There are a lot of hills near us, which makes the prospect of running… challenging. I’ll be honest, the very notion of running is a challenge to me, and throwing steep hills into the mix is a rough addition.
Luckily, we’ve found a few spots nearby that are a bit more level. It requires some driving (and some small bit of planning), but definitely a better choice than hills.
Turned on the TV, and was happy to find two things: with the cable package here, they have a 24-hour poker channel. And it just so happened that the game I was watching featured none other than me Steve Aoki.
Woke up early today, to see Tricia off. She’s heading to training for a few weeks, and was catching an early morning ride to the airport.
Tonight, we arrived in the nick of time… and discovered we mostly had the entire theater to ourselves. The kids got pretty excited, and scrambled down to the front to get seats closer to the screen.
Got a tour of Costco today. I know I’ve been to one before, but it’s been ages. Turns out, shopping for a family of three kids means that buying in bulk makes a lot of sense (both pragmatic and financial).
Two guesses as to where we stopped, en route.
Nearby, between the restaurant and our car, we passed by a Puttshack. We saw what looked to be an indoor minigolf course, and decided to try our luck.
Despite how late it was, and despite how tired we were, Liz and I figured on stopping in to see if they had any open slots. Luckily for us, they did.
Liz had a busy day of errands today. In the midst of things, she stopped by next door to finalize some window repair, for our neighbor Carol Jean.
We gave Daisy a bit of a cleaning today. She’s had some fur matting near her behind, and along her legs. So we made a makeshift bath, and got to addressing her hindquarters a bit.
We were able to comb some of the area out, but also cut a lot of matted fur as well. And also gave her a nail trim to boot.
I’m used to there being rabbits in our backyard (I have a feeling they know our house is a bunny house). But it still throws me, to see rabbits being so bold, walking down the streets late at night.
A pretty big fallen limb, which would have been a sight to behold as it fell.
I thought there might have been some stronger winds that day… but I didn’t notice anything (I was inside, on a computer all day). But apparently… we got some weather.
I walked out into the backyard after work today, figuring on doing a bit of yardwork. I looked up, and my heart sank… as I realized I needed to do some serious repair work, and fast.
What I saw (and failed to get a good photo of): my fence had more or less split in the middle, with one panel coming detached from one of the posts. And two large sections of the fence were swaying back and forth.
In a silly turn of events, while we were having new windows installed at our house, Liz was over at our neighbor’s house, helping to repair a window.
“But even the good book says he’s coming
like a thief in the night.
Place your belief upon a thief and I’m thinking
you’re off one cross to the right.
But they say if war is at your door and the moon is high,
you might as well leave on the light.”
Came home after running errands to find that Liz had started to peel off the plastic panels that were on both sides of our new windows.
She and been working on the interior side, and I started on the exterior. She warned me that the act of removing the plastic caused a decent amount of static build-up (and she got a particularly nasty shock).