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August 10, 2007
Roll on..
I am so disappointed...the cycling team known as Discovery (owned by Tailwind sports and Lance Armstrong here in Austin) is shutting down...I knew that Discovery was ending their sponsorship in December, and they were currently shopping for a new sponsor, but it never occured to me that they would just disband the entire team...its all done now...Johan says he'll retire, the other guys will have to find new teams to ride for...I had heard they were having trouble finding a sponsor - it takes around $15million a year to cover the expenses, so its not a cheap thing...after so much success its hard to watch them disappear...it'd be like if the Yankees decided not to play baseball anymore...
Brian comes home this afternoon, guess I better clean up from all the parties I had this week...ha...anyone who knows me knows that I don't party, I don't even invite people out to the house...when we tell people where we've moved, they say "way out there?" like we're in South America or something...while we don't mind the drive, I figure no one else wants to deal with it, so I just meet them in town instead...and this way I can keep my fortress of solitude to myself...not such a bad plan, really...
Did you see the woman in Russia who lives in a 2 bedroom apartment- and has 130 cats? They are are all fed, the place is clean, but still...We have a hard enough time w/ 7 cats in our HOUSE and the few outdoor ones we feed...did I mention there's a new one? I saw him/her last night, its hungry and it came up to eat while I spent time talking to it and letting it get used to me...country living does have its downsides - some folks out here aren't very responsible with their animals...maybe we just notice it more than we did in Austin...I think it happens all over - otherwise how would you end up with 130 cats??
Posted by Donner at August 10, 2007 09:41 AM
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Donna, I saw the article in the NYT today and just about cried!!! Today at lunch I met a guy at work who sold me one of his road bikes, now I'll do the LAF ride in style in October!
Don't know what I'm going to do next July... I still haven't deleted this year's tour from my Tivo!! I do know that if (heaven forbid) vs. doesn't cover it we can watch it online... I sure hope it doesn't come to that... :(
Posted by: dodie at August 10, 2007 06:50 PM