Hip-hop Water Exercise

RantWoman means to call in and record something. Really she does. RantWoman even called in once and tried to listen but listening late at night, the audio was all staticky. Was this technical difficulties at RantWoman's perhaps?

RantWoman currently has a phone, a caller ID box, her DSL modem and computer all wired together. Every once in awhile everything just gets all full of static. Who knows whether it is sunspots, the electronic vermin of the day, or just electromagnetic randomness. RantWoman thinks the static may have been building for awhile, and it has been a really bad week for electronic vermin in RantWoman's pet internet addiction. All of this is what finally prompted RantWoman to do the first thing she knows the Qwest customer service representative would suggest, unplug everything, let it sit awhile and then plug things back together.

When RantWoman did this, many things improved and RantWoman had a delightful spell listening to longer, clearer versions of several items on the website, as well as a couple that seem to come and go from the Rap / sing / pray page. RantWoman finds herself wondering whether material is getting deleted or rearranged or whether the disappearance / reappearance relates to some web geekery like different versions of the page getting served somehow.

But enough with the technology. RantWoman is going to start on mushy-headed notes about the sounds of, let's face it, the 'hood.

Take hip-hop water exercise. RantWoman really loves to swim and she really loves the Medgar Evers pool. The pool is deep enough that RantWoman does not skin her legs attempting turns in her laps. The temperature is tolerable. The pool very seldom gets too crowded to swim. It has a great swinging rope so on Friday nights the world's most irrepressible nephew can play Tarzan with all the other kids.

One fascinating attraction when RantWoman first moved into the 'hood was hip-hop water exercise every Saturday morning. RantWoman liked to stalk out of bed, walk over to the pool, swim some laps and get on with her day. RantWoman initially did not pay any attention to what the music was, but then she realized that hip-hop has one heck of a beat and all the women who came to class seemed to really like it. RantWoman currently lives a little too far to walk first thing on Saturday mornings, but she really hopes that hip-hop water exercise has not disappeared.