Category: Life

  • The Zen and Art of Tumble Dryer Maintenance

    Our tumble dryer started making a horrendous squeaking and banging noise a couple of weeks back. This bothered Lydia enough to stop it from drying my clothes mid-cycle. Now, this bothered me enough to open the back of it up and look inside. At a first glance, it was clear that the bearing had decided…

  • PhD proposal

    I’ve been rather quiet on the blogging front lately. This is probably because I haven’t really been in the mood for talking about stuff and sharing thoughts. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been involved with writing up the final version of my PhD proposal. Ideally, I’d like to have both the documentation and presentation…

  • Wow, what a week

    So, my nose is outta joint. No, literally, my nose is out of joint, or at least it feels that way. It is still swollen and sore. No, fortunately it was not a big burly bouncer outside a night club that decided to show me a close up of his knuckles. It was instead a…