I worked all day today, with hardly a break. I got a single chance to go for a walk around the block between meetings, but otherwise it was call after call after call, until my[…]
Month: June 2020
An easy day
Today we had two parties for the girls, with different friends visiting in the morning to dress up and play in the house, and then in the afternoon a hungover friend brought round her daughter[…]
Snails
It rained today, a fine drizzle from start to finish, so to try to keep the girls from a total meltdown I took them each out, in turn, to walk around the neighborhood. On the[…]
To the doctor
I finally, after a year here, got around to seeing a doctor to get my statin represcribed. That meant masking up, waiting thirty minutes for an Uber, going to Fremont and then waiting outside before[…]
7th birthday
La Serpiente came in at 5 to wake us up, and I pleased with her for more sleep. I think we made it as far as 5:30 before she’d forced us all up with her[…]
The night before
It’s La Serpiente’s seventh birthday tomorrow, which marks the point at which almost a sixth of my life has been spent as a parent. Exhausted after a day of play, she insisted she was too[…]
Confusions
I worked all day. The kids were outside all day. Still, I didn’t achieve all that I’d hoped for, and although the children returned exhausted and were quick to bed, they woke up in the[…]
After effects
After last night, I thought the kids would do their usual trick of waking up super early. Instead, they slipped into our bed and cuddled for the morning, as I mashed snooze on my alarm[…]
Father’s Day Solstice
We both woke up feeling bad this morning, down to something we ate or drank yesterday. So rather than go for a drive and a long hike, my wife retired to bed after I was[…]
Late night TV
I tried reaching La Serpiente to wheelie today, and as a first step we worked on positioning. So I put her on her bike, held her backwards and the front wheel came up … And[…]