There was a major Blood Bowl tournament in Portland, the first of the year, so I drove down with three other coaches yesterday. I hadn’t quite grasped that this was going to be a three hour drive, nor that we’d get down to about 5% charge on the way and my car would complain and […]

Running a two day offsite rather took it out of me this week, and today I was still pretty worn out. I’m about ten minutes from filing my US tax return (although that’s been true for about three weeks now) and I have to make a start on printing prizes for my next tournament, and […]

The sun came out today and we had blue skies, even if the downtown was still shrouded in fog. My spirits lifted and I went to the office to meet my colleagues, for a long day of thinking about things, at the end of which I returned home, pretty exhausted and no longer capable of […]

There was an event at the school this evening, where the kids got to dance in the gym or play boardgames, or eat cookies. I was not feeling up to it (tired from the week, knee a bit sore, wanting to hide in a hole) but I ended up salsaing with Destroyer, playing Apples to […]

I had a match scheduled over in Bothell tonight, so I read to the girls early, fell asleep on the sofa and almost missed driving over there, but arrived just on time and managed to play the first half of our match before we ran out of time and I had to go home for […]

I had my performance review today and after that, needed to calm down again so my wife and I walked down to Mainstay Provisions on 65th to get lunch. On the way back, we stopped at a little library, and were approached by a white cat with a tabby tail. He followed us all the […]

It was warmer today, by a little, but not much, and it rained, and maybe those two things explain why I was so tired tonight, falling asleep on the sofa before 10 o’clock. Or was it Froggy, making concerted attempts to gain my attention by splaying himself across my keyboard today? Or did I just […]

After feeling dreadful on Friday and Saturday, I’d regained my life by Sunday, and so when one of my oldest friends, ex housemate and wife of my best man got in touch to say she was visiting Seattle, we parked the kids with neighbours and drove down to the Seattle Art Museum to see her.

Every night, Frogmorton does some rhythmic pouncing, or whatever the latest exercise fad for cats is, and when he’s finished with that, he skulks up to the bathroom and takes a huge dump before returning downstairs, in part of the never ending scatological comedy that is my life, looking all lovely and cute while stinking […]

Recovering from the late, cold night last night watching the Seadragons, I felt less than tip top all day, and although it was quiet and peaceful in the house with the kids playing at a friend’s place, it was a slog to get through things. Froggy was also out of sorts, several times deciding to […]