Khaled Abou Alfa

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:59:46 -0400

🇪🇸 C’mon Spain!

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:23:40 -0400

🎾 And like that, I’m back to playing tennis. But damn am I unfit at the moment. I am done within 30min. Clearly need to work on my fitness.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:58:21 -0400

Editorio is a free native macOS markdown and code editor. My favourite feature is the speed at which this thing opens. Lightning fast.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:33:23 -0400

It’s actually worse than yesterday…

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:51:26 -0400

😷 Walking around with a mask on has just reminded me of the Covid days. The last half decade has shown a small glimpse of how we as humans have impacted the world we live in, on a daily basis. The impact is also not limited to rich and poor countries and people, it impacts everyone, everywhere.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:08:55 -0400

Awesome.

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:44:49 -0400

Richard Reeves once quoted the headmaster of a private UK boys' school who said his mission was to cultivate men who would be:

…acceptable at a dance and invaluable in a shipwreck.

I love this. Something to create a print to put up in our house.

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:19:25 -0400

✈️ The last time I was in an all executive airplane was Silverline in the UK. Clearly not as many people flying to Ottawa this morning.

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:30:13 -0400

⚽️ This game is pure madness. Another penalty!

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:52:31 -0400

🇲🇽 Mexico had 3 mins of stupidity but they have been so damn close to equalising. This game is far from over.

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:36:59 -0400

My heart has now been broken twice in looking for a house. We put an offer on one which wasn’t accepted and then the other we missed by a day maybe? Regardless this search is just exhausting us at the moment.

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:08:05 -0400

🎾 Don’t remember the last time I played tennis, must have been 27 years ago - back when I was a teenager. Totally going to feel it tomorrow, but damn that was a total workout.

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:54:31 -0400

🇨🇦 Happy Canada day everyone. Taking a bit of a breather today and just doing some much needed spring cleaning ahead of our move in a month - destination, unknown.

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:25:38 -0400

🇳🇴 Haaland is like Fabio and Shrek had a baby. Such a unique face/style that confuses me.

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:46:10 -0400

Small break in Niagara on the lake. First time going to this part of the country. Very pretty, but as I worked out very early on in my life here in Canada, vacations are an expensive hobby.

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:55:33 -0400

More Niagara love.

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:39:53 -0400

I wonder if I would appreciate summer as much as I do now, if winter wasn’t as brutal as it is? That yearly anticipation makes the joys I can experience now feel more pronounced.

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:12:27 -0400

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:03:25 -0400

Took a wonderful drive through wine country this evening on an errand. Was properly annoyed to have to do it, but the views totally made up for it. Sun was setting an fun music was playing in the background.

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:22:33 -0400

Summer Plans

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:43:01 -0400

Taking a week off from work to go and visit a bit of Ontario with the family and just reset the tempo of my body a little. We’re off to Niagara for the first time.

It’s been a mentally exhausting 6 months. We have a pretty busy summer ahead of us, so maybe this week is the calm before the storm, ahead of our eventual move, again. While the house is ‘fine’ the school hasn’t really connected with the boys at all.

Summer has officially begun and I have a ton of books that I finally want to either get into or finish, specifically Notes on Being a Man, One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This, Tigana, The Long Ships and if I get time for the last Silo book, Dust. That’s five books in 2 months.

I go through waves of what comics to read. I think I am in the mood for some noir. Maybe finish Stray Bullets, 100 Bullets and Sin City. I’ve read parts of these series at different times throughout my life, but have never the completed the thing.

Having just binge watched the last season of The Bear, I might give that entire series a rewatch. It won’t take very long and honestly, I imagine I’ll pick up a lot of things that I didn’t the first time I watched the series.

I have gotten back to writing again. It’s still super early in the process, but the working title is Phoenixes and it’s a family story that I feel I was born to write about.

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:54:23 -0400

🇳🇴 Gotta say, that stadium collective boat row thingy is my favourite group football action since the Mexican wave.

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:27:55 -0400

☀️ Happy Summer Solstice everyone.

As a Humanist I feel like celebrating specific scientific world events. Also I kinda like the fact that the first day of summer is ‘linked’ to Father’s Day and Mother’s Day is linked to the first day of spring.

The next one is the Autumn solstice.

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:10:44 -0400

Costco is like taking the trash out but in reverse. You hate to do it, but it feels satisfying once done.

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:22:13 -0400

It’s been a rough few weeks. I expect things to settle down a little bit over the next few weeks but next week cannot come soon enough as we are off for a couple of days to unwind a little. Mental break is definitely in order.