Continuing and starting new...

It's a new year and new things are in the works...
and we're working on finishing some of the old big projects too.

Lisa has about half the data she needs for her dissertation and really wants to get the rest of it in the next couple of weeks so she can finish and graduate in May. This isn't an easy process, but she's getting through.

Lisa is also experimenting with dyeing yarn and knitting stuff (she's turning things purple as I write this...). This is one of those things that she's wanted to do for a while and is just getting to now.

She is also starting classes as a teacher and as a student tomorrow (so she's going to be busy...)

Meanwhile on the other side of the office...
Patrick finished the first draft for his second novel in the Johnson farm series in December and will be releasing the first book to the public later this year (hopefully around the end of March but that may slip...). The second book is going to take a little longer to get to print because I actually need to get a first draft of the third book written before I can finish the second. I need to make sure a few things will match up...

The first book is starting the last phases of completion this month so stay tuned...

I am also starting a new project this week, a book on personal finance... This one adds a new wrinkle in that I've actually got a team that I'm working with for the writing part, not just reader/reviewers and art people. So, in addition to being an author I'm project manager on this one. (I'll be introducing my co-authors and the other members of the Forever Mountain team in the near future).

New shiny stuff is coming, but it's a little lower on the priority list at the moment. I really want to get the books going...

Besides...

We seem to have been invaded! Don't (I mean really don't) ask how the half track got up there...

As some of you might have seen, Lisa had fun creating a whole story with the advent calendar this year. On my other blog I've been experimenting with using toys to create pictures to go with my posts. Lisa knew I wanted to use some Lego stuff, but hadn't gotten around to expanding the collection. And as a result my wife bought me toys and played with the first!

So, now that she did, and made a fun story with them, I've got no excuse...

At least they don't eat much...

And they're not too hard to clean up after...

Well, that's about it for this one...
Last year was quite a year and there's a lot of adventures to come!!!