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They do make quite the pair. I kept the kids home from school today because of the outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease. Rukia came over and spent the morning with us playing toys and computer games.
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Here’s Diane, Edda’s physical therapist, who starts off the session by helping Edda walk up the stairs to the 2nd floor therapy room. I really like Diane who was trained in Canada and has worked with special needs kids for 26 years.
This weekend was all biking for me.
Friday night was our usual group ride at Waterdog. We went out hard for the hour and a half that we were out there. We tried to time trial up the fire road which is uphill, but at a fairly shallow incline. I did pretty well i think. When I reached the top tho, a cop was there sitting in his car and he turned on his flood lights at me. He was a pretty cool guy and didn’t give us a ticket or anything. Apparently someone had called in thinking there was a truck driving around in the park, but it was just our hella bright lights. 😛 He chit chatted with us for awhile about racing the 24 hour race and took off.
After the ride I went over to Lynn’s who was having one of her many dinner parties. I think she was trying to set me up with some Singaporian girl. We also ended up playing poker for push ups again.
Saturday was a busy day. I rode into work for the first time since I’ve been in San Jose. Saturday was the first nice non-rain Saturday in a long time. I had a customer come in to buy a bike, but his wife gave him a 3000 dollar spending limit. Of course the bike he wanted was 3400. He had to call her once again. I’m not sure what happened, but he ended up buying the bike. He cursed me out a bit when I told him that we charged 15 bucks for a computer install. i was like, dude, you don’t have to buy the bike.
Saturday night was Arif and Tahera night. We ate at Darda, a muslim chinese restaurant and went to play pool afterwards. They are a fun bunch.
Sunday was riding once again. Jason and Don and I went down to Laguna Seca and tried the new and improved course for Sea Otter. It’s a tough course. The first part is flat and wide open, and then it turns into this steep loose section, then becomes all sandy and crap. it’s going to be hard – harder than previous years.
Other than that it looks like the next 3 weekends are all going to be riding. Next week is the CCCX race and we’ll pre-ride sea otter again. Next weekend is when Ted is comign up and we’ll ride the 24 hour course. Then, the weekend after that is Sea Otter itself. i hope i’ll be in shape for it. I’m a bit worried about Ted. I think he’s going to seriously bonk for the 24 hour race. I’d like him to do well of course, since it’ll reflect badly on me if he doesn’t, but he just doesn’t seem to want to get on his bike at all. Strange.
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I always try to travel with bubbles. It calms Edda down in certain situations, but everyone loves them. I make lots of friends at the playground with them. Here’s Vince blowing bubbles for Edda, I encourage him to hold onto the bottle so that it doesn’t spill.
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Edda had her MRI today. No fuss, no muss. Went in and out of general anethesia like a champ.
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Well, hand, foot and mouth illness is spreading around Singapore. All preschools are to screen the kids and make sure they aren’t sick before letting them start the school day. Teacher Eileen is looking into Vince’s mouth for any signs of sores. So far all the kids are pretty healthy at his school.
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Look what Vince painted for you!
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On the weekends, we all head to the sand park. Edda learns to walk up and down ramps and how to balance in sand, Vince makes castles out of sand, and Ruby digs a pit in the sand and sits in it!
I called Le Pai at SF last night. She told me that her daughter is going to get married at end of May (5/28?). She knows we are working at East coast and said that just mail me a red envelope and Donald can be our represantive. She also said that Donald can bring his girl friend to the wedding. She is going to mail the inviation to Donald. Donald, would you please let me know their names after recieved the invitation. As a matter of fact, right now we can go for the wedding, but we already bought the ticket to Washougal for this week and told all friend there. In addition we are going to SF for Andria’s wedding month later. It will be on 7/2 Sunday. We are going to meet all classmates in SF on Saterday. We will stay at Le Pai’s house.
I ate too much candies when I was at graduate school and did not brush my teeth much, now I am taking the consequnces and visit dentist too offen. Next Thursday, I am going to see a specialist hoping to save the tooth which gives me problem. I have my upper partials and going to have lower one very soon I guess. Dentist here is very nice though.
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Edda, squashed between Jeremy and Vince at at restaurant today. Vince was non-stop energy today, just like a pinball careening off everthing. We concluded that it was the week-long break from school, he just didn’t have enough activities this week.