Way too busy

I was awake this morning earlier than I needed to be. It wasn't early enough to go back to sleep, of course, since that would have practically guaranteed I'd be late for the morning ride, so I eventually got up anyway and did fun stuff like cram some more stuff in the garbage can outside for our (still) once a week garbage pickup. There was a pretty big group for the levee ride today, and although it never got really fast, I'm afraid I did push the pace up a little bit when I was on the front. Howard was off the front after the turnaround, so he rode all the way in about 45 seconds ahead of us. Then he sent this email out to the list (fishing for a response, of course!):

Now that i've gained 15 seconds on the DONALD intoday's stage of the Tour de Levee, it reminded me of a story Mike Lew told of a RR win he had at Hodges Garden. Apparently Mike came in solo with enough time on the group to dismount, bath, dress, grab something to drink and watch the second place rider cross the line. So I came up with the following incomplete list of things we can do in 15 seconds.I've been told that my pulls last only 15 seconds, and that's on a good day.

Ronnie Schmit can have an orgaism.
Kevin can go from off the front to off the back in the Giro.
Donald can show off all of his 13 personalities.
Carey can recite every curse word known to man.
Larry can do 1500 vertical push ups.
Pou can knock out 5 guys
Kenny B. can convince you that we should all aspire to ride for Herring Gas.
Charlie D....well Charlie can't do anything in 15 seconds but he has a size 15 shoe.
Juice....would be 15 seconds ahead of me (is that 25%)
Reyo can spin the cranks about a million times.
VJ can figure out how to lose another lb off the bike
Matt can create 5 stick dog paintings and make $10koff them.
Bert V. can pick up every woman he sees
Rob can get 5 tickets fixed and get you out of jail (just once)
Max can grow back a full coat of hair on his legs
Robin....we won't go there.
Todd...if I say something about Todd, he'll make me ride a hilly ride and I'll end up riding 30 miles backby myself.Again...
I'm sure that this is an incomplete list sofeel free to add. And to Donald. I may be riding next to you tomorrow, but I'm actually 15 seconds ahead of you.

It's been crazy busy at work the last few days and I've been feeling rather pressed for time. I've also been feeling pain in my jaw from that temporary cap that I'm supposed to have replaced with the real one tomorrow. Another expensive tooth for my growing collection. I just hope it doesn't hurt every time I drink something cold, or hot. The Daughter has a friend coming in today who may drive back with her to Iowa City, so I probably won't have to go. I just wish I had known about it before buying that round-trip ticket!

So I checked my Sewerage and Water bill online today since I had noticed that they had finally read the water meter for the first time since the hurricane nearly eleven months ago. $114. Haven't even gotten it in the mail yet. Can't wait to see the gas bill once they finally catch up on that. I'll have to negotiate on that one for sure. They can't get their act together for nearly a year, and then they want to dump a huge bill on you and expect you to cough up the cash in like twenty days.