Over the heat now.
Over the heat now.
Really enjoyed this Netflix documentary.
Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story (2022) - IMDb
Follows celebrated competitive skating icon Leo Baker as they try to make space for themselves in the gendered world of pro sports and build a more inclusive skate culture, which leads him to doing the punkest thing imaginable.
Ha! I haven’t watched BCS but this made me chuckle, comments are good too!
Saturday morning Mario 3D World.
Taking suggestions for other similar, child friendly games we could play together…
(Also, he’s pretty good*)
*Fine. He’s better then me. I said it. Are you happy now! sobs
Someone once tried to shame Stilpo for his daughter’s reputation. His reply is worth noting: “She is not more a disgrace to me than I am an honour to her.”
This might seem like a detached or un-fatherly thing to say, but it is in fact, the healthiest and most respectful approach for a parent to have. Your kids are their own people.
Source: Your Kids are Not a Reflection of You - The Daily Dad
Be consistent.
More than nothing.
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Your water is haunted by the ghosts of other people. All the other people.
Things I haven’t thought about before. Where has your water been?
nobody really buys a drink, they just rent it
Today is 10 years, to the day, that I arrived in China and the path my life too forever changed.
Though the whole moving to a new country and marrying a local is something I got from Dad (thanks Dad!).
Still impressed that I’ve managed to keep doing a photo a day that I, eventually, print and then put in the album.
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Found this interesting. We want people doing exercise, especially as adults, but how do we get there?
As well, it’s currently the CrossFit Games currently and it reminds me that what the top, top, TOP athletes do in a given sport is nothing like what a ‘normal’ person who does that sport for fun/health does.
Elise has always had school lunch but with Yumo joining soon, we will soon be paying for 3 school lunches probably. With that in mind, last night we trialed packed lunch for dinner. Actually, surprisingly, improbably, it was a huge success. I did ham and cheese pin wheels with added broccoli.
Elise gave it a two thumbs up and her comment was that it didn’t need 2 biscuits, one was enough.
Yes to this, I don’t know how people can put the kids to bed and then do more work. I just can’t. As well, after working for 45 hours, I don’t have more work in me at the weekend.
I do not put the kids to bed and then crack my laptop to write. The gates of my brain roll down at 7 p.m. like a mall food court Chik-Fil-A on Sunday. time freedom and brainpower and then I had that additional kid.
If I’m on deadline, then I remove myself from the house to do it. Usually a bar on a weekday evening, because I struggle to bring professional energy of any kind to a weekend.
The happiest older people I’ve ever seen are hanging out with each other. The crankiest ones seem to be quite solitary. Here are the ten reciprocal virtues I’ve gleaned via some sloppy ethnography (i.e.: eavesdropping) on giggling and gray coffee clutches.
Dads on tour
I went away with some friends from work last week. 5 days away. 5 days away from Lyra and the kids. Writing about it, I’m not sure where to start. So much so that I had half a thought not to.
But then I saw this tweet and I thought I wouldn’t The Grey Man on Netflix and would slow down on watching The Expanse and take a moment to write about it.
It felt like, I stepped out of my body. Though maybe saying I stepped out of my life would be a better way of putting it. Not having the same pressures I normally did was like I was living a different life. As I said, ad nauseam at this point, I didn’t care what we did since it was time to myself that was important thing. I mean, we did end up doing some fun stuff.
Saw some caves, rode bikes and later scooters, went on a raft, swam a bit, ate some yummy food, had some drinks. All good times, had some COVID tests (a necessity of traveling within China).
As well I was forced to use my Chinese which was definitely a good thing since normally (and completely acceptably) rely on my wife to do. The problem is, to be a situation where I have to use it I think I’d have to be apart from here. Which doesn’t often happy.
Also… we also travelled a vast distance on trains too, our return journey was approximately 1000km which we did in a little over 5 hours. That’s about the distance of my hometown in the UK to Berlin. China is like the US in that regard, the scale is just different.
If I wanted to let Yumo play this at home, what would I need?
A nice reminder for parents.
You think you’ve got your act together, then you have kids. You think you’re someone with a good handle on their emotions…then toddlers and teenagers alike disabuse you of this notion. Because that’s what kids do, they stress test us,
For example:
If I wake up and check messages and social media … would I like to spend that time in meditation and journaling instead?
Source: We’re Always Training Something - zen habits zen habits
漏奶华。Fried toast with sweetened milk filling and covered in cocoa. So delicious. We had it in Guangzhou but the one we found in Chongqing wasn’t as good.
Focus.
I struggle with it, like so many of us do. I turned off notifications on my phone, now I just have to keep checking it in case I miss something important. (I don’t). Today, I’ve put my phone in my bag, so I can’t look at it. Which helps a little. I should buy a new bag for that. (I don’t need one).
From this list of advice was the idea of having task specific things. Which our phones did away with. I remember when I had a phone, a camera, a iPod and a book and that I used to keep them in this small black bag. I feel like I miss those days.
And it was nice to spend time doing this jigsaw this morning. To focus on one thing. I should do that more.
It feels like,
It’s not just getting
Time
To yourself .
It’s having time,
With the right
Frame of mind.
Which is where I fall down.
Everyone Everywhere Needs Waymond Wang - YouTube
Everything Everywhere All At Once is a genre bending multiverse movie but it’s also one of the most challenging and subversive representations of masculinity I’ve ever seen in any genre.
Lunch
