We overslept due to intruders in our bed, then rushed down to Lola’s for breakfast with two of my teammates from Singapore. Breakfast was good (doughnuts excellent as ever, children mollified by pancakes, Continental breakfast[…]
Month: September 2019
Butts
Both our children seem obsessed with the phrase "my butt, my butt, my butt" and as an unfortunate consequence, so are my wife and I, now inserting it into conversation like some unhelpful verbal tic.[…]
Long long day
I woke up at 430, stressful, and shortly after that La Serpiente came in so there was no way I was going to sleep. I put her back in her bed, tried to sleep downstairs,[…]
Sleep and technology
On Thursdays La Serpiente goes to school early, for an extra half hour in the gym before the school day begins. Because of this, I get up extra early on those days to roust her[…]
The Palace Kitchen
This evening we went out with friends to The Palace Kitchen, one of my favourite Tom Douglas restaurants. I ate too much – vegetable tempura, tomato salad, street corn and then an enormous piece of[…]
Early morning shenanigans
Today was La Serpiente’s first day of pre-school activities. That meant dropping her off at the gym at 7:25, which meant getting out of the house at 7:10. Luckily she woke me up at 5[…]
After the fair
Although for a change the girls didn’t come in to wake us in the middle of the night (La Serpiente made one abortive effort but I carried her back to her own bed) I still[…]
State Fair
Today we took the girls to the Washington State Fair. That meant an hour’s drive down to Puyallup in the pouring rain, and five minutes before we arrived Destroyer vomited her breakfast into her lap,[…]
Gametesting
I drove a friend down to anothet friend’s house in Renton today, for us to play a few games of Blood Bowl. This was a test to see how the rules we’ve devised for our[…]
Early start
The girls came into our room about 4 or 5 this morning, demanding I went downstairs with them. My wife went and hid in their bed as some sort of retaliation, and I refused to[…]