View From the Bushes

Tomorrow's time trial should be pretty exciting. No one is going to catch Lance (without something really out of the ordinary happening) and I think Basso is pretty safe, but there's plenty of room for movement in the rest of the top 10. I'm confident Ullrich will jump past Rasmussen, and based on Mancebo's performance in the opening time trial, I would be suprised if Levi didn't jump past him into the number 5 spot. 53 seconds is all that seperates 7-9 and I'm sure Moreau, who had a pretty good tour, would like to take the #10 spot back from Pereiro.

The allergy medicine appears to be working (though given that I haven't biked since Monday, it's hard to tell). So now that my eyes have recovered I'm planning on biking tomorrow morning; I need to decide if I want to wait until after the stage is over or whether I want to go as early as possible while it's still cool. I think I might try one of the canyons. It's still kind of early in my "recovery" to be doing a lot of climbing, but there are a couple of canyons that aren't too bad. I may be going with a friend -- we'll see what he wants to do.

I'm looking forward to Saturday. It's the first time in a while where the day isn't already pretty full before it even begins. One of my co-workers lent me the Lonesome Dove mini-series, so maybe I'll spend the day watching that. I'm not sure, but the possibilties of all this free time are pretty exciting. Of course generally when I've got a whole day with nothing really to do I end up pissing it away, so hopefully that won't happen tomorrow.

Finally for the link today, we've got a story on the negative affects of the constant interruptions we experience while working on a computer. I know I've taken to closing my e-mail so that I'm not distracted by the constant need to check and see if the new message which just arrived is important or yet another piece of spam.

I can see!
Ross