It seems like it has been a long time since I was on the bike, and so it was nice to be out on the road again this morning. I was running a few minutes late, thanks to an extra glass or two of wine last night, and that fact at least kept me from slacking off too much. On the way out on Highway 421 I saw the same doe I had seen a few days ago, standing in the same spot in the middle of the road. I startled her and she lost her footing on the asphalt, nearly falling before dashing off into the underbrush. As nice as it is to ride around here on the smooth and quiet roads, riding alone every day does get old. It's not like I haven't done it before, of course. Throughout much of the 80s and 90s I did most of my morning training rides alone. Now don't get me wrong. There are some very good things about doing solo training rides. In fact, I've felt like I should do more of them myself.
The exciting news today was that the tulane.edu mailserver is back up!! About friggin' time. It's still a little slow, and my mail reader, Eudora, often times out before getting a response from the server, but at least we can finally go back to using the regular Tulane IDs. Hopefully the website will be back up soon as well. I will be heading into Baton Rouge in the morning for a meeting of the Post-Katrina Research Task Force, which should be interesting, but it will also be long. We'll start at 9:30 and plan to finish in "mid-afternoon." Since it's a good 45 minutes into B.R. from here at that time of the morning, I probably won't be able to get much of a ride in.
I got an IM from The Daughter today casually mentioning that she was going to have some surgery done on her problem knee on Friday. She's had trouble with a torn meniscus in the knee for a while and they've finally decided to take a shot at fixing it. I hope it all goes smoothly and doesn't cause too much discomfort for too long.
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