Special thanks this week to Sally for being a good sport at the Rollerdome and to Jen & Ed for helping me out at the gokart shoot. I forgot how fabulous the Rollerdome is - I'm quite certain it's time to invest in a new set of wheels. (Although, posting images from two different shoots this past weekend makes me realize how Awesome it would be to drive gokarts around the rollerdome -- which, to my knowledge, is something they neither encourage nor allow.)

Last year, I had the privilege of joining my good friends over at Modern Music on what turned out to be the FIRST PLACE All Star Team of Awesome Champions in the advertising bowling league. This year, we're back. And we've got a title to defend. So, bring it. In the mean time, wander on over and check out the happenings at www.modern-music.com. I reckon you'll find these folks as delightful as I do.

This week at work took me to Rehbein's BMX Arena. This place is spectacular. If you're looking to try something new Rehbein's has open practice on Tuesdays and Fridays where everyone is welcome, from the dudes in the air pictured below, to complete beginners.

The water park at Thumper Pond in Ottertail, Minnesota has a water slide that allows you to select your own visual and audio experience. The field of water slide technology seems to have made significant advancements since the days of my youth. At the water slide I knew as a child the water pressure was usually hit or miss. Sometimes, it would slow to a trickle bringing you to a seemingly anticlimactic halt in the middle of your descent until the child behind you, riding the wave of renewed pressure, inevitably rounded the corner slamming into you creating an awkward mass of tangled adolescents whom it would subsequently dump into the landing pool. The landing pool was just shy of being large enough to stop your momentum from slamming you into the opposite wall. You were guaranteed to chip a tooth if you ever went down head first. And, the CPR skills of the 'life guard' staff were questionable at best. Who knew the field of water slide technology had made such significant advancements in the last 20 years? How delightful!