It rained all night as expected and I didn't even need to look out the window this morning when the alarm went off. Instead, I got an extra hour of sleep and made it to the office uncharacteristically early. By afternoon, though, the sky had cleared considerably. Perhaps there is hope for a ride this evening if I can get out of here early enough.
I got a bunch of Rouge-Roubaix photos from Malcolm S. this morning that I'll hopefully get up on the website some time tonight. They're mostly of the two lead breakaways this year, with some close-ups of the top riders coming over one of the dirt road hills. That's Michael Olheiser (MMW) over there in the photo, probably around the time he dropped everybody and started working on the eight-minute lead he had at the finish.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the Gov' has announced her new $600M education spending package today. Gee, there must be an election coming up. The press release shows "$10 million for hurricane-affected colleges to help them recruit and retain faculty and to help them with their recovery efforts." I'm sure they neglected to add "for public universities" to that sentence. There was a flurry of calls this morning about how LSU is getting an increase of $19M while the University of New Orleans is getting all of $1M because they are using the Fall 2005 enrollment numbers to do the allocation -- as if they have conveniently forgotten about that little hurricane that wiped out much of the Fall '05 enrollment in New Orleans. Turns out they made adjustments for a couple of the community colleges, but not for UNO. More LSU games. They just can't seem to help doing it -- never seem to miss an opportunity to stick it to UNO.
Still waiting on final and complete 3-man TT and Rouge-Roubaix results so I can get the LCCS points updated. Getting that all set up for the new season should take a very long time. There's a 2-man time trial in Baton Rouge this weekend that I'll be doing. I wish it was longer than 21 miles, though, but I guess we'll make it painful enough anyway.
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