View From the Bushes

My sleep schedule is starting to return to normal. Last night I slept between 4 pm and 6:30 pm and then again between about 1:30 am and 7:00 am -- still not ideal, but getting better. In more good news, they found the boy who had gone missing in the Uintas. He had been lost for four days, which if you think about it, is a long time. I guess he had seen some searchers but had avoided them. I suppose that's an example of making our children too wary of strangers.

I watched part of the AFI's 100 top movie quotes show last night. It was nice to see so many quotes from Casablanca and I confess to not realizing that the great quote of, "We don't need no stinking badges," was not originally from Blazing Saddles. Speaking of lists, it was nice to see that the five finalists out of the Discovery Channel's top 100 Americans did not include Dr. Phil or Michael Jackson.

And finally after years and years of splitting their efforts between Zabel and Ullrich, T-Mobile (fomerly Telekom) has decided to leave Zabel off the roster and focus all of their efforts around Ullrich. And let me tell you, it's an impressive team. In addition to Ullrich, they have Kloden (#2 last year), Vinokourov (#3 two years ago) and Seville (best young rider a few years ago). I think Armstrong will have to ride as well as he's ever done to keep ahead of that team.

Awaiting the hour of my doom
Ross