I've got an old dev-box from when things got restructured at work. Spun it up as a Linux box so as to skip the hoops required for Windows, still need to figure out a PeakD post and API, not a big blogger.
If you need help with the node I'm happy to look at what might be up.
Thanks for the offer. I'll gave to look into where I left off before I start asking more questions. I'll be back stateside in a week and will have some time to figure it out before school starts back up again. Thanks again mate!