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Month: June 2017

Further tears before bedtime

29 June, 2017 James ForemanParenting

So tonight it was my turn again to put Destroyer down. This would be the last time before her second birthday, and she marked it in style by being quite copacetic while I read her[…]

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The Ballad Of Black Tom

28 June, 2017 James ForemanBooks

I finished The Ballad Of Black Tom this evening, after putting the kids to bed. It’s a rare Lovecraftian story that has a happy ending, and the most positive we can say of this one[…]

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Tears at bedtime

27 June, 2017 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

I tried to get Destroyer to go to sleep tonight, but she was unsatisfied with the replacement offered for her mother, and screamed and screamed and screamed. She lay on the floor (carefully) and then[…]

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Coffee doesn’t always work

26 June, 2017 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

This morning we woke about 7:30 and watched yesterday’s Dutch MotoGP race, and after screaming at the screen (the last fifteen minutes were full of nailbiting action, even if we were watching a recording from[…]

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Fighting to sleep

25 June, 2017 James ForemanParenting

I failed to heed my own advice and didn’t stay awake for long on the flight; I was unconscious by halfway through Miss Congeniality (just like the scriptwriters, ironically enough) and slept soundly for eight[…]

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Up up and away again

24 June, 2017 James ForemanTravel

I had an anthropology graduate drive me to the airport today, so that meant I got to talk to somebody about colonialism for half an hour. Roughly half my Lyft drivers have been interesting on[…]

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Remote sickness

23 June, 2017 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

My wife called me this morning (or this evening – I’m now tired enough to not be able to comprehend timezones) to tell me that the girls were sick. La Serpiente has mouldy feet, and[…]

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Gin is the thing

22 June, 2017 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

This evening I got a Lyft to Redwood City, where my friend lives with a mound of dogs and some peach trees. My Lyft drivers seem to becomimg more and more unreliable; the first one[…]

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Not Quite Drinking In LA

21 June, 2017 James ForemanShopping

Tomorrow I’m visiting a friend for dinner, and since I failed to take anything with me the last time I went to see him, this time I’ve overcompensated by fetching two bottles of wine and[…]

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Return to comedy

20 June, 2017 James ForemanComedy

After work today I went with an old friend from Hong Kong (and now a co-worker) to a comedy night in Santa Clara. Even getting there was the stuff of hilarity; there are identical Hilton[…]

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