network. One example use case of the huggable was to introduce touch into remote communication, for example a parent away on a business trip who could still read and interact with a book as well as the child.

Examples of robots used as theraputic, communication enhancing tools were ‘Paro‘ who is a baby seal given as a pet to people with alzheimer’s. Paro makes me feel sad even just looking athim but I think he’s wonderful. The famous dancing keepon is working towards helping children with autism.

Finally there was an experiment done with the MDS models. These experiments were to see how humans react with robots depending on facial expressions, shaking hands, female vs male traits etc. Basically how trust worthy the robots become in these situations.

One key point I got from Dr Breazeal’s lecture was that doing experiments with robots and humans is helping us understand human behaviour as well. She mentioned that some of the results they found don’t have matching results with human to human behavior, that work would still need to be done.

Finally it was question time. Jan was very curious to hear about what work was happening to get out of the uncanny valley, Dr Breazeal says that there definitely is work in that area. I asked what robot should the hobbiest be aiming to get started with. Dr Breazeal recommends the mindstorm nxt and their programming language scratch.

There are a lot more thoughts going on in my mind and I’m sure Jan is just as full of robotics ideas and experiements and wishing we could be getting on with that right now. I know we’d love a robot that could interact in the way we see in the movies, even more so I desire for tools that can help with our daily lives. Not only chores but organising myself, managing my tasks, a PA, cooking assistant, information prioritiser, document manager but ofcourse most of all… a trusted robot friend.

youtube video of the keepon:

Monday October 13th - Jan flew to Hamburg for work and I planned a week at home, I could finally get stuck into some of my hobbies. I could spend some time by myself and have a great week. I had a fridge full of left overs that would last all week too. I did have a good night watching heroes but hit the sack soon after it finished without even stepping into my craft room.

Wednesday October 15th - I met up with Laura and Martha at the Long stone for an unofficial Geek Girl dinner, it turned out to be a nice night chatting. There was even some talk of having a few more events here in Dublin.

Thursday October 16th - I went along to Annamaries scrapbooking crop at Whitehall. On the bus I went up my favourite street ‘Great South George’ and I enjoyed seeing three old ladies infront of an old fashioned sign for the amsterdam beat club. The first was leaning against an upside down chair she was carrying and the other two were resting on their shopping trollies (you know the two wheeler granny ones). They were having an animated conversation but my mind saw this as a moment from the past days, something I wish I could have captured on film.

At the class Annamarie brought along a bunch of books and sketches and the idea was to put together some layouts using the patterns. I did quite a few layouts with halloween and autumn themes that I’ll now have to figure out some photos to go with them. It was a good night to be out and chatting with the girls too, plus there was delicious apple pie and cream with our tea.

Friday October 17th - Jan was back. Quiet night at home. Jan brought lots of wine and chocolates from Germany.

Sat Oct 18th - Unfortunately we slept all day and then lazed about all weekend.

Oct 20 - 24th - I can’t remember what we did this week, I bet it was lots of watching west wing, entourage, my name is earl, grey’s anatomy, Mad Men, Tin Man, Dr Who, TorchWood, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, keeping up with election gossip, Arrested Development. Wow we’re TV addicts :D. Twitter says I also did a lot of reading about open source, PHP, MySQL, SEO, Robots and web technologies. I also won the work lotto, about 50 euros, all in coins, which I’ve been using to pay for my bus rides in the morning.

Friday 24th - I had lunch at a chinese restaurant with the guys, It was quite quirky, definitely a family place where the cook put the food in containers like caserole dishes and mixing bowls to serve them to us.

Oct 25th - 27th was a long weekend, we made a big stew and ate that all weekend with different breads and hommus. We bought Okami for wii so played that for a few hours.

Monday 27th - I tried to be productive and made Nanna a birthday card, planted 30 daffodil bulbs and dyed my hair.

Tuesday 28th - We had tea over at Tim and Bob’s place and collected our new washing line. It was so cold on the brief walk my toes felt like they’d snap.

Wednesday 29th - My work social club had an event for charity at the Laughter Lounge. Jan came along too and there was plenty of drink and four comedians (Australian, American, British and Irish). We all had a great night. I found it amusing to catch up with my workmates who have been learning english to see how much of each comedian they understood. They had no chance with the Aussie guy who spoke so fast. Jan and I tried to speak as quickly as he did to try and baffle them but they could understand us fine.

Thursday 30th - I was excited to find Paddy Power had “White Christmas in Dublin” at 4-1. That would be so awesome. However I was very disapointed to find that the Niel Gaiman book signing event had become ticketted in the last day or so and had sold out. This night was the Ireland Ubuntu Release party at the Long Stone so we went along for a few drinks and to chat about Open Source for a few hours. It was a great party in the end with people mixing and showing off machines and software all around the room.

Friday 31st - I was very impressed with the Dutch coin made entirely with open source. I had lunch with the guys at Zatoons, the local sit down kebab restaurant.

Oh yeah and the weather has been absolutely abismal, freezing cold and wet. It also is dark all the times I’m not at work.

The start of October marked our third wedding anniversary. We decided to celebrate the night before it, October 1st, at home. Strangely three years was an important milestone for us because we’d decided it was the amount of time where we’d break even for all the expense and effort of the wedding itself, also we’d said that three years is a pretty decent time to have stayed happily married to start with so YAY us. Jan cooked ginger chicken with pineapple and rice and I brought home some sticky date pudding and bourbon custard. We ate at the dining table by candle light, Jan had decorated with roses and bought us a box of chocolates as well. It was a nice night in.

October 2nd we went along to our Linux User Group at the Long Stone. Again we got to meet some new people and chat about what’s been going on in the open source world.

Work has been good and I hope to get my thoughts about what I’m doing there clearer and write a post about it soon.

Yesterday October 4th I went to Lainey’s Scrapbooking Class at Donnycarney we created another layout in a vintage theme. Ideally I’ll put some photo of my grandparents on there. Late that night we called our parents to catch up and talk about the month gone by.

Today I would love to organise my scrap booking projects. I have been feeling mad recently about my inibility to do anything towards my goals to do with hobbies. My little office at home is abandoned and I spend any free time I have sleeping or lazing about watching TV. This needs to change.

In the shower this morning I imagined having my perfect organisational tool, yes the one I fantasise about a few times a year and start programming around new years every single year. So how do I finally get this so I can replace my paper diary?

Step 1: Define what I do want, interface, features etc.

Step 2: Investigate what is out there and figure out why they don’t work for me

Step 3: Haxor

Step 3 is the most interesting for me, but I should give existing apps a chance.  Here’s some of my desires:

I wake up in the morning and check the app,  It shows my morning routine first on the list as “Morning Routine”.   I can see the subtasks this item has -> (Put dishes away, Hang out washing, Make bed, Pack lunch, Give bathroom a quick clean).    I can either do each task individually, or tick the whole as done for the day.   There could be a similar routine for starting work  (empty inbox, make coffee etc.).    When ‘Morning Routine’ is done, OR if just individual items in there are completed the get placed in a completed area, time stamped, where I can check what I have achieved each day or so far.
AND Goals. e.g. “Move to Ireland”.    This ofcourse is broken down into subtasks e.g. “Move our stuff to ireland”, and a subtask of that is “order boxes”.  That can be done any day now, so it can be offered as a task for me to do any day from right now.   If i feel today is the day I’d drag and drop the task onto today.   After it is done, I tick it, and Move our stuff to ireland will be say 10% complete, and it’ll say “last task completed July 4th”.    This could work for recurring tasks as well. e.g. “Clean the kitchen”   one task I can do today is empty the crumbs from the toaster.  So I did that this morning and “Clean the kitchen” says 90% complete, last task completed July 4th”.   A few weeks from now I either 100% complete that task or reset it so everything has to be done from scratch like sweeping and mopping.

Ofcourse I want yearly, monthly and weekly goals like I have in my paper diary, somet items are tasks some are goals. some are weekly routines based on monthly e.g. “clean the house” and this week’s “Clean the kitchen”, depending on how the user wants it.

The idea is each day I have some items I can do right now e.g. call realestate agent,  wash curtains, pick photos for printing from our england holiday.     other things rely on things happening, but it’s interesting to have them noted down somewhere e.g. when my degree arrives I can apply for my greencard.    so some things are in a “I’m waiting for this”.

OK Now I need to research what exists out there.

End of 2006
Christmas and New Years were spent here in Barcelona, most of the time Jan and I were alone at home with Thomas’s cat Alunya and Wims projector. New Years Eve we went to our friend Areskis place and drank lots of cava. We ate 12 grapes each to each of the 12 chimes of the midnight clock which is considered lucky here and the only way to start the new year. The party really kicked off after midnight with people dropping in that spoke many different languages they were from Italy, Belgium, Wales, Germany, England, France and quite a few from Spain too.
Memories
The main thing I want to do this year is blog more, I let it slide a bit last year and now that I’m thinking about making my 2006 scrapbook I’m regretting it. I finished a photo album about our weeks in Central Spain, over christmas. It was so hard to remember what we did and how we felt, it will be much worse for the rest of the years memories. I want to complete my photo album about our trip to Greece before starting on 2006 and 2007 albums. I plan to write monthly updates to home like I did in 2005, to family and friends as well.

Travel
I have some travel in mind, Paris in February, maybe Brussels at the end of February, South of Spain, Portugal,Marocco, Prague, Vienna etc(eastern europe). I want to visit south of Barcelona (Valencia and Tarragona) and north of Barcelona to Figueres. Maybe a trip to London at some stage, maybe for GUADEC. I have some vague plan about skiing/snow that seemed important when we were planning our move here… I’d like to see more of the sites of Barcelona too (History museum, tibidabo). I have no plans to visit Australia during 2007.

Day to day life in Spain
I have been fairly happy here in Barcelona, I’ve made a few really great friends and had a blast on weekends at parties etc during 2006. I didn’t make much progress with Spanish which I find embarrising. Work has been ok the company Flumotion is doing better all the time so there’s plenty to do.

During 2007 I would like to:

* Improve my Spanish

* Meet some new people

* Find a way to fit in at work better, task wise.

For work I’ll be working on a members area for the flumotion site that would provide lots awesome of features for our customers/resellers.
* Move into a really great apartment and have guests stay and have a few house parties there.

so I haven’t blogged in ages because I have felt stuck. stuck because I haven’t blogged in ages and I have so much writing to catch up on. I’ve been working on my Wiki ofcourse been doing a heap of other stuff. I’d like to catch up to it all today. Once again I feel a cloud has liften from over me and I’m free to get all this done. We are a planning a lot over the next few months.