Spring Hasn't Sprung

Not here, at least. We're still in negative (degrees) (Celsius) here. A fairly steady snowfall yesterday, and a light fall today. Oh, it's certainly "getting warmer" - we're looking at lows of -5, -6 rather than -20.

Which is good!

But still - the garden is covered in snow. Ho hum. Still, we've got to be planting seeds for the CSA soon - looking through the many, many packets we've got today, it seems that some of them want to be planted up to 10 weeks before being transplanted outdoors. The last frost date here is sometime mid-May, so actually those few plants (most of the tomatoes, squash, courgettes, aubergines do not say they need this long, just a couple of varieties) really should be going in... now!

So tomorrow Lindsay, my partner in, er, gardening, and I are going to buy potting mix, trays, and all sorts of other things that we need. Then I need to get a seed-starting setup installed here at home - some shelving with fluorescent tubes.

In other news, I decided I really don't need a $35 phone plan... luckily my wife DOES need a plan ($70 in fact, ugh), and so she took my phone, and converted the plan. So now I'm back on Wind Mobile - $45 for 6 months. I have an older Android phone for that, and it's... slow. So slow that it doesn't seem to want to work with three email accounts on it, for some reason. Deleted one account... still doesn't work. Oh boy.

And, after probably ten years of going "without" television, today I got an HDTV aerial/antenna. This thing is about as big as two handspans. Aaand.. thanks Amazon, it came in a box about as big as me.

Seriously. Invest in AMZN? Not if they are going to spend what must be $10 to send a ginormous box containing something that small in! There was enough brown paper padding to write SEVERAL novels. Honestly!

I would post photos but, alas, this phone doesn't want to let me have the pictures.

I am coming to terms with my vice. My vice is electronics - computers, pretty much. I bought a new laptop to scratch the itch - but I bought a very sensible, second hand laptop. It's great actually - it is much more suited than my old one. Buuuut.. I don't want to let the old one go as it is also very good. I currently own 4 laptops, 1 desktop, 2 tablets, 4 game consoles... It just seems to stack up. I hoard them.

It could be worse. The laptop cost me $180. I was looking at ones for $600+. But it's not very "reduce reduce reduce" now, is it.

This month is tax month, which is *hideous*. But the good news is that I should pretty much be financially independent, come November or so. Coming in to land - trying to, well, not hit the runway. Land comfortably. Not blow too much cash on hookers, booze and... laptops.. so I miss the runway!

So it's all good. Just need the snow to go. Go, snow, go! The weatherman said this is pretty normal though. I don't feel too good about that.