Crunch Time

Things at both work and play seem to be stacking up like a logjam this week and it is looking like it will be a long night at work tonight putting together a long capabilities statement for a grant collaboration that was supposed to have been done already by someone else. When I finally got a copy of what that person had done, I just shook my head. The best part is that, like many Mac users, this person decides to put headings in a font called "Apple Chancery." Brilliant choice for a collaborative document. The other 97% of computer users will therefore see some default Courier type of font. On top of that there's this ongoing issue with an inter-university collaboration that is causing some grief due to extraordinarily poor communication and it now has to be fixed after the award has been made, so there will be rebudgeting issues and retroactive payroll issues and a healthy dose of mistrust all around.

It was much cooler this morning - in the 40s - and although there was initially a smallish group for the levee ride, it eventually swelled to a reasonable size, which was good because it was pretty windy. I wasn't able to do the whole long ride today because of work, but as it turned out nobody else really wanted to ride the whole distance either so the group fired the retro rockets at "the dip," which got me back home early enough. That was nice, because I had not been looking forward to turning back early and then having to deal with the wind all by my lonesone on the way back.

I got the complete Rouge-Roubaix results from Shane this morning and got them up on the website around lunchtime. Three people e-mailed or called right away about mistakes in the results, but unless it's just a spelling type of error I'll have to refer them to the event's Chief Referee so he can investigate. Next, I have to go through all of the results and look up a bunch of USCF numbers that the promoter should have recorded and update the various spreadsheets that track the LCCS points, and then finally upload the results, along with a few modified web pages, to the LAMBRA webserver. I'll try and do that tomorrow, but this grant proposal will have to take priority for now, so we'll see how that goes.

Now I've got to go run over to the dentist to get my tiny little $700 crown glued onto what's left of one of my teeth. At least it won't be painful, except for the part where I have to listen to my lonely dentist try to engage me in conversation about football or something while various dental implements are hanging from my mouth.

Looks like I'll be making a solo drive up to Auburn AL on Saturday. It might turn out to be rather relaxing, assuming the old car cooperates. The meet is Saturday afternoon, so I might just stay around for dinner and then make the 5 hr drive back at night, stopping of course at every coffee machine along the way. I might at least be able to make the Sunday morning Giro ride that way, although if I'm too tired to drive I'll have to bunk in at whatever roadside motel I find.