Riding in the Rain with a purpose

I think the videos sort of speak for themselves this time. So enjoy

I put that solidly in the "It seemed like a good idea at the time" category.

But then later...

By the time I got close to home I was on a part of the ride that has no cars on it. It is up hill, which is kind of a bummer after 13 miles, but it is a nice road now. The filming is a little bit wobbly, I think it is because I am not using my hands on the bike. I'm not really sure, but it looks like I'm sitting up. I'll be sure to keep a hand on the bike next time I film while riding.

Originally I was planning on riding all the way to my wife's car, but I was soaking wet, so I took my vehicle, which was literally at the junk yard's door. It worked fine that day, but I spent a grand fixing it a few weeks later.

So in the end I did get my wife's car fixed. The belt had slipped off in the rain again, and I replaced the tensioner for good measure. Not a big deal, but I haven't ridden my bike since that day. That's kind of pathetic.

Polka

It has been a while...

So as probably all who read this know already my wife and I met on the BYU ballroom dance team. It was really a good decision for me to take up ballroom dance as it landed me a great wife. It all started out as me doing something for the sole reason that "The Chicks Dig It." I used title case there because, well I just feel like it's the right thing to do.

So I was pretty good at ballroom dance and girls in the classes liked to take tests with me because I was a good leader on the dance floor. By the way that is not a good metaphor for life in my case as I am a terrible leader of anything else. But anyway in my case, and I think in the case of any guy who is willing to dance it is true that the girls do like it. In any case that is why I did it, and it is why I still do.

It has been more than a decade since I have performed in a situation where I felt ready for it. I don't mind performing if I feel ready, but my wife loves performing period. So this has been a bit of a difficulty as when people have asked us to perform and then she says yes I end up annoyed because our life is difficult to find time to practice in. So the last little while the answer has just been no.

Well at least that's what I thought it was. Luckily for Melissa someone asked her not to perform on a stage, but to just come to a band performance and dance around so that others would be encouraged to dance. The agreement was that we would not be on stage or in costume, we would just have to act like we were having fun. So she said yes.

Well as it turned out, I ended up on the stage again. It wasn't bad this time as we were never up there alone. The band was always up there, but I got to thinking, "Is this whole dancing on the stage thing as a late 30's man who only started dancing for the chicks epic or stupid?"

I mean on the one hand it's obviously stupid because as you will see in the purposely low-def video I am doing polka on a stage in a costume. No question right? That is stupid and something no guy would ever choose to do. But on the other hand maybe it is Epic because no other guy would ever choose to do it!

I am hoping that in the long term I can figure out a way to parlay these experiences in to some serious marriage benefits. I am guessing that it isn't going to work. The problem is that I don't like doing it and she knows it.

Oh well. Attitude is everything.