• Icy Box replied to my pleading with a suggestion to try “updating my Thunderbolt drivers”, as if they had somehow spontaneously gone off over lunch one day, followed by a shrug and “take it back to the shop [you] got it from”. I suppose that’s not really unreasonable but it’s impractical for me as the shop is in der Schweiz. I hope I don’t have to buy a new one as I don’t have to page in all the very boring stuff (USB versions, video standards, etc) that one apparently needs to consider when buying something as mundane as a USB hub.

  • The baby is going to bed at 7pm and sleeping in her own bed now. Having a few child-free hours after the kids go to bed is wonderfully restorative and sorely missed.

  • But she’s still stubbornly refusing a bottle. This is a problem. Nanda goes back to work in a month and feeding her without a bottle will be a challenge. Every time I try she pushes the teat out with her tongue and looks confusedly at me as formula sloshes around her mouth. It’s amazing that babies are so helpless they have to learn to swallow.

  • I’m applying for some jobs, which means desperately trying to re-learn all the stuff I once knew as well as learn for the first time all the stuff I never knew.