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A war of attrition

22 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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[…]

End of the weak

22 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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[…]

Swimming Lesson #37

20 September, 2018 James ForemanSwimming

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[…]

Today has been a good day

20 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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[…]

Demented children

18 September, 2018 James ForemanParenting

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[…]

Long way home

16 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

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[…]

Big Game

15 September, 201817 September, 2018 James ForemanBooks

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[…]

Seattle Bouldering Project

14 September, 2018 James ForemanClimbing

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[…]

Speechless in Seattle

13 September, 201817 September, 2018 James ForemanDrinking

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[…]

Early flight back

12 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

Traffic in the Bay Area is ridiculously bad (does a startup exist to solve that?) so I left the office at 4:15, and got to the airport at 5, more than two hours before my[…]