Old Fashioned
I’ve never been much of a cocktail guy. I don’t mind the odd one, but I usually can’t be arsed to order one, and certainly not to make one. However, […]
Torpor
Yesterday was a bit of an exercise in staying still. Sleeping in ’til 9. Staying in bed until noon, save grabbing coffee from downstairs. Walking across the hall to the […]
NAS
As I type this I’m waiting for my new Synology DS220+ Network Access Storage device to set itself up. Of course I named it Illmatic. I’m excited to get all […]
Jules Bistro
At least once each weekend we try to set aside an evening as date night — fancy delivery, dinner table, proper place settings, music, etc. — and our go-to dinner […]
No skips
My new favourite podcast is called No Skips. It’s my friend* Lisa and her husband going deep on some classic albums: Music fanatic and his skip-happy wife take on the […]
Fun with screens
While normally we find it exhausting to look at screens, yesterday they were the underpinnings of a pretty good day. Somehow yesterday I became aware that Bar Volo, and its […]
Comparing my discretionary spending pre- and post-COVID
[Cross-posted from LinkedIn, with some revisions] Prompted by my colleague Kat’s post “How COVID-19 changed my spending habits“, I decided to piggyback on her idea. Here’s what I found. [But first, the […]
Our thriving boy
Some visual examples of how well Kramer is doing in the house. .:. Cover photo by r d h, used under creative commons license
2020 Annual Report: Containment
After the pummeling that was 2019, I was really looking forward to a return to normalcy in 2020. Lindsay, it should be noted, was always skeptical: at a New Year’s […]
The best of everything from 2020
To the great surprise of no one on planet earth, this is a weird year in which to do a list like this. Or, anything else. When I started prepping […]
