The stairs down to our basement are covered with cardboard, to protect against any damage from the constant work of the builders. This makes a highly audible noise when the cat walks down them, just like the sound of a human being. Today, with Frogmorton at the top of the stairs, I thought I’d try […]

Frogmorton had his usual wild rumpus about 11:30 tonight, scampering around the living room at great speed. He then went and sat at the back door, as if we’d cast him into the darkness when it’s close to freezing. I suggested we went upstairs. Froggy ran back into the living room, then clambered his way […]

I lost my running watch this week, and didn’t have time to get a new one before the race. Or so I thought, until I ordered a replacement from Amazon about 10pm, and it showed up at 7:30 this morning on our porch. So I went to Interlaken for the last run of the winter […]

Today we drove down to Flour Box, the hyper fashionable doughnut shop south of the city, and queued up. The shop opens at 10 am, and at 8:40 we were second in line. That sounds ridiculous, but by 10am when the doors opened there were more than a hundred people behind us in the queue, […]

Today I had a rescheduled appointment for La Serpiente’s vision therapy, so in the mid afternoon I drove her over, stopping off for us to both get a doughnut at Krispy Kreme on the way. The little bump of sugar she got from her treat before the session may have helped her focus: her therapist […]

For dinner tonight we went to Chiang’s Gourmet Village, for some ok Chinese food. There wasn’t much I could eat apart from green onion pancakes and some salt and pepper tofu, but I guess that was enough for me (and we discovered that Destroyer loves salt and pepper tofu, so that’s a potential addition to […]

I went to the office today and then spent all my time on calls, which was … suboptimal. With my eyes the way they are, I do better to read off a screen than my laptop, and so in every call, using a laptop instead of my home setup was harsh. Despite there not being […]

I worked from home today, and at some point in his daily rumpus, Frogmorton seems to have disconnected the internet while running around and around our living room. Strangely, he only tool out the connection to my laptop: all my other devices worked just fine. Are they trying to tell me something? Is Frogmorton trying […]

My wife arrived home earlier than I’d expected this afternoon, which was good, as otherwise I think the kids and I might all have gone mad. Today went well though; excepting the girls spending two hours on the iPad this morning, I organized playdates for them, took La Serpiente to the running track for an […]

For some reason, we’ve filled the top of the dishwasher with bowls, but we haven’t made any plates dirty today, so it’s only half full and I’m loath to run it, and yet we have no clean bowls right now. What a quandary.