Month: December 2019

My ear still hurt, although less, so I went to the doctor this afternoon. As I don’t have a regular doctor yet, I use Zoomcare, a healthcare on demand service where you never seem to see the same practitioner twice. I suppose it’s a guaranteed second opinion.

We drove to Fremont Market this morning, which is like Ballard Market but smaller, and with more hipster stuff and less food. I bought a hat, we went to Ballard Market and then we ate food. Simple, really.

This morning I fetched pastries before we all headed out to Gasworks Park. This is a large green space on the southern end of Fremont / Ballard, with a disused gasworks clogging up the view of the city. There’s a nice steep hill that everyone ran up, and then I slipped as I descended it […]

Friday came, and with it La Serpiente, climbing into bed to hug me. I went downstairs and slept on the sofa, until my wife woke me up and sent me to bed. And then an hour later woke me, panic-stricken, as she realised our friends from Vancouver were driving down to stay with us today, […]

I slept most of Christmas Day, so I expected not to be able to sleep in the evening. Fortunately, I passed out, slept all the way through until 9 this morning. And all that failure to eat yesterday meant that I’ve lost 1.3 kg over the Christmas period – isn’t that great? (note to self: […]

I couldn’t sleep last night because my ear hurt too much, and it wasn’t better in the morning. The children woke up brimming with excitement and began to open presents, but e ery high pitched squeal of delight was a stab to my ear.

Today I had the day off, but the binmen didn’t, so we spent the morning giving them envelopes of cash. I didn’t realise we had a separate guy for each of our three bins (garbage, yard waste and recycling) and I never have any cash so I spent all morning going back and forth to […]

This morning the girls went to Swansons Christmas Tree Farm, while I stayed at home and worked. In line with the Biblical plagues besetting the house (so far floods and flies) I expected something dreadful to happen, but instead our exterminator came to check the basement, then wander off again. So that wasn’t very eventful.

We got really drunk last night on gin, and so I woke up today feeling despondent, my face sore from all the sneezing I’d done. The rains abated for a short while, so we drove down to the farmers market in Ballard and bought lots of things involving ginger, and eventually some saline solution to […]

Because of the bSememt having puddles all over it, I drove to thr hardware store and bought a shop vac. This is a miracle of American engineering: a 4 horsepower engine attached to 8 gallons of capacity, and the thing will suck anything you want wet or dry.