Rabbit
Shadow's delightful and friendly and still mostly litter trained. He enjoying playing with hair, ariel manuvers, high-speed laps around difficult obsticles, and bananas.

Work
Gmail has started at last. First invoice is away and coding has begun. Oddly enough, I still haven't managed to get out of the requirements documentation. I'm now in the process of designing the stats reporting system (seem familiar?).

Open Source
F::Q is way overdue for a new release, with plenty of new code having been submitted a number of old bugs fixed up. After this release I'm looking at changing the way we distribute the package and supporting files. Most of the "quotelets" can be distributed and upgraded seperately, which will make bugfixing and maintainence easier (don't need to release the entire package whenever the ASX change their website).

Desperately want time to work on the work-tracking system for Obsidian. I estimate that I need about a 180 hour day to clear out my backlog of higher-priority tasks. Argh.

Gardening
Have a 1/2 share mulcher with our neighbours. Have mulched stuff in yard, but need to mulch more. Now have more than 20 fruit trees and vines, including:

• Lemon tree;
• Double-grafted orange tree;
• Lime tree;
• Mandarin tree;
• Tangello tree;
• Medlar tree;
• Vanilla persimonn tree; (gotta catch 'em all)
• Starfruit tree;
• 2 fijoas (spel? aka pineapple guava);
• 1 yellow cherry guava;
• 1 strawberry guava;
• Loquat tree;
• 3 plum trees (including blood plum);
• 2 apple trees;
• Apricot tree;
• Peach tree;
• Pomegranet tree;
• Red and Black passionfruit vines;
• Male and female kiwi fruit.

I'm just looking forward to them all fruiting. :)

Homebrew
It's all benno's fault. Have brewed up 20l of "Coopers Sparkling", and have 20l of home-made lemonade in the fermenter now. That the beer was drinkable both warm and flat has much to be said for its quality.

Business
Obsidian is happy and still turning a profit.

Shadow
Shadow has become extremely affectionate. I suspect it's because he's cold, but he completely refuses to be put down now. Whilst its a little more interesting trying to do most tasks with a rabbit on one arm, I've found he's quite happy to fall asleep in my lap as I type. Well, except when he jumped up on the keyboard and rearranged my mailbox...

Graphics Tweaking
Working on squeezing a few more FPS out of my machine. Discovered the hard way that whilst my Duron 800 is happy to run at 8x100MHz, it's unhappy running at 6x133MHz, although the later does provide increased memory access speeds with my particular motherboard.

Installing DirectX 8 seems to have attached me to some totally poxy FTP site that's crawling along at 4KB/s. I really would have thought that Microsoft would have decent mirrors of their software.

Shadow
Last night Shadow discovered that he could climb over the carefully constructed barriers to prevent him from getting behind/underneath the fridge, and so we went a lot of time looking for him this morning before realising he was back in his old haunt. To make matters more fun, he also took a bite out of yet another phone cord. Luckily this bite only took off some of the insulation. It seems that phone-cords are thin and flat and hence the same shape as nice fat grass. Thank-goodness he's ignored power cords and CAT5.

Shadow's become a lot more confident and happy, and does less running away and more cute little grunting noises to signal his dissaproval. Whilst I appreciate his considerance in pooping behind the toilet door, I really wish that he'd use his litter tray for that sort of thing.

Shadow likes dandelion flowers. So do I, so once again we're competing for the same foods in the back-yard. Luckily there's enough to go around.

Games
Grabbed myself a copy of the much awaited Black & White, and spent the weekend playing it. It's visually very impressive, quite amusing, and the gesture interface is something very new and very good. I do feel that the gesture interface would be more natural with a dataglove, but it's certainly very refreshing not to be clicking on endless sets of icons. In fact, the game doesn't really have icons.

Rabbit
Went through two phone cords today thanks to Shadow. The first time we sliced through the cord moving the fridge so we could get Shadow out from behind it, and the second time Shadow bit through the cord seeing if it was good to eat.

Shadow is completely toilet trained, except for the little mess in the laundry that missed the litter tray, and the little mess in the lounge room. He is toilet trained insofar that he hasn't made a mess of the carpet yet, although that might be by luck rather than design.

Shadow has decided that I'm a good person to have around when it comes to cats, dogs, and other scary things. Today he heard Jimmy (kevinl's dog) and rather than running under cover he ran back to sit next to me. I feel quite useful. :)

Finance::Quote
Actually did some code clean-up yesterday, although I have a big backlog of mail to get through. Sorry to everyone who's sent me comments, code, or ideas and hasn't heard back from me yet. I am getting there.

Felt very pleased with myself when apt-get found and installed F::Q today.