I'm avoiding Melbourne's winter at the moment.
I would expect to start work by nine.
I've been working on this project for almost a year now and it's been full time and it's
been self funded from savings.
I didn't imagine when I started that it was going to be a year long project.
Before that, yeah, I was freelancing.
The app that I'm working on is called Picklets and it's a kind of ebook reader app for digital
pop up books.
There are some awkward things about setting it up and my experience in Melbourne running
some workshops was that it's really beneficial if I help people, if I hand hold them through
the process of getting up and running with the software that I've developed.
So the idea was that I would be physically available in Berlin to meet Berlin illustrators
and get a few of them up and running with the software.
I have a very small bag with MacBook Air that I bought to travel with.
I have a Bluetooth keyboard which allows me to, allows me some flexibility in choosing
good posture and a wireless mouse.
I always started at my place so I was working on the couch at home for about an hour and
then had a bit of a wander to a local cafe for another hour.
I feel a bit uncomfortable in cafes if I'm there for more than an hour or an hour and
a half.
You know I've got my laptop and stuff and if I even just go to the toilet I have to
pack it all up.
I don't drink more than one cup of coffee a day so I can't, I don't feel like I can
sit there and subsist for too long on a single cup of coffee but I also like to get up and
walk around about every hour so I'll sit for an hour but after that it's good if I can
get up and move.
That's something that I know is an important part of my process when I'm at home and I'm
stuck on something to go for a walk is very helpful.
So then after the cafe we came here and it was another hour and then there was some lunch
so it was another opportunity for a break.
Someone will come around and say Essen or Maltzite or something and it's just the opportunity
to chat about other things I guess because when I come in in the morning it doesn't seem
appropriate to interrupt anyone's work and have a conversation with them so lunchtime
is the opportunity to do that.
This project is that because I've sort of ranged across a bunch of different software
technologies this project somehow brings them all together in a way that I think is probably
a bit unusual.
I chose the work that feels the most interesting to me, freelance tends to be poorly paid but
the projects that have come up that I've chosen to work on have allowed me to learn new technologies.
I think I was only able to see the potential to put all those pieces together because I
was exposed to such a broad range of things in recent freelance work that I was doing.
