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December 6, 2017

Chilly Salutations from the cold heartland,

How is the start of this holiday season treating you?  Great/shit!  Wow!  Same here!  I’d love to hear more about that.  Here are a couple things I’d like to relate to you.

1. I noticed that I had some frozen snot on my still fairly new MEC Mica pants.  I guess that snot rocket misfired.  But such is the fate of many exploratory missions.  
   
2. I lost my wallet (pronounced wall-AY,  kind of Fonzee, kind of Wall-E) because I didn’t zip my pannier lid!  When will I learn to zip my damn panniers!?   

Allow me to expound upon these items.

1. Snot is sticky.  People can be sticky too.  Or slick like Teflon.  Which are you?  I hear you.  Let’s stick with that.  Right!?
2. Aren’t we all looking for something?  Maybe something to eat?  Something to drink?  Someone to love?  Some sleep?  Well, I felt a bit sticky sheepish as I looked for my wallet.  This isn’t the first time I’ve lost my wallet by leaving my pannier lid unzipped.  Maybe I should just put my wallet in the main compartment of the pannier where it is virtually impossible to lose.  But then what would I do if I stopped at the grocery store and the wallet was in a hard-to-reach location underneath my lunch containers in the pannier?!  What!?  Dig!  That is what I would do.  I can dig for it, if need be.  But we all want convenience.  Well, let’s see if I learned my lesson.  I’ll get you an update one of these days.  Anyway, while searching for my lost wallet, I resolved to either reward the finder of my wallet (if returned) with all the money in my wallet - $41.  Or, if I found it myself, I vowed to give $20 to the next person I encountered who was in need.  I decided that would include a Salvation Army bell ringer.  I thought about the human situation.  About how sometimes we feel so slick, together, and aloof, and how the next moment we feel foolish and needy.  Well I felt blessed to be happily reunited with my money and identification.  Here is where I found my sweet wallet.  Great to see you again!

Here are some photos I wasn’t really looking for, but I just happened to accidentally encounter.  Maybe I’ll use them when I try to sell my Big Shot Wear Yellow Ride bike - it just doesn’t fit me very well.

Ben Watts girls on bikes shoot - https://vimeo.com/30574825

Although I don't want to overthink the presence of these lovely ladies with these bicycles, I kind of wonder how they really feel about them.  I mean, I like bikes and would be glad to pose in a similar manner, but I couldn't get sexy with it.  I did come up with a few jingles a while back.  Maybe I'll share them with you later.  Whether you're looking for jingles or not!

Warm and non-sexy regards,
BSO