andrewducker: (Experience)
2025-10-14 04:49 pm
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Surely someone has done the maths on vaccinations.

Today I spent £108 on getting myself vaccinated against Flu and Covid.

Which led me to wonder what the cost of days off is to the economy. And how far off we are from it being worth the government vaccinating everyone.
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2025-09-28 08:49 pm
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It's very educational being me

Ways to tell you have a child #37: the contents of your tumble dryer's lint trap is 50% glitter.

(And your hands are now covered in glitter from emptying it)
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2025-09-27 08:38 pm
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A thing I don't understand about people

Why do people go to the group "Fans of X" and ask "Is X any good?"

I mean, no, most members of the fan group loathe it with a fiery passion and are only in the group to warn passers-by how terrible it is.
andrewducker: (Hold Me)
2025-09-24 07:05 am
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Oddly recurrent stomach issues

Facebook reminds me that we had norovirus on this day in 2021 and 2023. Jane has spent the last 24 hours with D+V. What are the odds?
andrewducker: (Portal!)
2025-09-09 08:19 am
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Life with two kids: Old time language

Yesterday I was having fun with Gideon playing with webcam special effects, and we got to one that looks like old sepia film stock with damage marks on it and judderiness and he delightedly shouted "It's footage!"
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2025-08-24 07:27 pm
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Musical interlude with a room full of children

Spent the afternoon being serenaded by a cinema full of kids at the K-Pop Demon Hunters sing-a-long.

As musical kids movies about demon-hunting go out was pretty darned good and I expect to be earwormed for weeks.
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2025-08-22 06:08 pm
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It's the little things

I've just discovered that Android has an option that lets you snooze notifications. You have no idea how happy this makes me.
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2025-08-21 09:14 am
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An auspicious beginning

So far today, I was woken up at 4am because the children had been playing with an old alarm clock yesterday (I got back over though).

And Sophia hurt her wrist falling off of a swing yesterday and it still hurts this morning so we're off to the Sick Kids at 10am for her to get checked out.

Happy birthday to me!

Edit: No break. Possibly minor sprain. Just needs to take it easy and stay off the monkey bars for a few days.
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2025-08-20 06:39 pm
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Life with two kids: Less reassuring than you might expect

Gideon, heading for a recently arrived package, holding a knife "I'm not going to stab *anyone*!"
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2025-08-11 03:53 pm
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Life with two kids: movements in the night

I went to the toilet at 4am a few days ago, and bumped into Gideon coming back from a toilet trip. Apparently he just takes himself if he wakes up in the night. No idea how long this has been going on for!

(Sophia comes and gets me, for company.)
andrewducker: (livejournal blackout)
2025-07-31 10:31 pm
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Birthday giving

It's Rowling's birthday so I've just donated £25 to Mermaids to support trans kids.
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2025-07-29 06:11 pm
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I'm confused about Palestine and Gaza

I'm possibly being dim here, but I can't see what "Recognising Palestine" does for the current humanitarian apocalypse.

(I'm not against it, but the government seem to be presenting it as somehow connected and I feel like I'm missing something.)
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2025-07-29 03:01 pm
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Life with two kids: Design on the dancefloor.

It's raining outside and Sophia was looking bored so I suggested she have a dance party

At which point she grabbed her cousin and they've spent the last half an hour decorating the dancefloor and designing tickets.

No dancing has yet occurred.
andrewducker: (Jesus!)
2025-07-23 08:57 pm
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Life with two kids: 7 year olds like certainty.

Talked to Sophia about Wicked. Apparently she kinda enjoyed it, but isn't a fan of revisionism and prefers The Wizard of Oz.

"The good people should stay good and the bad people should stay bad."
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2025-07-21 04:06 pm
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Things I love about the modern world #7946

The play park we're waiting for a dentist appointment in has WiFi.

(It's got a building in it owned by the council leisure service to sell ice creams and manage the tennis courts next door.)
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2025-07-11 07:40 am
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It ain't no good if you're in the jungle.

Right now (7:30am) it is 14 degrees outside.

It is 24 degrees in our bedroom, despite the windows being open all night. Humidity is 92%.

This afternoon it will rise to 26 degrees. I'm glad the office has air conditioning. I'm not looking forward to tonight.
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2025-07-02 10:20 am
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Time marches on

As of this morning (2nd of July), we are now closer to 2050 than 2000.
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2025-06-28 10:49 am
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A complaint about modern life.

When I am Emperor anyone selling bowls, plates, etc will have to certify whether you can microwave food in them without them getting hotter than the food.

Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?
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2025-06-21 11:10 am
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All change

The reason British people talk about the weather all the damn time is that two weeks ago I got hailed on, yesterday was hot enough that I sweated through my clothes, and today there's haar stopping me seeing more than 100m.
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2025-06-14 12:03 pm
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Confused by Disney ineptitude

Two weeks after seeing the CGI Lilo and Stitch at the cinema I'm watching the original with the kids. And it's so much better. The direction, the writing, the acting are all just much higher quality.

The remake felt much clumsier. And I don't really understand why.

Edit: Just realised that they entirely cut the Ugly Duckling part from the remake. Why would you do that? It's key to Stitch's arc!
And all of the bits where Lilo how to be like Elvis.

In fact, nearly all of the bits where Lilo talked to Stitch and built a relationship with him.