Frrrrrriday!

Two mornings in a row in the low 40s and it is starting to feel like winter may be coming! It was only Joe, Scott and me this morning, although we eventually picked up Elliott along the way. I was glad that Scott had to be in court by 9 a.m., because otherwise I would have been doing more sightseeing. Not that we were going very fast - around 21 mph most of the time - but on a cool, pretty morning sometimes the mind wanders, and Scott was at least keeping us honest. We even saw Rob K., who has been MIA for the last couple of weeks. I had heard that his back was giving him some trouble, and also that he had sought out some expert opinions on his position. Rob always seemed to have his bike set up with an extremely low and forward bar position. He had started out much earlier than we did and so we didn't catch him until just before I turned off to go home. As I was peeling off, I noticed that he had indeed changed his setup and was now sporting a short stem of maybe 9 cm, with a bit of a rise to it. That must be quite a change for him. I'll bet that moved his bars something like three inches.

Club meeting at my place this evening to try on samples for the '07 team kit that is about to be ordered. I stopped by the grocery on the way home last night and picked up some coke and a little selection of Abita (the Christmas Ale is out!), and since there was a $10 rebate on six bottles of the ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive Yellow tail wine, which lately has become our house wine, I picked up some of those as well. Which wine goes best with pepperoni pizza? Guess I'd better get home a little early so I can make at least part of the house presentable. We've got the first of the annual Winter Training Ride Series this Sunday. It promises to be great winter ride weather - clear and brisk - and if we can keep everyone in "base training" mode, it should be a lot of fun. Laura is bringing some of the old leftover clothes from the "green kit" that miraculously survived the flood. Her house had, conservatively, eight feet of water in it, and these clothes happened to still be in watertight bags, so they just floated around in the flooded house for a couple of weeks after the hurricane.

Meanwhile, back at the office, things are pretty quiet except for the White Paper I'm working on for a Monday deadline. It will keep me busy this weekend for sure, although I have already warned the group that sending me anything on Friday night will not result in a prompt reply! At any rate, this place is deserted today. We've got one person on vacation in Mexico, another on vacation here, and another who spends most of his time in meetings and just stops in now and then to say hello!

The Daughter is having her knee "scoped" again today. Damn. This is getting to be an annual event. This time, though, the team doctor is doing it as a preventative measure. He basically told her that he thought that if she didn't do it, she would not likely make it through the season without tearing the meniscus again. Since competition starts in January and it will take three to six weeks before she can train on it, and since Thanksgiving holidays are coming up, this was the best time to get it done. Anyway, hopefully it will all go smoothly. I think they may as well just put a permanent zipper in that knee at this point, though.