I woke this morning with pains in my chest, which worried me until I remembered that last night I tried to work on my chest, after drinking a can of cider, and probably it’s not[…]

Today I went to the bank to pay in a cheque, because I live in the 19th century now and things like electronic fund transfer don’t exist. I didn’t have any ID with me, because[…]

With July 4th on a Thursday, Seattle felt like a ghost town today. I had to go to three different coffee shops to find oen that hadn’t taken the long weekend off, and then the[…]

It’s my wife’s birthday tomorrow, so I spent today running around trying to sort things out like her birthday presents, her cake (this year she demanded pie), getting thr kids to write a card, forgetting[…]

I had a bad head on Sunday, and it was no better on Monday, so, worried I had the strep throat my daughter and wife suffered the other week, I went off to the doctor[…]

I felt really bad that I’d miss my daughter’s fourth birthday, vomiting or passed out cold in my bed. When I eventually got up, around 11,throat sore and head pounding, they’d gone to the zoo[…]

La Serpiente used to wail "I want to choose my own consequneces" when she didn’t get what she wanted. (Or rather, when she didn’t want what she got.) I have some sympathy with this.