Conslutancy
Well, last Friday I waved goodbye to my former employer and I'm now my own boss. I'm working as a conslutant, setting my own hours and managing my own affairs. Spent today setting up the new firewall box and encouraging my mail to go to the right places.

Shall post a link to my resume soon, but people should feel free to e-mail me (pjf at cpan.org) if they're impatient or want to throw work at me without seeing the resume. :)

Fruit
Have ooodles of blood plums thanks to the tree outside. I think about 30% of my food by weight comes from eating blood-plums.

Obsidian
Going into business with a number of extremely clueful people. Idea is to have something similar to CyberSource but with a smaller group, more flexibility, and with some serious tenders for larger projects. Some things are quite scary, I'll probably want to have a good talk to a clueful accountant.

Open Source
One of the big reasons for me dropping full-time work is so that I can spend more time on fun things like open-source. For the last couple of months I've been doing next to zip, I'm hoping to change that soon. I'm still figuring out exactly what my week will look like, but I'm trying for 2 days of (paid) work, 2 days of open-source/other projects, and 3 days of fun.