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Drinking class
I got up early this morning and put myself through 25 minutes of core exercises before everyone else woke up. I sweated so much that even if my arms hadn’t been limp noodles by the halfway point, I still wouldn’t have been able to complete the sets properly. Still, something is better than nothing, and […]
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Boulder Movement Carnival
After work today, I went to Boulder Movement for their carnival. This was a Friday night extravaganza of climbing, and funfair sideshow games. That was an interesting combination: working on your upper body strength and then trying to win at a hook-a-duck stall. I learned several things. 1 I’m really crap at throwing balls. There […]
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A few drinks after work
To celebrate completing two years at work, my team went out this evening and we ate Mexican food and drank copious amounts of red wine. I speechified, I was garrulous, and then I got the train home and staggered in to the house, flopping my head down and trying to think how to explain what […]
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Cheese and wine
This evening I had a training session at the climbing wall and when I was done, I met my wife at a cheese and wine event in the same building. Well, it was ostensibly a cheese and wine event; I was drinking gin and ginger beer (and alcoholic ginger beer) and eating pizza. I suppose […]
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Stuck between stations
Two of our best friends in Singapore are moving to Hong Kong, and they have a lot of booze to get rid of, so this evening we went over the road to their flat for dinner. In some parallel universe where we had a babysitter, that is.
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Constant drinking consequences
Today we had a cooking lesson for La Serpiente. A friend of ours took us down to the Tekka Market in Little India, where she got to pick out a selection of peppers, ginger and vegetables, and look at the massed ranks of squid waiting to be bought, and then went back to cook them […]
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Firsts
Today was the first time in years that I got a blister from running; about a kilometre from the end of the parkrun, I felt my left shoe loosen, and then begin to chafe against my heel, and then the inevitable occurred and I’ve been hobbling ever since. I had an ok run, putting in […]
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Chairman of Culture
As the Chairman of the Culture Committee, for the inaugural event I had to stand on a desk this evening and bellow at my colleagues. I stood there, wearing my jacket turned inside out to display the bright red lining, and declaimed to the masses how fortunate they were. After telling them how important I […]