As expected, I was sore and tired when I got up this morning, and, combined with the wet weather, sluggish. I lost about four hours to errands: returning ill fitting trousers to REI, buying electrical[…]

This morning I dropped the girls off for a walk around Green Lake with their classmates, then went to dig a ditch beside my house in which to bury a grounding wire. Seattle soil seems[…]

I went for a run today, for the first time in a year, if you exclude a few random attempts to run a block or two. It was the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot in Seattle, and[…]

The girls are off school all week, so I hid in the shed at the end of the garden and worked, while my wife entertained them. My mouth is less sore than it was, but[…]

We packed up and moved house again today, possibly one of our last moves before we get back into our own house again. I drove the girls over to a birthday party in a park[…]

I went in for my surgery today. They put some blankets on me and some monitors, and asked me to squeeze a small plastic ball while they got ready to put a stent in my[…]

Tomorrow, I’m not allowed to eat anything after 2 am, or drink anything after 6 am, because I’m going to get my wisdom teeth removed and that requires local anaesthetic. And you don’t want to[…]

Today the HVAC subcontractor started work, installing our new heating and air conditioning system, and putting the ducts in place to guide the cool or warm air around our house. I was upstairs getting stuff[…]