I took La Serpiente to a vision therapy appointment today, where she had 90 minutes of being asked questions, wriggling a bit, and having her pupils dilated, the cumulative effect of which was that she got all weepy in the afternoon when she broke her Lego cat that she’d just made, and then wouldn’t eat […]

It was warm again in Seattle but nothing like the ludicrous heatwave in the UK – the hot weather is meant to hit us next week, just as the women in my life head off to Canada. Maybe I’ll just move my desk to the living room and remain cool and collected for a month.

I had a dream this morning, just before I woke up, where an old friend from college was telling me how I should get some more sleep because I was tired. And then I woke up, and I was tired.[More] I was also in a middle European bar, (in my dream) celebrating a new year […]

Last night we went to see the Top Gun sequel, which was very accomplished. It’s exciting and well paced, and it lacks the strange things that date the original (like Tom Cruise pursuing a woman into a toilet to chat her up) bit in other ways it takes no risks: there’s never anything that Tom […]

After the rest of the week, Friday went by sluggishly; I was in recovery mode, catching up on the things I’d failed to focus on earlier in the week. Mid afternoon I got word that the tournament tomorrow was canceled due to covid, so that leaves the weekend wide open. Our neighbours are away for […]

I woke up in time for my 630 call, and then was late to my 730 because the 630 call overran, and then nobody came to my 9am call, so I had a bit of time to think before my 10am… I do have too many meetings sometimes.

I’d forgotten, because it has been over a month, that when you change from one Invisalign aligner to the next one, there’s at least a couple of days of misery as your teeth begin to be realigned again and you’re left feeling sore when you take the aligners out, sore when you put them back […]

Usually, my dentist deluges me with reminders before each appointment, an avalanche of text messages, but it had been strangely silent about my 7:30 one, so I called ahead as I walked down to check. It’s lucky I did, because they’d lost all record of it, and scrambled to fit me in at 8. The […]

Tomorrow morning I go to get my new set of teeth aligners; I’ve been through 17 different sets, and then I had to wait a month and a half for new ones to be manufactured, so I’ve been wearing the same ones for all that time. I expect with new ones, I’ll have a period […]

We all did the groceries as a family today. Or rather, we walked up to a fried chicken joint on Phinney Ridge and the girls had junk food, then we walked to the bookshop, got the second Ham Helsing book, and then I parked the girls at the gelato shop while my wife went to […]