View From the Bushes

I'm back. I can only assume that by going eight days without posting that I have lost what little readership I have. Nevertheless I'm back, the holidays are over, and I'm finally posting a new blog. First, to get the Tour update out of the way, David Zabriskie, an American from Salt Lake City, of all places, won the opening time trial and as a result was in yellow for the first few days. It looked possible, even probable, that he might keep it today, given that his team (CSC) was posting the best time at all the checkpoints during the team time trial, but 2 km out Zabriskie crashed. CSC came in 2 seconds behind Discovery (Armstrong's team) and Zabriskie limped in a few seconds later. Two seconds was the time difference, so It's interesting to guess whom the jersey would have gone to if Zabriskie had finished with his team.

With that out of the way, I can talk about Origins. I went to Origins to take care of some DireKobold business and in that respect it went really, really well. Better than I expected. I still unfortunately can't comment on any of the relevant details, (I know I say that a lot) but hopefully that will soon change. As a result of the business I had to take care of, I didn't get a lot of gaming done, but an old friend of mine flew in Friday night, so we did get to spend all day Saturday having fun. A big problem was because of the preparation involved for the business side of things I was too tired to do much before then.

In fact I'm still pretty tired; it always surprises me how long it takes to recover from prolonged sleep deprivation, or at least how long it takes me to recover. I always imagine that one good night's sleep of ten hours and I should be back in the saddle, but then of course it always ends up being several weeks before I finally am back to "normal." Part of the problem is that it's never "over" -- it's just "less." As a result, my run of good nights is always interrupted by some backsliding. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll be more on top of things.

Triumphantly returning from battle
Ross