Author: rommel

A large grocery order laid in for Summer and Ryan today, the raw material for what we intend to be a proper stock of meal-prepped meals frozen and waiting, so that with five-month-old twins in the house they need only reach into the freezer rather than cook. It is a plain sort of help, but…

The heat brought the day’s one real trouble: the air conditioning failed, and the crew who came to mend it left it running only long enough to fail again. I walked the dogs a while longer than usual, glad of the excuse to be out of the house and moving. Later I saw to the…

Another day given largely to watching over the babies, the kind of duty that fills the hours without ever announcing itself. The dogs were walked and took plain, uncomplicated pleasure in it, which is worth noting on a day that asked for little else. There is a steadiness in this stretch of small charges well…

Set out for Portland today. We are staying with our friends Summer and Ryan, though the house is ours for a stretch while we mind their five-month-old twins. Two infants at once is a duty I have not drawn before, and I confess a quiet uncertainty about the watches ahead. Still, there are worse postings…

Brought Diablo to his end at last, the close of a first game that fought me the whole way and won me over in the fighting; what began as a chore became something I was sorry to finish. Diablo II I started the same evening, and the distance from its predecessor is hard to overstate.…

Reached Hell in Diablo tonight, a few floors short of the end; the descent has been long, and I can feel it nearing its close. In the daylight hours I opened a trading account with Alpaca, a small step toward putting money to more deliberate use. I had meant to build a fire in the…

San Diego finally won something, one to nil over LAFC, and this one was a proper MLS match rather than the Leagues Cup, where they took a few games but are already out. A modest result, but the first that feels like it counts. Elsewhere the campaign continues underground; I’ve pressed into the Caverns in…

Crossed 150 miles on the new bike today, a quiet marker that the thing has stopped being new and started being mine. Good work too on Spotter and Fiber Club; both moved further in a day than they have in a while. In the evening I caught up to Silo. And I have begun Diablo,…

The march through Warcraft III is done, and Diablo now stands next in the campaign; the work for Blizzcon is running ahead of its schedule, which is a rare and welcome thing to be able to record. Between the two I crossed into Mexico to secure Liza’s medication. That errand outweighs all the rest. A…

The day belonged mostly to the house, the ordinary upkeep that leaves little to record but has to be done all the same. As I write this, San Diego and Puebla are still going, the result not yet decided, and I’ve made peace with not knowing how it ends before I set this down. The…