Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Just some random stuff

• All over the internet today people are participating in Blogathon 2003. I've been surfing through some, mostly admiring page layouts. (Oh, and the fact that these guys will post every half hour for 24 hours straight to raise money. I didn't mean to leave that part out!) I'm not sure I'd have that discipline, frankly.

• When I said last night that today's Tour stage would include man-vs.-nature, I didn't realize how right I was. It was raining hard through the course today, and Ullrich (among others...it sounded like about a third of the riders lost it at some point on the course today) fell. I felt sick when he went down...you could see sparks from the bike against the pavement...I was really afraid he'd be hurt or his bike would be so banged up he'd lose more time having to switch. Before the fall he and Armstrong really were neck-and-neck, but Ullrich lost enough time with the crash that Armstrong was able to slow down and take it much more cautiously.

  Yeah, I was routing for Lance, but I feel bad for Ullrich that the weather played the deciding factor in his performance today. You can never remove all the variables, though...the weather, the mechanics...all crashes are freak crashes at that level. And without those variables there'd bt no reason to have the race, they could just give the jersey to the best guy on paper.

• Once the stage is over tomorrow, I don't have anything to watch til hockey starts in October.

• This time next week I'll be on vacation! We're actually test-packing tomorrow...Victor got a new CRV this year, and we can fit the bikes inside, but we aren't sure how much room we have to spare for clothes and so on. I do tend to over-pack (it's my stupid "be prepared" hang-up), but I pared down considerably this time. I'm going to the beach; do I really need shoes?

• Farms. I'm getting tired and I need to do some things before bed (like put away the laundry that is covering the bed), but remind me later, I had some stuff to say about farms.
  Posted by Nic at 07.26.03 21:49