Sunshine!

Hari's Indi Natural Stone logo reworked. Destiny Duo Tarot site done and live. Liam Neeson movie and Indi Natural website build. Visited Roz and Jim at Helen's house and saw Nan. Photos of Finn abound!

Watched Mirror mirror and saw Jenny for a drink in Wimbledon


Week off, doing only exactly what comes to mind. Butternut soup underway

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 large yellow onions, peeled and roughly chopped (about 3 cups) 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon garam masala or curry powder 1 large butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and diced (about 6 cups of 1/2 inch pieces) 2 pints vegetable stock, warmed Heat the oil and butter in a soup pot over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and saute for about 10 minutes, or until they begin to soften. Add the salt, pepper, and garam masala and cook for another 2 minutes. Add the squash and cook for another 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour the stock into the pot - if it doesn't quite cover the squash add some boiling water. Bring to a boil, lower to a simmer and cook until the squash is very tender about 20 minutes. Let it cool for at least 15 minutes and then puree it in batches in a blender. Be careful when blending hot liquids. Start slowly and work in batches if necessary. Pour back into the pot, gently heat, season with salt, and serve.

The most fun weekend

Lots of fun with Sarah this weekend - laughed till my stomach hurt. Read Vida's Maak'it manifesto and very excited! FINALLY sorted out a niggling Flash problem.

Another site design (Indi Natural Stone). Back at Positive Digital for 3 days - was good to see Chris and the other boys again and have Thai at Fat Boys.


Velvetines gig at the 100 club on Wednesday night was epic - I had so much fun just chilling, listening to the music, chatting to Jose and Marina, dancing with my girl and staying right to the end of the last act (Sonia Leigh).

Life goes on

Sarah's parent's 40th anniversary. Watched the last Bruce Lee movie with my parents.

Sarah is back safely, parents are back safely. APO Snowboard competition winners announced. New clients acquired and some good Flash done in way less time than I originally thought! Sewed on the NASA patches Sarah brought from Washington.

Made awesome prawn and courgette lunch. Totally kicking it on After Effects - did a short presentation for Mouse

Me, at home, dancing it off:

The super long weekend

Did the charcoal drawing of Bernard this afternoon after catching up 4 months' worth of expenses filing and seeing Sarah off to Washington. Wrapped presents and finished the second last Bruce Lee movie - Game of death. Went to Roz's birthday in Three Bridges, proposed to by the gays. Loads of work from home falling into place. Watched The Hours, stirred by Mrs Dalloway all over again.

Writing now. Writing loads. Dusted off the sewing machine and fixed a heap of clothes, dropping sizes. Painted a blackboard onto our pantry cupboard door. Made the most awesome burger for lunch. Sorted all my writing snippets chronologically into 3 main sections and printed it out, ready to read through on the plane. First 20 seconds of Snowboard clip done! After Effects is awesome!

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Geneva, Le Roma hotel and long conversations with my parents. Snowboarding is awesome - sludge makes the best snowboard snow - feels like waterskiing.

Jackie OOOOOOO

Started and finished building Jackie's Tarot website on Sunday. Going to St Albans Lost Property this evening to fetch Sarah's shirts. Creating a photobook for the rents. Great Gym session Tuesday night - feeling happily exhausted and healthier. May have to change the photobook to a charcoal drawing - didn't count on the bank holidays.

Mrs Dalloway, Snowboarding

Finished mrs Dalloway. It was a drag right up to the second-last line... now I don't know! I'm confused! Made lots of office friends, listened to some dubstep, lunch with a new friend and an invite to a club, arbitration continues.

Re-did the snowboard :) Now I can lay it to rest. Awesome braai tonight.

Three website designs this week making me feel like a designer again. Velvetines gig thursday night, danced right up front. Realised that my all-time song collection stopped working around the time I realised that collecting music was like collecting water. Lynda offered us her flat in Wimbledon! Blackheath Halls is doing Carmina Burana - so I volunteered :) It's only one day of rehearsal though...

Snowboards, Lady Gaga and Spotify

Finished the APO snowboard design! Finished the Lady Gaga Americano mixx! Resisted the temptation on both of those projects to polish it to the nth degree - might still take it up someday. Uploaded Americano to Soundcloud.

Americano by aneldebruyn

eCards were a great success for dad and Bernard! Joined Spotify. Tried my hand at ASP(.net?) - not half bad going for a total rookie. Downloaded an iPhone app guide to my Kindle - as in, how to build apps.

Statement of claim from Carla Loggie.

Bordering on developer at work, and having to consistently turn down jobs on account of technicality. Not sure if this is a watershed moment, but it feels like it.