A Cat By Any Other Name

Last weekend, when we got back from our bicycle wanderings, we realized that the odometer read just slightly over 400 miles. That’s 400 miles total, since we started riding our bikes back in March. Based on that number, on the fact that we’re now doing an 11-mile circuit three days a week, and also on [...]

We decided to go exploring a bit on our bikes this morning. There’s one road that heads directly to the freeway if you head north, and we’d gone down it a bit on the south side, but never more than a few miles. This is a road Richard’s never actually driven, so we didn’t quite [...]

I had the day off from work today. It wasn’t like yesterday, where the day off from work was spent running madly around trying to get everything ready for a horde of people to descend on the house. Today was significantly more relaxed. This was a good thing. A very good thing. We didn’t ride [...]

The plan was to get up however late the cats would let us sleep, and then hop on our bikes and ride to Winters for breakfast. After the ride with the Davis Bike Club last week, we figured out that round-trip from our house wasn’t going to be that much further than where the club [...]

I am sitting at my desk, waiting for class to begin. We had our test yesterday (which consisted of 40 multiple choice trick questions. I aced it, but still, I find these sort of things annoying). So now there’s a full day of lecture that no one is remotely interested in listening too because it [...]

Excuse me. I’d like to talk to you. Yes, you. Over there. The ones with the kids. We really need to talk. No, I’m not talking to you there, the one with the baby who’s teething. We all understand that sometimes kids get cranky, and you’re doing an admirable job of trying to console her. [...]

Richard got new gloves on Saturday, so I decided that, as it was only fair, it was time for me to get a new piece of biking apparel as well. So Sunday afternoon we headed off to the mall so I could pick out a sports bra. Regular bras are all well and good for [...]

Along the back roads and the freeway ramps where I live, there is an abundance of wildlife. One plant in particular I have been admiring for weeks now, each time I pedal or drive by. In fact the little patch of land that the freeway on-ramp circles around was at one point overflowing with this [...]

Today was one of those busily domestic days.. It started with a bike ride, or rather, we went out to go on a bike ride but then discovered that we had not actually removed all the thorns from my back tire and the new inner tube was now flat as well. Richard popped the wheel [...]

On the way down to Berkeley on Sunday afternoon for our lunch picnic with Beth, Sabs, and Victor, we stopped at the grocery store to get whipped topping for the pie I’d made (peach!) and bottles of flavored water for the drive. As is usual, they had their seasonal goodies displayed right by the door. [...]