The life and times of a software and web developer
While sitting at work last Tuesday morning, I rubbed the tiredness from my left eye, and pain shot through it. I thought perhaps I had pulled an eyelash into my eye, and wandered down to the mens bathroom to check in the mirror. Nothing. I put up with it for the next 24 hours, wondering …
Sixteen thousand steps. That's what the Apple Health app tells me, on the shiny new iPhone that's been in my pocket all day long. Nearly thirteen kilometres. That's about the size of a day out and about with my younger children. And you wonder why I'm not overweight, given that I typically sit at a …
Our eldest daughter has been in the wars - and that's something of an understatement. For the last two weeks she has been fighting tonisllitis, and losing. She went through one course of antibiotics and appeared to be on the mend - but then the virus returned, and she hasn't eaten all this week.
After surviving a couple of days drinking water, and hopefully making it through the withdrawal from tea and coffee, it occurred to me this evening that I could drink redbush tea, because it has no caffeine in it.Redbush tea, also known as "Rooibos", supposedly has all sorts of health benefits, which are of course pedaled …
I stopped drinking tea and coffee today. Completely.I haven't been feeling very well for the last week, and while that is almost certainly down to a bug picked up in Germany, it got me thinking. I often laugh with friends that I'm pretty much "immune" to caffeine - I can drink an espresso before bed, …
After scraping ourselves out of bed this morning, we all set about filling the car with boot-bags, mouth-guards, and collosal quantities of food before setting off towards a rugby tournament in London.What can I say? The sun shone, the girls worked their backsides off, and more importantly they had fun. I've never seen their respective …
It’s Sunday evening, dinner is busy cooking, the clothes are mostly washed, two of the children are watching TV in their rooms after a day on the rugby fields, and the eldest is at a friend’s house after lying to my face this morning. Not happy with her at all, but trying not to react …
I learned something new this evening. After work I had a splitting headache, so thought "it's fine - I'll buy something to eat from the supermarket, and have a quiet night in the hotel room". I presumed that I would be able to buy headache tablets at the supermarket, just like at home. I was …
This morning was... interesting. By "interesting", I probably mean lots of other words, but I'm unsure if I should write them down or not. Some of them will be swear words, some of them will by hyperbole, and some of them will be expressions of disbelief.Let's just shorten what could be a long, angry, depressing …
A little after waking up this morning a little voice called from the children's rooms. I grinned at my other half, and predicted the next sentence."Are we going swimming?"I looked at the clock. Half past eight. There went the plan to get up before 7am again. Another empty square in the bullet journal - I …
