Debugging unicycles

Welcome 2012!

Another Christmas holiday period has passed us by, at an accelerated rate, it seems.

This is the first Christmas that I've spent in New Zealand, as usually I take the yearly trip across the ditch to visit my whanau in 'Aussie'.

What a good year to choose (she says with irony, at the excessive rain that's swamped the entire North Island for the past two weeks). I wonder how much those fireworks off Auckland's sky tower at New Years cost? Pity they were obscured by the low lying cloud!

What I do love about New Zealand, is that everyone seems to take the opportunity to vanish into the countryside for the entire month of January. Auckland empties out, nothing functions properly, and you can be excused for not being at university, as more than likely your supervisor isn't either.

Though in all truthfulness, I enjoyed my wet and rainy New Zealand Christmas. As the proud owner of a unicycle (gifted by a mother who understands my regret at not taking up my place at circus school) and a Windows Phone 7 programming book (gifted by a boyfriend who perhaps doesn't underestimate my intelligence as much as I do), I certainly have no excuse for boredome.

May this be a year of debugging unicyles and other such things of randomness.

[Image credit: Philip Turnbull]