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Rowan woke up on Saturday morning complaining about pain in his ear. Eri and I decided that I should take him to the ENT clinic that’s close to our house. I forgot you could book online (and so skip most of the waiting part) and so, as a result, Rowan and I ended up having to sit in the waiting room for almost two hours. This would have been difficult enough but after about 90 minutes, Rowan started complaining that his stomach hurt. Sure enough, he then proceeded to vomit. I managed to stop this from going all over the floor and, somehow, over most of our clothes. There was a mad dash to the bathroom and an emergency visit by Emma with clean shirts and, after waiting about half an hour more or so, we were able to see the doctor. I’m still not sure what he had. He took Monday and Tuesday off school but nobody else fell ill.
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Unsure if Emma or John would feel sick, we didn’t venture further away than a trip to the library. That’s not especially notable except that this was the first time John went there on his bicycle. Well, sort of. I did have to push him along each time he came to a stop (he’s not able to push off from a standing start yet). Still, that’s the farthest cycling trip he’s gone on so far.
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One benefit of staying close to home was that I was able to rush to the computer when I noticed that, a few days prior, I had inadvertently pasted my PGP key’s passphrase into the source code for Crossmate. I’m not hosting Crossmate’s repository on GitHub but even still, I quickly rotated to a new PGP key and uploaded the public key to all the locations where I was using the old key to verify my identity. I hope I never have to live those 15 minutes again.
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I finally finished reading Journey to the Centre of the Earth to the boys. I understand why everyone raves about this Jules Verne guy. Definitely put him on your ‘one to watch’ list.
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I randomly watched an episode of the X-Files. I stopped watching the show around the time of Season 6 or 7 and this was ‘Invocation’ from Season 8 so it was all new to me (Wikipedia). I don’t know how well the older episodes would hold up but I found the entire thing a bit of a tough watch. Why was I watching this in the first place? It was all because I was reading Billie Eilish’s Wikipedia page and was surprised to see that her mother, Maggie Baird, was an actress. It mentioned she was in an episode of the X-Files and that got me curious.
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Pseudonymous YouTube 12tone has a video about the 90s classic, ‘Two Princes’ by Spin Doctors. I want to say that this was the first single I ever bought but I now don’t remember how I acquired it. I remember that it was on a cassette tape but my recollection is that it was one of those compilations that were so popular in that 90s (it wasn’t a ‘Now That’s What I Call Music!’ compilation but very much in that vein). The thing is that I don’t think I would have enough money to have bought it by myself so perhaps I cajoled Mum or Dad into getting it for me. Except I believe the only times I ever did this were for the Simpsons Sing the Blues (Wikipedia) and the theme song to 1996’s Mission: Impossible.
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Oh, and 12tone makes the interesting observation that the two new types of rock groups in the early 90s were grunge bands and jam bands. I hadn’t thought of ‘Two Princes’ (Apple Music) as a jam band song but, after his dissection, I absolutely see it now.
