I took the girls ice skating today, despite Destroyer’s desire to stay at home. She was glad she went, because they upgraded her to the next level in her skating classes, now just one behind her sister. After that, a quick drive to the library at Shoreline to pick up a couple of books, then […]

It hit about 30° today, and although we have air conditioning, because of the way the sunlight falls on the house the girls’ room remained stuffy. Well, it was cool under the bed, where the vent is, but that’s not much help. Even as it began to cool they continued to complain about the heat, […]

My wife had her book group over today, to discuss The Whalebone Theatre, while I took the girls over to a neighbour to cook hot dogs over a fire. It’s May now, possibly the last chance while the weather is warm enough to cook outside, but not so hot that there’s a statewide ban on […]

I’ve got a cough at the moment and feeling lousy, so I’ve taken some exceptionally foul tasting cough medicine and then gone to bed. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back to some sort of normal again. We watched the last two episodes of Invincible tonight. It’s one of those adult superhero cartoons that considers itself super […]

I had my first Blood Bowl match of the new season with my team of rat men today, and it ended cruelly with a 3-2 loss. Early on, my star player Stuart Little got hurt badly enough to miss the next game, and as the weather was sweltering heat, I kept having players succumb to […]

It was odd having Destroyer at a sleepover today, so we only had a single child in the house, and then she went canoeing with the school’s PE teacher so we had the morning to ourselves. I was recovering from yesterday’s festival of Blood Bowl and just felt exhausted, and then when we went to […]

Frogmorton woke me up just before my alarm this morning by leaping around the bathroom (possibly hunting an insect) and so I showered, breakfasted and then packed the car, heading over to pick up a friend before driving up to Everett for the tournament. We had a few late drop outs: the first coach to […]

It’s been a busy week with rushing around and all, and so it was only today that I got round to finishing prep for my Blood Bowl tournament. We have twenty coaches playing (although a few might be dropping out with transport difficulties) and I still had work to do on getting things ready, making […]

On Wednesday I have ny colonoscopy, which means today is my last day of earing properly, and by properly I mean I’ve had cheese and eggs to eat and no fibre, and I’ve been looking mournfully at the forbidden fruit that is, well, fruit. I’m super tired and feeling low, although I’m hopeful that as […]