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Quick quick slow
After my longest run since before I left Singapore and then came back to Singapore, after a week of constantly drinking and then going spinning while hungover at the weekend, after staying up late watching every single episode of Children’s Hospital and playing too much Township, and after a day at work where I was […]
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What I Learned This Weekend
Precious little opportunities to learn this weekend, as I spent most of it asleep. And what time I did spend awake, I mostly wasted by watching movie trailers on Youtube, or watching old Kevin Smith films like Mall Rats. (Although watching Mall Rats is never a waste of time.) However, I did learn that: it’s […]
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The First Time In A Long Time Is the Last Time For A Long Time
There are times when you launch yourself into a run, going out hard from the start, throwing yourself headlong down the trail, almost blind with a sort of happy madness. This evening was not one of those times. Instead of heading out and waiting for my GPS to catch up, I walked out from my […]
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Heavens above
Today I mostly had flashbacks to last night. Whether it was to doing shots of whisky in the office at 5pm yesterday, or having a plate of whipped cream shoved into my face shortly afterwards (and then being able to only smell cheap, horrible cream for hours afterwards) these hellish visions pursued me through the […]
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Christmas Party
Tonight was our staff Christmas party, held in a restaurant in the Botanic Gardens. I missed last year’s party because I was in Washington State (trying to sleep while La Serpiente attempted to deafen me), so I had nothing to judge this against. The last Christmas party I went to was on the roof of […]
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Unexpected hipster transformation
My local hipster barber has gone, replaced by … another hipster barber. I discovered that this evening when I went to see about getting my beard trimmed, and I was very confused to find that all the skateboards on the walls and sub-Banksy artworks had been replaced by skateboards on the walls and sub-Banksy artworks. […]
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I has eated all the cake
This evening we had another attempt at a birthday party. (I’m slightly disappointed that nobody went to the restaurant at 3:30 this morning, but you can’t have everything.)
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Birthday surprise
I didn’t sleep well last night: down at eleven, I woke back up at midnight and then couldn’t get back down until about four or five this morning. Today I felt hideous, but my wife had organised a surprise dinner for me. Unfortunately…
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Early birthday presents
It’s my birthday tomorrow, but after opening some of my presents on Saturday – new cycling shorts, new pants and socks, and Guy Martin’s second autobiography – I had one more parcel that my wife had given me to fly back to Singapore with. It had the concerning dimensions and weight of a small, hyper […]
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What I Learned This Weekend
I didn’t have much opportunity to learn things this weekend, because I spent a lot of it on an aeroplane, asleep. However, I gleaned a few insights: The whole of Colorado is higher than every part of England. That is, when in Colorado you’ll always be above everyone in England, unless you’re in a very […]