Tour de France and other things

Right now, I am feeling very angry towards the cyclists who are managing to ruin what had been, until this weekend, an absolutely excellent Tour. We had fabulous racing, lots of excitement and a sense of a fresh start.

Damn.

The up side that I'm taking away from this is that it's showing that the testing is working: cyclists can't just get away with things anymore. So there is some encouragement.

But why the hell does a cyclist like Vino have to do that? And why couldn't Rasmussen - whom I've really enjoyed watching over the last couple of years - tell the truth? His negative tests count for something, but not enough particularly in the current climbing. Damn.

As much as I really like Contador and would love to see him as a Tour winner one day, this isn't the way that I was hoping he would do it. If he does win, then it will be an empty victory in a way and that's the last thing I wanted for a great prospect like him.

</ rant mode >

I have been listening to the new B7 audio in the car this morning and it is rather shiny and spiffy :-)

I have had a job dumped in my lap that is considerably less spiffy :-(

The data warehouse guy is threatening to pinch me and make me work in IT. Heh.

I want to write fic, but I have a college assignment that I have to finish by Saturday morning :-(

However, I am going to see Sound of Music on Saturday, which makes me very happy and then I can spend Sunday reading fic.