Almost Gypsy Soul

Not exactly a true story because I don't fly fish and I actually went to work this week. BUT I'd sure rather would have had "my arm in a cast"

Just over 5 years ago I started working for the federal government, where I signed on for the job with thoughts of proving the "typical government worker" stereo type wrong, I wanted to be different, I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to help people, particularly agriculture people. Never once did I ever think that in just 5 years at the ancient age of 30 that I would be unemployed and not receiving unemployment checks. Yet here we are. I would like to extend my gracious thanks to both the President and all Democrats and Republicans of Congress. I am extremely disappointed in the blinders and pettiness that is rampant in Washington with little regard to how your selfishness affects ordinary American citizens who want to do good, who want to go to work (most days) who want to help and serve other Americans. I sincerely hope that you all can make your mortgage payments, pay your bills and afford to go to the grocery store because there are thousands more who will strugg...

While the Couch-to-5K might be a great workout plan for beginning runners, if taken in the literal sense it doesn't work out very well. If you know me, you aren't wondering what I mean. I hate running. I want to like to run, hell I want to be addicted to running, but I hate it. Signing up for a race = get my rear in gear and train. not.this.time. I was much too busy traveling and learning to wakeboard and _________(insert ANY activity here) to be bothered with training. Folks I'm here to tell you do not try this literal C25K training plan, it doesn't work. What it does do is inflict pain. At least they had little cinnamon rolls at the end. and oranges. and a banana. and brownies. But I finished and I finished 6th in my age group. and we will not talk about finishing time. because it doesn't matter because I finished and I checked it off the Dirty 30 list. Did I mention they had mini cinnamon rolls and brownies at the finish line? AND we made the Vernal ne...

The theme of the weekend was "gettin' extreme".....hey this is my story, I'll tell it how I want. Anyway, all I really wanted to do this weekend was learn to wakeboard.....and I got up for about 2.5 seconds. Since there is still alot of lake time left this summer, I'm not going to mark it off the Dirty 30 list quite yet...but if I don't get better then getting my lead rear out of the water will end up counting. In preparation for Wakeboarding 101 (taught to myself by myself) I spent the better part of a day watching YouTube videos on how to do it. Luckily for me there are no photos or videos of my first wakeboarding lesson. Obviously I started this post a while back, but I am happy to report I can now wakeboard and sometimes I even get out of the wake. I'll probably be doing flips by next summer. Don't hold me to that last statement. Thanks. Here's to marking another off the Dirty 30 list! #9. Learn to wakeboard....CHECK!