Miracles of modern times

This week I discovered that, from our bedroom, I can look out across the sea and find ships, then look online at live marine traffic maps, with click-through to photographs of ships, and confirm that what I see out of the window matches what I see on the screen. I would still like the life extension and interstellar travel but it's a start.

Appreciating home ownership

It feels odd to be back in a rented flat having lived in our own detached house. I enjoyed the feeling that my family and I could be truly alone, left to our own devices, even for the long term. So long as it were legal, we could do what we liked in and to that house, and keep on doing it, just so long as I continued generating at least some income. I savoured having a small world all of our own that was nobody else's business whatsoever.