116 posts tagged with "in-English"

[4–10 Jul]

We spent the week at my parents' in Granada: my brother and his girlfriend were visiting after quite a while away from home, and we didn't want to miss them.

We now have an adapter to charge our EV from a standard AC domestic outlet. The morning after we arrived my dad and I noticed that the extension lead we had used all night was a bit too hot (and perhaps it was limiting the charging power), so that day we went to a store and bought a thicker long cord (for ~€50).

On Friday Miss Entropy, my wife and I went to Parque de las Ciencias, an amazing science museum we have had in Granada since 1995 that keeps on growing in surface, pavilions and activities. Nowadays it even has an aquarium and a little zoo indoors (apart from the old butterfly house). Like last time, I especially liked the live workshop about predatory birds. We all had a good time. Miss Entropy is just starting to be old enough to tolerate an hour or two of interactive museum at a relaxed pace.

[27 Jun – 3 Jul]

On Friday we bought a new light pram to replace our better, older (but also heavier and bulkier) one. On Saturday we relaxed with neighbours and their kids at our estate's swimming pool. And on Sunday we drove to go visit my parents for a few days.

[20–26 Jun]

At long last I fell pray to The Unspeakable:

I was knackered and had mild fever for two days, and then felt funny for another two or three — but that was all. The worst part was that we decided to do the responsible thing, ie letting daycare know about my positive and not sending the kids there for a few days, and so I had to take care of the kids at home in my sorry state. I had at times much help from my wife, but still what I really wanted was to lay down and let the day pass away, not having to look after others.

[13–19 Jun]

We celebrated Breaker of Horses' first birthday — a couple of times, in fact. There's another birthday very close in time, and so we joined my stepfamily twice and at two locations. All birthday parties were great.

[6–12 Jun]

On Saturday the family (including my parents) attended Miss Entropy's “graduation ceremony”.

[30 May – 5 Jun]

This week we all went to two nearby towns to visit two flats for sale.

Also, I fought bad UX, and found even more evidence that, as in many other areas, in higher education it is men who are worst off.

[23–29 May]

This week was mostly uneventful.

On Monday, I took Miss Entropy to her weekly swimming “lesson”. On Tuesday, my wife went to work to her office until late, I went for a routine visit with my ENT doctor, and my parents came along. On Thursday we both commuted to work; I had a nice (and free) lunch on the rooftop of our office building with several of my colleagues, and my parents picked up the kids around 15:30 and took them to the park. On Friday we went with the kids to a park nearby again, and it was deserted (it's hot in the afternoons already!), and later at night we moved Breaker of Horses to the bigger crib in the other room (so that now the siblings sleep together in the same room, and wife &amp I have recovered our own at last).

Two or three nights ago, a while after dinner, my daily routine saw me in my bedroom holding Breaker of Horses tight in my arms, rocking him gently to sleep.

[16–22 May]

On Monday (a public holiday) we drove back from Sagunto to our home in Madrid. We stopped twice to recharge the car because we didn't want to risk finding our one planned charging station busy or out of order; although energy consumption was higher this time, we could very well have made it with just one stop (as in the outbound trip). Because of that extra stop, and also some intense traffic near Madrid, the journey was a bit tiring for us all.

On Tuesday around 7:50 AM I left riding my bike for a picturesque town near Madrid for a three-day event organised by my company. There I met more than 250 of my colleagues, mostly engineers, for a packed agenda of presentations, workshops, and off-topic activities. It was all very well organised, we accomplished so much, and the meals, excursions and other activities were great fun. For me it was especially valuable to meet physically for the first time a few brilliant workmates with whom I've been working for two years or more, but had never seen IRL.

[9–15 May]

Warm days already; sometimes even hot. After work/nursery, we often went to nearby parks with the kids, or spent time in the evenings down here in our estate, where we met our neighbours and their little ones too. Breaker of Horses plays a lot with the sand now.

We also attended our friend C.'s second birthday party and had a great time with her, her parents, and some acquaintances.

It seems my wife and I now drag assorted, quasi-permanent mild physical discomforts of one sort or another. (Is this the new normal, now that we're parents of two? 😤) This week it was her back aching intermittently, and me experiencing slight bumps from my nauseating tiredness of the previous weekend.