Today I am home sick, I have the starts of a cold or a flu, something. So I got to see the daily ritual of getting the Boy ready for school.  Wow, I have even more respect for my Beautiful Wife (and I have tons of respect for her).  So as you've read earlier the Boy can now ride a two wheeler, no training wheels required. His riding has really clicked, and that is all he wants to do, so this morning he comes in at 6:00am, and tells us he is ready to ride his bike. Nevermind that it's still dark and 48 degrees outside. Anyhow we get up and get ready for the day, and notice the Boy isn't anywhere to be found in the house, we go outside and there he is riding his bike in his PJs and socks. He says "it's okay, I put my socks on!" So here is where the trouble comes in, the kid part of me wanted to grab my bike and ride with him and the adult part, said, we have to get him off the bike and ready for school.

Well he made it to school on time, but is expecting to go for a ride after school. It's a good thing I've been riding more lately, the Boy has just taken off with it. He is pedaling standing up and riding in circles. If he gets much faster, I am going to have to let some air out of his tires

Yesterday was a day for bike riding. First thing in the morning, I got up, got ready and headed over to Mom and Dad’s house to pick up Dad. We threw the our mountain bikes on the back of the trusty Camry and headed over to Marshall Canyon for some uphill torture and some downhill bliss. We spend about 30 minutes riding up the hill and about 15 minutes riding down it. The ride was nice with the exception of Dad’s crank arm kept popping off. The first time, as were we working on, a group of rides we passed while they rested and waited for a friend came by, and they asked if we had everything we needed to fix it, or if we needed help. That was so great. I would like to thank them for the offer. I’ve ridden road bike for many years, and in all of my flats at the side of the road, I’ve never been asked if I needed anything.  Anyhow we got Dad’s bike fixed and headed up the road a little more. After a little bit his crank got loose again, so we did another trail side repair and decided to head down the hill. Which is the great thing about Marshall canyon, uphill going downhill coming back, so we warped back to the car, then about an 1/8 of a mile from the car, it came off again, so we just walked it. It was a lot of fun.

Later that afternoon the Little Boy and I are washing the car and our bikes. He did a great job, and was so darn cute with his determination to get the grill of the car completely dry. Anyhow we washed both of our bikes, his first and then mine. Well those shiny bikes just begged to be ridden, so I showed off for the Little Boy some, and did some wheelies in the street. Well he is a Boy so he had to show off to me.  Recently I’ve been working with him to ride his bike without the training wheels, and yesterday he felt it was the day to cement it. He must of worked on it for an hour, riding down the driveway, and he got it! The first time he got it, and knew he got it, he stood up over the bike, put one fist and the air and said “Yeah Baby!”. I don’t know who had a bigger smile, him or me. In true Boy fashion, once he had going forward down, he started working on his skids. I am proud to tell you he pulled off a 7 1/2 long skid (Yes I did measure it).  It was definitely a good day for a ride.

Today in the blogsphere I stumbled across this post on the Goonies 20 year reunion. I thought it was great, I am not afraid to say that I still love Goonies. We first got it when I was a kid on CED disc. I am sure that we drove my poor Mom nuts, because we would watch it over and over again. Well, now I'm and adult and I still want to watch this movie on a rainy day, and now the Little Boy watches it with me.

Curtsmedia.com has a fantastic article on the history behind the 1984 Apple Macintosh commercial.  Interstingly enough Apple's board of directors didn't like the commercial and didn't think it should air. Another interesting fact I didn't know about the commercial is that it was directed by Ridley Scott of Bladerunner.

It appears that the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 coupe that co-starred with Sean Connery in the James Bond films is going up for auction. I'm thinking about taking donations to get it.

Well I've just finished loading my photoblog in to OneReaction. I think it looks pretty darn good. Give it a look and let me know what you think.

So I found this, this morning and just had to share. It seems that the San Diego Zoo is taking a big step forward in the technology department. The Zoo now has it’s own podcast. Apparently it is a podcast of the audio tours of the park. Their site give great instructions on how to get started downloading their podcast.

I have to say I think this is great. I love that my iPod/MP3 enabled family can simply download the podcast and choose which things they’d like to see before we get there. The fact that it’s a podcast and educational makes it something you’d want  to download for your kids. Of course they also see it as a good way to get you to come back again and again.

iZoofari Tip:

After you download your desired Podcasts, create different tours, or playlists, from the individual episodes to load into your portable MP3 player. As we add more Zoo and Wild Animal Park iZoofari tours, you will be able to mix and match audio tracks into custom playlists, making each visit to the Zoo and Park a truly unique and enhanced experience!