Major hurdles that will also help me mark milestones in the coming months:
Moving in with my Fiancé in the next 4-6 weeks, My goal is to move my son and I in just before new years
Possibly adding another XK-1 to the mix after the holidays, I'm planning on reading Arduino serial data on xmos that seems to take up threads so I may need the second core I'm still debating this.
Learning how to interface and program this new platform is proving to be challenging, Honestly I think the http://www.xmoslinkers.org community will spring into action as I believe the xmos challenge is drumming up alot of buzz about the XMOS, couple that with Sparkfun now carrying a dev board and the XTag adapter hopefully we will see more powerful dev boards and more community users.