eBike Rides

Something I've discovered I love in the last year is renting the Lime eBikes. You download an app on your phone, link it to funding, and then use QR codes to activate the bikes, which are parked around the city. 

Previous to the pandemic, I did rent the scooters offered this way whenever I got the chance, and my favorite brand was Byrd. The husband always thought the scooters too risky, and didn't like me using them. He feels more secure about me on the bikes, and of course I use a helmet. Before our recent move, I biked about twice a week home from work. Now I'm biking a few more times per week.

I don't like that the money I spend this way is going to Uber, a company that's anti-union, but the Lime bikes are the most practical for us right now. We've always been a one-car family, and now that the economic reality of the last couple of years has really set in, the truth is that we're likely to remain a one car family for some time.

I rode a bike to the bank and the grocery today on my lunch hour - I'm working from home today. The bike ride felt good. I have to focus on what feels good, so I don't get sad about what doesn't.

We should have bought a new car this Spring. That was the plan, for years. Buy a new car when our oldest was 16, and give the 2008 Prius to her. There's no new car. There's no new used car. We're still okay.

I do like bike riding. It does feel good. Honestly it's faster, I think, than running errands with a car would be. Maybe if things pick up in the next year I'll buy my own eBike, but for now I'm happy enough to rent on the spot - most of the time I use them for one-way rides home after the husband has dropped me at work.

It's 2022, the world is on fire, and nobody knows anything. We're all just trying our best.

Now it is Autumn

It's autumn now. The kids are 16 and 14.

It's been over a decade since I last updated this blog. I could write about everything that happened between now and then, but that's not why I'm restarting this blog. I stopped writing here for all the usual reasons - the internet moved away from personal blogs into the walled gardens of Livejournal, and then Facebook. I was busy being a mom and having a career, which included a lot of professional and personal publishing in different ways. 

Then there's been the pandemic.

I'm restarting things here to get back into the habit of writing personally on a regular schedule. I'm writing a blog to keep track of the things that started happening to us on March 13, 2020, and have yet to stop happening us because of the pandemic. Everything was always going to change, of course. Summer was always going to end, and the autumn of everything was always going to come. But the summer was so long, and so warm, I guess I forgot to plan better for this.

Welcome to fall. My mantra for the year has been this: It's 2022, the world is on fire, and nobody knows anything. We're all just trying our best.