Recently I've been trying to sort out what I want from this "year out", although it strictly isn't going to be a whole "year", nor strictly all "out". My aim is to get some more travelling done before I finally make the big push and put business plans into full throttle. That said, there are a few little enterprises and experiences I'm going to sandbox this year to get my ideas together and hopefully generate a little cash.

I was wondering how to do this, but somebody appears to have solved my problem and built a map system that allows you to chart your adventures. I'm hoping to add New Zealand, South America and somewhere in Africa to the list of countries by this time next year. Looking forward to it.

In the meantime work is flowing in steadily and there has been a fair whack of roughing out CSS layouts in the past few days. There has also been a significant increase in book absorption too as I start to convert through to PHP.

Looks like Devito is back from Spain for ten days starting Wednesday so there is likely to be some kind of meet up soon, and most of the OSH lads are back off to uni in the next week and a bit so there is going to be sociability on that front too.

On the creative side, the cat has managed to rub herself all over Father's newly painted door frames and is now a glossy white/tortoise-shell mix.