I’ve been unicycling for the past 9 months now and I’ve improved to a level 4 rider with some level 5 and 6 skills through in there.
Anyway, I think I have a problem…I’m obessed with unicycling. I think about unicycling driving to and from work “I could do that hill” or I can see myself riding along side my car. I even dream about skills I have’t mastered yet.
My 9 month pregent wife brought this obsession to my attention this past weekend when I wanted to ride with my friends instead of attending our baby shower. Didn’t go over well.
Any suggestions? Has anyone else gone through this?
“KJP” wrote:
> Anyway, I think I have a problem…I’m obessed with unicycling.
Not a problem.
> My 9 month pregent wife brought this obsession to my attention this past
> weekend when I wanted to ride with my friends instead of attending our
> baby shower.
I had some comments when I rode my Muni to the surgery to pick up a
prescription for my wife the week after Jenny was born. I’ve been forbidden
from pushing the pushchair while riding, but it will happen this weekend.
Anyway, WTF is a baby shower?
I’m about to leave for BJC, so I’ll pick up the answer next week. Good luck
with the sproglet.
A baby shower is a party given by the expectant mother’s friends. These friends are girls. The mother knows about these parties, other than who’s throwing it when, but they still seem to be suprised.
Men, in general, are not welcome to these parties, and if they were would have a horrible time. The mother-to-be gets baby toys and highchairs and things that she needs. And everybody cries. And the friends who don’t have kids go home and either start trying, or thanking their lucky stars it isn’t them.
You already did your part now go out and unicycle until she has the child, then reduce your unicycling marginally.
Now that I’ve been riding for about 3 months I’ve had to come to grips with the fact that, yes, I too am an obsessed unicyclist. Worse yet, I’m a closet unicyclist. I tell my fiancee that I’m taking the garbage out and 45 min. later she finds me hopping on and off the curb, having a blast. When visitng friends and family I hide the unicycle in the luggage (it is hard to hide a 26" these days - with all the airline security and all) and find an excuse to slip away for a while to do what I really would rather be doing.
Is ther hope for us? Is there a 12 step program for the rest of the world?
>Is there a 12 step program for the rest of the
>world?
It took more than 12 steps, but I got my wife, Kathy, to learn to ride. It took
having lots of the rest of the family decide to come ride in the Seafair Parade
this summer. Kathy decided that if she went to the parade it would be as a
rider, not a curb-sitter. Now I have to steal my uni from her.
I think that obsession is common to technical sports. A friend of mine once climbed a 3000’
climbing route in the California Sierras with the well known climber Peter Croft. It was the
morning of Peter’s wedding day:)
He since divorced.
-Kris.
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> “KJP” wrote:
> > Anyway, I think I have a problem…I’m obessed with unicycling.
>
> Not a problem.
>
> > My 9 month pregent wife brought this obsession to my attention this past
> > weekend when I wanted to ride with my friends instead of attending our
> > baby shower.
>
> I had some comments when I rode my Muni to the surgery to pick up a
> prescription for my wife the week after Jenny was born. I’ve been forbidden
> from pushing the pushchair while riding, but it will happen this weekend.
>
> Anyway, WTF is a baby shower?
>
> I’m about to leave for BJC, so I’ll pick up the answer next week. Good luck
> with the sproglet.
>
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I’m obsessed too, but only slightly. I tend to think about riding constantly. I only ride about 8 hours a week, and it feels like it isn’t enough. I’m never the guy who wants to quit now, its usually Chris. “I have to get up early.” “I havent had any sleep.” I understand, but lets ride some more, OK Chris?
I hope to ride my unicycle with my boss today during lunch (my boss just has a mountain bike; but he knows where there are some good trails right next door to work; therefore I need him. Muah ha ha!).
Still, I do manage to find time to do other things, and I have nobody to answer to except me, so no problems.
As for baby showers, I dont understand why anybody would have one in the first place, and if I understand them right, those who go to them would normally not want the man around.
Still, you may have to do what you have to do to. You are married, and I am not, so you would know your situation best.
> I think that obsession is common to technical sports. A friend of
> mine once climbed a 3000’ climbing route in the California Sierras
> with the well known climber Peter Croft. It was the morning of
> Peter’s wedding day:)
>
> He since divorced.
What he did wasn’t a problem. He just married the wrong girl.
> As for baby showers, I dont understand why anybody would have
> one in the first place, and if I understand them right, those
> who go to them would normally not want the man around.
Generally an accurate assessment for a male. But apparently there are
different types of baby shower, much to the male’s dismay. I had to go to
one, for one of Jacquie’s best friends. I was the photographer. The dad was
there, along with a few other men, but we were definitely the minority.
Fortunately there was a TV in the back, where the men mostly ended up,
watching football.
If it were the “traditional” shower, you would not have been invited.
He he. I like this thread. I was at the orthopedist (bone doctor) the other day cause my hip has been bothering me, and when he asked what activities I do, my response was unicycle. After he said that I should probably stau away from that for a while, my mom, with out hesitation, said I dont think that’s an option. I thought it was funny, cause I was about to say the same.
-David Kaplan
Unfortunatly we live in Anchorage not Seward, although there are incredible rides within minutes of the city. Last week we rode on glacier worn rock along the Ocean. We rode very hard for 3 hours on 45 degree rocks and trains (downhill of course). Our best rider actually has an old uni from George Peck. We are planning a “Meca” like trip down to Seward to ride with the master on his trails this summer.
KJP
PS-My uni buddies all came to the baby shower, however they didn’t give my little unborn boy a uni, just a buch of things with yellow ducks on them.
Has anyone heard when is a good time to introduce a child to unicycling?
>A baby shower is a party given by the expectant mother’s friends. These
>friends are girls. The mother knows about these parties, other than
>who’s throwing it when, but they still seem to be suprised.
In the Netherlands, traditionally when a baby is born, everyone visits
the newborn separately. But some people organise a party and invite
all their friends at once to “show the baby”. So I’ve always thought
that this is what is called a babyshower. (And maybe “we” do, over
here…)
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:”
“BRLO, GEODSS, Fox”
Well lately I have to say that I have been sorta obsessing on goin MUni’n but I cant because the ground is thawing out and if I went on the dirt on a trail I’d probably sink afew inches into the dirt.
> How is it decided when something becomes an “obsession”? Who defines
> that? I think that my field (psychology) is much too quick to find
> fault with people by creating “deficit” language, which includes terms
> like “obsession.” Couldn’t you be viewed alternatively as
> “fascinated” with or “passionate” about unicycling? Why psychology
> insists on putting such a negative spin on things, I’ll never quite
> understand–after all, the field is supposed to be in the business of
> mental “health,” not “illness”!!
I was not aware it was the psychology community attaching these negative
labels, I had assumed that it was the press, always looking to make things
look as interesting and controversial as possible.
So why do you want to put negative labels on the psychology community?
> That said, I think that it’s tricky but important to balance
> our interests with those who are near and dear to us.
True.
And what better way to “balance” them than by having unicycles on-the-brain
all the time?
Sofa wrote:
> now go out and unicycle until she has the
> child, then reduce your unicycling marginally.
Nah, just get some lights and go out when the kids are in bed.
This probably won’t work for the first few months but after that you’ll
realise that kids go to bed really early. Or maybe that’s just in my
household. Hmm…
Regards,
Mark.
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>This probably won’t work for the first few months but after that you’ll
>realise that kids go to bed really early.
Well, enjoy it while it lasts! I can personally attest that by the age
of twelve they’ve more or less gotten to adult bed times. And not all
of a sudden I should add.
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:”
“NSDD, furby, JICA”
now go out and unicycle until she has the child, then reduce your unicycling marginally.
