I had a super frustrating day and I’m not sure why – lots and lots of questions about things, to the point where I couldn’t answer questions because they were being asked too often. With my Blood up, I stopped for an hour and assembled some furniture, and now at least the store room in […]

I cycled to work today and back, in near zero temperatures, and so although I used an electric bike and didn’t have to pedal super hard, I’m still totally worn out. So off to bed I go. I painted the trophies for Saturday’s tournament tonight- they’re looking very nice in steel and gold – but […]

My printer made horrible grinding noises yesterday, so I drained the vat of resin today and discovered that there were the remnants of several old prints in there, gumming things up. Removing them, everything seems fine, but it’s a reminder you can’t just leave a 3d printer chugging away forever without maintenance. Although I’ve been […]

The girls had a sleepover last night, and although they were asleep by twelve, the house was in disarray. Frogmorton made his displeasure known at the mess in their bedroom by taking a dump on a towel (possibly teaching them that they need to pick up after themselves) and then I went out to take […]

I started with a call with London at 8am, finished at 10:45pm with a call with Singapore, worked in between. So my brain is a bit fried now. Luckily, I have tomorrow off (Veteran’s Day so the schools are closed) and I’m taking the girls to see the salmon again. And hopefully disconnecting for a […]

I slept like I did every night, and woke at 6:45 this morning, to see an email sent at 6:30 to tell me I still had a job. So that came with some relief, although the angst at losing team members was something that accumulated through the day.

I got a covid booster shot today, after driving up to the Walgreens on 175th Street for the second time in two days. The first time I went there was yesterday, when I got my dates confused and thought the 8th was a Monday. I spent the rest of the day working on a PowerPoint […]

I have a standing desk in my home office, with an electric motor. That means with a touch of a button, I can raise or lower the desk. I didn’t realize that I now also have a huge electric cat toy, as Frogmorton wants to play with the cable running from button to motor. Or […]

As should be expected, I woke with sore legs after yesterday’s exertion. Unhappily, I slept so much I didn’t notice that the clocks had gone back, so when I woke at 9 this morning it really was 9, and I couldn’t get another hour of sleep by resetting my clocks. Never mind.

I entered a race today, 5km around Carkeek Park, my first race in absolutely years, and it was a brutal return. The start was easy, a slow jog along a flat path, but very soon it became a series of hills, each seemingly steeper than the last. I did a serviceable 32 minutes (slower than […]