Riding wit' da' Boys

- The bigger bladder Bag

Thanks 'Bite

Last weekend, Wheel and I headed to South Dakota for my nephew's graduation I've gotta lose a couple of years if I'm going to party like that and we hooked up with Snakebite and his SO for a ride around Sioux Falls. The 19 mile trail shows off all the faces of Sioux Falls: plains (obviously, from the pic below) and the beautiful Falls Park; and winding trail next to the river, through neighborhoods into downtown. It was a great ride after nearly four hours of sitting in the car.

Me showing off awesome cycling form while snapping photos.

Snakebite does a better job of it.

Every day on the bicycle is a good day.

Gotta have a coffee stop.

Over the years, with only the blog as an introduction, I've met up with 7 or 8 other cyclists (and family in some cases) in places as far away as Arizona and Alaska. Pretty cool.

- TOB

Some Days

I
just don't
wanna
go
to

w
o
r
k


- The 14 more days 'til real summer begins Bag

Is it the Same?

Time isn't holding us
Time isn't after us

- OB what are you doing with your time?


Thanks, Pilder, for the reminder:
you may find yourself
in a place where

Can’t Do
overlaps
Can’t Do Without

and you may ask yourself
how did I get here?
-Pilder

Of Frosties and Free Will

I can easily ride past Wendy's without stopping for a Frosty.

I do not need a Frosty every time I pass Wendy's on the commute home.

I am fully capable of riding right past Wendy's on my commute.

My commuter is able to stay on the trail as I ride right past Wendy's.

It's not like I have to have a Frosty every time I commute.

- tob I can quit any time I want to

When All Hope is Lost

...what else

is there

to do

but to

join

Team

WonderBike?


- OB thanks Tim!


"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
-Benjamin Franklin, via my Sock Guy cycling socks so I know it's true

It's not About Being Efficient

Work is a bit sucky these days...budget shortfalls, bla bla. Today, we heard from the hill that they wanted our suggestions for "efficiencies". In other words, whose job isn't worth what yours is worth...justify your own in five words or less.

You know, elementary teachers are inherently kind, middle-aged, motherly types. It's why we're drawn to spending our days with 8-year-olds. Some of us are there because we're plump and we hug well. Some of us are there because kids make us laugh. On Halloween we actually work dressed as pumpkins, robots and scarecrows. People leave the business world for teaching because there aren't enough scarecrows in the workplace.

Bottom line, it's fun. But, it's also tough work. There are kids who aren't so huggable. There are heads that are a bit scary to look inside. There's required testing that masks real learning. There are constraints in budget, manpower, materials and assistance. But, we're all in it together, and there's the beauty: it's a place of support, honesty and ethics.

Given who we are and why we're there, it's tough to diminish each other's work to the point that it's an efficiency.

In the middle of the day as the buzz in everyone's conversation was on the morning's lousy beginning, my mind was on the morning's beautiful commute...and on the fact that I would be getting back on the bike at the end of the day for the ride home.

And my mind was on the couple we laughed with outside Cub Foods yesterday as we wolfed down brats and chips during our grocery-getting ride...and on the guy on a smoke break outside Costco wondering how-the-heck we were going to haul a load from the warehouse home on our bikes.

I have no neat or cute wrap-up message for this post. Things just suck sometimes.

But you know, life isn't only about what we do during 8 hours of our day.

-OB

TMI

a baiku

must be warm spring temps
after a winter of fuzz
my legs finally shaved
!


- OB ....and no, I'm not posting a picture....