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May 28, 2004
The Tour is coming up soon!!
the good news - I only have 1 more order to complete and I'll be done...this makes me VERY HAPPY!!!
the bad news - I have no new Pickings for ya'll today...
the ugly - me in the morning...well, what did you expect?
I have a groovy class that I'm teaching this weekend, and after that I expect to have some Pickings for ya'll...put that in the 'good news' category...
The closer July gets, the more you'll hear about my favorite sporting event - the Tour de France...
I've been follwoing it since 1999, when Lance Armstrong returned after his bout with cancer and won the damn thing...He's lived in Austin for awhile now (when not in Europe training) and we had a big parade and festival downtown in 1999. Gov Bush, Lance, his family, all the goofy Tx politicians showed up to blab, and then the music kicked in..We all wore yellow shirts and I have one that says "France, Who's your Daddy?"...
I used to have OLN and could watch it all, but alas - no cable (if you want me to get any beads made at all, taking cable away is a good thing, trust me! hee) so I listen on my computer to their live broadcast. Its like the 40's when folks would huddle around their radio to listen to The Shadow...quite amusing...Anyway, I visit Lance's site often and there are a couple of cool things ya'll might enjoy...
A commercial (has it been running? i haven't seen it) of Lance cruising through the countryside...called "Magnet"
And a yellow wrist band you can wear in support of cancer patients..I ordered 10 the other day and thought about offering them with some upcoming sets...They're cheap enough that everyone can order their own box of 10 and not go broke...
Posted by Donner at May 28, 2004 12:51 PM