A little hiatus

I guess it's funny to say that I'm going to take a break for about a week since uh ... I do that anyway without announcing it.

Right.

Yeah, I have to go to Pittsburgh for a few days to clean up the condo, repaint, refloor and reappliance. Adam's coming, too, so it should be a good time.

As per what's been going on here ... still riding the bike whenever I can. I went for a ride yesterday (Sunday) evening and got a flat about 2/3 of the way through. I heard a ssss .... ssss sound every once in a while. I thought something was brushing something else, but when I stopped to check, I saw the distinctive Slime green around the rim of my tire. I saw that I was at a road that would take me straight home in about 2-3 miles, so I just headed out. Eventually the sound stopped (the Slime kicked in) and I nursed it home. I took weight off the wheel (got off my ass) as much as possible and generally went slow. Very annoying. I could have stopped to change it, but it was getting late. I could have stopped to put more air in it, but I'm lazy like that.

All in all, I'm pretty pleased with July's riding. I should be able to hit up the last two days of July when I return to slightly edge out the 271 miles I did in June. And that's the key ... more mileage every month.

Maria's driving is getting better, too. The last thing to still do is the parallel parking. Then we'll just go for the test to see how she does. There are a few things to fine tune, but whatever. I was also thinking how the driving here is actually a bit more "complicated" than in say, Lancaster or Pittsburgh. That is, there are simply more lanes here. And you generally have to know which one to be in long before you turn into it! I mean, no big deal if you miss it, you can just keep going and turn around. But still.

Also, I found that roundabouts are really, really fun. Particularly when I say, turn right at the roundabout. And she doesn't. So we just go around again! No problem there.

Asim's having fun being a baby still. We went to get his haircut over the weekend. That was his first haircut. He didn't squirm too much which was good considering the nearby scissors. I'm glad we got it cut; the weather is fairly warm, so now he doesn't sweat as much around his forehead.