What, still nothing?

Hey, where have you been?
Around.

What have you been doing?
Stuff. Working (the paid kind) quite a lot. Doing a good bit of wood stuff on the weekends tho'.

What sort of wood stuff?
Mainly experimenting with shapes that make good jewellery items and learning about finishes on wood - oils, sealers, waxes, elbow grease etc. There's only so much grease you can get out of one elbow, however! Oh, and I carved some nunchucks out of ash.

You gonna put a proper post together any time soon and share any of your new knowledge?
Yeah, alright, I'll get round to it. Hopefully the christmas break will allow me some time to finish some items and take some snaps.

So why are you posting at 4 in the morning? Got no life?
It's not 4 in the morning, I'm in California right now. Mostly business, a little pleasure. Haven't been over here for about 15 months so it's a welcome visit. Getting my fill of weird sh!t on [adult swim] and getting fed up with people who work in American shops asking me if they can help and proceeding to tell me about every offer they currently have. I'm surprised I have ever bought anything in the States, the continuous pestering has rather the opposite to the desired effect on me!

California, nice! That must be a pleasant change from the miserable British weather.
You'd think wouldn't you? Started off OK but got freezing and rainy today.

Oh, poor you.
Well, you did ask!

So what next?
Few more days in Cali, then head home to see my much missed wife. Got the whole Christmas and New Year period off work so will hopefully get some jewellery pieces finished ready for photographing, modeling and perhaps even selling...