We had planned to run our wiring through the upstairs of the house today, but cutting through drywall turned out to be a bit too hard, so it was down into the basement to drill[…]

Today we spent some time trying to figure out how to wire the upper floor of the house. The old wiring went up the back wall, entered just behind the toilet cistern, and then cables[…]

I bundled the kids into the car with the promise of doughnuts from Half & Half, but due to a combination of daughterly lassitude, and a lack of time to drive for an hour there[…]

We went back to the aquarium this morning for a few more hours of looking at fish. Unlike last time, when the girls were impossible to shift from the touch pools, today they sprinted through[…]

… and that’s exciting. Douglas Adams said technology is anything invented after you’re twenty; older than that it’s just normal. But if you stop and pause and realise how quick we adjust to things that[…]

We got the dishwasher powered up today, and it made a series of gasping wheezes, but not much else. It turns out that’s because the pipe to feed water to the dishwasher is disconnected. So,[…]

This evening we tried to reconnect the dishwasher to power. That succeeded, but in doing so we punctured the waste water pipe for the dishwasher so we still can’t use it to run dishes. Slowly,[…]

Today we started on the rewiring of the house. Or rather, we peered at the rat’s nest of wires in the current breaker box, and tried to figure out (by tracing cables up through the[…]

I got up this morning and noticed that our gate was lying on the driveway, a few inches from where the car was parked. That wasn’t the right place for it to be.

Two years ago I had my first match at the Chaos Cup against “Rodney Dangerfield”, with his Dwarfs vs my Skaven. It went 2-2 for my best result of the day. This time round he[…]