oh, and about gas prices

If you want to spend less money on gas, drive less. Surely you can cut a few miles off your weekly routine. Car pool? Take public transit? Consolidate errands? Horror of horrors, walk or ride a bike? (And when you do drive, check your tire pressure. Low tire pressure makes your car use more gas.)

The gas companies want to make money and as they see us paying the high prices and keeping the demand up, the prices will stay high. Complaining won't make a difference. You need to take action. Reduce the demand and the prices will decrease.

We had a somewhat domestic weekend. After spending last weekend making 8 centerpieces for the wedding, we did absolutely nothing wedding-related. Was it wise to take that time off? I don't know. I still have many, many favors to make.

Mike went biking, we went walking together. Did some light house-keeping. Mike baked brownies.

I hit the sewing room with a vengence. I took out a nearly-finished jacket and worked on it so it's even closer to being finished. It just needs closure. (Ha, ha.) I cut out a shirt. I traced two pants patterns and started making a muslin of one of them. I am Sewing With a Purpose (not SWAP, which is Sewing With a Plan). We will most likely be moving again a year from now and I want to move clothes instead of boxes of fabric. So I'm sewing down my stash. I also need some summer clothes and I need neutral pieces to go with some of my more colorful pieces.

Coming up later this week: The Gluten-Free Beer Taste-Test. The BevMo near us has three different kinds of gluten-free beer and I've spent the last few days trying them.

all your skogs are belong to us

We have some hot skogs lounging around the house. It's warm here now. And it most likely stay like this until next November or so. If you're coming out in June, get your hats and sunblock ready. The sun is scorching out here.

Next week is my last week of fitness camp. I feel like that man to the left there. After yesterday's strength training I could hardly get out of bed this morning. I think today will be something cardiovascular. Tomorrow we're having a session at a climbing gym. We certainly stay active for a full hour.

I'm not certain how much my fitness has improved. We did a test at the begining--push-ups, timed mile, etc. I don't think my mile will be much faster for the final test. We're not doing the kind of working out that I need for improving my running signficantly. I'm hoping to increase the number of push-ups I can do (my original number is embarrassingly low). My body mass index was in the good-to-fair range. Ultimately I'd like it to be closer to excellent, but I really don't know how much it will actually change over just four weeks.

Time for my light breakfast.

San Diego

Can someone please confirm if Ron Burgandy is based on a real anchorman from San Diego? The so-called news anchors in San Diego are so dopey and flakey that there's no way Ron Burgandy is an entirely fictional character.



News idiots aside...

On our first day in San Diego, after wandering around Ocean Beach and having dinner in our favorite Mexican restaurant there (where after 2 years the waitress recognized us and remembered my usual order) and wistfully thinking about how much we loved that neighborhod, we walked down the pier, over particularly high waves splashing some spray up onto us, and we saw dolphins. It was the first time I'd ever seen dolphins in the wild, in their natural setting, away from an aquarium or zoo. It was so awesome. It was like Ocean Beach was telling us to come back, showing us what we're missing by not living there anymore.

The rest of the trip was pretty great, but nothing beats dolphins.

We miss San Diego!

Last night we got home from our 5 days in San Diego. We miss it so much! We hung out in OB with our old neighbors, and we went to our favorite restaurants and we walked and we kayaked and we went to Balboa Park. San Diego is awesome.

We're home from San Diego! The skogs are thrilled to see us. Details of the trip to follow. No pics, though. We forgot to bring the camera.