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After our friends’ wedding, I had one more drink and then went to bed, and woke up early on Sunday. I’m not sure if I adjusted completely or never adjusted, running on adrenaline and hope,[…]
On the way into town from the airport last night, I was struck by how Singapore isn’t my home any more; this was the city I’ve lived in for the longest time since I left[…]
To confuse myself, I read the sequel (The Haunting Of Drearcliff Grange) first, but then devoured The Secrets on my way to Singapore. It’s amusing that what I took from the sequel to be the[…]
A long time ago, Kim Newman wrote Drachenfels, which was a novel with a vampire, Genevieve Dieudonne, who wasn’t a generic villain, and that did so well for him that he couldn’t give her up.[…]
I’m on the 11:45am Delta flight from Seattle to Narita. To confuse people, there’s a 12:30 JAL flight to Narita that’s from the adjacent gate, so everyone began to mill around, baffled and confused. Then[…]
Tomorrow I fly to Singapore, or rather, tomorrow I get on a plane and I disembark in Singapore first thing on Friday morning. I waited until tonight to pack, after the kids had squealed and[…]
It’s Veterans’ Day today, which is one of those curious American holidays that isn’t a holiday for everyone. No, I’m not complaining because ex soldiers get the day off and I don’t. More like I’m[…]
We took the girls to Tempest Coffee this morning, where they had incredible doughnuts, and also allowed us to say goodbye to our friends who were just in town for the weekend.
After a fun day with friends visiting from Singapore, we tried to get the kids to bed. La Serpiente read an entire book for her bedtime Story by herself, leaving me shocked and awed, and[…]
I went for a walk in LA this morning and it felt normal, as if this was just another country that I would walk around in. Which is odd, but suggests I’m adjusted to this[…]