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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Here are a few random thoughts running through my addled mind:

The Brett Farve thing...would everyone just SHUT UP! The dude needs to just chill. If he really loves the game he'll take a trade to Tampa Bay, play hard there and take the Bucs to the NFC Championship. But he doesn't really love the game...he loves the fame and in doing so he's just like Jacko and Britney and all the other sucking up the oxygen I breathe wanna-be's out there.

Team Time Trialing...what an awesome thing to do. Practiced with the fellas last night and we were smooth and fast. It was a good...no, great...practice and we have got to be in the mix this weekend for the state TTT championships. I'm really looking forward to the race weekend. Now if I can just find a dogsitter.

Blue Moon...there may be no better summer beer. After a hard ride with an orange slice...about as close to heaven as a guy can get. As a side note, I had my Blue Moon today in what has to be about the best registration shwag I've ever gotten at a bike race. A few years ago, OMBA-SORBA gave out pint glasses instead of tee-shirts in the registration package for a MTB race. More events should think like this. Maybe Georgia Cup should give out pint glasses with the logo instead of clothing. I know it would get a lot more use in my house. Medal would be nice too...at least for the categories that they don't give money out...like ours.

Southern Heat...I think I need to work out something where my wife and I go to Salt Lake for about two weeks during the worst of the Georgia heat. It was funny to hear about everyone talk about how hot and humid it was as we sat outside and enjoyed a few cold ones at my brother's place. Had we tried to have the BBQ in my backyard we all would have melted. I don't mind a little heat and the dry air in the intermountain west is just great. More than that, I would really enjoy a two week training around Lamoille. I'd probably need to take a mountain to deal withe all the dirt roads and really rough pavement but riding in the morning and hiking in the afternoon would be about as perfect a vacation as I could imagine.

Two weeks off...I have about two weeks off before I have to go back to work. Thank God. I need a break to catch up on sleep, read and just not think about all the crap I have to do. Contrary to what a lot of people believe, education is a hard thing to do. Everything has to do with people and the really hard problem of how they learn. I can't speak for everyone but it's takes a lot of energy out of me to work with students and to think about designing curriculum that helps them learn, especially when the high schools no longer teach anything vaguely related to critical thinking anymore. I love the process of learning and the rush of seeing a student understand things for the first time but the process still takes a lot of energy.

Anyways, thanks for reading.

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