Ruby Falls asleep at the keyboard. Must have been quite a day. After taking this picture, I carried her into bed for the night.

Wow, this was easily the best weekend I’ve had in a while. Saturday, I took my final test ride (21 miles) and purchased my new bike (see earlier posts). Then headed home for a quick lunch. After lunch the Logans came over and we caravaned up to the Maker Faire. It was much bigger this year, and we didn’t have nearly enough time to see it all. Almost everyone was sad to leave, but we were exhausted and cold.

When I got home from work yesterday, Victoria told me that Miles had somehow moved all the way across the kitchen, opened the cupboard door, and removed the mixing bowls. Later on I saw Miles go from his belly to sitting up.

In other news we have seen a new tooth popping through, and he’s had periods of discomfort over the last few days.

Ruby is sitting on my lap as I write this, so I asked her if there was anything that she wanted me to include about her, any new accomplishments. She said “I want to build a building”. I’m pretty sure she means a skyscraper. So after my ride, I guess we have to get started on the drafting lessons :)

I went in to the Bicycle Outfitters today at lunch on my boss’ recommendation. Dave (the salesman) was very knowledgeable and got me sized up on three bikes: a Trek Madone 5.1; a Bianchi Carbon C2C; and a Orbea Onix.

A few weeks ago I agreed to be the Team Captain for the SETI Institute’s Tour de Cure Team. As you might guess, I also committed to riding in the event (want to sponsor me?). I will be riding the 75K route. If you know me, then you know it killed me to admit that the 120K was out of reach. I really just can’t stand to sacrifice my best hours with the kids for a more aggressive training regimen. This brings me to my point.

After all these years you would think that I would know better than to start a server upgrade at 10:45pm. Well, I haven’t learned. As expected, something went wrong, and I was too tired to get it straightened out. So it waited most of today until I had a moment to fix everything.

Everything is back to normal now, and with a beautiful new theme. What do you think of it?

Miles has passed some landmarks lately. This we ekend he started saying "da-da-da-da" which, of course, means daddy. This simple syllabic-repetition has make Miles 200% more interesting, in m y humble opinion.

Also I heard today (from Grand) that he rolled over onto his belly, and back onto his back. While this is fascin ating, and wonderful, its also the end of an age. There is no denying that we are about to have two mobile children on our hands.

Wish us luck!

Ruby yelled at me today to give her something. I told her that she needed to ask nicely, and since she asked so rudely, that she was going to have to put a little extra sweetness on it.
"What kind of sweetness?", asked Ruby.
"What kind do you have?", says I.
"I've got the kind of sweetness that makes you crazy in your body"

Oh my!!

We spent a rainy Saturday, just hanging around the house together. Ruby and I made Caramel Creme de Pots. The caramel was under-burnt, but you really can't complain when faced with 1.5 cups of sugar, cream, eggs, and milk.

Ruby insisted that she could separate and egg, so we tried together. I'm afraid that if she had to do it on her own, we would have a lot of mess :)

Yesterday, as I was putting Ruby down for a nap she said to me, "You know daddy, when I get to be 5 I want to do something really dangerous". "Oh really", I asked "like what?". "Like fl y with my own wings", was her considered reply. "Like with a hang glider?", says me. "Yeah, like that".

I suggested that sa iling around the world was also pretty dangerous. She seemed to think that was a reasonable compromise. Thank god!

What do I do when she's 4 and asks to go sky diving when she's 6?