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Yes, I'm back. This will be the usual
disjointed post-travel entry. Deciding to come in to work for a half day today was
not one of my wisest decisions ever. A simple mathematical matter: 5:30 AM flight
means wakeup at 3:15 EST which equals waking up at 12:30 in my home time zone, the
one I'm in now. Rudder proposed just staying up all night (he also proposed some
activities to fill the time) but as I was foolish enough to schedule a couple of
meetings this afternoon that demanded my actual presence, and thus enough
functioning brain cells to drive an hour back home some eighteen hours post-
reveille (spelling?) I decided that wouldn't work and settled for the abbreviated
version.
Next year I will try not to do it this way. On the happy
side, it looks very likely that there will be a next year. Rudder finished 21/62
in the Club Men's Single event. More impressively, he finished with a time 4.3%
behind the winner of his race. Anyone finishing within 5% automatically gets into
next year's races, so he won't have to take his chances in the lottery next year.
Maybe if we do go, I'll race too, just for the hell of it. Or maybe not.
Was going to write more but that last meeting took longer than
expected. More tomorrow.