The sick just will not let us go. Brynja was home all last week, and on Friday Petra started exhibiting the same telltale fever Brynja started with. Brynja’s is nearly back to her regular self, but Petra had a pretty rough weekend with fever and chills, headache, sore throat, and coughing. Olof and I have… Read More Still here

Last night, just as we were getting ready for bed, Lydia came downstairs carrying a sobbing Brynja. At first I thought she’d had a nightmare or fallen out of bed, but it turned out that she’d woken with a terrible headache and was startlingly feverish. We dosed her up with acetaminophen and made her a… Read More Ailing

So Friday was Valentine’s Day. It’s not a thing I’m much interested in — I don’t think Olof and I even wished each other a Happy Valentine’s Day — but the kids had been waiting for it for weeks. Not because they care any more than their parents do about hearts and flowers, but because… Read More Showtime

I was very industrious today, putting in a few solid hours working on my thesis. My page count thus far is six or seven, which means I’m ten percent done! Yeah, that’s pretty daunting. Not too daunting, though — yet? — as I’ve still got a good six weeks until I need to submit it,… Read More Worky, worky

Yesterday I had my first hearing test since my surgery in December. I don’t remember the actual numbers, mostly because I don’t understand them, but the upshot is there’s a “clear improvement” in my hearing. Apparently my right ear is still quite a bit stronger than my left ear, but the operated ear is approaching… Read More Busy, busy

I put in a solid few hours working on my thesis today. I did fall rather short of the five pages I was aiming for, but I got two pretty good ones, bringing my total to four. It’s so much slower going when I have to look up references and insert footnotes and all that.… Read More Shop talk

Tage has been complaining of headaches for the past while, which is always a bit of a worry. I took him to the doctor a few weeks ago where they took some blood for testing and did a rudimentary physical. Having ruled out anything immediately wrong in a physical sense, they suggested that we take… Read More 20/20

This afternoon Olof watched Groundhog Day with the kids, in what has become a yearly tradition for them. I like the movie fine, but I don’t love it beyond reason the way some people seem to, so I stayed in the office and listened to George Strait on Spotify. There’s nothing like good country music.… Read More Sunday report

After some weeks of unsatisfactory performance, our dishwasher gave up the ghost entirely about a month ago. We called out a repairman, and he ascertained fairly quickly that it was the electronics card that had gone out. As luck would have it, the machine is still under warranty so we won’t be responsible for the… Read More Domestic

First things first — it has come to my attention that I never posted here about how it went with my ear when I flew down to Uppsala last week, and I suppose the reason for my neglecting to mention it is that it was entirely uneventful. Yay! Weirdly, about ten minutes into the flight,… Read More Wednesday