Another year over

and deeper in debt.

Well, maybe not quite that bad but things got a bit tight towards the end of last year. We ended up paying other peoples bills on an almost weekly basis. As we had been in these various predicaments ourselves in the past, it was really the only thing we could do. Life for most of our family has now settled quite well and the rest will follow shortly so we are now looking at upping our mortgage payments yet again in order to clear as much as possible while the low rates last.

My own particular cross, over the Christmas, was to have some serious sinus problems which caused me intense pain. Suffice it to say that I was on pain killers until New Years Eve. Not a particularly merry Christmas.
On a lighter note, I have begun a new blog around the Arduino open source hardware and software control system. The link has been added to my personal blogs, below left, and is this