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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 had to give a training session at 8:30 this morning, so I hustled the girls out of the house at 8, barely after they’d finished their breakfast and brushed their teeth, and led them[…]
It rained, and rained, and rained today. This is normal for the Pacific Northwest, but it still meant we were confined to the house all day. I started with a call at 8am so I[…]
I couldn’t sleep well last night; it took me until 2 to get to sleep, and at 4 I woke, sandwiched between both girls, and boiling hot from having both of them pressed up close[…]
This morning I walked the girls to school. And then we walked back home again, because there might be covid and social distancing, but why not have a commute in your day to mark a[…]
I borrowed a neighbour’s car and drove to the climbing wall today, and did 45 minutes of climbing, before the skin split on my left little and right index fingers. These were catastrophic wounds like[…]
The smoke cleared, and so with fresh air again, we could leave the house. The girls scampered up to our friend’s house on 75th to get in their car and go to a hike. On[…]
The air cleared some time around 2pm today; we’re now back below 100 on the PM2.5 index, which hopefully means we can go outside with the girls after a week and a half. Except now[…]
I had a migraine come on this afternoon. First, my vision started to go about 3pm; there was a shimmering in the upper right quadrant of my sight, that got worse and worse. Eventually that[…]
Tonight we tried putting the girls to sleep without melatonin. We’ve grown so accustomed to the girls going straight to sleep without quibble or complaint that bedtime without melatonin was quite, quite torturous.
After over a year living in the house with people being able to peer in the windows whenever they like, I finally relented and accepted we need to get some blinds installed. My wife got[…]