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Monday, July 04, 2005

Boonen

Tom Boonen did it again. Two flat sprinter stages, two wins and a tighter grasp of the Tour's Green jersey; the jersey given to the most consistent finisher on the stage race though it is weighted heavily to the flat finishes over those involving the lumpier parts of the course. Robbie McEwen reverted to his rough and tumble tactics in the sprint and was relegated to the back of the peleton for his trouble.

Our Fourth

Here at the household, we spent the weekend resting, recovering and cleaning. After my vist to Salt Lake I've been seized with a desire to de-clutter the house a bit. My wife and I are notorious collectors (not quite packrats but...) and so we have books and paraphanalia for all of our interests and hobbies so that means we have a lot of stuff to fit into our storage challenged home. I envy my friends who have basements or garages in which to store their accumulated things related to their hobbies and dalliances. Never-the-less, we have been trying to rid ourselves of a number of things that are little more than fanciful imaginings of a Boy Scout "Be Prepared" impulse gone beserk, "Wait, don't throw that out we might need it if a comet grazes the Earth and we're forced to rebuild the local power grid while fighting off the effects of a global winter/global warming event..." So, we've been trying to be a bit more ruthless than we normally are. The biggest revelation for me has been that I really, really need to build another bookcase to hold our ever expanding library.

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