Mosquitos didn’t wake me up, but they kept me awake.
Mosquitos didn’t wake me up, but they kept me awake.
I remember when I was at university cough years ago and mp3 players were just becoming more common. I had one that had a SCREEN and was tiny. Now, we all use our phones of course. I still miss my iPod I think, though I do like the convenience of streaming.
With that said, I wish I could get my daughter a streaming music device for her to just listen to music, ideally with her Bluetooth headphones. Am looking at an old iPod touch maybe.
Explaining how to make a roux to the boy
The Enigma of the Eel: The Elusive Science of Earth’s Most Mysterious Creature – The Marginalian
And now I want to read a book about eels.
Enjoyed this talk about the the book and see, and feel, a lot of myself at the moment in it. Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society - YouTube
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Took a while but got there, aim high innit.
Sitting at my desk at 7am feels both better than being grumpy at home but also, overall, worse.
Now is now, it can never be anything else wrote Laura Ingalls Wilder. It’s all we have. We should never wish a minute of it away. Not even when we’re tired, when we’re excited about what’s next, when we’re frustrated with how things are going. We never get this moment back. When you find yourself rushing, remind yourself, as we’ve said, where you are rushing towards. And remember that someday you would do anything to get back here to this very thing you are wishing away.
You need to honor work by not working. You need to not be all about business.
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Elise was lucky enough to do this yesterday! 🪂
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What kids actually want is you. What kids actually need is Dad. As Dear Abby quite brilliantly put it in a column back in the 1950s, “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”
Hasn’t rained in weeks. First day of school, it’s tipping it down.
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Working up to a G-Shock!
I know I should read more but struggling to get into the right headspace to do so. Feel like I’m only capable of browsing.
The hallmark of a resilient, productive and sustainable culture is that disagreements aren’t risky.
Should have gone to bed earlier.
We’re often presented with an image of parenting that is a bit too perfect. Like a Norman Rockwell scene preserved in a snowglobe.
But all too often parents wake up to realize they were cast in a reality show without their permission. The kids cause more problems in 4 minutes than I could get into in 4 years. You wonder if your genetics have spawned an unholy chimera of you and you partner’s worst traits. It gets to a point where you wake up to the sounds of screams. Not the kid’s screams. Yours.
I liked this, about how to support your kids to be more helpful and to consider yours and their emotions. I’m still chuckling at this quote from the intro though! Source: Ancient Traditions Reveal 2 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
I thought that the whole city I live in, a city of a few million people, needs a COVID test tomorrow was the most depressing thing today. (It’s the implications of not being able to leave China…) ThenI read about Shifting Baseline Syndrome (SBS) and that was worse.