It felt a bit like springtime this morning with the predawn temperature above 60 and a soft southerly wind. The dozen riders on the morning levee ride stuck to a moderate pace for most of the trip. I was feeling pretty good, but preoccupied with other things. Yesterday evening I was called into a meeting at around 6 p.m., walking out half an hour later with a few more items on my plate that consumed much of my morning today and pushed everything else back even farther. It was later in the day that I found out that our efforts to get the Carnegie Foundation to upgrade our classification from "high research" to "very high research" had been successful. Also around the same time I learned about a certain attempt to end-run a certain group of university presidents by a certain group of state legislative staff who are clearly in defiance of congressional intent on a certain $95M appropriation for higher education Katrina relief. I didn't have much time to think about it, though, as I started working on sorting out the last five years of sponsored program awards for a meeting tomorrow afternoon. I'm afraid my report will be a little rough around the edges on this one, even if I stay up most of the night, as I likely will.
Meanwhile in the local cycling world, I talked with Brooks B. this morning on the levee ride and he said that they'll have to postpone the planned "Privateer criterium." The new home for the NOBC website is ready for uploading already, and I'm disappointed that I won't be able to spend any time on it tonight or tomorrow. I could just do the easy thing and copy the entire existing site over to the new location, but that would just be too easy, wouldn't it. Nobody would know about all those orphaned files and cluttered and mixed-up directories - except for me.
That just won't do.
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Your committment to quality is noted Randy, thanks man.
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