Touch 'n Go

After a busy weekend up in Iowa City with a 3-way meet that didn't go quite as well as we'd hoped and "senior night," we were finally headed back south early Monday morning. Just before we left I checked my email and found that Shane had sent me the official results from Sunday's 3-Man Team Time Trial, so when we got to the Moline airport I hastily built the web page and cleaned up the results so they would look OK (the spreadsheet had all the names in lowercase, plus a bunch of data like USCF numbers that isn't needed for the results page). I almost got it all finished before they started boarding the plane, but some of the names are still all in lowercase. Anyway, the trip back was uneventful and we landed back at MSY around 4 pm, at which point The Wife decided she absolutely had to have a new suitcase for her (work-related) trip to Puerto Rico this morning. I don't really claim to understand why she keeps buying expensive suitcases and then complains bitterly when they are, inevitably and almost immediately, trashed by the luggage handlers at the airports. I mean, just buy something fairly cheap and plan on throwing it away in a year or so. Anyway, the ultimate result was two hours of looking at suitcases like it was a life-altering decision before we finally got home.

When I finally checked my email at home I discovered that a few people had some problems with the results that were posted and that the Chief Ref was going to investigate and perhaps make some corrections. There had been some "technical difficulties" with the printer at the event, so they were never able to post either a start sheet or the official results, so naturally when they showed up on the website yesterday some people found problems. Anyway, Shane will work on that tonight, so we should have it cleared up fairly soon. He told me that he was handling the start and that someone else was handling the finish. One problem was that the finish line guys were just writing down the number of the first rider of each team to finish, which would have been fine except that they were 3-man teams and the finish time was supposed to be the time of the second rider. Some teams dropped one of their riders before the finish, so when they recorded the finish time of the solo dropped rider, it was hard to tell after the fact if that was a team time or just the time of a dropped "third wheel" rider.

We found a pretty neat video on Google of one of the recent University of Iowa gymnastics meets. Check it out. Meanwhile, I have a couple hundred photos of other meets to sort through and post to their website along with vids of a couple more of their meets. I think I need to do some of my own work first, though!!