I don’t know whether it’s the equinox or the move, but it feels like there’s SO MUCH TIME in the day. I wove flax with the kids, my parents arrived down the road from us (they’re also moving back to NZ from the US), went out on the boat, caught up on email, gathered seafood, ate the seafood, yarned with my uncle, played music, and watched a Colbert Report. I’m hard-pressed to get through my inbox when we’re in the US!

We’re on Orcon DSL. It’s the closest to reasonable pricing we could find: $50/month for 1G of traffic, and $1/G after that (purchased in increments of 10G, so we’ll be spending at least $60/month). It still amazes me how inconveniently priced “broadband” is in NZ–the business models built on top of ubiquitous broadband, which are all the rage in the US, are laughable here. Nobody will pay to download TV over the net here, when their net access is metered in this fashion.

I walked in front of the webcam this morning while clad only in boxers. Within minutes I had email: “nice picture … of your butt!” Hazards of high-tech. If I can avoid getting fat on the wonderful food here, I might be able to charge for the boxer shots and make back my broadband costs. Hmmm ….