I wish I would've known about these bikes when my daughter was a little one. Bikes like this are a very nice thing to see. My best friend Mike is having a baby - well, actually, his wife Phyllis is doing the hard work, but you know what I mean. I'm definitely going to recommend one for him and his future tyke.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Who'swhatwinswhat?

My daughter, Veronica, likes to invent her own, sometimes very peculiar, games.

For example, I just got done playing one of her games called "Who'swhatwinswhat".

This game is played with two people. One person closes their eyes and, at the same time, makes their limbs limp. The other person manipulates the limp person's limbs to whatever position the other person wants. For example, while my eyes were closed, I felt my hand mess up my hair and my finger go up my nose.

The manipulator tells the limp person when they can open their eyes. It's very important to be visibly embarrassed by your new position.

The manipulator then counts to ten. Whoever says the phrase "Who'swhatwinswhat" first wins, and gets to be the manipulator.


I honestly have no clue where she got the phrase "who'swhatwinswhat", but I have to admit it's a very creative phrase for a very creative game

It's all about simplicity!

Monday, November 16, 2009

I hope the new look of my blog doesn't startle anybody.

I just want to keep it as basic as I can. I'd love to find a way to change the bar above to plain black.

Also, typewriter font would be cool.

I should keep this blog open on my desktop to remind me to write in it. Now, excuse as I go watch my daughter play some video games...

Greenspeed Folding trike

This folding trike video shows that cycling is evolving in new and unpredictable ways:

Sunday, November 1, 2009 [Salvation Army Recruits]

My awesome wife Allyson volunteered the Carter family to be Salvation Army bellringers.

So, if you're a Festival Foods friday, November 27, bring a lot of money to shove in our cute red containers!

2nd post

I'm definitely going to be way more diligent about blog entry publishing.

When people publish blogs, they're really living publicly. VERY publicly!!!

I'm sure that there are many people that fictionalize their blogs to make it seem more interesting. But I'm going to take the Henry Miller/Aaron Cometbus approach, and try to live an interesting life so my blog will be more interesting.
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Well, today was a pretty uneventful day. I spent 3:59 hours on my exercise trike, and went 58.6 miles.

I'm now the proud owner of a Schwinn 240 recumbent exercise bike. My old Schwinn exercise bike is now sitting, totally burned-out and dilapidated in my garage. I hope I don't burn the new one out so quickly.
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I'm definitely not going to bore my gentle readers by posting endless bike-stats like I've been doing lately. I'll just keep it simple with one sentence featuring the two major ride stats: time and distance.

Also, I've been inventing destinations so I can come up with a legitimate distance. For example, today I rode 12.4 miles to a restaurant in Menasha called Nauts Landing for a cup of coffee.

From there, I rode 15.1 miles to read some magazines at the Oshkosh Public Library.

I then rode 25 miles to St. Peters Lutheran church in Fond du lac to say a word of prayer...

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - first post...

Hello,

I hope my gentle readers weren't overly alarmed by my long abscence. I haven't published any blog-entries since September... I'm a bit disappointed in myself for being such a slacker.

I'm not going to bore you with my repeated exercise log-entries. I'll probably just have one daily total.

I rode that thing so much that I wore it out, and got a new one: Schwinn 240.

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This guy is inspiring:

http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=101309eye

He competed in a 412 bike race across South Dakota called GutCheck 2-12.

It was a pretty amazing feat considering that He's got chronic back pain and Ulcerative Colitis (an inflammatory bowel disease).

Plus, he did it on a recumbent trike!