Beth is finally starting to feel better from the ear infection from hell. The antifungal drops continue, and she no longer has constant sharp pains but it still does zing too often and she still gets feverish throughout the day, especially in the evening, and she gets worn out quickly. But even with all that, she’s finally doing better. 

Friday my group from work got together again for a cookout at the boss' house. We met there at lunchtime and were treated to a pulled pork BBQ. Afterwards as usual we play lawn games, it was Kubb this time, I think we did that last year as well. We usually do something as a group like this to say farewell to the interns we've had for the semester, we had 2 for the summer. 

Saturday was my first 50+ mile bike ride! Nate from 2nd Mile Adventures had been planning a 50-miler for a few weeks specifically to get me my first one. It was a good ride, I could have gone further. We went from Winona Lake about halfway to Plymouth and back around, pausing in Bourbon along the way. It was a B-group trailing the A-group day, they were doing 80-ish miles. But at the end I had just over 54 miles, so I deserved a cookie at the farmer's market. 

Later Saturday the whole family (except Missy ☹) went to see the new “Fantastic Four: First Steps” movie. It was really good. I appreciated that they didn’t spend a lot of time on the origin story, which we’ve seen too often already with the other Fantastic 4 movies that were terrible. We all thought it was really good, maybe Marvel will get back to making movies that we care to see now.