This evening I had a friend visit to take photographs from the top floor of our building. We spent about an hour fussing with tripods and then went drinking. This may have been a bad[…]
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Month: May 2015
Bass notes
Today, our child growled at us. Proper deep, bass growls as if from a large dog or other carnivorous animal. We were trying to get her down for a nap (as with every Saturday morning[…]
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An unexpected guest
Sitting on the sofa this evening, indolently recuperating from the day, I saw what appeared to be a very fat, round bodied moth fly up above our sideboard and then flutter down again. "What was[…]
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Forgettable
Today we had to get La Serpiente Aquatica Negra registered for preschool, and that requires (among other things) showing evidence that she’d had all her shots, and we weren’t a bunch of anti-vaccinationers trying to[…]
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An early night
Wednesday is track night, or it would have been if I’d felt in any way ready to spend half an hour hoofing it round in circles. But this evening I felt unusually tired, and so[…]
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A horse, of course
A few weeks ago we were walking down the footpath near our apartment building, and we saw a full sized plastic horse stood outside one of the houses. Writing that, I wonder if I’m being[…]
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Pleasure and pain
This evening, my wife baked chocolate cupcakes. This morning, my daughter slept all the way through until 7am, rather than startling her parents with early morning shouting. And I left work on time and got[…]
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The Weight Of Technological Advance
This is a picture of my HP laptop that I bought in 2006, with my daughter, delivered in 2013, taken on my Nokia 920 phone (originally released in 2012). The laptop weighed slightly more than[…]
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Another hard night
We had another epic night with our child; at about a quarter to one this morning she woke up and started screaming, and didn’t stop for two hours. By the end of that I was[…]
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Eric Clapton and my daughter
This evening I played a video on YouTube of Eric Clapton playing "Bad Love", a horrendous tune from 1990. It has Eric Clapton with floppy hair and a terrible moustache plugging away on his guitar,[…]
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