Today after work I had my regular climbing lesson, which today consisted of a lot of climbing (as one might expect) and then to round things off a minute and a half of hanging from[…]
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Month: February 2018
Kingsmen: The Golden Circle
I fill in surveys on the Google Rewards app, to a variable degree of veracity, and in return I get credits to spend in the Google Play Store, and so in return for sacrificing my[…]
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Climbing the walls
La Serpiente was sick today with a cough, so she spent the day driving my wife mental while I hid at work. She had recovered enough to go to her ballet class this afternoon, and[…]
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Endure
Over the past few days I’ve enjoyed reading Endure by Alex Hutchinson, subtitled "Mind, Body and The Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance". In this he explores various theories that have evolved over the last[…]
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Worn out Saturday
This morning I had a training session at the climbing wall. I hadn’t been back to climb since Monday, when I fell over and busted my hands and my knee, and on top of that[…]
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Zero Latency
For a team building activity, this afternoon we went to Zero Latency, a VR play area in the mall adjacent to our offices. There we were decked out in backpacks containing computers, and put on[…]
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Not going swimming
Because I have a great big hole in my knee, and I’m exhausted, I didn’t go swimming tonight. Instead I sent my wife in my stead, while I handled the kids and then settled down[…]
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Bangkok Memories
Every trip to Bangkok is the same. The train to and from Phaya Thai, the same hotel at Asoke (this was my fifth stay and so they presented me with a gift, a self-adhesive credit[…]
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Another trip to Bangkok
I woke today, still sore from yesterday’s collision with the ground, and then went back to sleep again, only hauling myself out of bed in time to rush to get a car to the airport,[…]
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A day of ups and downs
This morning I took the empty cardboard carton that had contained our new living room lights from IKEA down to the recycling bin outside our apartment block. The wind was gusting and so when I[…]
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