Out the back of the kid’s basketball club is this dingy looking gym. Honestly, would love something like this but in urban China space is so limited.
Out the back of the kid’s basketball club is this dingy looking gym. Honestly, would love something like this but in urban China space is so limited.
After a track from this popping up on the The Morning After mix I just posted, I’ve decided to put this on. Sigur Ros' () from 2002. Apple Music link
Today highs of 12°C (53.6°F), next week highs of 31°C (87.8°F) predicted. 🔥🌞
The Morning After Mix - Find your escape with this chilled-out curated mix - BBC Sounds
Enjoy some of the tracks on this mix. A Midge Ure cover of The Man Who Sold The World was interesting.
And just like that, it’s too late to watch tv. A couple of games of Santorini, a discussion about lice and the kids are in bed. Too late because getting enough sleep comes first. Simultaneously proud and intensely annoyed and frustrated. #parenting
My Get Up playlist on Apple Music had some Placebo, Bloc Party and some Biffy Clyro today, so today’s lifting was accompanied by Biffy’s Puzzle. Happy with the lifting too. 73.5kg shoulder press, 82.5kg x 3 push press and 82.5kg push jerk.
漏奶华. Diet starts, again, tomorrow…
Impromptu pancakes went well. Possibly too well. The kids will be asking for them again.
Nooooooooodlessss. This is from a chain that has a lot of branches around us., not the very best but still good. Today was, unexpectedly, a little spicier.
This resonates about why we don’t do things.
Sure, there’s a difference between writing a poem and cleaning up a garbled email, between writing a love letter and a Google ad. For some tasks, employing the use of an A.I. assistant might save time without levying a commensurate cost in humanity. Maybe.
We’re working every dread day that is given us
Feeling like the person people meet
Really isn’t us
Like we’re going to buckle underneath the trouble
Like any minute now
The struggle’s going to finish us
Kae Tempest - People’s Faces
I keep meaning to write about this,and likely have in my journal but, well, I don’t have the time…
Teacher vacancy rates at record high in England, report finds | Teacher shortages | The Guardian
Finished this last night. I enjoy the style a lot. Ending was pretty abrupt. Par for the course for a trilogy.
Finished reading: Traveler by Arwen Elys Dayton 📚
Make an omelette for Y and then put everything in the sink to rinse. A minute later and I’m makingng coffee and E comes in.
“Can I have an omelette?”
…(looks at wet utensils)
“Of course, darling.”
42 and still getting stronger. Today, pleased with 7 x 2 squat cleans with the last 2 sets at 100kg (220lb). Felt relatively comfortable too! Can’t imagine not doing CrossFit Linchpin at this point. Just wish I could do it at home. One day, maybe…
After yesterday, I picked this Charlotte De Witte mix on Apple Music. Which they describe as ‘ravey-techno’. No idea honestly, but I’m on board for it. Stand out track is De Witte’s Fourth Dimension.
It’s such a strange thing that you can buy debt, though I don’t suppose it should be.
It’s coming to pass
My countries coming apart
The whole thing’s becoming
Such a bumbling farce
Was that a pivotal historical moment
We just went stumbling past?
They popped into my head today and so that’s what I’ve been listening to. Love this performance at Glastonbury. It deviates from the album version slightly but damn.
Kae Tempest - “People’s Faces” | LIVE AT GLASTONBURY 2017 - YouTube
Y: I want cheese on top of my pasta.
Me: It has cheese on top, (points to melted cheese on top)
Y: No I want melted cheese on top.
Me: …
Y:(Gets cheese from fridge)
Me: So you want me to take the melted cheese off the top and then put more cheese on so that it melts?
Y: Yes.
#parenting #cheese
Played Carcassonne for the first time, with both kids today* and we all had a good time. Nothing too stressful, aside from Elise waiting for a piece that never came, and easy enough to pick up.
*Separately, which I think helped.
This is so so so so good. Nearly 10 years old now.
Teachers often respond to students in a couple of common ways here:
- They talk about the right answers.
- They ask students to share their answers.
Both responses risk brain death. Neither one necessarily tells students, “There is a task for you here beyond listening.” >Neither one necessarily sets up a shelf in a kid’s mind to help them structure the ideas they’re hearing.
Do you often fall asleep? Aside from going to bed, obviously. I realise I rarely do. If I’m sleeping it’s 100% intentional.
(And i’m 90% doing it even though I don’t want to.)
