I left work late today under a moderate amount of stress.  Nothing unusual, just a number of items beginning to stack up.   Probably not much different than your day.  But it was exacerbated by a prior poor night’s sleep.  I woke early in the morning with chest pains.  Not the  heart attack kind, rather the type of pain due to the consumption of a poorly vintaged pinot noir with one of those memorable labels- The Red Bicyclete.  Realizing that I was not dying, I walked around the quiet house checking on the kids.  My dog and cat were both asleep on my 10 year old’s bed.  The dog thumped its tail a few times when I peeked in through the darkness.  I made my way down stairs and slipped into a quiet chair, opened a book and fell back asleep. Read the rest of this entry »

It was a busy week for me.  But in good way.  I was vacationing in St. Maarten, on the Dutch side with my family during an odd time when our relatives from the East coast had their spring break weeks after we did in Indiana.  Being that you can’t pick your relatives I had no choice but to attend this far away gathering. But there was one catch; we would be returning on Saturday evening, well after  Little 500 would have been completed.   Read the rest of this entry »

See the race archived here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuDBTSaA8QQ&feature=player_embedded.

It wasn’t the Little 500 ITTs (which I attended later in the evening) but we had our own little version of the hurt locker on the roads of 446 and Knightridge last night.  The wind (as the early ITTers will tell you) was strong and out of the North, and would be greeting us as we climbed out of the bottom corner off of Knightridge tonight. Read the rest of this entry »