190: nine long years

This week Diane and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary.

Last year Monkey forgot our anniversary. It's in the midst of cross season, I could understand that. I never forget. This year she didn't forget as we both exchanged cards, and had a nice dinner out together. It was really nice.

I'll say this, Anniversary cards are pretty lame.

Birthday cards have come a long way, some are actually kinda funny, musical cards are neat, but anniversary cards are just lame.

What I was looking for was something totally cheesy and funny. You know I wanted some kind of Dirty Dancing card with Patrick Swayze grabbing Jennifer Gray. With the help of a little creative ingenuity I would have had our faces over theirs of course and the verbiage would have said something like, "Nobody puts Monkey in the corner!" Of course the card would have to be musical and when you opened it it would play, "I had the time of my life."

Total Cheese. Funny. Doesn't exist. Instead I gave her a card with a flower on it, and she gave me a card with two kids building a sandcastle. We wrote each other nice notes. Nice cards, but the cheesy factor was low.

I love my monkey.

Back to the bike game tomorrow at Phelps School. Looks like it might be bit of a mud race. Used to consider myself a mudder, but my last two muddy races (USGP DAY 2 and Bear Creek) had me on my backside too much to be effective. I'm gonna have to try and do better tomorrow.

Sadly, I won't make the Ed Sanders Memorial this year. Monkey works Sunday and I 0nly have one race in my old tired legs this weekend. Please give my regards to Erik and Rob they do a great job with that event, and are really good guys.

respect

fatmarc