The Goldfish Chronicles

Here we find the primordial blog entry, devoid of meaning and focus, but bravely pushing on to enact the reflective-speech that is so necessary to redeem the existence of the blog itself.

Interesting month or so.

My parents visited and got to meet their grandson for the first time in 6 months. The kidlet has gone from a cute inarticulate lump to a character-full proto-toddler, and much enjoyment was had by all. I’ve always loved playing with kids and Nathan is no exception, our one hour when I get home brightens my day.

I got to cook for my parents; pork in cream/mustard followed by a lemon curd victoria sponge. The last couple of months have reminded me that cooking is one of my great loves and it feels very good to have a few recipes that have gone beyond tasty bachelor-grub and can be considered real-food. The sponge is especially rewarding as it’s my first new dessert in many years (my other two favourites being deep chocolate brownie and apple crumble with custard). Making lemon curd from scratch is a very enjoyable experience.

The third in my list of great loves is reading. Last week saw the arrival of our latest set of bookshelves, mostly intended to house my computer book collection, though there’s a bit of room for Nathan’s books and Carrie’s CDs. Finally putting all the computer books onto the same 9 shelves is a happy thing.

The last of my great loves is computing. Sadly some thinking today has lead me to think that the constant headaches I’ve been experiencing for a month or two, and the sensitive left-upper jaw that I’ve had for 6 months is not due to nocturnal grinding of teeth as the dentist thinks (we think I sleep with my mouth open, at the very least Carrie has never heard me grind) but because I’ve been lying on the floor and holding my head up with my hands. I do this to watch TV, read a book, but mostly to use a laptop, especially the Dell laptop for which I use an external mouse. It nicely explains why the pain is all on the left hand side, I use my right hand for the mouse.

My left shoulder is quite painful too, for the same reason. I was aware of this but hadn’t considered that it might be screwing my jaw until I read that this is a potential cause of jaw-disorder.

So no more lying on the floor for me. It’s going to be hard to change that, it’s been a habit since I was a kid.

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