Uber Briefs

This entry will be short blurbs of the shit banging around in my head the last few days. Enjoy!

The Moms at Discovery Gym
Holy shit. I will fill you in on how we got to this point in the future (a story worth telling) but for now we'll focus on what went down in the waiting room at the teeny kid's Discovery Gym yesterday morning. Henry moved out of the parent-supervised Tumble Bugs class to the teacher-supervised Tumble Bees class because of his astounding success. Forward roll, you ask? No problem, lady. Watch this! Hang like a monkey and kick that lion hanging from a string? I'll kick that thing to the moon!

So while H is in the gym and I am in the waiting room with the 3 Stay at home Moms, said Moms proceed with micro-analyzing each others parenting choices with great vigor. "Oh so your kids are 22 months apart? I believe that you need at least 24 for a healthy family." "My girls are NEVER going to :::gasp::: public schools!!" "Home schooling doesn't give a child a chance to develop socially very well."

It was all very polite. It almost seemed like they enJOYed ripping each other apart right there. There were several attempts made to draw me into the mix, but I evaded with skill. "Oh, you know, I think whatever works best for a parent is probably OK." Tolerance is so 1960's I guess, because I was told in no uncertain terms that there are RIGHT ways and WRONG ways to bring up a child.

Next time, UberDaddy will be sure to remember his iPod.

Doping
If you are not familiar with the term, 'doping' refers to the use of performance-enhancing substances or techniques to gain an unfair advantage.

Except in cycling, it seems that everyone is on the juice, so just keeping up means cheating. I wrote a paper for my Business Ethics class about the subject. My conclusion was that while everyone may be cheating to get ahead these days, and that it may seem to put you at a disadvantage to NOT cheat sometimes, that it is in all of our own best interests as citizens if we do not delve into the darkside for personal gain.

Shit, I just slipped on the soapbox... one sec. Ok, back up.

There is a knee-jerk reaction going on in the cycling world that really appeals to me. They call themselves RideCLEAN, and I think they are on to something. We gotta turn things around, in cycling, and in all professional sports. I don't want my kid growing up looking up to cheaters. Have a look, and make the commitment. Keep it real out there.


Riding
Why, oh why, can't I find time to ride. I found a spider web on my Santa Cruz this morning. Oh, the pity and the shame. In related news, the word 'paunch' was jokingly tossed around the house last week. I am in serious sit-up withdrawal apparently.

And here I thought part of my Uber powers was an UberMetabolism, like when I was 22. wrong. so wrong.

I may have to turn on the TV at 1 AM on night when I'm doing school work and find me an Ab-cruncher or something as clever.

Paunch. Whatever.


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