Bike Rides, Music and Books

2022-04-26

Bike Ride

As we often do on Sundays we loaded the kids in the bike trailer and rode to our favorite brewery. The reason we like this brewery so much is well, the beer is good which is important but they are also kid friendly. Not just tolerates bringing your kids but actually welcome people bringing their kids. They have an inexpensive meal for kids on the menu and free watermelon slices for kids. They also have little packs of toys they will give to your kids if you ask. A while back we were there when it was a slow day and had a chat with the owner and learned that he has two kids a little bit older than ours and that this was a concerted effort he wanted to make when opening his own brewery. Pretty cool guy! The other thing we like about it is they have nice big outdoor patio area with good shade. With COVID and having young children that cannot yet get vaccinated this is pretty much the only way we feel comfortable going out anywhere. Having a large outdoor area where we can have our space. This particular day they were having a youth concert event with a bunch of bands made up of kids from grade school to high school playing alternative and rock music. The ride is a little over 20 miles round trip and the riding portion is always a nice time for my wife and I to get some one on one time to just chat about life together.

Music

I have been burning more minidiscs. For time and effort reasons instead of making mixdiscs right now I'm just burning albums that I enjoy to fill out my options for things to listen to. In the process I realized that my collection of CAKE music was mp3 format so I went to replace it with FLAC versions instead and discovered there was one album that I wasn't previously aware of. So now I have their last album, Showroom of Compassion, on a minidisc and on my music server. It's good just like everything else CAKE has ever put out.

Books

I'm a huge fan of the TV show Psych. For those not familiar it is a fairly light-hearted and humorous show about two guys that start a psychic detective agency because one of them is hyper-observant and pretends to be psychic. They are also goofy and childish in a funny and endearing way. There is a series of novels written by one of the writers from the show and I finished two of them in the last two weeks. I highly recommend these novels to anyone that enjoys the show. Not because they are literary masterpieces but because they give you more of the *feeling* of the show in book form. They are a fun read. Next up I think I'm going to read Cory Doctorow's Walkaway.

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