The life and times of a software and web developer
Being a distant friend on the internet is incredibly difficult sometimes. When those I have come to know are facing problems, my first instinct is to try and help - to reach out - to be there. I wonder how much a quiet message telling somebody that you read their post, and that you're out …
While scrolling through Tumblr this morning I started reminiscing about the "meetups" they once helped their users stage. You could register a meetup on the site, and they would advertise it, and send out a pack with table cards, badges, namecards - everything you might need to dress up a couple of tables in a …
Miss 17 received her exam results this morning. The good news? She's on the design course next year that she failed to quality for this year. The bad news? She will have to repeat another year of English and Maths to improve her exam grades. Again. I'm caught between being happy, frustrated, and sad. I'm …
I sat down at the desk in the junk room to write a blog post an hour ago. All I have done so far is listen to music on Spotify. Music from my distant past. While writing this, Wilson Phillips are singing "Hold On", and I'm remembering drawing a picture of them in the back of my college art sketchbook.
We spent the greater part of yesterday evening sitting in a packed auditorium at the big school in town - watching a local celebrity hand out awards to students throughout the school. Of course our main reason for being there was to watch Miss 14 receive an award for her cooking exploits. A local celebrity …
Yesterday morning our eldest daughter got herself up, dressed, washed, brushed her hair, then announced that she was going into town. We raised eyebrows at each other, and thought no more of it.She re-appeared shortly after lunch, soaked from the persistent rain that had been falling, complained about having wet hair, then headed back into …
Last night was a perfect example of the challenges faced by two parents attempting to parent three children. The eldest - often thought of as the most level headed, sensible, and placid - had fallen through the cracks while we juggled football, rugby, dance, and schoolwork with her younger sisters. When she needed us most, …
I sat up with our eldest daughter last night watching back to back episodes of "Stranger Things" on Netflix. We watched the first four episodes of season 2 while eating pizza, drinking red wine, and sneaking penny sweets from a huge bucket in the kitchen bought for Halloween.I'm not quite sure how or why, given …
Here I am again, sitting in the junk room at home, emptying my head into the keyboard. I have no adventures to relate as such - other than wanting to kill next door's dog, which has barking non-stop all morning. I've turned Spotify up to eleven to drown it out. An eighties playlist is waking …
While walking into town to buy groceries this morning I whiled away a few minutes scrolling through the Tumblr dashboard, and happened upon a distant friend mentioning a song by Christina Perri called "A Thousand Years". A note had been left for them while saying goodbye to co-workers after moving jobs, with the lyrics in …
