Category: life & stuff

Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.

  • weekender, six

    weekender, six

    I somehow managed to fit in watching three movies this weekend and it started with a random pick off Netflix called Code 3, a Rainn Wilson tragi-comedy about ambulance drivers in Los Angeles. Also, it turned out to be a biting indictment of American-style health care, and a bit of an unexpected tear-jerker in the…

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  • weekender, five

    weekender, five

    I am certainly not entirely keeping pace with my weekender updates, but to be fair a lot of recent weekends have been us just hiding from the cold weather and watching movies or playing video games for long stretches. We’ve also spent a lot of time in the basement sorting and cleaning because the Kid…

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  • weekender, four

    weekender, four

    Being self-employed as I am, the holidays of my family tend to erupt into a kind of blur of confusion that leave me a bit discombobulated. The Kid just finished her reading week break, and we capped it off with a trip to the mountains, having left last Thursday and rolled back home on Sunday…

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  • weekender, three

    weekender, three

    The weather has warmed in the last week, but mostly that just means we can’t go outside because the freeze and thaw cycle is leaving the sidewalks a horrific mess of glazed ice. We settled in on Friday evening and watched the (delayed) stream of the Olympics opening ceremony from Milan, etc. We visited Milan…

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  • weekender, two

    weekender, two

    The verdict was that “it’s probably better than sitting around watching tv all night” so we took a chance and drove to the far side of the city and beyond and found ourselves in one of the little bedroom communities on the outskirts of town, driving through a dark gravel road and ending up at…

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