Not wonderful so far. I tried to find a banjo teacher, failed, haven’t been practicing. I haven’t got round to volunteering for anything. I was meaning to last weekend, Blood Bowl interfered, which is a[…]
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Author: James Foreman
Resolutions for 2020
For 2020, I’d like to be kinder. I’d like to half-ass less things, and complete more. As it seemed that slightly less is more (10 resolutions in 2019 that got stuck to more than previous[…]
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How did 2019 work out?
Here are the 2019 resolutions. I read more than 24 books. I don’t think I read any of the serious books that I picked, but I did read a lot of books. A lot of[…]
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Independence Birthday
My wife’s birthday falls on Independence Day, which is possibly more awkward now we’re in the US, or possibly less awkward because there’s a massive parade and a fireworks show. I wonder how many years[…]
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Resolutions – H1 Progress
So I missed writing about my resolutions on the last day of June, but then I should have been concentrating on my daughter’s birthday anyway. So now, as the sun goes down in Seattle, it’s[…]
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Somebody else’s project
This evening I went for a house inspection, or as we call them in the UK, a survey. I tried to buy a flat in England once and didn’t when the survey revealed it was[…]
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An ecstasy of fumbling
I need to take my children’s birth certificates and my degree certificates to an official meeting on Thursday, and I only realised that this morning. But I knew they were all in an envelope tucked[…]
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The eyes have it
I got a proper night’s sleep, so I felt a bit better this morning, although the cumulative effect of sleepless nights still bears hard down upon me. Yesterday I went to the local optician to[…]
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Sleepless again
I failed to get more than three hours sleep today, partly from jet lag, partly due to stress, and a bit because the children coughed continually from bedtime until sunrise.
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Age of Darkness
Age of Darkness is an anthology of Horus Heresy short stories, most of which aren’t that great. From a distance, all the books are about Space Marines shooting each other in the face, but each[…]
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