Trip to New Plymouth

Went up for a day trip to New Plymouth yesterday. Those are always fun, day trips, it means 4 flights in one day. We had a really good meeting with our customer though, which makes me happy. Feedback came back today from them too, they agreed it went really well and it's made them happier about how a bunch of things are going. So, that's good, everyone's happy.
I've been playing with Amazon Glacier, Google Cold Storage and Tarsnap. I need a way to backup Sarah's files and stuff for her business, but most of these fancy pants backup plans want to change you some bonkers amount per month to store shit. Google/Amazon offer a much better solution, but of course there's no fancy-pants web 2.0 GUI to make it all work. But when it costs $0.07c (USD) per month per Gigabit of storage, you better believe I'm going to use the cheap as chips stuff. And I've also setup tarsnap to backup her email, that's costing about 4c a day to do the backup and make it all work properly.
So I'm pretty happy with that.
Kids are good, Theo is getting better with his words every day. He gets into his sleeping bag at night now by himself, I tell him which end his feet go in and which end his head goes. I think he knows already, but he likes to be told anyway.
Had another play with Drupal 8 the other day, it's pretty good really, most of my website seems to get imported into it just fine. But the big problem is that there's no nice themes (at least that I can find so far), so I've held off on the upgrade again. Each time there's a major website upgrade I freak out and don't do it for ages, I hate that the website takes me 6 months of stuffing around to get it back up and working again. But that's just how this stuff works, the photo gallery I've got is fully out of support now. No one updates it, it's probably full of security holes. I hope not, I keep it locked down pretty tight, but you never know.
Hmmm not much else, we're getting low on wood so I rang Tom Byrne on Tuesday to see if he can get us some more. He's going to get back to me next week. Fingers crossed, I don't know that we'll make it through to the other side of Winter at this rate!
Oh and the damn car needs two new rear tires now. Better safe than sorry though!

Tim