Friday!

Aftermath - drying out in the basement

Well, the rain-soaked tents and other race equipment is all dried out and tucked away in the basement, ready for the next race. Results are posted, the post-event report has been submitted despite what is now the usual USAC website complications, and things are slowly returning to normal in more ways than one. I expect to be returning to the downtown office for at least a few days next week, and we're expecting pretty much everyone to be back no later than July 6. Yesterday Candy had her second cataract surgery, which is considerably easier and faster than getting you Louisiana driver's license renewed, and her vision in that eye is now better than it's ever been in her life, so that's a big plus. She has hip replacement surgery scheduled for July 22, though, so I'll be taking a few days off for that and Danielle will be flying in for a few days as well. In the meantime, Keith has been working on the new NOBC team kit design, which looks pretty good, I think. You never really know about that sort of thing until you see the actual final product out in the wild, but this design looks promising.

Friendly Friday (at 25 mph)

The weather here, after last weekend's unfortunately timed deluge, has been typically hot, extremely humid, and rain-free, so despite losing last weekend's miles I'm back to the routine, such as it is. This morning I went out to meet the 6 am "Friendly Friday" ride for the second time. The Tulane Friday Coffee Rides are in summer hiatus, so this may be my new Friday routine for a while. This ride seems to have gotten larger and faster lately, a somewhat normal evolution for group rides, but on the plus side I was back home before 7:30. 

Current draft design

There's finally some movement, or at least talk, on other possible LAMBRA races, and Townsend has scheduled an online meeting a week from tomorrow, so hopefully we can get a few races on the calendar, elect/draft new officers, and get things back on track. 

Here at home we're still dealing with a torn-up dirt street and will be for at least another six months, probably longer. I was walking the dog yesterday and he stepped off the sidewalk next to one of the new fire hydrants they just installed and the riversand just gave way underneath his rear legs. I had to pull him out of the hole. Good thing it wasn't bigger! 

Yesterday Tulane sent me a 30th anniversary gift package, which was mainly a pin and some Tulane coasters and a certificate suitable for framing, but also included a $200 gift card thing that I set up for Lowes. The store is only a mile from here but I'm not even sure if I can use it in person, but at any rate I can order online and have stuff delivered, so maybe I should break down and get a couple of sheets of plywood that is lately apparently in short supply and selling at ridiculous prices so I can see about the garage roof before the termites finish eating it and it collapses onto the GT-6 that I also should be working on. First, though, I need to fix that leaking faucet in the bathtub. And then there are the gutters that need to be replaced and all the rotting decorative wood accents up around the roof of the house, not to mention the antique plumbing that could go at any moment.