Today seemed to accelerate more than I had expected. In the morning, while my wife packed, I took the kids out to close a bank account. This was half an hour of unrelenting whining from[…]

La Serpiente was up about 530 this morning so at six I took her downstairs for breakfast. She’s recently developed a love of bacon, so she had bacon and eggs for breakfast (it was a[…]

This evening we went to Potatohead for a last, last farewell drink. I had a burger, drank an entirely out of character rum and coke, had three beers, and then we went home. Life is[…]

The world doesn’t quite feel real at the moment. Maybe it’s the sudden plunge back into tropical temperatures after a month in the Pacific Northwest. Or staying up too late playing Blood Bowl. Or perhaps[…]

I got home just after midday today and spent most of the day trying to pack (the movers come tomorrow, and the house is still a complete state due to the kids). My wife made[…]

After work today, I took a Lyft down to Puyallup. This is a long way south of Seattle, past the airport, past Tacoma, through countryside and eventually to a small house near the freeway. There[…]

Today, with the best of intentions, I tried to avoid eating pizza. I even ate porridge for breakfast, and skipped pizza at lunch, a decision made easier by it being pesto and ricotta, not a[…]

I got a nice surprise this morning, when my old colleagues from APAC phoned me up from their offsite. There was something wrong with my phone and I couldn’t unmute myself, so after a few[…]