Productivity thanks to arson

Yesterday morning I woke up at 6 a.m. as usual. Only with a severely blocked nose and the mother of a headache. I went straight for a walk with the dog. This is my standard morning ritual, by the way, except for the blocked nose and the headache.

Anyway, as I exit the garage I notice that the whole area is covered in fog, or smoke. I couldn't smell anything so it was not so easy to determine which. But sure enough, after a few minutes of walking I saw the smoke column about 1,5 km away. So I fished out my iPhone and looked up the local news. Turns out that the gym hall at a local school was on fire. The smoke was really thick.

Well, at 7.30 I dropped my daughter off at kindergarten and walked back home. I wanted a few words with the builders who are now ridiculously late in finishing the construction of my conservatory and garage extension. I was gearing up to take the motorbike to work while complaining to the workers about their slowness when they rang from kindergarten. They had received orders to close all schools and kindergartens in town due to the poisonous smoke. So, I had to go pick up my daughter and spend the day at home.

So we stayed at home yesterday, me and my daughter. Oddly enough, I must say that I have a feeling that I got more work done than I normally would during a day in the office. After lunch it was time for my daughter to take a nap. And what better way to get children to sleep than to read a Nemchinsky article on plasma physics to them? I read the article "What we know and do not know about plasma arc cutting." Fascinating stuff. And the average 3 year old will fall asleep by the 3rd paragraph.