Raspberries.
I've been lucky enough to have the best job in the world for a whole year now. I hit the one year marker yesterday!
I still can't stop smiling.
And it's still my absolute dream job.
I am a bit tired and run down lately, but that's probably partially because in that year I've had a grand total of one day off, and that was a sick day last month. My manager keeps telling me I need to take holidays soon! So I think I will, soonish. Which may be in three months time. I'm still very excited by the concept of paid holidays. :)
I have four whole weeks up my sleeve, but I think I'll just take a week to begin with, and do house stuff. And lounge and read and craft!
I'm having lots of fun lately fixing up my old baby dell mini 9 netbooks (I have two of them wasting away) in between coats of paint. I've installed linuxmint on one so I can get back in practice and I think I'm going to try to turn the other into a NAS to store my music and stuff on tomorrow. I'll give it a go at least, before I go spend money on one!
I ordered a Raspberry Pi today too. I think it's going to be a media centre in the long run, but I'm going to play with it first and try some little tutorial projects and see how I go! I've got so many little electronic bits coming in from around the world via eBay now, it's quite exciting.
Last week I read Cory Doctorow's book Homeland, which is the sequel to Little Brother. I loved little brother so much, you have no idea - and Homeland was equally amazing! I'm not sure if reading it spurred on my current tech immersion or if I read it because I was reading about it all already, but I loved it.
It's so full of tech and gadgets and things I know of, but not really about -if that makes sense- that I've spent the last couple of days catching up on a whole raft of hardware, software, privacy issues, and various other things that are mentioned in the books because it's so interesting and it makes me realise those years I spent hibernating from everything left me out of a fast moving loop I always enjoyed reading about. Lots to catch up on now! :)