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Here's how I'm handling it. I had a staycation sort of summer. There was loads of bike riding, fig-picking, pizza parties, splashing in the river, late dinners, pastry for lunch, tacos after mountain biking, and other assorted activities, often back-to-back. I threw caution to the wind because s...