Life with Boose and Finch

B and I got our second Pfizer shots recently.  It's hard to tell if we're having side effects or psychosomatic symptoms.  After my first shot, I had some shortness of breath overnight, I was tired, I had bad allergies, my arm was super sore and I had weird upper back pain the next day.  After the second, I made sure to go running and that seemed to take care of the symptoms for the first night and next day.  I made the mistake of having a drink, thinking I was in the clear, but then I had random cold sweats and waves of pain in my head and back overnight with weird dreams about the pain and how it wouldn't go away until I got more shots.  Eventually, everything went away as if nothing ever happened.  B got his second shot last Friday and felt a bit of tiredness, but he went on a forty-five mile bike ride this morning -- the first group ride his bike gang has gone on since COVID started shutting things down -- and he seems fine now.  He's more worried a...

I finally got my cargobike on February 13th.  I called up our local bike shop Rubber Soul and talked details with the owner Rich.  From talking with him, he agreed that the Tern cargo bikes were the way to go.  I was leaning towards the Tern HSD since it is a smaller and less pricey, but Rich only had a Tern GSD S10, which he was willing to let me borrow for the weekend.  So, I did. B had been worried that a  cargobike was overkill, and I just needed an electric bike.  I had told Rich how much I was hauling and that I kept wearing out the brakes on my Specialized bike.  When the front brake line broke, B took it to Steven's bicycles where it took them three weeks to fix.  I have a brand new bike to ride, but it was really bad riding B's road bike in the meantime.  The 19" work computer is a really big drag to carry even in a backpack on a road bike.  I ended up falling on his bike a couple of times.  Rich had mentioned that the...