First, a joke:

How many ADD kids does it take to change a lightbulb?

I don’t know, how many.

Hey, let’s go ride bikes!

I don’t think that’s exactly how it went when I first heard the joke but it’s pretty darn similar. Anyway…over the weekend we went bike shopping for David. I already have a bike (Specialized Hardrock - similar to this picture), and have had one for about 10 years now. For the better part of those 10 years it’s either been sitting in a closet or hanging in the garage waiting for someone to do something with it.

I think I rode it exactly two times after I first bought it, and then never rode it again. Not because I can’t, or because I don’t like to, I just lost the motivation.

A month or so ago, David pulled it down from the garage hook, filled the tires with air, and took it for a test spin around the block. But then again it got hung back up and wasn’t talked about - until last Friday.

We’ve been trying to come up with some active things we can do together, to lose weight, that doesn’t require the gym. I can’t stand going to the gym and David has been paying for a membership for the last year without ever going. We needed to find something we could do right from the house. So I said, “why don’t we go out on Saturday morning and head over to the bike shop and buy you a bike?”

And thus the idea was born. We went to East Sac Bikes first, because we’d never been there and they seemed to have a wide selection of bikes. A wide selection of $600 bikes is more like it. We were in the store for less than 5 minutes before I was pestering David to leave. Then off we went to Target. Target had a pretty good selection of men’s mountain bikes, and after test driving 3 of them along the aisle, we found a very nice one.

David is now the proud owner of a Schwinn Clearcreek, and it’s a pretty sassy looking bike as you can see here.

So we’ve gone on three rides already, and we’re going to try to keep the momentum up and see how much weight we can lose. So far it’s been a lot of fun riding around town, but we’re working up to longer rides and tougher rides. I’ll let you all know how it goes, and how much my waist line shrinks!

Cheers!

I did not enjoy the Adequate Bowl yesterday. If I were to force myself to find something “super” about it, I suppose it would be that when there was only 1 second left on the clock, players and team members stormed the field in celebration then had to be cleared so the team could have one final play for 1 second - according to NFL rules.

That was super. Super stupid. Am I right?

The only thing that I will begrudgingly admit is that the last 35 seconds were exciting - and here’s why. I was online chatting with Rachelle at the time, and she told me a score that did not match with what was on our TV leader board. I suddenly realized that we had paused the show a few times to replay a commercial and we were nearly 3 whole minutes behind (real minutes, not football minutes).

She was experiencing a completely different game than we were. I was then impatient to catch up to real time, but didn’t want to fast forward and possibly miss the great event that was to come - which was the NYG touchdown.

We finally caught up to Rachelle time, which was now again 3 minutes ahead, and she was already telling me about the drama at 1 second left.

And that was the end of the excitement when it comes to Super Bowl whatever it was this year.

As for the commercials? *yawn*

There was only one commercial worth talking about, and that’s the Planter’s Girl.

Planters Nuts Super Bowl Commercial: Woman Attracts Men w/ Nuts

I’m not going to drag this one out, so let’s get going.

First - how about the first 14 seconds of the game? That was incredible. Then the Bears just completely fell apart. They were outplayed by the Colts at almost every turn.

Second - would someone PLEASE hire a towel boy to wipe off the darn cameras? I realize it was raining but the cameras were almost completely fogged up at times!

Note: All of these commercials are available for viewing online in case you missed any of them.

Now let’s talk about the commercials that I liked from the first half:

• Doritos - the 2nd commercial of the night, produced by a guy in Cary, NC for around $12. How precious when the girl slams into the side of the car.
• Blockbuster Getting Online - Always remember to click and drag the mouse :-).
• FedEx on the Moon - This is the opposite from last year’s cro-magnon FedEx - ending was the same concept - last year he was stepped on by a dinosaur, this year, he was hit by a comet. I like the twist, but it lacked originality, so this only gets honourable mention.
• Snickers - afterthekiss.com (four different endings) - (Note: all content on the afterthekiss website has been removed by Snickers due to complaints about some of the alternate endings, and the player reaction videos, here also)
• Bud - the false dalmation - this one started off so sad…we were really rooting for the dog, and then when he was splashed with mud, we felt this surge of sympathy, then elation as we realized he was now dalmation worthy - Miss Bud at the end, with mud all over her was awesome
• Careerbuilder - every single one of their ads was perfect. Running from the training seminary, Fighting in the Promotion Pit, and going in for a Performance Evaluation. Superb marketing.
• Doritos - the Checkstand - this is by far my favourite of the entire bunch. When the girl said Salsa Verde and the man purred back at her, I thought I was going to wet myself laughing. Very creative.
• Bud Light - Slapping as the new form of saying great job. It was good…it wasn’t especially funny until the end though.
• GM - the robot dreaming that he was fired - this was almost disturbing. Why is it that we have empathy for non-sentient beings like that? Isn’t this called anthropomorphising? Anyway, needless to say I was relieved when he woke up. Excellent job. (Suicide prevention group wants the advert pulled)

Moving on to the second half:

• Coke - Inside the Machine. Wow is all I can say to this one. This might be the best one of the second half. The animation was outstanding.
• Careerbuilder’s Promotion Pit and Performance evaluation happened here, but I mention them above for consolidation.
• Emerald Nuts and Robert Goulet - Hilarious. So incredible random!
• FedEx, where the persons name mirrors how they look or their personality - thanks mister chicken neck.
• HP - motorcycling - I give this honourable mention only because they had the Intel chime at the end.
• Taco Bell Carne Asada Lions - honourable mention for the lion who wouldn’t pronounce Carne with a trill.

It’s not a coincidence that my second half list is shorter. The majority of the second half commercials were crap.

So, just so you know there were a lot more commercials out there, here’s a really fast list of the ones that did not meet my level of expectations (any that are not listed, apparently I forgot about them):

Sierra Mist, Bud Light Marriage, Bud Light ESL Class, Schick, GoDaddy, Coke (nearly all of them), Garmin GPS, Chevy nude carwash, Beating up the Heart, Connectile Dysfunction, Tostitos, Bug Light gorillas, Sheryl Crow Revlon, Van Heusen, Toyota Tundra, TMobile Fav 5, Kevin Federline as a Fast Food worker, Bud Light hitchhikers, Bud crabs, Honda CRV, Izod, Bud virtual football, Flomax male urinary, Etrade 1 finger, Honda desert gas stations, Snapple EGCG.

I hope everyone enjoyed the game, and the commercials!!!

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WENGEN, Switzerland - Rainer Schoenfelder lost a bet Wednesday, and paid for it by skiing nude down the Lauberhorn.
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Schoenfelder skied wearing only yellow boots and an orange helmet and gloves, and a photographer snapped a shot of the skier that has been circulated on the Internet. [Link]

Talk about blue balls. Literally.
And honestly, how could they not have known that someone was going to try to take a photograph of that, and that it would wind up on the internet in mass circulation.
Everyone wants to see naked people. It’s human nature. And everyone wants to see naked people doing silly things, especially if it involves cold weather…or swimming pools…or jump ropes…or bungee jumping…

Above, I present the clothed version of Rainer, and I think that’s my preference. However, if you prefer the alternative…wonder what the tattoo is…

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