Once again the organizers of the Tour managed to put the most exciting stages on the weekend. And once again Team Discovery, the supposed best team in the tour, managed to get caught flat footed on the first climbing day after a couple of flat days, just like last Friday. And once again, Lance Armstrong proved himself capable of answering any attacks from the other Big Men of the tour, and dishing it back.
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Category: Revelation
I’m the man, baby!
I slaved over a project to upgrade version 3.3 of our software to version 3.6, and get it done by the end of last month, because it was absolutely vital that it get delivered to customers at the end of this month, and QA needed to test it. “The future of the project depends on it” sort of thing. I even only took a week of vacation over holiday even though I felt like taking two so I could be there to fix all the bugs they were going to find. So I’ve been sitting here wondering why QA hasn’t touched it yet, being as how half the month is over.
I just got the word – QA ran their first test of it, and it worked 100% correctly. Woo hoo! I’m the man.
Wow! Wow! Wow!
That was the most amazing stage of the Tour de France I’ve seen in years. The peloton falling to peices, all the Big Men being shelled off the back, and Lance pulls up to Popovych and tells him to launch him, and Popovych destroys the three T-Mobile pretenders to the throne, and launches Lance. Five guys left at the front, and Lance sets the pace for a while, and goes to the back of the five to take a quick look, goes back to the front, raises the pace again and slowly kills Basso. Rassmussen, Valverde, Macebo? Who picked them to be up there with Armstrong?
Can Lance keep this up? Can any human challenge him?
First night in the new house
Vicki and I spent our first night in the new house. We’re not moved in or anything, but since we had to be out of the old house yesterday for a few potential buyers to tour it, we decided to just come over here and make a night of it. That’s also a good way to make sure the old house stays presentable. It’s just delightful to wake up in this big new bed in this bright and sunny room, with the birds singing outside of our window (and our birds downstairs singing back to them).
Buddy is a little out of sorts, but that’s at least partially because we forgot to bring his food.
About the only drawback is the fact that the TV is back at the old house, so I have to follow the Tour via the cyclingnews.com web site, and there are no three prong plug sockets downstairs so I have to run the laptop off of batteries if I want to sit down with the birds. Not that I want to leave this bed any time soon.
As I turn into the Grammar Police
In the article AOPA Online – House bill could terminate flight service station modernization, AOPA President Phil Boyer is quoted as saying
“It’s incredulous that in an atmosphere of concerns for FAA funding, more business-like air traffic operations — and wise use of taxpayers dollars — that Congress even considered, much less accepted, this amendment”
I wrote to AOPA this morning and said
I find it simply INCREDIBLE that a person whose position requires clear and accurate communication would misuse the word “incredulous” so badly. I am simply INCREDULOUS at this misuse of the language.
AOPA’s response was great:
Paul: Thanks for pointing out your incredulity with our incredible web site article.
I promise: We’ll do gooder next time, irregardless of the grammer problems we’re having it with.
😉
JM
Jeff Myers
EVP Communications
AOPA