Snowmobiling

I suppose I'll keep the odd post coming. I've resolved that it might not be very frequent, and I've removed the pressure I'd put on myself to "make sure this makes it to the blog" that was keeping me from enjoying activities I was doing, and blogging about them. But, if I happen to have a camera around, and happen to snap a few frames, I'll probably get to posting it here. More low key, and enjoyable. That's the whole point of sharing via a blog isn't it? It's supposed to be fun? And it is.

This past Friday, 3 of my good friends and I were lucky enough to all schedule a day off, and head out on our snowmobiles. Our sweet wives thought it would be good for us to have a day off, absolved of our fatherly duties and just hang out and be guys for a while. We've got amazing wives! And, when guys are being guys, it often leads to a bit of craziness and in my case, stupidity.

Case in point: When I get behind the throttle of anything fast, I like to let caution flee from my mind. I love the feeling of being scared. It's a rush that has gotten me in trouble more than a time or two. I'd written off my sport bike 3 times, and was hospitalized once. But after I got to the point where I could wheelie for over 2 miles, shift through all 6 gears and top out at 140 miles per hour (not kph, MPH) all without letting the front tire touch the ground, that is a true reward.

Back to the snowmobiling. We're planning a weekend trip to the mountains to sled, and we viewed this day as a "test" ride. Kind of a chance to ride together and familiarize ourselves with each others riding style. We were just cruising the priairies, riding in the irrigation canals and blazing across the frozen lakes. We'd stop whenever we found a piece of terrain that offered a chance to play around. Once such piece was a nice snowdrift on a frozen lake.

My friend Brad said, "hey, I'm gonna try a superman!" I thought it was a great idea. Only problem: you need some serious airtime to pull of a full extension superman and land it. I tried a few times, couldn't quite get the full extension I wanted and then decided I'd just let it all hang out. Full extension, try and pull the landing, but mostly worry about full extension. I got the full extension I wanted, and the landing, well, there just wasn't time. The good news: we had video rolling. The bad news, I fractured my elbow. But, in the end, the pain was worth the split second of glory.

Check out the video:

Cheers,

Jeremy

Certainly on my Christmas List

With a sweet wife who is a talented knitter, my dreams might just come true.........a nose warmer! hot dog!

The Problem with Segways

Is that these folks probably think tooling around on the stupid things constitutes getting out and living a healthy lifestyle. Clearly they both should be walking. For pete's sake (sorry pete) buddy's got MOOBS!!! If you got moobs, you should be excercising. I think that the Segway may have a decent use, ie: postal workers, police and emergency personnel in airports, simply because you can cover some ground faster than walking. But come on! Fat people buying these things! This is a sign of a sick and demented culture we live in these days. Yeah, I was a creepy blogger guy with a camera stocking them, but I thought it was so ridiculous I should share it.
I've got nothing against overweight people. But I think we should treat it much the same as smoking. Less of a personal value issue, and more of a health issue. I've told my relatives that they should stop smoking before, but I certainly couldn't tell them they should lay off the doughnuts and go outside and enjoy walking. That's just rude. Yet, in the US, the #1 risk of death now is obesity. In Canada, our health care system is taxed to death because people eat too much and do too little.
I say this: Throw away your television (I don't have one) and go do something. Piss on the video games, take them away from your kids. Buy them bikes, roller blades and go out with them and use them. Play ball, jump on a pogo stick, skip rope, skate board, fish, jog, hike out to a field and look up at the stars. But leave the stupid Segway alone! Both of you.
I'm done now.

For Sale in Calgary Right Now

Somehow not very tempting

Even better than an Xtra Cycle

For groceries.