Month: April 2016

Keith was over for the last croissant and coffee. Wonderful to see him.

As you can see, 9k to go.

Not exactly a rest day, but I have to buy and prep some veggies for Jerome’s partay.

Jerome and I met at Statpower back in the day; the first year I knew him I wrote “An evening of serious drinking” for his birthday. It was SUCH a hit in our little crowd that literally they would drag me out of the biffy …or elsewhere … to start the evening’s festivities by singing it a capella in front of the fire.

Jerome has migrated from being a young guy grabbing (deleted because the internet is forever) to being a sober-sided paterfamilias with two delightful pjokk-vikings and a gorgeous, hilarious and briskly efficient wife.  I approve of damned near everything about Jerome.  Just so you all know.  We can go months without seeing each other, but that doesn’t matter. He is MEIN VOLK, in the undiscovered cousins way. I did actually formally take him to my mother and adopt him as a family member in front of the family Godswood. (Or atheist equivalent, don’t jar the metaphor too hard.)

SO CLOSE TO THE END YAAARRRGH

Jeff baked croissants from Vancouver Croissants for brekky this morning.

They are DELISH.

Allergies driving me nuts..  Scotch broom is in bloom.  Work continues.

Work continues.  Coffee is a mental blessing and an intestinal trial.

Call the Midwife is a wonderful show, glad there’s going to be more of it.

I paid for a book recently, Leviathan Wakes, which is the basis for The Expanse, and I am totes loving it.

Lovely meal at the pub last night with Mike and Jeff. Very disturbed night’s sleep, just woke up.

I think I’m going to take today off from writing and putter along with some chores.

Paul and I had a simple lovely walk yesterday.  Salmonberry petals had fallen in a row against the beaver dam in Deer Lake Park. The sun was warm, the breeze cool, and while we heard and saw no frogs the birds were singing beautiful songs, and songs I don’t recollect hearing before. Prob’ly migrants.

I have new wraparound sunglasses and they work really well, although they make me look like a frikkin’ mafiosa.

I am starting to run a fairly severe Alex deficit, I wonder if I’ll be able to see him today.

Work continues. I made a marginally successful breakfast yesterday.  Good swossages are like the frikkin’ grail.

 

Grond crawls on.

Today I’m making a Sunday brunchy thing for us. I hope those turkey swossages are decent.

Much good progress, 16K words to go.

Watched the absolutely hilarious German Hitler comedy Look Who’s Back. Highly, highly recommended, well thought out, and with at least a couple of scenes that made me laugh very, very hard.

Feeling icky. I’m writing but it’s slow going.

work continues…. brekky with Jeff.

Damn, I want to rewatch the Expanse AGAIN.

 

 

Whee.  Some writing, Amorfo is proving a lovely new character.

 

That’s better, real progress.

Look, some promotional material!

Mike dropped by, we ate souvlaki from Golphi’s and watched the first couple of episodes of the Expanse. Finally got some writing done this am.

YEAH YEAH YEAH The Last Kingdom has been renewed for another series, 2017.

The new Jason Bourne movie is out in July of this year, and I am really really looking forward to that, did I mention that earlier?

Made a bunch of deletions so the word count has gone down.  This is definitely one of the disadvantages of posting a daily word count.

brO off to the Gadget House.

Lunch at Paul’s on Thursday, it was lovely to see Alex.  He’s starting to use more consonants. Jeff was rather put off by his eating style, which doesn’t involve much eating, but much mashing of substances.