My saintly wife let me sleep until 9 this morning. I woke once about eight and heard a rumpus, but fell asleep again straight away. When I finally awoke, groggy and a bit wonky from[…]
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A war of attrition
I did my utmost to wear everyone out today. First, I took La Serpiente to her climbing lesson. She was in a super ebullient mood, rushing around the apartment and managing to knock her sister[…]
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End of the weak
This has been a hard week for me, getting to grips with jet lag, going cross eyed with fatigue and generally feeling a bit washed out. So today, when I’d run out of things to[…]
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Swimming Lesson #37
The skies turned dark and it began to pelt down with rain about 6:30, and my phone was out of battery so I couldn’t call a cab, which meant this may have been the first[…]
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Today has been a good day
After more than six and a half years, my wife surprised me today by getting my painting hung up in our bedroom. I’ve had this dubious portrait of me for more than a decade: it’s[…]
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Demented children
When Destroyer doesn’t get what she wants, or thinks she isn’t getting what she wants (eg "Destroyer, you can play for ten more minutes before we have to go to school" "No! I want five[…]
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Long way home
I took off at a few minutes before midday in Seattle, and seemed to fly forever to get to Seoul. Annoyingly, I couldn’t sleep, apart from when I fell asleep just after take off and[…]
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Big Game
Over the last couple of days I’ve read Big Game, a book about the recent travails of the NFL, and about the New England Patriots, and about the many, apparently quite repulsive, owners of the[…]
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Seattle Bouldering Project
After work today I went down to the Seattle Bouldering Project, which resides in an old industrial space quite close to the stadiums in the south of the city. Seattle Bouldering Project is big, much[…]
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Speechless in Seattle
I made a few discoveries today. For example, I discovered that if I try to drink a pint glass full of Trader Joe’s gin and Fever Tree tonic water, it doesn’t matter how much tonic[…]
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