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End of June and Beginning of July

The car radio has been working fine. But then B accidentally knocked my mounted microphone behind the dashboard with the sun shade. The Jeep was due for an oil change so I took time yesterday morning to do the oil change, and then take apart the center panel to fish everything back where it needs to be. I remounted the microphone in a new spot where it may be less affected, but maybe I'll try to get better mounting tape to keep it in place. Anna said the sound wasn't affected by it being in the dash, but I feel like it works better when it's out.  B and I made it out for a trip at the end of June to see Shakira in San Francisco. She played a really good show. There were four little girls that were sitting behind us who knew the words to many of her Spanish songs and it was adorable to have that chorus behind us. She had quite a few props like a giant inflatable wolf for her encore. I realized that I know more of her music in Spanish than English, but of course she sang anyt...
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First Week of June

I always want to type first that nothing has been going on, and then I realize that minor things do happen. This week it was that Ro's school has been teaching them folk dancing, I installed a new radio with a backup camera in the Jeep, and we went to a neat concert held by Radio Bilingüe. I had taken Ro to one folk dancing event at the library while B was doing tennis lessons. Ro was a little skeptical at first and wasn't excited about the hand-holding, but I told him they used to teach folk dancing in schools as P.E. then music class, and then they just stopped. He ended up really liking it. The average age must have been around 70-80 years old and they didn't mind having to dip down to hold hands with him. I found out I can still make my hands sweat on command. We haven't made it back yet, but I think we'll have to now. For the last week, Ro said that the school was able to find a vendor or volunteer to teach folk dancing to the whole school. He said he was excit...

May Update

 It's June 1st! So it's been awhile. I feel like this month has passed by, but I don't remember what we did. I think I mentioned Bookfest 2025 in my last post so I'll look through my calendar and figure out what I did since then.  The weather has been pretty decent all month up until last week after Memorial Day weekend. I set up a card table in the garage one day to be able to work from home and let Ro play with his remote control batmobile and skateboard across the street. Tor was out with us and mostly stuck around.    Work from home setup complete with desk muppet B and Ro have been checking out churches because Ro has starting wondering what religions are out there. B hasn't been making me go to the Christian ones (or any of them really...because I don't want to). Ro seems to have this idea that the Christian ones don't have as much of an emphasis of the "Do this or you'll go to Hell" aspect. He's in for a rude awakening. Mom has plans...

Spring Break

It's been a fun couple weeks. Ro had Spring Break a couple weeks ago. I thought B and his mom were fighting because she usually offers to watch Ro during Spring Break. She didn't this time. I had a few site visits and trainings to go to. When I told B I was considering asking his mom, he asked which days I needed and took them off instead. It turned out he had some time to burn and wanted to spend time with Ro.  B and Ro went to Bakersfield for a rally one day when I had a site visit in west Kings County and the border of Kern County. Then we hung out at home doing nothing on the second day when I was at a training in San Jose. While in San Jose, I had a chance to catch up with Nick and Ariel and then had dinner with Emmy and Brian. Emmy had bought popcorn from Ro for his annual school fundraiser, but I completely forgot to take it during this visit. I may try to find time or schedule another visit back to the bay to get it to her. She said she otherwise might not make it back ...

Catching up/Ev Wedding

B's grandpa gave Ro a "disguise" set that is wonderful. It's been a while. The main reason why is because I just haven't wanted to sit in front of a screen. Or I just want to play a cell phone game if I do. Maybe I'll just make it a more common practice to do on Sundays at the library after knitting group.  New set of animals, in case I haven't sent this yet It's a lot easier to get my thoughts down with a full keyboard. My little Surface keyboard just doesn't have the same feel. B and I were talking about upgrading my desktop to connect back to the internet. Otherwise, Ro doesn't have a change to practice typing at home. B's uncle (dad's brother) bought Ro a refurbished iPad for Christmas. We bought a cheap bluetooth keyboard to go with it, but Ro noticed it lags, which makes playing the fast typing games online frustrating. Current goals: > Stop biting nails. > Stop looking at social media/new so much. Stare at walls instead. ...

I hope you’ve had a Merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas! Ours was pretty good.  Quick backtrack to Thanksgiving: We just did a small early dinner in Gramma Wanda’s backyard. It was warn and we ended up taking jackets off as well as ate inside. Torstein came with us to hang out with Sophie to be weirdo’s together. Ro also lost both of his front teeth and another bottom tooth that week. On a few Saturdays around that time, Ro went to a sort of Nasa coding camp at Fresno State since we had a break from golf. He ended being sick for two out of the three sessions, but he enjoyed the content. I also got a free community library card at the Fresno State library (job perk) and spent a lot of time knitting at Collect Coffee. Ro said he didn’t like spending a lot of time away from home though. He’s registered for baseball in spring, will be doing golf all year, and planning on tennis in summer (no refunds on that one for rain though the other two are flexible/flat rate).  Ro had a winter show at his school. The cafeteri...