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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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,[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]