Silver Case

•  Not many pictures of Luke lately, but trust me, he is growing quickly.  He came back from his US vacation and basically started talking.  His sentences aren’t too complex yet, and he doesn’t use pronouns, but his vocabulary is bizarre. Lots of multi-syllable words.  “reverse”  “exchange” “not nice [referring to food]” etc.  Ling remarked today that he is also spontaneously speaking in Mandarin that she’s never taught him directly.  He was hiding some trucks under a quilt and started saying “Chu lai chu lai” (come out, come out (in my terrible pinyin)).  Which also leads to my other observation that his play is much more  purposeful now.  He plays with trucks as you’d imagine playing with trucks, making them drive around, interacting with other things, etc.  Little stinker.
• Haven’t cooked much.  Made some adobo sauce from Guajillos and Anchos peppers. Marinated some flank steak with that and had, kind of, fajitas a few times as leftovers.
• An engineer is working on the heavy duty parts of the house renovation (checking foundations and things like that).  He will be able to confirm if we can add an attic room to the house. (I sure fucking hope so)
• Last week I went to Gleneagles for a  (insanely) thorough physical. Endless scannings and probings and measurements.  Monday I get all the results.
• My Dahon commuter bike continues to work great. I love it.  It is a really refreshing way to go to work. Today was thrilling in a morning rain while buses simultaneously pass me on either side. Must have been 3′ clearance. Felt momentarily like a NYC bike messenger.
• Messenger bag is keeping up ok.  Some thoughts are that the heavy duty bar tab stitches need re-done. I still don’t like the angles that I connect the strap to the bag.  The velcro is nice in that it allows me to mindlessly close the bag, but sometimes it is annoying when the velcro sticks to other shit I don’t want it to, like towels, etc. I don’t like the elastic cord keychain.  The key tends to sit at the bottom of the bag, under other stuff, and then I pull on the cord until the key finally pulls free. It’s sort of like shooting yourself in the face with a slingshot.  It reminds me that I thought of an external way to mount the keys.  Maybe I’ll hack an example this weekend.  Also still haven’t sewn on the reflective bars.
• Not sure the exact plan this weekend, other than take Luke on a morning bicycle ride to breakfast because Baby Gym is cancelled this weekend.  I think a haircut is in order for him.  Sunday morning I have some running training at the reservoir.  I have some tax paperwork today and probably some other things on my “New Generation  of Annoyances” to-do list hanging on my wall.   I finally got the seat for my Specialized Stumpjumper mountain bike, maybe I”ll take that to the Jungle for some riding.

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