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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[…]
I got up at 5:45 this morning so I’d be at the climbing gym for 6am. The climbing gym doesn’t open until 6:30. Luckily I checked before leaving the hotel, but that was still extra[…]
I tried to be positive, but I really didn’t enjoy walking down Market Street this morning. I think there was one time I visited San Francisco and didn’t dislike it (this April) and I’m at[…]
They’re digging up the runway at SFO. Apparently all the airlines with flights scheduled into San Francisco were warned about this months ago, but maybe they thought it was a bluff and they didn’t change[…]
When I woke up this morning my shoulders and arms ached most painfully, and it took me a while to remember that was because if been mucking about with furniture yesterday. Thankfully it didn’t affect[…]
Last week my wife went to Fred Meyer’s, a local superstore, and purchased a sofa. Unlike IKEA, Fred doesn’t deal in flat pack furniture but instead with fully assembled stuff, so we then had to[…]
I didn’t think I’d drunk that much last night, but my body was rebellious this morning. I walked La Serpiente to school, trying not to be sick, while she told me how much she likes[…]
Today I had a call with Europe and Hong Kong, and like a fool I volunteered to have it at 630, to give me time to take La Serpiente to school afterwards. To look professional,[…]
For the last few weeks we’ve been building up to an important meeting with a client, and we had that today. It went as planned, which was almost anti climactic – after all that prep,[…]
Tonight we unpacked lots of boxes. I disposed of ten or twelve by giving them to a coworker, which made me realise there were a lot more to get rid of, so once the children[…]
A day after I left Chicago, enough perspective to write it up… I have a theory that Blood Bowl doesn’t bring out the best in people. It brings out the most, the essential part of[…]