Yes we are back at it!
It’s been a while but we are back it. All the woodworking and coding and photography and cooking… all of it.
We had to take a bit of a break to focus on ‘us’. Not that we are having issues but our landlords were.
We had to move
I’ll keep this short. I’m glad we had it, amazing views and about 9 houses away from where Sir Peter Jackson grew up. If you watch the movie, ‘Bad Taste’, you’ll understand the scenery. It’s all in walking distance.
Anyways, the landlords bought a house a few miles north of the rental property and soon realized that the old property had to go. So we had to go as well. It was a bit of an emotional roller coaster but I always stick with family comes first so I can’t fault them (too much). In the end, it is what it is.
So we found a new place
The average house price in Auckland was over a million last year with some areas having property increases of 29%+ a month in the surrounding areas. Frankly, I would never want to live in Auckland even though I could find work more easily there, it’s a complete mess. We would like to stay here longer than our visa will allow but until we have residency we don’t plan to buy anything. So we started looking for rentals that will take Ned.
Eventually, Jill found Chris and Joanne. Thank goodness for that, they are a lovely couple and just as ‘Kiwi’ as you would want. City folk who own a farm, are outdoorsy and unbelievably friendly. The couple had bought a house with bright orange and yellow walls with green trim. So, Jill and I moved into, ‘The Pumpkin Bach’. (Bach in New Zealand is pronounced ‘batch’).
The garag-errmm workshop!
It isn’t that big but I broke it in. I needed a desk and here it is.
This is the first video of it:
And here is the second part of it:
I do have a sketchup file for it with ‘rough’ dimensions that I will get up soon. There will be another sketchup file for A-frame clothing rack since I needed that cleaned up for working out this new build.
Obviously you can check out all the other projects on my channel over here!
What else has been going on?
I’m still on the hunt for a job over here. I’m not willing to apply to everything under the sun. I want something that suits me and I’d be happy doing. Those are the jobs I’m applying for.
I spent some time sprucing up the linkedin page with a nice self portrait I took in the new garage.
I also figured I should put my face in for any extra work in movies or what-not. So I’ve been working on some head shots. Helps that I am a graphic designer/dev that spent a quarter of my classes in the photo lab.
I’ve also been spending time coding. I have strong skills here and I don’t want them to atrophy so I’ve been starting to do ‘coding challenges’ from the Youtube channel ‘The Coding Train’. If you ever wanted to code this guy is a good teacher – over enthusiastic and a knuckhead(meant with respect) but very good. I
I’ve started posting them on this site and github so they are blogged about. You can check them out in the nav above OR here!
Conclusion
I’m not sure that the frequency of video posts will be weekly as they were before. They also won’t be as silly as some of the previous ones (wine box holder). I plan on making multiple episodes for larger projects for many reasons. But for now – we are back!
Thanks,
Clean Phil Wanted