Fat Tuesday, …Again

Will man never learn. My fondest memories of Fat Tuesday are from New Orleans where I was working on a Fat Tuesday. When midnight came, and they started playing “When the Saint Come Marching In” law enforcement officers of every type, including the Shore Patrol, made a line across the streets with squad, horse and boot and came marching down. Everyone who didn’t vacate the streets were beaten senseless.

I don’t believe that will be the end of Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike Park’s Fat Tuesday promotion. Yes, if you ride a fat bike you ride for free today at Ray’s (on your fat bike).

Of course Fat Tuesday ushers in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sport Show. After you go to church of course. Yes, plenty of things to do indoors in this most wondrous of Winter seasons. Many complain but I blame the television. People don’t engage nature and their environment as they should. Life lessons are lost as people don’t learn to dress for the cold, but more importantly the seriousness of each persons personal responsibility to be knowledgeable and capable in every environment and condition so one doesn’t …DIE! At times it looks like our entire culture is dying.

I enjoyed the Winter Olympics. The funny European names entertained, and entertained again when I tried to pronounce them myself. Misao says Winter Olympians are more attractive than Summer Olympians. I had to agree. It used to be that far more people skied and did other Winter activities before that evil all our grandparents warned us of; the television.

With my explosive speed, powerful upper frame and impressive mass, perhaps I should try out for some of the sledding events for the 2016 games. I’d like to visit Korea again. I was the quickest out of the blocks in High School and certainly qualify as dead weight for those bob sleds.

The fat tire bike is becoming quite a movement. I don’t like to ride in the Winter but these bikes work on Winter trails. Roads are just too icy in any circumstance for me in the Winter. Here is an article of fat tire riding in Cudahy (hay). I believe Minooka in Waukesha, a growing vibrant system of trails, also is running fat tires. Cyclesmith is the place to go to find out all one wants to know about Waukesha MTB trails.

Yes, we went to see our most favorite band again, not on a Tuesday but a Thursday in Green Bay. A great show, different than the last, and a great crowd. My wife says they didn’t write all the songs on their albums but they have the best lyrics in country music. Neil sang exceptionally well. He was a bit off in Madison. Sorry.

The $52 question; What are the two publicly funded schools I attended? See charity jackpot page in sidebar.