I don’t know why the ongoing Covid restrictions make me so crazy. Their impact is not that great. I think it’s just that I KNOW that half the people in this country are living their lives as normal, while in Washington, that’s still far from the case. Ongoing restrictions, large and small. Mostly small, but…
A little piano duet with the Bri-ster. Gotta love her facial expressions! We are working on the “B” book from Alfred, and it’s going well, though lessons can be challenging at times to say the least. My kids’ teachers tell us they are little angels, but that is certainly not what we see at home….
I read an interesting article in the WSJ about the outsize impact of clothes-buying on the environment. Apparently, the average American purchases 54 articles of clothing a year. 54! Some quotes: Wardrobes take a much smaller share of the household purse than they used to. U.S. consumers spend just 3% of their disposable income on…
If I had more money than I knew what to do with, I’d buy . . . 1.) Lots of Cafe Du Cycliste stuff. Like these flowery bib shorts. 2.) 28″ Fast and Free tights from Lululemon 3.) Lots of Jellycat stuffies for all the babies and small children in my life 4.) A Garmin…
One thing runningahead.com helps you do is track costs per mile with your equipment. I get about 500 miles out of a pair of running shoes, so if I pay $125 for the shoes, that’s about 25 cents per mile. It takes me about 10 minutes to run a mile, so that’s a cost of…
Jonathan got his second shot yesterday. This is him under pretty much every blanket we have in the house, dealing with chills. He was about as sick as I have seen him in the last few years, which is mostly a reflection of the fact that he pretty much never gets sick. Hopefully the reaction…
The rate of vaccination in the US has slowed dramatically, and it’s really concerning. Based on Israel’s data, if we get to 60% of adults (16+) vaccinated, we’ll be golden. But we’re not trending towards that any time soon. Looking at the plot, you can see that the rate of vaccination (slope) for Israel was…
