Monday

Progress means riding enough that your butt no longer feels like chopped liver* when it touches the seat. (Darr recently started riding his bike to work and Henry and I join him a couple times a week.)

Today, we're meeting some friends at a food cart - Samurai - downtown for lunch. I don't have too much experience with Japanese food so I enlisted Darr's help so I know what to order. I'll be having the pork yakisoba noodles, and he said it's totally okay for me to move the egg on top to the side if I don't want to eat it. (Eggs in carbonara recipes = yummy. Fried egg on top of noodles = weird.) More on this later as this will also be Henry Finn's first foray into Japanese cuisine.

Since it is predicted to hit 90 degrees (90 degrees!), we're heading out to Mo's house (her son, Jackson, was wearing the white polo in the zoo video posted Saturday) for some pool madness this afternoon.

Other things to do today include grocery shopping, picking up an extra whatchamacallit so Darr can hitch the trailer to his bike, hitting Hanna Andersson's to check out their Halloween pumpkin costume, and possibly baking a pie. As for dinner, I was listening to those darn folks at NPR this morning and we're on the brink of a beef catastrophe as far as prices are concerned so I'm going to buy some while I can still afford it.

*It's chopped and it's liver, how good can it feel?