working and a road trip

Once again this post will begin with something like “it seems that I haven’t posted in ages”.  So, here goes.  It seems like I haven’t posted in ages.  There actually is an excuse this time, which is nice.  I have a bunch of updates to post here which I’ll either do in this post or over a couple of posts.  Lets see how it pans out…

I mentioned that I had been busy.  This freelancing thing is starting to get serious, and I find myself with far less time than I used to have.  That’s the good part.  The not-so-good part is that the difference between what I earned in my old job and what I’m earning now is huge, and not in a beneficial way.  However, I’m getting more regular work and some customers are coming back for repeat business so its all going in the right direction.  Its just slow. The rate of increase in business is (not unexpectedly) very slow, and I wish I had concentrated on it more about three years ago.  Just in case you didn’t know, when I freelance I do so under the moniker DnAWebDev.  Eventually I may turn that into a company name, but for now that site is just my freelance portfolio. 

So in a week we’re going on holidays.  We’re doing a three week driving tour around the eastern part of Germany, and western part of the Czech Republic.  Its a road trip of about sixteen hundred kilometres which is going to take us three weeks.  We’re staying in some places longer than one night, which is why it takes so long.  While on the trip we’re going to meet some of Anna’s relations in eastern Germany.  Map of the route is below, courtesy of Google.  If we change it dramatically on the way then I may update it from somewhere.

Summer 2010 Road Trip (click for larger version)