interrobang (‽)

Last weekend Freya continued her path to Olympic Gold by competing in the Texas State Trampolining and Tumbling championships.  For reasons best known to the organizers, this was in Lubbock, which is on the far North edge of Texas, so not really a convenient location for anyone apart from people who live in Lubbock - although if they live in Lubbock they have my sympathy and deserve every break they can get. Anyway, owing to my general aversion to air travel (and a $250 per person flight cost because I didn’t get round to booking anything up until the week of […]

A couple of weeks ago, Twilight came out on video. Not that the I was eagerly awaiting its release or anything, but the wife was, which meant that I was facing a couple of hours watching a chick-flick if I expected to fulfil my ’conjugal rights’ later that night.  Still, I reasoned, it could be worse - it was a ‘vampire movie’, right?  (Although so was Shaun of the Dead, and that didn’t exactly strike a romantic chord…).
I’ve spent the past couple of years gradually ‘training’ Louise in the art of high definition.  After much cajoling, she’ll now watch the 1080 HD version of a channel, instead […]