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Zonked in California

11 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

I keep waking at 4am local time; this morning I managed to get back to sleep, but I keep wishing I’d remembered to buy some melatonin. As if that could really defeat the powers of[…]

The gloominess of the airport hotel

10 September, 2018 James ForemanTravel

Because my visit to Palo Alto coincides with moving-in week at Stanford, every hotel is booked out or ridiculously expensive. So I got a couple of nights at the Westin at the airport, which works[…]

Senor Moose Again

9 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

Almosf ten years ago, on a work trip from Hong Kong to Bellevue, I went on a sort-of-blind-date in Seattle with a friend of a friend. We went to a Mexican restaurant called Senor Moose,[…]

Thoughts on Global Entry

8 September, 20188 September, 2018 James ForemanTravel

I flew into Seattle today and tried out my Global Entry status for the first time. This was always going to be better than the alternative (queue for a very long time until a grumpy[…]

Overboard (2018)

7 September, 201817 September, 2018 James ForemanFilm

One of my favourite feelgood movies is Overboard, the Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy where Hawn plays an awful entitled socialite and Kurt Russell the put-upon handyman who ends up pretending to be her husband after[…]

Swimming Lesson #36

6 September, 2018 James ForemanSwimming

So today, without even feeling particularly fast, I managed to do a length of the pool in 25 seconds, 2 seconds faster than my previous best, and even when I was tired at the end[…]

Rainy season

5 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

I woke up this morning to black skies. Huge rain clouds had appeared above Singapore. Before long, the black clouds vanished. This was because it started raining so hard that it was no longer possible[…]

Pull ups

4 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

Today I did 25 pull ups in just under 22 minutes. That’s a bit better than 1 per minute, so I’m progressing; at my worst I took almost 26 minutes to do that.

Climbing with kids

2 September, 2018 James ForemanClimbing

One thing that is heartening, but sometimes very frustrating, about my daughters is that they really don’t care too much about social norms at this point. I don’t know if that’s because they’re very independently[…]

An efficient Saturday

2 September, 2018 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

My wife took the girls to the Botanic Gardens to scooter around, while I went climbing, and inadvertently ripped the skin around the first knuckle of my right ring finger. Serve me right for lunging[…]