Dirt In My Beer A Beginner’s journey into Mountain Biking and Making Beer: Enjoy The Little Things is not just a Rule in Zombieland

You ever have one of those days?

You get up and it seems like you can’t get it going, your hands don’t even work right, as you pour some coffee or juice and knock over something else on the counter,

now you have to clean that up and you are already late?

Yeah? Those days suck. First let's put that in perspective.....

Feel Better? No? Well here

See made you forget right?

If you dwell on the bullshit it just rolls downhill. Step back and gather yourself, take a breath, look at the positives that may be coming down the pipe. Will it be that chick above? Probably not!

Think about the next time you are on your own bike, soaring through the woods, kicking up dirt and having a good time.

Or for the other side of this Blog, kicking back with some good friends or family trying a new Beer you have never had,

or one better making a batch of your own “experimental Brew”

A batch that you have never tried, with a few buddies while you bullshit about that shitty morning you had and wonder why you were so stressed out, when the road led to this great time.

My point? Hey there are parts of life that are going to suck, but that is what makes those other parts so much sweeter. I could have the worst week imaginable and it all melts away with an hour long ride through my favorite dirt paths. Now the math sucks on this, perhaps three shitty days at work or after the job, for one hour of complete two wheel (or two glass) Nirvana? Yes it is still worth the struggle.

Think about if all you had was time to drink and ride, this would be my ideal job by the way, but even then you are going to have bad days.

That is just life. The Yin and Yang, the black and white the good and bad of it all.

Then you may have to look for something other than making beer or riding your bike to get away from your ”grind” and let’s face it, not all of us have the independent wealth to step away and just ride our bikes, fuck I miss my childhood!

So take that couple of hours you can set yourself free and make the most of it. Ride your ass off (and in my case that is part of it, riding the beer calories off) stopping for a breath to talk to your friends or other riders about what you just experienced. Or that half a day brewing the perfect Stout with your friends,

while talking about the good times the bad times and that one time you got so drunk you should not have been playing with fireworks but you did…Long story.

And enjoy life. This Dude does..Hell I had to work hard when I had a Six pack, while all I had to do was sit in a Tattoo chair....

Life has a mean curve ball, sometimes a horrible switchback, or just gives you a shitty beer you have to drink. But if you don’t enjoy the little things in life (yes Rule #32 of Zombieland )