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 anything with an English option in English since she was in America. The funny thing is that I think the crowd would have been fine if everything was in Spanish. The people-watching at the show was also the best between all the gay men, drag queens, Latina women, bachelorette parties, and the white men everyone name above dragged with them to the show. Ro stayed with B's mom while we were there and it was the first time we were away from him (other than a friend's sleepover) in a very long time. We had a chance to visit Emmy near the ferry building during her lunch before we went home, but we didn't do much else.
July looks like it got busier for us. I joined two bands -- one with the local adult school that is more of a training/practice and the other is a concert band that was four practices over three weekends then a final concert set to a movie on the third weekend. It's pretty wild. I play the third trombone part and I tried to tell them that I can't reach bass trombone notes, but I still manage to get bass trombone parts anyways.
Ro is still having his free range summer with Grandma Wanda, but he'll be starting swim lessons this week. Swim lessons will continue the week after and then he'll have archery lessons the week after that. I'm looking at going to Auckland with Mom during Ro's 2nd week of swim lessons. So everyone will probably have fun while I'm out. No plans yet on what we'll be doing there. After all that, Ro will be heading to WA again with Mom for two week, we'll meet up in San Francisco the weekend before school starts, and then school will start.
I made a deal with Ro that if he read 40min in English and 40 mins in Spanish each week until school started that I would give him $100. He barely negotiated everything and we've been keeping track anyways because of the library summer reading program. My friends said that I'm actually getting a good deal if reading was labor or if he was reading for allowance.
Ro and B also decided to try pétanque and have been playing that for the last three weeks. There's a local club that gets together at least weekly. They have professional players and many of the members play in tournaments. Some people have skill but everyone else seems to get by with luck. Everyone is nice though.
I've been trying to exercise when I can. My running watch died a few weeks ago at a friend's pool and Garmin gave me 20% off replacement if I sent the old one back. It suggested that I run 45mins this morning (old one didn't have that feature) so I tried. Then I played pétanque with B and Ro. I may have over done it. B and I are leaning towards a racquet club membership still. B would get discounts on lessons, I would be able to use their weight room, and we'd all be able to use their pool. B and Ro went to our community pool when I was changing the oil and said that things weren't great there. I guess other homeowners don't treat things that well.
Work has been wild lately. Our union just delayed the governor's return to office order. I asked my boss if she was at a point of thinking "You guys just do whatever you want as long as work gets done." She said she has to follow the rules, but pretty much. I have a few coworkers under limited-term positions that are scrambling to try to stay employed or shift around as their contracts are coming up. We started a mentor/mentee program and there's a chance I may lose my mentor at the end of the month. State budgeting is weird. There isn't any more talk about pay cuts and furloughs though. Other than that, I've managed to snap out a permit so my workload has felt like it's decreased though maybe it didn't actually.
I love you and miss you.
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