Sleeping Late, Working Late

Something told me to stay under the covers this morning when the alarm went off. This time I listened. Maybe I needed a rest. Maybe I was just being lazy. In fact, I was kind of looking forward to a relaxed day at the office.

Ha!

I spent some time in the morning wrapping up a few bike racing things. There was only one Junior team in the team time trial and technically they earn LCCS points, even though there was no actual competition for them. The minimum field rules were written without taking into consideration the team events. A proposal is now on the table to require at least two teams. I'm sure somebody will have a problem with that, but I just don't think you can have a points series that doesn't require that somebody beats somebody else in order for points to be won. Otherwise, we should just call it an attendence award.

So anyway, I thought I would have a nice predictible day today, but around noon things started dropping from the sky onto my desk. First was a call from the Senate committee on Homeland Security inquiring about an interoperable communications grant that someone from Tulane wrote a couple of years ago. We ended up backing out of the multi-million dollar grant because of politics going on with one of the partners on the project which happened to be the City of New Orleans, so the new technology that might have helped in Katrina, never got tested or implemented. So anyway that is kind of a touchy subject. Then there was another fire to put out involving the Board of Regents and the now-infamous $95 M higher ed allocation, of which, BTW, not a single dollar has yet to make its way to the institutions that need it. Then I got elected to make the arrangements for a visit to campus by the director of the National Science Foundation that is scheduled for next Monday.

Last weekend The Daughter's University of Iowa gymnastics team competed in the Big Ten conference championships and the outcome was that they did not qualify for the Regional Championships, which wasn't really a surprise. What was a surprise, though, was finding out this afternoon that The Daughter qualified as an "event specialist" on Beam at Regionals, so she gets to go along with a couple of her teammates who also qualified on individual events. So that's great, but of course it means we will be making a trip to Iowa State where the meet will be on a weekend that happens to conflict with the Tour le Fleur. Damn. It seems like some years all of the gymnastics meets conflict with races, while in other years they fall on alternate weekends. This is one of the former, I'm afraid.

Anyway, I just posted a bunch of competition videos from recent meets, one of which is of The Daughter doing an excellent beam routine that scored something like a 9.925. The big question I have is when will the website bump up against it's space quota? It's gotta be really close. I still have a bunch of photos to upload and I'm afraid that's going to be the straw that broke the camel's back.