{"id":53272,"date":"2011-07-26T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T22:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/53272\/butt-grease-squeeze-box\/"},"modified":"2011-07-26T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T22:43:13","slug":"butt-grease-squeeze-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/53272\/butt-grease-squeeze-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Butt Grease and Squeeze Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/i23.ebayimg.com\/01\/s\/06\/42\/0c\/ag_2.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>I\u2019ve never truly understood bicycle shorts.\u00a0 I suspected that those who wore them probably did so for some semi-erotic reasons under the pretense of what?\u2026 better aerodynamics &amp; freedom of movement?\u00a0 Why else would any self-respecting dude wear what amounts to spandex in public?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\">I finally understand the function of bicycle shorts.\u00a0 They\u2019re to keep your butt cheeks from chafing!\u00a0 See, it has finally started to feel a little bit like summer here in the Pacific Northwest.\u00a0 We had three consecutive days where temperatures reached into the 70\u2019s (today\u2019s high: 63F)!\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, it\u2019s much more pleasant to ride one\u2019s bicycle around as I do every day when the weather is nice.\u00a0 There is, unfortunately, one downside: butt sweat.\u00a0 With the sweat comes chafing.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\">I will spare you a picture in the blog, suffice to say butt chafing is a real pain in the ass.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pedalpushersonline.com\/images\/chamois_buttr_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>At my favorite bicycle shop, they even sell something called \u201cbutt grease\u201d\u2026 and I thought they only sold that in adult book stores.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how I am going to alleviate this rubbing problem.\u00a0 It\u2019s only an issue when the weather is warm and I\u2019m going a good distance. Butt grease?\u00a0 Bicycle shorts under my slacks?\u00a0 I dunno.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\">In any case, I\u2019m going commando today here on my day off and trying not to move around a lot. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\n* * *<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\">Another nice relaxing thing I enjoy doing on my day off is playing the ukulele!\u00a0 I think this song came on the store\u2019s muzak yesterday and it kinda got stuck in my head.\u00a0 Squeeze Box by The Who.\u00a0 Thought I\u2019d try my hand at a cover.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><object><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\">Is 41 years too old to start learning to play the accordion?\u00a0 I\u2019d like to\u00a0 learn.\u00a0 It looks like a fun instrument, but it seems like one of those kinds of things that you have to have had forced on you when you were kid to actually learn how to play it.\u00a0 I\u2019m always poking around pawn shops and thrift stores\u2026 maybe I\u2019ll find one on the cheap.\u00a0 In\u00a0 3 days, I get my first actual real paycheck in over a year.\u00a0 Rent is due, and I have a lot of other obligations, but it\u2019s going to be so nice not to be poor all the time.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#000000\"> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never truly understood bicycle shorts.\u00a0 I suspected that those who wore them probably did so for some semi-erotic reasons under the pretense of what?\u2026 better aerodynamics &amp; freedom of movement?\u00a0 Why else would any self-respecting dude wear what amounts to spandex in public? I finally understand the function of bicycle shorts.\u00a0 They\u2019re to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,8,9],"tags":[1716,3806,81,2681,106],"class_list":["post-53272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-life","category-music","category-sports","tag-bicycle","tag-butt","tag-joko","tag-uke","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}