Ramblings

Francisco has been away for the most of the last week or two… first in London for some conference, and currently down in L.A. at some wedding or somesuch. It’s been awesome – aside from this weekend where David & friends apparently didn’t sleep at all, it’s been perfectly quiet, and I’ve been getting decent… Read more

So…. economy, eh? That’s been a boatload of fun and candy the last few weeks. Not that I’ve ever mistaken Apple’s actual performance, prospects, quality or merit with the share price, but it’s nonetheless something I keep an eye on, for shits and giggles if nothing else. Technically and actually I am in fact a… Read more

After warbling around somewhat unpromisingly during the week, the state of the kitchen is now, against all odds… clean. Well, sans the stovetop, oddly, but… sweet. I can actually find a surface to put things on again! Yay! In contrast to this blissful occurrence, I just a little while ago walked in on Francisco’s dad… Read more

My attempted tyre repair yesterday apparently failed. I didn’t do a very good job, granted, but I can’t find any actual evidence the repaired puncture is still leaking. But I can’t find any leak. It’s a very slow one, but I’m not going to go back to the pattern of inflating it twice a day.… Read more

In immeasurably more uplifting news, dad emailed me a week or so ago to inform me that both he and mum would be coming over in December. It was very much out of the blue – dad had been talking about visiting this year for ages, yet I figured it was about as good as… Read more

So, it’s been three weeks in the new place… over a month since we took possession. So how’s it been? …. ‘good’… in the general… non-commital… sense… For the most part it is good; driving to work gets on my mind a bit from an environmental aspect – though I did fix my flat tire… Read more