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[SadieKate]

Lara bars are made by the Clif bar people. They are made of only nuts and dates plus flavorings. Very good, and not overly sweet. CC and I really like the Cocoa Mole.

Lara bars or Nectar bars? I love Nectar bars. The cranberry almond or whatever it is. I just recognize it when I see it and buy it.

[Lise]

Yeah, I went back and edited that. Nectar bars are made by the Clif bar people. Lara bars are made by the Lara bar people. Whoops!

Here's the site: https://www.larabar.com/secure/index_.php

I love Nectar bars, too.

The Maya bars are good. I really liked the Chocolate Orange one when I first tasted it, so I bought a case when they went on sale. Now, for some reason, they taste like something you'd use to clean a car engine. As I am pretty cheap about somethings, I'll still eat them until they're gone. But I will not enjoy them.

[chickwhorips]

did you know odwalla now makes bars? i love their superfood drink, so considering i can't get that here i got the bar. not bad tasting at all. found them on drugstore.com

[Bruno28]

:My exinlaws visited Edinburgh (my spelling's probably horrendous) but stayed in Scotland their entire trip and loved it...

Spelt like a native - but I'd like to hear you pronounce it - you folks just don't get that 'burru' thing.... No not 'Edinboro'. Jings! (- that's Scottish for 'Jeez' btw)

[Lise]

OMG. I just saw that Maya bars make a Chocolate Coffee bar.

I must say that cutting back on the caffeine has helped with the irregular skipped heartbeats. So it's worth it. By next week, I will have cut out caffeinated coffee all together (sniff ). Probably still engage in the occasional diet Coke. I will miss caffeine. I love caffeine. But this feeling of my chest about to collapse on itself is most unpleasant. Decaffeinating does help. I am going for the echocardiogram tomorrow.

[Trek420]

Lise "Congratulations! What a beautiful name...he's a long tall drink of water, isn't he? Does he live near you? Ahhh...the next generation is a lovely thing. L"

Berkeley, not far. Is that tall? His Mom's short but Dad's reasonably tall. And they both bike a bit so he's already got the "future cyclist" outfit from Terry from great Aunt

[Lise]

Yep, for his weight, that's a pretty long baby. How wonderful that you'll get to be around him as he grows up.
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Isaac is trying to dig his way to freedom by clawing at the rug in front of the door. He may get his wish when I pitch him out the window. JOKING!

[Brina]

fish, such cute kids? is she starting K or JK? (or do you call it Pre-K?)

Kit - cool ride. looks well loved and like a lot of fun

As for Americans, somehow travel seems to bring out the worst in them. I have met so many Aussies and New Zealnaders when they are taking their year abroad after college and they are always nice and respectful and willing to try new things. Americans just, I don't know, get scared and that act buffoonish in trying to hide their fear. DH and I were in Florence about a million years ago (well, a couple of years before the boys were born, which feels like a million years ago) and there was this guy berating the waitstaff because none of them spoke english. DH and I wanted to just melt into the wall.

[DrBee]

They're cute - most of the time...

Lise - If I get the job, they said I could start at my earliest convenience. We're thinking Thanksgiving, but that feels long. We would need to sell our house and buy a new one, so that'll take at least a month or so. If they include extra relocation costs (buying my house), that'll speed things up significantly. I have lots to wrap up here at work, too. So - sometime in October or November.

Trek - congrats on the new member of the family! I love the name!

Brina - it's 4K (4 year old Kindergarten). Apparently we have to supply the snack tomorrow. The joy of being at the beginning of the alphabet.

[DebW]

*maniacal laughter* HA!!!!! I FINALLY got a pic of my bike!

Careful! She bites! =)

She won't bite me. I have a 12 inch crescent wrench and some sharp cable cutters (they cut spokes too). Seriously, she looks like a great bike. I won't call her adorable or cute, but harda$$ might be appropriate. Is she what you call Miss 'Cakes? You must tell us how she got that name.

Trek, congrats on the new nephew. I have a new one too, born Aug 5, 8 lb 9 oz, 21 inches. His brother, now 3, has already been backpacking and bicycling with me. Truthfully, I'm only an honorary aunt (no real relation) but I love these kids and their moms are special friends.

[Kitsune06]

She won't bite me. I have a 12 inch crescent wrench and some sharp cable cutters (they cut spokes too). Seriously, she looks like a great bike. I won't call her adorable or cute, but harda$$ might be appropriate. Is she what you call Miss 'Cakes? You must tell us how she got that name.

She bites constantly when I'm careless with the screwdriver and it slips etc.
I was riding with a Eugenian MTB group, and my exdh and I were talking about how pagan folk in Eugene talk about woodland spirits. We decided it'd be funny if there were one named "B*tchcakes" who clomped around the woods in heavy steel toed boots (not unlike me and mine) and one guy in the group heard the name and thought we'd attributed it to my bike. It caught on with us quickly, and soon she was the woodland spirit that clomped through the woods with beefy, knobby tires.

Since then, I've had a hard time talking about the bike or her name because some people are sensitive to such words... and as I've grown more attached to my bike and less militantly "Grr, boots/leather/grease!" er... (less militantly *cough*d_key*cough*) she's gotten the title "miss" and her name abbrevriated.
... and that's the story of the name Miss 'cakes. If I'm a hard-a** cutie-pie, I must be the cutie-pie on the hard-a** bike.

[snapdragen]

So Bruno - it's pronounced Ed In Boo Roo?

[Kitsune06]

I'm thinking "Edinbuurah"

[Lise]

As I started out on my last 30 mile ride before next Sunday's tri, I thought I'd strip the bike down to the bare essentials. I wouldn't carry all my keys, they wouldn't fit in the bento box with my phone and Clif blox anyway! I cleverly hid them in my storage locker in the basement, closed the door, and locked the padlock!!! OH NO MR. BILL!!! That's the padlock I *never* lock, it just sort of holds the door shut, didn't the slip of paper with the combination on it get lost long ago?!?!? Yes. Argh! Sloth never pays! I keep meaning to put another lock on there, one to which I know the combo! Our basement is so secure that I don't bother with actually locking the storage locker. My bikes are locked up separately.

Now I have a real problem. Hmmm. I scrounge around the basement and find a metal file. Use that to cut through the screening on the front of the locker. Reach in and get my keys. Go up to my apartment for my hammer and screwdriver. One more look around to make sure I don't have that combo anywhere. Nope. Back downstairs, pry the entire lock thing out of the wood door. Sigh heavily.

Go out on my ride. Have a great time.

Come home, go to Home Depot, buy wood putty and a new hasp for the door. Install it the wrong way (of course), take it off, reinstall it. Patch up the gouges in the wood door. This is when it pays to live in an old building. Easy to break into my own storage locker!

Make an appt to take The Green Hornet in for her pre-tri tune up. Decide to bite the bullet and clean my chain. For the first time. For some reason, it has intimidated me. Get it pretty darned clean, and wash down the whole bike. She's gleaming. Then I notice my poor, beloved Marin Larkspur, who's never once had her chain cleaned. I clean her up too. Everybody's clean, dry, lubed and locked up safe. My hands are filthy.

Oh, and I bought a rice cooker! Haven't used it yet.

Going for echocardiogram in the AM. Going to bed now. Sleep tight, TD!

[Trek420]

keep practicing Dad, first of many diapers ....