Chickens
Been building a chicken coop for our chickens-to-be. It's taken a bit of time to get around to it, but the coop is looking good. It's built almost entirely from stuff that was hanging around our yard (or our neighbours). The previous house owner seemed to have quite a collection of junk built up, including some 6ft steel pipes that are very heavy and very strong, and have made an excellent support for the frame.

Been able to make use of cool things like cobalt tipped high-speed drilling bits, and molybidium (spel?) alloy tin-snips. Discovered that power-drills work much better when you run them in forward, rather than in reverse.

Hoping to get a few Isa Brown chooks from CERES once the coop is complete. Failing that will probably investigate local breeders.

Finance::Quote
1.06 was released yesterday, and despite a few hiccups with PAUSE (the CPAN upload tool), and SourceForge's database, it all went quite smoothly.

I'm chuffed at how many people are sending me source code and feedback. I've got to look into setting up a better infrastructure so that Quotelets (the modules that run with F::Q) can be distributed and updated seperately to the main release.

Discovered that F::Q even gets a mention in a lecture stream at LaTrobe University in Bendigo. That made me smile.

Garden
Water tank (1030 litres) arrived today. Will be installed and operational next week. Should provide us with a plenty big supply of water.

Divided the rhubarb, and as such have oodles of rhubarb that we're trying to use up. Crown segments have gone into our front garden, our neighbours garden, and the place where the rhubarb was originally. Provided that they don't all die, I'll be extremely happy.

Fire Safety
Four new smoke detectors in the house, rather than the one dodgy one that came with the place. Going to have to move the one in the hallway as it's blocking one of the cupboards doors. (Only noticed that one AFTER I'd screwed the thing to the ceiling.)

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Homebrew
We've drunk about 50% of our first batch of beer, and that a lot of it was before the three weeks of aging has something to say for its quality. Our brewed lemonade has just been bottled, and we now have a cider bubbling away in the fermenter which will be ready for bottling in a couple of weeks.

Consluting
Yup, I'm still a conslutant. Doing some work for some most excellent people who I used to work with at schnet.

Games
Had a bit of a play on the Sullon Zek Everquest PvP server. Very different to regular PvE play, and a hell of a lot of fun.

Open Source
I suck.

Toilet-trained
Shadow is completely toilet trained, except when we've changed the sheets and blankets on our bed. Good rabbit.

Mozilla
Have started using Mozilla again. Went off it a while ago because it was a little too flakey for my likings. It's very pleasing to see just how well it's come along since then. Many hip-hip-hoorays for sensible cookie controls. :)

Shadow<RR> Shadow's decided to accept me as another rabbit, albeit a rather large one. He enjoys grooming my eyebrows, eyelashes, and stubble. I can't imagine anything much more ticklish than having a rabbit groom one's eyelashes.

Work/Consluting
Aaaaaaiiiiie! It never rains, it pours. I've been working 10-12 hour days for the last half-week, trying to deal with quite a sizeable influx of work that's recently sprung up. If all goes as planned (ha!) then it should be finished by spring, and I can take a nice long holiday again. That would be nice.

House
Roofing is done, restumping is done, we have hot water again (ants nested in the gas booster and blocked up air-intakes, starter-mechanisms and thermostats). House is good.

Homebrew
Our beer is drinkable, although kevinl's tastes better, but has less of a head. The lemonade is STILL fermenting, being slow because of the cold weather.