In the Bank

This morning the stomach was marginally better, although the throat is still hurting when I swallow, but there wasn't anything about a training ride that was likely to make either worse, so I was out the door as usual for the levee ride. It's been interesting to see how the morning levee rides have evolved, with each day taking on its own characteristics. Sandwiched between the two "long" days, and usually coming the day after the hardest day, the Wednesday ride is probably the most variable, speed-wise. Regardless of the speed, though, the one thing that characterizes the Wednesday ride is that it is almost always smooth paceline. This morning was no exception. The speeds stayed in the 23-24 mph range for most of the ride, and when there's a smooth paceline going that's a pretty comfortable pace at an average effort level not too different from a 21 mph solo ride, I'd say. I felt better today as I am slipping back into the groove, and if this stomach thing would just quit altogether, all would be copasetic.

I was glad to finally track down the details on a criterium in the Mobile, AL area. For some reason it is always hard to find the info on this particular race. This year the only way to find the flyer was to click on the "register by mail" link. Who knew? I've never been able to make this race, although it's been going on for a few years now at the Naval Air Station there. Maybe this year? The promoter send me an email today that said, "hope some of you guys can make it...tell Jason Miller that Bart wants a piece of his ass." Haaa! There is a really good battle going on in the Cat. 4 LCCS series, except that they've all given up on first place since the guy in the lead is probably going to resist upgrading until he has it in the bag, which shouldn't be too hard since he's won almost everything this year. Naturally I forwarded it to the whole NOBC list!!

So this morning I had an email from the Controller's office that they had received an electronic transfer of funds from the Board of Regents today in the amount of $14,067,377, so it's good to know that's in the bank. I'm expecting a check for $1.2M today, and once that arrives we can break out the champagne. Actually, this $15M is a drop in the bucket that probably won't merit much mention outside of the folks in the CFO's office. Now I'm working on a $13M proposal for the Health Sciences clinical faculty, to be funded through the state's Office of Community Services from the federal Community Services Block Grant.