Friday, February 6, 2009

Not So Much

Hello gentle reader:

I had an unfortunate experience this afternoon. You see, due to JoAnna's increased need for time on the laptop we decided to buy a second laptop last weekend. This beautiful little blue Dell is considered my laptop. Well, my laptop served as quite a breakfast time distraction for me this week. I usually check my e-mail, update my status on facebook and check the weather to determine if I should ride the motorcycle or not. This week I also wasted time on twitter and read the morning news. Yesterday I left the house a full 20 minutes later than usual due to my Internet shenanigans.

This morning I fought the urge and simply sat at the table and ate my cheerios. I left on time. I had a beautiful early morning motorcycle ride and I got a lot done at work before the kids showed up. I walked out the door this afternoon to find that, oops , I forgot to check the weather and it was raining like a *insert expletive of choice here*. Imagine my dismay when I check the radar and noted that no, in fact, the rain was not going to blow over quickly. In fact, it appeared I only had a small window of reprieve to get the hell out of dodge and avoid rain for the entire trip home.

Needless to say, I was not enthused. I suited up, went out into the rain, and sat my butt on my wet seat. This being my first, and hopefully last, journey on the bike in the rain I thought it prudent to take the side streets and stay off of the freeway. The only problem with this is it makes a 15 minute drive take 25 minutes or so. I had to wipe rain off of my goggles at every stoplight and by the time I got home my pants looked like I had gone for a swim. On the bright side I didn't tip my bike and eat pavement and my leather jacket kept my upper body nice and dry!

So, the moral of the story is that I need to check the weather before I leave but stay away from the other Internet crap that distracts me.

On another note, Jo and I will be headed to Peru in April to hike the Inca Trail for spring break. We bought a flip camcorder a few weeks ago so we can capture that trip in a movie format as well as pictures. As we get closer, expect more posts on Peru!

Peas,


Cory

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

u might consider carrying rain gear with u most all the time,,,,several times we've unexpectantly run through rain and were more than glad to stop and suit up....

Anthony said...

Maybe you just need to complete your riding outfit with some leather pants!!!!!!