I am now a certified A+ professional, last week I passed my 2nd CompTIA A+ Exam, now I have A+ & MCP certifications. Next on the list is the Network+ Exam.
There is no way I thought I would be able to go back to school at this time of my life, let alone take and pass exams, my lovely wife encouraged and pushed me to do it, and I know it takes time away from us with school and then revision at home, but I am eternally grateful and could not have done it without her. So Lara, Thank you is the very least I can say.

Some of you may or may not know there is a Sony Contest going on where you take panoramic photos (or single photo's stitched together to make a panoramic one) so I have been taking quite a few of them with my phone they are here [link] if you want to have a gander. I think I am getting better at taking photos, or at least better at the panoramic ones, wish my phone had a few more mega pixels though.

The 28th of last month was the 1 year anniversary of my Nan passing away.
You may remember that Lara and I planted a plum tree in her memory and Lara made a beautiful plaque for her, but unfortunately over the winter we brought the tree in so it wouldn't freeze, and it ended up blooming in Dec/Jan which shocked it and then it too passed away. Lara told me that it didn't die, Nanny just wanted to take it with her, which is a calming thought and helped me deal with the day a bit better.
We have replaced it with two new younger plum trees, one of which has plums on it I'll get some photos of them soon, they are quite beautiful and frame the deck nicely.
Also over the winter I lost Bob & Bobette my two Palm trees that I grew from seeds, I don't know what happened to them but they just kind of rotted from the inside out.
So when we were last at Longwood Gardens Lara replaced it with a plant of my choice, I chose a beautiful little Spiny Aloe plant that I have given a name other than Bob to, it's name is "SunBurn" and I'll get a picture of that to soon.

Laters.