The girls made me play "Mouse in the house" today which involves me chasing them round the climbing frame in the park. This is preferable to "Mouse on the ground" which is the same, but I’m meant to keep my eyes shut (and then bust myself running into a metal pole or some such).

I read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin today, the follow up to Children of Time. I didn’t like it as much – spacefaring octopuses are all well and good, but the whole thing was a bit too hard SF for me. Maybe it’s because with the spiders of the first book you got to follow […]

I feel absolutely exhausted today. I’m not sure why – it could be Destroyer screaming for an hour when she didn’t get any sweets for dessert. It could be the cumulative effect of too many late nights. Maybe I’m getting sick, or sitting at my desk all day has broken me, but I lay on […]

There was the 17 May Parade in Ballard today, which is something to do with lots of people with Norwegian ancestry living here. That meant we went down to watch an alnost neverending stream of marching bands from all over the state march down the street, along with a succession of Volvos, Viking ships pulled […]

Last night I had a 10pm game in Lacey (some 60 miles away) so after I put the kids to bed, and as the sky turned blue for the first time after a whole day of rain, I drove south. After ten minutes it started raining cats and dogs again.

We drove down to Magnusson Park for La Serpiente’s final Ultimate Frisbee game of the season (which they won in short order, finishing in 30 minutes), which meant that the 5k run I did with my friend David finished slightly after the match, rather than halfway through as I’d planned. We did 5k in just […]

La Serpiente refused to go to school today, complaining that she was tired and had a sore throat, two conditions that magically vanished about 10am. I worked all day at my desk, so have nothing eventful to report. I did a 25 minute VR workout that was on Hard difficulty, having mistaken it for an […]

I tried to clear up some of the mess in the house tonight, by shoving boxes of winter clothes into the cupboard under the eaves at the front of our house, and then by moving various things out of the toy room and into the new space we have under the porch. This cleared out […]

I had a couple of games of Blood Bowl today. The first felt like it would be an utter disaster: in the first half I had player after player battered off the pitch and could make no reply. I didn’t enjoy that at all. When your silent opponent is fouling you as much as he […]

I feel particularly tired tonight, which I put down to (at least in part) 2am and 5am wake ups this morning, the first when Destroyer had a bad dream, the second when La Serpiente wanted to have me unlock the Kindle so she could read. I need to harness her early morning energy to get […]