Pedalling Along

First, I had a very busy weekend; but fortunately it included a ride, so no real time to post until now.  Someone from the Bike Forums linked to some pics of the Long Haul Trucker, so my hit count has spiked through the roof, along with a slew of e-mails with comments and questions about the bike and the blog.  Fame is fleeting, so I’ll try to get back to everyone pronto.

A lot of bloggers posted over the weekend with some good stuff.  I wish I could be as eloquent some times.

‘just a couple of quick things: This was prom weekend, and my daughter’s first one.  I’ve mentioned this before, that she is drop dead gorgeous - not daddy thinks her little girl is cute; but daddy thinks she should send a few pics to Ford Modelling and give us all a free ride type gorgeous.  Other than the incredibly impractical spiked heels she wore, she once again proved me right.  For a balding droopy eyed guy with a list of maladies, she somehow ended up with the good genes.  She and her posse had a lot of fun, as it should be for all kids at that age.

We had to hurry back from the Mom’s Day festivities for a soccer match last night.  I got enough grief over the scheduling, but halfway there I get a call that the other team was forfeiting.  We still had to show up to prove that we were ready to play, but we were able to call the girls coming the furthest and tell them they could turn around.

I have never forfeited.  I know this other team has had problems.  They are young and over matched, so they have given up for the season.  I’ve been there with some of my teams, but we never caved.  The girls always fought on.  We knew that we were going to win last night, and we had talked earlier this week about not embarrassing this team.  Our plan was to get ahead, and then switch players around for fun and just work on passing the ball.  Too bad.  They should have come.  The remaining matches for the season are going to be against really tough teams for us, but we’ll hang in there and probably finish in the middle third of the division.  We have a good group of girls and they’ll be fine with that.