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Every year I make some resolutions, and sometimes they stick and sometimes they don’t. (2014: 20% success rate, 2015: 0% success rate. 2016: at best, 33%, 2017: 50% 2018: 37.5%) In line with what I[…]
After work today, I took a Lyft down to Puyallup. This is a long way south of Seattle, past the airport, past Tacoma, through countryside and eventually to a small house near the freeway. There[…]
Today, with the best of intentions, I tried to avoid eating pizza. I even ate porridge for breakfast, and skipped pizza at lunch, a decision made easier by it being pesto and ricotta, not a[…]
I got a nice surprise this morning, when my old colleagues from APAC phoned me up from their offsite. There was something wrong with my phone and I couldn’t unmute myself, so after a few[…]
I didn’t have a shower this morning because I woke up too late and on reflection, this was a bad thing. I seemed to never wake up properly today. Perhaps my spirits had been crushed[…]
This evening I went for a house inspection, or as we call them in the UK, a survey. I tried to buy a flat in England once and didn’t when the survey revealed it was[…]
This morning I went for a 45 minute run with a colleague from the old days at Expedia, Dave, and did slightly more than I’d expected. I drank too much coffee and not enough water[…]
After a day of playing Blood Bowl (one draw, one loss) and viewing houses, I went to Stone Gardens for an evening climb.
This was another good day for me. My credit card arrived in the mail, I got the PIN reset on my debit card so I can actually use it, and I had the last game[…]
The blue skies have departed Seattle, and it’s back to being cold and rainy. Getting my morning coffee, I was told about June-unary, the Washington phenomenon where you get a few good weeks of weather[…]
I got my beard trimmed today, because while it hasn’t been getting noticeably longer, it’s got bushier and bushier, and if I fidget and worry at it, it then grows in size to a ridiculous[…]