As usual it’s been a pretty busy week…

• Cuba is now ONE WEEK away! My PADI certification replacement card arrived this week. I ordered it online from this link - didn’t need my number or photo or anything else - the system looks it up for you and you pay $30USD by credit card and they send it to the address you specify - it arrived in less than a week. I think this means we’re going diving after all - nice.
• PHP & gmaps I’ve been spending time learning PHP and trying to figure out how to best get GoogleMaps working for a pet project of mine (it’s todo with our big North America road trip later this year). I’m really enjoying PHP although it’s been going pretty slooow… So little time, so much to do…Hopefully I can have something up next week.
• DIY-Renovations. It’s been a while since we did any kind of renovations.. Our withdrawal symptoms include maniacally watching the HGTV channel and drooling over hardware store fliers with pictures of laser guided compact saws and single-handed routers. “You’re sure we won’t have space for a this cool nail gun in our luggage?”… Anyhoo, we got pretty excited when somebody forwarded us this palatial renovation project.. literally.
• Stock Market Stocks were all over the place this week. Quick summary of the few I’m interested in:
  Symantec (SYMC) +14.41%
  Air Products and Chemicals (APD) -3.35%
  Market Vector Russia ETF(RSX) +8.67%
  So overall a very good week for our equities - thanks to Symantec’s stellar financial quarter results and the rising price of oil…but gas prices suck like a brick…
• Working Holiday in Poland New Zealand signs working holiday deal with Poland. Poland’s on a roll. They signed one with Canada after the Robert Dziekanski incident and now New Zealand. Those kiwis better brush up on their Polish - can you say “Poprosze kielbase i pierogi”…

For the weekend we’re off to Seattle - Aggie wants to go shopping..*sigh*
Have a good one - Remember Mother’s Day!