After I’d got the kids down tonight, I went to the gym. I was feeling it’s a waste just to turn up, swim for ten minutes and then go to the sauna, so I spent[…]
Month: January 2020
Afternoon
As an experiment, I’m trying to take Wednesday afternoons off between now and the end of March, to give my wife a bit of help on the days when La Serpiente finishes school early. Today[…]
Mstereology
I now seem to be fairly reliable at predicting tbe weather. For example, if I don’t wear a waterproof jacket to work, I can guarantee that it will chuck it down with rain when I[…]
Some Progressions
I’ve been trying to do an extra pull up every day this month, and today I did 27,with very sloppy form, and not consecutively, but over an entire day, so that isn’t so impressive. I[…]
Of minor annoyances
When I picked up my rental this weekend, the fuel tank was three quarters full and, as I was expecting to drive the kids up to Everett today for the children’s museum, I filled it[…]
Sevens At The Seaside
Today I abandoned the wife and kids to drive up to Everett for my Blood Bowl tournament. For about half an hour I thought we had an odd number of players, which would have meant[…]
The night before
I have the tournament tomorrow, so this evening I was panicking, collecting stuff together, buying ice cream and pie, and worrying about pens and paper and such. Somehow I also got an hour’s imb in[…]
Things in the bed
This morning I woke to find both children in the bed. My wife had somehow been relegated to the end of the bed, as the girls had slowly shoved her down through the evening. Tonight,[…]
Cars I have driven: Toyota Camry
Today I rented a Toyota Camry. I drove a Camry back in 2014 in Seattle and really enjoyed it. For some reason, I like this one less. It could be that I’m now accustomed to[…]
A rainy night
I decided not to wear my boots to work today, which I regretted as soon as it started raining and, because Seattle, didn’t stop raining until almost midnight. So I got home tonight with wet[…]