Tonight I had my first climbing related injury. I went for my regular weekly training session, and instead of the usual regime of squats and lunges and pull ups, we spent the first half hour[…]
Month: January 2018
Flying back from KL
There were lots of angry people at Kuala Lumpur International Airport today. There was a white haired British gent behind me in the check in queue who wouldn’t stop swearing because things were going fast[…]
Altered Carbon
One of my resolutions this year was to read more books but what with swimming and juggling and climbing, that has rather fallen by the wayside. It was only by the serendipitous delay in getting[…]
The first flight of 2018
This is my first flight of 2018, and coincidentally the first flight where I was ready to get into a big argument with another passenger.
Becoming a hipster and hammertime
This afternoon I went to Toa Payoh and bought a scooter, for myself. Not an electric scooter. Not a Vespa. An honest-to-goodness overgrown child’s scooter, for me. This was a premeditated act of hipsterness. See[…]
(Almost) 28 Days With An Upright Go
Talk about making a rod for your own back … almost a year ago I signed up to the Kickstarter for Upright Go, and didn’t realise that (for various reasons too dull to go into[…]
Swimming Lesson #19
Today I did eight laps of freestyle, eight laps of breaststroke, twelve laps of backstroke and then four more of freestyle and four more of breaststroke to cool down. I also discovered that last week’s[…]
New things to learn
I had another strength training session at Boulder Movement today, and as it’s the fourth week it’s starting to get a little more specific. That means fun things like doing rows on a pull up[…]
A rest day
The girls didn’t want to go to school today, raising a tearful rumpus that lasted for an hour and a half, until I got them onto the bus, at which point they got excited about[…]
Still burning the candle at both ends
After last week, I swore that this week would be a bit more sensible. No more late nights working on data in the office and then getting up early for calls. Well, tomorrow and Wednesday[…]