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Month: August 2013

Worn down, worn out

31 August, 2013 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

At nine, I awoke, at least technically. While I emerged from the bed and moved around the apartment, gathering breakfast and rearranging dirty cutlery, it was little more than a facsimile of a fugue state,[…]

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Any joy with that?

30 August, 2013 James ForemanLanguage

I was called across the office today to arbitrate a point of English. Somebody had received an email about a fairly monotonous task they’d been attempting, asking "did you have any joy with that?" I[…]

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Struggling with email

29 August, 2013 James ForemanTechnology

There was a concert in the square beneath our apartment this evening. It started at around 6:30 and concluded at 10:30. I think it was a concert, but it could have been the first ever[…]

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Out and about

28 August, 2013 James ForemanFamily

This morning we had a visit to the opthalmologist. After that, I dispatched wife and baby to retrieve the stroller, which was now fully repaired, and I went back to the office, still struggling with[…]

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A Day Out

27 August, 2013 James ForemanWork

Miraculously, my back pain had cleared up by this morning, so my flight to Kuala Lumpur wasn’t an agonising experience, trying to cram myself into a poky seat for an hour. At ten o’clock in[…]

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Backing up

26 August, 2013 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

My back didn’t miraculously improve overnight, so I trudged over to the doctor’s, in hope of a referral to a physio. Instead, I got two different kinds of muscle relaxants, and then I went home,[…]

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Pain in the back

25 August, 2013 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

I’ve strained a muscle in my back and every time I move or breathe or think, I get a lancing pain, as though somebody is stabbing me under my shoulder blade. This is not much[…]

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Why Me?

24 August, 201325 August, 2013 James ForemanReading

Why Me? is the fifth Dortmunder novel, after The Hot Rock, Bank Shot, Jimmy The Kid and Nobody’s Perfect. In any long series of books, you need to have more than one volume to bring[…]

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Shots

23 August, 201324 August, 2013 James ForemanFamily

This morning we took our child to get immunized. I never would have thought that two months after being born, my daughter would be doing shots in the same room as me, but clearly like[…]

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Liquids

22 August, 2013 James ForemanFamily

This morning we had another smoothie, although I failed to collect photographic evidence. This time we used a mango, a punnet of blueberries, a banana, half a packet of spinach and some yoghurt. Blended together,[…]

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