I woke at 6:30 this morning because I had to get out of the hotel by 7:30 to make it to the venue for a soundcheck. The first two tasks I achieved but then I[…]
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Month: October 2017
A day out in Kuala Lumpur
At lunchtime today, I took a flight from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. This isn’t very far at all; you get in your seat, you look out the window, they give you some peanuts and a[…]
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Shoes and such
I don’t remember doing very much today. That’s posisbly because I had at least three strong coffees, after which chasing the children around, trying to record the world’s lamest rap, and going shopping for hair[…]
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The trouble with gin
After a night of booze and playing Settlers of Catan, I was never going to be in good shape in the morning. But I’d arranged to pick up a bottle of gin from a friend[…]
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Swimming Lesson #14
I look rather shocked in this photo, but perhaps that’s because I’m amazed that I’ve swum several lengths of the pool doing breaststroke, the culmination of weeks of effort.
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The haze is back again
The cloud of pollution has once more spread over Singapore, and so instead of leaving the windows open at night everything is shut and we have our air purifier running continuously. This really sucks –[…]
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What lovely children
This afternoon, La Serpiente (with Destroyer’s assistance) pulled every item of clothing she possesses out of her wardrobe and spread them on the floor, and when my wife got angry and told her to stay[…]
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The lowdown
One of the tests Deskbound suggests to determine if you have good lower body fitness is to see whether you can hold a deep squat for ten minutes. So after lunch today I hunkered down[…]
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Deskbound
Deskbound is a book about how terrible it is to spend your day sitting, and how you can remedy that if you’re stuck in a sedentary occupation (like mine – principally sitting at a desk[…]
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Orphan X
Of the three books we purchased last Friday on the way to Hong Kong, Orphan X was most clearly an airport novel. Big enough to last for a long flight, but devoid of any taxing[…]
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