A Day Off

Yesterday afternoon The Wife called to say her flight from Austin had gotten screwed up royally and she would not be arriving until around 11 p.m. Apparently the person who had made her online reservation had selected the wrong month for the departure date (i.e. the 13th of April rather than March), which explains how they got such a low fare!! The result was that she had to rent a car and drive from Austin to Phoenix to catch the only flight back with an available seat and basically trash the return trip ticket and buy a new one-way ticket. As they say, "haste makes waste." Anyway, the flight was further delayed, so by the time I picked her up from the airport and got home it was nearly midnight and my lack of sleep had really started catching up with me.

When the alarm went off this morning, it didn't take me too long to decide it was time for an extra hour of sleep and a day off the bike. I'm hoping the rain that is expected tonight will be over by the time I go out to ride tomorrow morning, but I probably jinxed myself by taking a day off.

I've about got the LCCS points rankings finished, except that I am still waiting for some critical USCF license information from the Rouge-Roubaix promoter. Our 2-man Time Trial is this weekend and I want to have all of the rankings out well before that. Of course, the 2-man TT is kind of wierd and there is some uncertainty about what to do with mixed-category teams. If there's a team with one Cat. 5 and one Cat. 4, it is clear that they race in the Cat. 4 race, but when it comes to awarding LCCS poins, it doesn't seem right to give the Cat. 5 points toward his Cat. 5 ranking (after all, he had help from a Cat. 4 rider) and it doesn't seem right to give the Cat. 5 points in the Cat. 4 ranking (since he's not a Cat. 4), but there are those who want to do that because they are after the team points. I think we created a monster when we started doing the team points rankings. Anyway, IMHO, mixed-category teams should not qualify for points at all. The Cat. 4 LCCS ranking isn't a Cat. 4,5 ranking, it's a Cat. 4 ranking.

I'm having trouble with laptops at home lately and am rather concerned about using either of them for the 2-man TT results. There's another laptop here at work that I can probably use if it isn't travelling this weekend, but I will have to install a printer driver for my printer at least.