Life with Boose and Finch

I had a few moments this morning, and so I thought I'd mention a few things I had missed in my last post or had happened since then.   I had forgotten to mention that Ro and I had a dentist appointment in Bakersfield during the second week of June.  This visit had been postponed from August 2020, then Februrary 2021, and May 2021.  We were going to go in February, but B thought the visit wasn't necessary during COVID, and he also needed the car for work to go to an election training.  I postponed to May since I knew that B had also made concessions since there were things (and still are things) that I didn't want us to do during a pandemic.  I then changed it again because I didn't want to ruin Ro's perfect attendance at school.   The neat thing about postponing to June was that everyone except the kids were vaccinated by then, and so Ro and I had a nice lunch on the patio (we had a whole section to ourselves) at the Social House with my friend Li...

My Tern HSD only stayed at the bike shop for less than a week. They had originally quoted it would be between three days and two weeks. For a free tuneup covered by a warranty because I bought it from a local bike shop, I really have nothing to complain about. Unfortunately, it has been way too hot to bike Ro anywhere. We’ll be hanging out together on Wednesday while everyone else is at B’s great-aunt (or Grandpa Ron’s sister’s) funeral.  The weather will be a balmy 97 degrees, and so maybe we’ll make it out to a park or something at 6-7am. When you’re too impatient to wait for a car ride to pick up your favorite bike and you end up towing the backup you used to get to the store.  But we do have some news! Ro was casted as a Little Mouse in Fresno’s Nutcracker Ballet. I saw the auditions advertised on Instagram about a month ago. Last week on the day of the auditions, I brought them up again. B and I suspected that Ro would like dance classes, but we were also willing to let R...

I think this is the second Memorial Day where we didn’t have any plans, but that is a very good thing. Most of this weekend had been about relaxing, exercising, and catching up on a little cleaning   Roboy-mantis Ro and I went to ninja class on Saturday and then spent Saturday afternoon watching part of Aquaman at Sharon’s. Ro got a kick out of meeting Al because I let him as Al every question he had under the sun such as debating the purpose of rods and cones in human sight. They also got excited looking up stuff and printing out information.  B and I have been trying to exercise more. B is still doing his long rides out into the hills. I’ve picked up on doing karate exercises on youtube. I didn’t realize that my Garmin wasn’t taking into account any extra exercises that I did out of my recorded running and biking exercises. I’ve stopped recording my ebike rides because it doesn’t seem accurate unless I record it as “other” for our long rides to Old Town Clovis. I usually lik...

  Tube Tunnel Mole Has Nothing To Do   Once upon a time, Tube Tunnel Mole had nothing to do but sleep in his small mole bed.  His pillow had his name and a picture of his face stitched on it.  He slept well on his bed.  He dreamed about exactly what was happening outside of his eyelids:  nothing, but the things that were around him.  His small television, which was turned off. The blue walls of his house that didn’t have any paintings or pictures.  His blue robot Mobot that he usually used to make birdhouses.   He woke up in a spaceship.  The ten astronauts took his bed, his pillow, and his whole house in the rocket ship.  Tube Tunnel Mole felt like an astronaut and felt happy about being in the spaceship.  Tube Tunnel Mole wanted to know what the astronauts discovered that they didn’t show on television.  The spaceship didn’t have a window, and they wanted to land on the moon.  Because there wasn’t a window, they wat...

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...

I think we ended 2020 well.  I spent New Years Eve working from home with Ro. He watched a lot of tv, played with his toys, and then we took a quick masked trip to the grocery store, meat shop, and ice cream shop. Everyone at the stores kept asking him if he was going to stay up for New Years. He looked at them like they were crazy and we had to talk about the staying up part when we got home because he had never done it before. Ro had been excited to choose the meats and so for dinner we had Santa Maria marinated chicken and hot dogs, and then I also baked crackers and baked brie with onions. I also made two boules of sourdough bread, but that was only because I already had the dough going in the fridge.  We didn't stay up late, but we were ready to play the next day. I've still been doing a lot of baking this year with lots of cinnamon rolls and biscuits.  Having a sourdough starter is like keeping another animal, but using the discards in food.  It has gotten me t...