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I went for a late afternoon ride planning to meet up with Em for her commute home. Before meeting with her, I had to make a quick stop at the Parallel 49 Brewing Company in East Van.   After sampling three new beers, I left with a 3D bottle of Hopnotist for tonight’s dinner loaded in my Tangle bag.

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How convenient, my surly doesn’t have a chariot attachment (not that I could pull Beryl up the hill from daycare to our home on a singlespeed) so Emily had to muscle her home.  Fortunately, she was sporting her BCCup Cyclocross Champion Jersey which seemed to give her wings…

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alas, after we got home, the surprise (Em didn’t know I had detoured by Parallel 49) went bad when I dropped the IPA while exiting the garage; Alcohol Abuse!!!!  Fortunately, we only left 1/3 of the bottle in the backyard..

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tasty..tasty.. and yes, there is a perceptible 3D effect on the label…

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Mothers’ Day #2

The first few weeks after Beryl was born were challenging. The hardest part was not the lack of sleep, fear of my ignorance in how to take care of a baby, or the manically changing hormones that made me cry about everything (oh yes, cat food commercials are emotionally manipulative). The hardest . . . → Read More: Mothers’ Day #2

if you don’t have the skillz

into the pond with you!!

the rainy weekend (not to mention Em’s in progress kick-butt-mom mountain bike ride and Be3Al2Si6O18’s morning nap, that she doesn’t take during daycare) gives me a few minutes to recount a recent sunny day ride with Em on Fromme..

Straight to the the kicker, a series of shots crossing the heron pond on . . . → Read More: if you don’t have the skillz