the goose

Ever since reading Tim Ferris’ 4 hour work week, I have become a little obsessed with the idea of cutting my living costs and attempting to outsource as much of my work as possible.  Outsourcing hasn’t come all that naturally to me but this month we did manage to take some rather drastic steps towards reducing costs – namely  – moving to South Africa for a few months.  While inflation is high and its not absolutely clear what way the political future of the country is – there is no doubt that we can still live a lot more economically.  Luckily for us, my girlfriends parents live down here and that has made the move much easier.  My plan for December and Jan is to attack some of the projects which don’t immediately pay their own way in terms of RoI but that I still want to achieve.  Chief amongst these is upgrading the piehole website, tidying upon taskfive and planning out next years goose forum.
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My biggest worry was that the internet connection down here might not be up to the task, but having just completed my first day of work I’m happy to report that Satellite broadband, while a little sluggish is no worse that the 3 Data modem I was relying on for most of last year.  It remains to be seen if I can provide the same level of support to my smartnote customers down here but I’m hoping it might even be a bit easier.  I’ll just have to avoid letting on I’m taking calls from a poolside while the rain pours all over the Emerald Isle.