Today one of our contractors was fitting another couple of posts to reinforce the rear wall of the house, which involved an awful lot of banging and sawing, just as I was getting on a call with one of my clients. Whereas yesterday a pause had coincided with when I needed to speak, today the […]

I had an important work meeting today that I had to speak at, and also had the builders hammering and drilling like mad, at top volume for four hours. This coincided with the meeting, the noise miraculously abating just as I had to speak, and then coming back at full power as soon as I […]

Today, having got 16 coaches for my tournament and figuring that was probably quite enough, I updated the website to say that entry was closed. Just as four more people sent me entry fees, or asked nicely if they could come, or sent me rosters that didn’t match with the tournament rules, or thought of […]

La Serpiente has decided that we should double the money she gets for emptying the dishwasher, from 25 cents to 50 cents a time. Her justification for this is because she’d like more money. I asked the mother of one of her friends how much she gets as an allowance, and she told me "a […]

This morning I went down to the basement and worked out in my VR headset for almost 50 minutes – I chose a ludicrous session where I worked out to classical music for 18 minutes (culminating in can can music) and then another 22 minutes of frenetic hopping around while a coach growled at me. […]

Today La Serpiente went to her ultimate frisbee match with a teammate, and we didn’t need to transport her, so I had a fairly relaxed time going to the park with Destroyer, and then for lunch, and finally an exhausting visit to the climbing gym with her, where I didn’t get to climb much because […]

My electrician came round today, so I ran a couple of errands to fetch more circuit breakers, wire, and sundry other things for putting a house together. We’re almost at the point where the wiring is complete, and the HVAC guys can come to play. Then it’s a short step to getting walls up and […]

Once again, I slept badly last night – I don’t remember having one good night’s sleep this week, and that has terrible impact on my state of mind in the daytime. On top of that, stressed with complicated work I found most of today quite the drudge… Ah well. I was having a better day […]

It tipped it down all day today, but still didn’t clean the bird poop from our car. (While humans love our car and never stop complimenting us on it, the local crows seem to have made it their life’s work to defecate on our automobile. Maybe they just don’t like the colour of it – […]

I drove down to Lacey today to play Blood Bowl – a 75 minute drive, plus a slight detour when I didn’t realise the game shop was above a weed shop in a carpark. Then a two hour game, which I managed to take the win on (2-1 to me, yay!) and then a drive […]