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Monday, March 21, 2005

Eventful Weekend

So while most of the Georgia redneck nation (and the Alabama redneck nation and the South Carolina...you get the point) was in and around Hampton this weekend for the Aaron's 312 (the drama of 12 extra miles...) and the Cracker Barrel 500 I spent the weekend doing decidedly non-redneck things. Saturday night the Weissmeister and I went up to the Tabernacle in Atlanta (skillfully dodging redneck drivers coming back from witnessing the drama of 12 extra miles) to see Buddy Guy. I was amazed by BG's guitar skills and stage presence. Easy to see why he was such a huge influence on the British rock dudes of the mid and late sixties and Stevie Ray in the 80's. A lot of the lyrics were a bit coarse but that's what you get sometimes with the blues. I have to say that I prefer the styles of B.B. King, Robert Cray and Keb' Mo' to Buddy Guy but there's no denying that he's an amazing musician. The Tabernacle was a cool venue as well.

On Sunday I feld the area entirely to go down to Dublin to ride in the 23rd annaul century ride there. I huge with the fast group the whole way and ended up doing the 100 mile distance in 4 hours and 17 minutes. I kept wondering when we'd slow down adn on more than one occasion I was praying for a flat tire or dropped chain so that I could let the fast group go but it didn't happen so I hung in there. I ended up being the first century rider across the line which felt pretty good. What it tells me is that the power and endurance to hang are there in spades, I just need to keep improving as the road goes up to hang in the big races.

This week will be busy as we prepare for a Passover meal. We do this every year for our ministry and it's a very meaningful rememberance and celebration of the Jewish roots of our faith and Christ's place in it. I never fail to get just amazed sometime during the ceremony as I realize that Christ was doing the same thing the night He was arrested 2000 years ago.

Anyways, thanks for reading and I hope you have a great week.

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