"The Top Ten Ways to Tell You're an Idiot"

#10  Your last name is, and/or, was Rooyakkers

# 9.  You leave your truck in drive when you get out of it just to be able to watch it drve through the closed garage door and into the back of your wife's car!

#  8.  When you are one of the middle pullers in a tug of war you wrap the rope once around yourself just to get a better grip!

#  7  You book a trip around the world in the middle of your ironman training just because you think it would be cool to see India, Thailand and China again

#  6  You figure a barn full of hay is a decent place to test your fire building skills!

#  5  You figure that taunting an entire university wrestling team with one of your mothers home made apple pies would be good fun!

#  4  You jump into a near bottomless lake 3000 kms from home wearing your only pair of glasses!

#  3  You disregard the hornets nest right above your head while you busy yourself with pulling down your fly to take a pee!

#  2  You hold a 600 volt switch in your bare hands to test a machine, and ask your little brother to hit the power!

...and the number one way to tell you're an idiot...

#  1  You forget to check that the pilot light is actually out before you crack the gas line to bleed it!

Yup....those are all idiot moments compliments of yours truly.  Well except for number 10.   That one is hereditary!

I also feel like an idiot when it comes to this swimming  stuff.  Today I thought I was getting the hang of it with my wetsuit on, but as soon as I took it off I felt like a rock again.  I watch the videos of other people and it looks so effortless.  I can't keep my body parallel in the water without  a great deal of exhausting work.  I do have a theory that I have very dense bone structure and combined with my lean lower body composition it may be an excuse.   Right now I'm not sure where to turn.  I am considering just working out with my wetsuit, and yet somehow that seems like cheating.  I worry that it is not the wise long term approach overall.  Any experts out there? 

(10.3 km run, 51 mins) (swim 45 mins)

"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."--- Douglas Adams

"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."---Scott Adams

"I'm a one-man idiot."---Eddie Izzard

Love
Peter