Backgammon Championship 2010 & New Look Snowpool (almost)

Flew up to Nelson for this years backgammon championship. I’ve not been playing quite as much as last year but still loved the trip. Unfortunately quite a number of competitors pulled out at the last minute, so there were only 6 people competing in the end.

Pip (left above) was the winner *again* this year. We had a close match in the round robin (9:8 to me) but she fairly and squarely beat me in the semi’s.

Other than backgammon, life has been quite busy… I’ve been studying Drupal in preparation for my new job (starting Monday 21st). There’s a massive amount to learn (which is why I took the job!).. While I’m sure I should be up to the task – there will no doubt be a huge amount of rapid learning to be done on-the-job. It’s the first job I’ve had which has a three month probation. Mind you, the only reason a probation would be used would be if you weren’t up to the job – in which case, would you want it anyway? (Well, ok, that’s probably not strictly true for all job types – but I think it is true for me!)

Earthquake t-shirt sales tick along. Doing one final order in a couple of weeks time. It has certainly generated enough to pay for the new Snowpool design

Hopefully that will be going live in a week or so. Kinda needs to get up there soon as the Northern Hemisphere is inexorably moving towards winter, while we, are moving happily into longer and longer days ;)