I stayed up too late last night playing Blood Bowl, but we had a slow start to the day and eventually we got the kids outside to run around, although there was mass hectoring by them to be bought a cookie each at the cafe (they got one to share eventually, after a heck of […]

We had friends to stay tonight (traveling back to Vancouver from California) who we hadn’t seen for several years, so my wife was in a panic tidying the house today, and then our girls were too excited to sleep until 9:30, which bodes well for tomorrow morning and the school run… Meanwhile I’d had my […]

I had a 6:30 call this morning, so of course last night was a night when Destroyer woke at 3 and couldn’t get back to sleep, and I couldn’t sleep in her bed and then got about 30 minutes on the sofa, finally getting to sleep just when I had to wake up. Meanwhile Frogmorton […]

For a month or more, Destroyer has been complaining that she never gets to do anything new at ice skating, and she knows everything. She was promoted from level 1 to level 2 in the week she started, while her sister was in level 1 for ages, but then rapidly progressed to level 5. And […]

Sore from yesterday’s exertions, I had a day of meetings that I took from home, while the rear stairs into our extension got sanded and varnished. That made for a few interesting calls with whining noises (well, more whining noises than usual).

Every few months the residents of our street band together to tidy up the park, clearing any litter, digging out weeds and pruning trees and bushes. Today was that day again, so out I went with wheelbarrow and cutters to do some work.

I have access to two separate library systems: the Seattle Public Library (because I live in Seattle) and King County Library, because Seattle is in King County, which means in turn I can borrow around 200 books at once. This is good, but the King County libraries are nowhere close to me: the closest is […]

This evening we went to a Seattle Seadragons game. The last time I watched them was dull as dishwater, punctuated by stupid decisions, but tonight they played well (most of the time- there were a few times they gave up the ball on an easy possession and went backwards). Their rivals, the Texas Roughnecks, had […]

Today our carpenter assembled most of the stairs from the kitchen to the extension, after almost a year and a half of us having temporary stairs, covered in sheets of protective cardboard. We now have beautiful stairs made of cedar, awaiting a final stain and installation of the railing, and then that’s another part of […]

I took the children ice skating tonight, for what felt like the first time in ages, and they both impressed me, although La Serpiente is now in level 5 and Destroyer is annoyed at only being in level 2, which she feels is much too easy for her. It probably is, given she was upgraded […]