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Around 10am Julia and went on a big bicycle ride today. We went north on Mission to Lorain, and then took Lorain east all the way to Duarte. Then went east on Duarte all the way to the Santa Anita mall. 6 miles one way!

She did great.

Then rode the same route back home, for a total ride of 12.2 miles, took 1hr 18minutes, and our average speed was 9miles/hr.


Here is what the training bicycle looks like, that our kind neighbors to the north are letting me borrow, connect to my commuter bicycle.

I am glad we went early, because by 2pm, the backyard thermometer is indicating 103F in the shade. The back room is 89F.
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Turned on the little 5000btu window air conditioner in the front room, and played Wii sports for a bit. Tried to get Ben to try Wii baseball and golf, but he got whiny about doing it himself, and didn't want us parents showing him how to do it. Degenerated to Mom being frustrated, Ben frustrated, Julia bored, and me trying to keep the peace.

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Rode to Val's again today with Julia. We rode on the training bicycle. One way distance from my house to Val's via Hermosa, past San Gabriel Blvd, to the little residential street north to Bevan is 2.3miles.

So, rode to Val's, then took Kaity and Kristie to Washington School via bicycles. Played there for a bit, then rode back to Val's, for more play, then rode with Julia back home. Julia probably rode about five miles with me today. Was great fun and bonding time.

Now the girls are in the backyard with Ben, hanging out while Val and Sonjia go do some feminine maintenance and go get a pedicure or something like that.



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In the morning
Took Julia riding again on the training bicycle. She is really enjoying getting to go bicycling with me. We rode all the way to where the City of San Gabriel had a hosted BBQ by our Congressional representative Adam Shiff. We then rode Valerie's house (they were not home) and then back home.

In the afternoon
We inflated the kid pool, and let the kids do water play in the back yard. It got up to 93F in the back poarch, but absolutely blue clear skies. No haze or clouds. While the kids played in the water, I rested in the new gazebo and read a sci-fi book (EON by Greg Bear). Sonjia even purchased a pair of small super-soaker water squirters so the kids to play with those in the back yard.

Got to use the new Brinkman BBQ that Sonjia purchased yesterday. It did great. Grilled up some Italian sausage, hamburgers, zucchini slices. Sonjia and Valerie had a great spread: Fruit salad, potato salad, pickles,olives, and treats. I did my best not to over-eat, but know I still did :)

In the evening
The kids got to play in the house and back yard some more. Val and Katie and Kristie stayed till 1am, apparently. Julia and I feel asleep by 11pm or so.

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Went to Pie and Burger for brunch.
Went to Borders to look at and buy books.

Came home. Rested. Then attached the training 3rd wheel to my commute bicycle, and Julia and I did laps around the neighborhood. She was a bit anxious at first, but after 2 laps, was having good fun riding with me around and around the block. I think we went riding for a good 30minutes.

I feel like I was a good Dad for helping her ride with me.




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Current Location: san gabriel, california
Current Mood: chipper

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Had a wonderful Father's Day.

Got a framed picture of Ben on a scooter at his day care.
Got a bicycle LED light, very fancy and powerful one, from Sonjia, Ben and Julia.
Julia made a drawing for me, and also performed with her Pasadena Civic Ballet at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.

She did a wonderful job, and the Ballet was excellent, with a variety of dancing styles and music themes.

After the ballet, did brunch at the local Carl's Jr, and it was nice and quiet environment to de-stress after a busy but rewarding day.


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Teaching myself about PEAR from http://pear.php.net

Nice to know that there are prebuilt things using best practices. Now, like I did for J2EE, I just need to study, practice, and learn what is available.

pear list - to list what I already have installed.

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Trying to keep up with how the economy is doing is like being back in college: Tiring.

I like all the information, but geez, all the news is, well, geez!

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com

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Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/mrflash818
LJ: http://mrflash818.livejournal.com

It seems many folks I knew in high school are on FB, and lots of fun, simple and short chattering, kind of like twitter.

I prefer LJ for longer posts, journal entries, and discussions of my topics of interest, like Debian, Peak Oil, and such.

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Did 'movie night' with the kids. Watched Wall-e.
That movie really resonates with me. I actually get choked up in certain scenes, and I have seen the movie three or four times already. I especially enjoy Peter Gabriel's end credit song.  My kids continue to enjoy the movie as well. It makes me very proud of them.

I made a heap of stove top popcorn for them to enjoy, too.



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Decided to brush up on my web development skills. Doing self-study from the PHP documentation, and have an instance of Apache v2.2 fired up on my workstation that has PHP running.
Both installed from the Linux development standard holy trio: 
configure
make
sudo make install

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