It’s been a while since Justine was posting to Juzzyweb, but recently she has indicated that she wants to get back into blogging again.

It took a few hours, but I’ve managed to tease the posts from my bespoke blogging software into the Wordpress database.  It was a lot easier this time around since I’ve done it previously for my own blog; indeed it was a lot larger task last time since I had a lot more posts to bring across.

Even though I tried my hardest to leave the theme Justine had chosen alone, I had to make a few minor changes.  The new site has many of the same features as mine — Gravatars (hopefully now all will see the value of them!), the reCAPTCHA spam prevention, microsummaries — which hopefully will encourage more readers to comment.

So, welcome back Justine.

(Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back)

Richard uploaded a shot of his tie which reminded me of this shot I took a few weeks back…

After a long, grueling eighteen months, Justine has finally finished the last exam in her course!

So, let me be the first to post a congratulatory note on my website. Just think of all the free time you’ll suddenly have! I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say you’ve performed admirably; everyone who’s tasted your awesome creations has enjoyed them immensely and they always look as good as they taste.

So, congratulations!

Often when you ask Justine how things are going, you’ll get a “good” without much else.

Well, she’s just let me know that results of her second assignment. The first assignment, handed in about five weeks ago, scored an ‘A’. One handed in a couple of weeks ago has just been returned with a mark. It was a an ‘A+’!

Keep up the good work!

On Saturday, I finally caved in and agreed that Justine really needs a printer this year for school. I have had no need for a printer for around the last six years and things in the world of printers have changed quite a bit.

We ended up at OfficeWorks in the torrential rain (so that was going to be our last stop) in front of a small wall of printers. We ended up getting an Epson Stylus C67, mostly because it was under a hundred bucks (excluding paper, USB cable, and all the other crap you need) and has four separate print cartridges (CMYK) which may or may not end up being a good thing. Probably good.

I also bought a 50 pack of Canon glossy photo paper to play with, since the printer has 70,653,324dpi resolution or something. The printer supposedly prints at a not-particularly-speedy 17 pages per minute but print out a 6×4 photo with a lot of strong colours, and you’ll be waiting over 5 minutes. Nice one!

Speaking of the photos, the colour reproduction is alright, as is the sharpness. However, the “depth” of the colour reproduction is not there. Imagine looking at a CRT then looking at a washed out LCD… that’s the feeling I get.

For the price though, I’m not complaining, as Justine got a printer for school and we both got an average photo printer.

Today is Justine’s first “real” day of school at William Angliss.

After finishing high school, Justine bummed around for a few years working here or there as many of you know. Patisserie is the sort of thing that Justine has wanted to do for quite a while so it’s good to see her finally actually getting out there and starting the course. It’s really happening!

Please join me in wishing Justine the best of luck this year.

We’ve been waiting since November patiently and semi-patiently to see whether Justine will be offered a place in a Certificate IV in Patisserie. And at 7:30 this evening, along with around thirty other people at the Pinewood newsagent, we found out our future.

Justine was accepted.

Firstly, this means that Justine will be working less (dependant on the course requirements) so we’ll have less money. Not a big deal I suppose, we should be able to live modestly during that time. I am hoping that due to her existing commercial experience, Justine will be able to get a recognition of prior learning for a number of the modules.

Secondly, this could mean big things in the realm of me eating cake. And that’s very important.

Very important.