Prebble Family Tales

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been leaving my day job to then go hang out at RBR and soak up cycling information. I chat with customers, offer ideas for various problems, and, starting today, will be building bikes and trikes.

And I don’t get paid a dime.

That’s just the way I like it, actually. I’d rather this be something I do for fun and for my own pursuits rather than feel financially beholden to someone or feel obligated to do things because the “boss” asked me.

The downside, of course, is that I’m not getting home until 7PM, which means Gareth now sees me for about 5 minutes in the morning as I’m carrying him out to the car. Once school is back in session, we’ll be back to our normal schedule since I’ll be walking Gare to school in the morning. Until then, you can find me at RBR from about 4:30 to 6, Tuesdays through Fridays.

Speaking of bikes, we finally have a bike shed! Our three bikes are out of the house, which means no bikes in the den/nursery, no bikes in the basement, and no bikes in the kitchen. Yes, my newest bike was housed in the kitchen for a bit. All the bike accessories will go out there as well, saving me from tromping up and down the basement steps every time we want to go for a ride. Oh happy day!

Julian, Tarkin, Eli, Seth, and Max are outta here.  So is Quinn.  We did like that name, but my cousin Emily just gave birth and named her new son that.

We need to have a talk with that whole branch of the clan.  They’re the reason Gareth wasn’t named Alex and why we were never able to consider Emily as a name should we have discovered we were gestating a female.  And now they took Quinn.

Two more possibilities have reared their meddling heads: Rhys and Colin.  We’ve been warned that going with the traditional spelling on Rhys (versus “Reese”) will cause mass confusion, but honestly, the world somehow gets by with John Rhys-Davies, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, and Rhys Fulber in existence.  If you’re not a fan of Front Line Assembly, that last one probably doesn’t seem very relevant.  If you are a fan, please explain to me why you haven’t told me sooner.  That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of good Colins, but let’s face it - you either say it “Collin” or “Coelin”.  There’s not much variation.

The real problem here is that none of the names we’ve come across have had the same lightning strike that we had with Gareth.  Do we owe it to our second child to come up with a name that everybody can pronounce and spell?  Not really as that wouldn’t be fair to Garth Garrett Gary Gareth.