Last night La Serpiente and Destroyer both woke up, about 2am, and I spent my night bustling between them and then sleeping on La Serpiente’s floor (Destroyer climbed in next to her mother, recognising weakness,[…]
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Category: Frustrations of the Modern Lifestyle
Almost time for launch
This morning I related my conversation from yesterday to a colleague. “Well, you don’t have any EQ” she said. I had the last laugh, because only people who don’t have any EQ would be confident[…]
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I’m not the guy you think I am
I get adverts piped straight into my Gmail inbox these days, hot piping adverts based on deductions Google has made about me. Delicious, highly relevant ads, like, well, like this one: I’m pretty sure this[…]
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I love you so please shut up
First, a history lesson: There is no such thing as a bad idea on the internet, just an idea that isn’t ready yet. Back in 2000, Urbanfetch and Kozmo both had the same idea –[…]
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Nervous flyer
I have a flight at 2am tomorrow morning to Tokyo. That’s not the bad bit. The bad bit is that I’m flying with JAL, and JAL have the most aggravating website I’ve used for some[…]
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Some minor frustrations
I had been planning to go for a run this evening, but what with not leaving the office until 7, and then having to feed and water the kids, and after La Serpiente went to[…]
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Lost in the ether
I wrote a specification document about a month ago for a friend who wanted to do some analysis of some regulations in a country a long way away. I sent it to him, went off[…]
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What we talk about when we talk about loss
My wife lost her phone today. She still had the ability to communicate with me because I read all my email on my phone, so she could cajole and plead with me to call her[…]
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Possibly leaving on a jet plane
One problem with adding an extra member to your family is that if you’ve booked flights to take your family home for the summer, you then have to tell the airlines that you’ve increased the[…]
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How To Peel An Avocado And Other Dangerous Pastimes
This evening I stabbed myself with a kitchen knife. Fortunately, the end of the knife is properly blunt from all the abuse we’ve meted out to it over the last couple of years, so I[…]
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