Life with Boose and Finch

I have a lot of time during work to listen to podcasts.  I have a 45 minute commute.  At the moment, I spend hours standing up looking for insects and diseases in fruit.  I also have a lot of time after all of that to do paperwork.  Listening to podcasts is one of the few ways that I like listening to major news events because otherwise I'll keep jumping down the rabbit hole of all of the bad things that are possible to go wrong in life when I search through the news websites.  I think B has even stopped checking websites for that reason.  Just for fun, I'll list a few of my favorites (in no particular order) and in a couple of posts. Local-ish: Hello Bakersfield I spent my whole childhood living in southwest Bakersfield and only moved to Fresno ten years ago with the original intention to study linguistics at Fresno State.  I've liked watching the Fresno downtown and Tower District revitalization.  It's also been really fun watching my old friends who stay

Despite saying that he was done biking after doing his AIDS/Lifecycle ride, B has still been out biking on Saturday mornings.  Also in true Father's Day fashion, B wanted to get away from us for Daddy Time not being with his family.  (I'm really joking.  The joke between B and I is that for Mother's Day, it's all about how the mom is surrounded/smothered by family and the dad goes fishing in a far off land maybe with beer and another likeminded dude for Father's Day.)  During this last Saturday morning, I thought Ro and I could go out for some fun.   We started the morning off with breakfast at Benediction ($23.44) eating/sharing French toast bites, scrambled eggs, thick cut bacon (Ro), orange juice (mine) and apple juice (for Ro).  I really love this little restaurant, but B doesn't really like it that much, and so I thought it would be fun.  Ro loved to draw in chalk on the tables.  He didn't really like the bacon very much, but probably because he was

So...B has been training, raising money, and finally finished his bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles!  Yes, you read that right.  He rode his bicycle 545 miles and between 40 and 100 miles per day.  Luckily, I managed to get to the finish line in time to see him finish the ride! We were soo happy he was done, but he says it was the best time.  B is still debating on whether or not to do it again because of the time commitment, but we'll see. Let's back up a bit though.  How did I get to Los Angeles in time?!  I'm still kind of amazed I did get there by 12:30PM. I managed to have the foresight on Friday to fill up the gas tank and remember to ask my friend to watch Caboose.  Finch is usually okay with just some water and food.  I set the thermostat to turn on the air conditioning if it got too hot.  I also left the bedroom doors open so she could hide under the bed if she still got hot. (She's staring at me as I'm typing this.  Can she tell that I