10 May, 2010

  • meals cooked in our new kitchen
  • apples off our own tree
  • our own preserved peaches for breakfast
  • challenging work
  • the opportunity to work with teachers without actually being one

7 January, 2010

  • upgrading the hard drive in my PS3 and feeling a bit clever
  • renovations that opened up the lounge and kitchen
  • dropping cable TV in favour of a good book and a garden
  • learning to use my new circular saw

12 September, 2009

  • a high turnover of whisky
  • Spring
  • that garden that just keeps on giving
  • working with clever people

24 June, 2009

  • a warm fire
  • winter veges growing in the garden
  • desserts made of preserved, home-grown fruit
  • a warm bed at night

25 October, 2008

  • the garden in spring growth
  • fish 'n chips, a movie and a quiet night
  • kids who get web design
  • breaking concrete with a sledge hammer

25 July, 2008

  • the end of the week
  • big duvets
  • the break in the rain just as I get on my bike
  • students who listen to punk music
  • people who forgive my failings as a human

24 June, 2008

  • A warm fire
  • School holidays rolling around
  • Drupal and modules I can add without the need for a programmer
  • Seriously...the warm fire

20 January, 2008

  • I am now an officially registered teacher ...
  • The last few weeks of holidays
  • ZYPE continues to have projects
  • A couple of wines on the go

26 June, 2007

  • A rennovated bedroom looking all lovely and stuff
  • Second year teaching
  • The freedom to restore my own house
  • A new batch of spirits and the joy of cleaning up the old bottles of weird stuff
  • School holidays

25 April, 2007

  • A newly stripped and varnished window made of Rimu
  • Second year teaching
  • The freedom to restore my own house
  • Getting back on my bike after too much scooter riding
  • Ubuntu - Feisty Fawn: easy upgrade and a friendly learning experience

12 November, 2006

  • Two years of making my own wine, beer and spirits
  • Two years of no hangovers and enjoyable alcohol
  • Teaching and the end of my first year
  • My own house to potter around in
  • An electric scooter that just keeps going and gives me something to tinker with
  • Ubuntu - Edgy Eft. Keeps going and gives me one more thing to tinker with

All joys before I thought to date them

  • Making my own wine
  • Working as a teacher and still being able to get up in the morning
  • I get to use the school's resources...and there is so much to use.
  • Discovering a new range of beers to brew up
  • Harvesting the garden again
  • Almost finished up at NZGSE
  • Having time to simply sit and read for a while
  • Summer? Is that you?
  • Riding around on my scooter
  • My own alcohol tastes fantastic
  • Back in the garden
  • Spring is coming
  • Getting the hang of the latest teaching practice
  • Back in the garden
  • The initial pimping of my electric scooter
  • Almost finishing that large cross stitch project
  • Bonsai
  • Distilling my own alcohol
  • Not having time to think too hard
  • My electric scooter
  • Almost finishing that large cross stitch project
  • Bonsai
  • The thought of distilling my own alcohol
  • Holidays
  • My electric scooter
  • Students who put up with my clumsy attempts to teach them
  • The Sex Pistols
  • Alcoholic ginger beer
  • The thought that Easter isn't all that far away now
  • The prospect that I might actually be okay at this teaching thing
  • The vege garden has been harvested and replanted this year providing a great supply
  • Not having to do web design full time
  • Sin Fest - still funny.
  • Sin Fest - probably the funniest comic I've read in ages (The actual comic is right down the bottom of the page).
  • The bloody veges are screaming away. I have cucumbers germinating damn it.
  • Bed looks really good at the end of a day
  • Friends back in town
  • It's almost t-shirt weather again
  • The A3 Gundam cross stitch continues...and probably will for some time to come. It's habit more than hobby now
  • A spring garden has burst into life creating something new to look at each day
  • Turning 30 wasn't so bad.
  • A new tattoo
  • Friends back in town
  • My new Trouser Project web site goes live with the initial t-shirt designs
  • A new digital camera. Finally I can start photographing the things in life that just need photographing
  • A
    new cross stitch project. Okay, smartass, it's an A3 size Gundam Robot
    done at 25 count stitch. Militant cross stitchers unite.
  • Screen printing and a renewed sense of enthusiasm for this t-shirt lark
  • Summer has got to be getting closer by now
  • That garden is about to be turned over in preparation of spring
  • Final Fantasy X
  • A slow month of work has allowed me to rebalance my brain
  • My new Trouser Project web site goes live with the initial t-shirt designs
  • A friend's new waterskiing site all specially made for New Zealand