Warren Seen

A couple of weeks ago, Mark Cohen asked about the view from our deck. Well, with it being officially the first day of summer, I thought I’d go ahead and snap a panorama overlooking the Tamar river.

Here ’tis.

Photo stitching courtesy of DoubleTake.

Err, yeah. I remember, once upon a time, I used to have time to blog. That was before we built this:

Oh, and before he was born:

So despite the fact that I’m lying on the couch there, I’ve been far from idle.

My yard still looks like this:

so it’s not as though i don’t have enough to do! However, I *am* committing to finishing up, in the very near future, the Ruby Web Spider I began to write about some 5-6 months ago.

Consider this, a dusting off of the cobwebs kinda post…

Usually I use this blog to talk about web related stuff, but sometimes you get a project so all-consuming it intrudes into all areas of your life.

Over the last 6 weeks, that project has been our new house. Whilst we have an absolutely top notch builder doing the development, a lot of my spare time has been eaten up running between our mortgage broker, solicitors and the builder to get everything lined up for the refinance of our land loan, and the building approval.

Finally (barring some last minute paperwork), things got underway last week. Within 12 hours of signing the contract, the builders were on-site, pegging out things and preparing to get started. We already have the beginnings of a retaining wall and fingers crossed, building approval from the city council will be forthcoming in a few days, at which point the post footings will be dug and the floor “system” is due to arrive.

I don’t want this to overtake my main blog as this will be a short term project, but for now I’ve put up some pictures and rough notes of progress in the last two weeks here.

Exciting times!