Stung!

What is it lately? This morning I'm half-way back from the morning training ride and a wasp slams into my forearm, apparently stinger-first. This is the third wasp sting I've gotten in as many weeks. Prior to that, it must have been years since I had been stung. So now I'm suddenly attractive to wasps?? Anyway, it looks like the tropical storms will be bypassing this neck of the woods for the time being and I'm anticipating some nice weather if we get a little of the usual North wind as one of them passes to the East of us. Should make for a pleasant weekend anyway, though I think we're supposed to drive East to Destin on Sunday, which means I'll miss the Time Trial championships in Baton Rouge, not that I'm really crying about that.

Visited the dermatologist last Monday to have him check out some sort of thing on my arm that was a little swollen and wasn't really healing very well. As I suspected, it was probably just an insect bite of some sort. While I was there, though, he took the opportunity to spray my face liberally with liquid nitrogen, so now I look like someone's been putting out cigarettes on my face. Well, maybe that's an improvement?

Reading some interesting stuff in Science (the July 30 edition finally showed up in my box) in a special section on "testing human limits," which is really a thinly disguised effort to capitalize on the interest in the upcoming Olympics. Still, some interesting stuff, including an article on gymnastics - injuries, score inflation, etc.