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Cake day: August 14th, 2024

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  • My wife got an aventon abound (e-bike, not trike)this last winter, and it has been great. We go on all day family bike rides once per weekend, weather permitting. She still pedals and gets a workout but it helps for steep hills and the distances I like to go. Our oldest sits on the passenger rail on the back and I drag the youngest in a burley bee.

    We usually loop around one of the lakes by us stopping at playgrounds along the way, we do anywhere from 30 to 40 miles. It’s family time, outdoor time, and exercise all wrapped up in one. My wife was a bit nervous at first, but now she loves it. Stuff like the bike and the trike in the post are great for getting people moving and outside who might be otherwise daunted or unable. Everyone deserves mobility









  • About, oh my a decade ago, I had what I call the toffpocalypse. I was drinking and decided to make toffee from sweetened condensed milk by boiling the cans in a pot. Well I inevitably fell asleep and woke up to the alarms in the entire apartment blaring. There was a thick smoke and the dog had pooped on the floor in fear. The cans had exploded when the water boiled away, denting the ceiling and the stove hood. I turned off the stove, opened the windows, and fanned the smoke until the alarms stopped. Luckily the building alarms had not gone off.

    I had intended it to be a video gaming heavy weekend as my wife was away visiting a friend. Instead I had to use wet rags to clean toffee off of the ceiling as best as I could for all of Sunday. I did manage to mostly get it all clean. It was a good lesson to learn not to actively cook while not sober, the results could have been much worse, even fatal