Am laying in bed at the Econolodge in Waterloo about to get up for the race tomorrow. Sorry to everyone I didn't see. This turned out to be an in/out trip without a whole lot of fanfare. As you can imagine, partying and doing the things required by me to hang and catch up are completely un-conducive to having a good race.
I DID manage to procure a UNI cycling Jersey at Scheels today....BONUS. I've been meaning to get one forever and they had them on clearance.
Speaking of UNI, I spent today doing two things. Checking out the 90th Anniversary stuff in downtown Waterloo for John Deere. Some old tractors, some new ones, and lots of REALLY old motors from the Waterloo Boy days (WB was a motor company John Deere bought about 90 years ago and began making tractors that powered themselves). The other thing was that my brother and I wandered through the UNI Campus. That brought back memories. It's been at least 7 years since I've strolled through there, and this is the first time I've really felt nostalgic about a place. Like I remembered exactly what I was feeling like about college and so forth. Very good times basically. Knowing what I know now about the way the world turns, I would do a lot of things different if I could. I would have gotten more involved with activities at the school, played more intermural sports, and just all around taken more advantages of the social aspects of being in college (for those who don't know, I spent most of college playing shows and being away from college in a van somewhere). But ultimately, everything worked out for the best I suppose.
Anyhow, the fucking Larry the Cable Guy movie is on the TV right now, so naturally I have to change it to something else.