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Hi. Me again. It's April 12, 17:27 CST.

38.1 Degrees F. We just had snow flurries again.

S'pposed ta get 70 degrees F later this week. Puh leeze.

I'm not liking the weather here in damnnearWisconsin.
 
Had a 7:40am report time this morning to start driving a shuttle bus for the annual VEISHEA Parade on campus. Got out of bed, got ready, and I was walking toward the door had to say "Boy, what a GREAT day for a parade!" ~1" of snow on the ground this morning. Cars in the ditches on the way to work. In 3hrs of parade shuttle, I had a grand total of about 50 pax. Good thing we had five 75 pax buses on standby to cover the extra loads!

Man I can't wait to graduate and move south away from this crap!
 
ya, we had that weak cold front last night too, it only got up to 63 today, brrr. Did get a bit of a sunburn working outside though.
 
It got warm inside the house the last couple days, I had to open up the windows from relief from the heat. Of course, it doesn't help much when it's 82 inside and still 85 outside. :)
 
I just got back from Kauai last night. Around 80 there, 55 here. Shock! When can I go back?
 
Just got back from driving the equipment van for the better half's MS150 Cycling Team (180 miles from Houston to Austin over two days with 12,999 of her closest friends - wow!), after an 80+ deg day on Saturday, it plummeted into the low-to-mid 40's on Saturday night and Sunday morning. We froze in our sleeping bags in La Grange on Saturday night! They were a little chilly for the ride start on Sunday too...

Aside from the 15kt headwinds, the weather was great for a ride throughout though! Not a cloud in the sky. Due to the high headwinds, Heather said it was the hardest physical challenge she's ever put herself through, and by far the hardest MS150 she's done. This was her 5th consecutive year doing it. I'm INCREDIBLY proud of her for attempting, continuing, and finishing it, and continuing her streak of 5 years and not ever seeing the inside of one of the SAG vans (what the riders take when their bikes break or they just can't physically continue).
 
t0r0nad0 said:
Just got back from driving the equipment van for the better half's MS150 Cycling Team (180 miles from Houston to Austin over two days with 12,999 of her closest friends - wow!), after an 80+ deg day on Saturday, it plummeted into the low-to-mid 40's on Saturday night and Sunday morning. We froze in our sleeping bags in La Grange on Saturday night! They were a little chilly for the ride start on Sunday too...

Aside from the 15kt headwinds, the weather was great for a ride throughout though! Not a cloud in the sky. Due to the high headwinds, Heather said it was the hardest physical challenge she's ever put herself through, and by far the hardest MS150 she's done. This was her 5th consecutive year doing it. I'm INCREDIBLY proud of her for attempting, continuing, and finishing it, and continuing her streak of 5 years and not ever seeing the inside of one of the SAG vans (what the riders take when their bikes break or they just can't physically continue).
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She sounds like a great candidate for RAGBRAI coming up in June!!! I think Chip is planning on riding with his team from Arkansas, I'll be riding with my wife's family, and the route goes right through our town (Ames) so Tony, Matt M. and other Iowans will be around. Ya'll come!
 
Chris, remind me again in a couple of weeks... if I suggested that she get back on her bike right now she'd probably beat me with it. I think we have some other travel obligations in early June, however (sadly, those also interfere with Gaston's), and she doesn't have much vacation time remaining this year, so she might have to put off the RAGBRAI for another year.

If she does another long ride, it will probably be another MS150 (SAT - Corpus or something) - she rides for one of her close friends (who is a sorority sister and was a college roommate) who has MS.
 
t0r0nad0 said:
Chris, remind me again in a couple of weeks... if I suggested that she get back on her bike right now she'd probably beat me with it. I think we have some other travel obligations in early June, however (sadly, those also interfere with Gaston's), and she doesn't have much vacation time remaining this year, so she might have to put off the RAGBRAI for another year.

If she does another long ride, it will probably be another MS150 (SAT - Corpus or something) - she rides for one of her close friends (who is a sorority sister and was a college roommate) who has MS.
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Awesome! Great to be riding for a cause! This will be my first bike ride over ~20 miles, so I've got some serious training to do between now and June! :hairraise: We'll have to keep those MS rides in mind. We're planning on moving towards Texas after we both get done with school in a year or two.
 
Ummm... Chris, the website says that the RAGBRAI is from July 20-26. You've got a little more time to train.

471 miles in the middle of summer may be a bit more than Heather's willing to bite off. The MS150's are great rides, and they do them all over the country. There are three in Texas each year, Houston-Austin, San Antonio-Corpus Christi, and Frisco-Ft. Worth. The Houston-Austin one is the biggest in the country, as they've had to impose a limit of 13,000 riders allowed. That fills up in about 2 days once registration opens.

So as not to continue the 7500 on this thread, I can start a new one about it, or simply PM me if you're interested.
 
I drove back from Blacksburg to DC yesterday via the Blue Ridge Parkway. By the time we got on the Skyline Drive section, it was snowing - and sticking to the ground.

Time for winter to go.
 
Ugh. Woke up to 5 inches of new snow this morning and it's still coming down hard. I know this is Alaska and all but this is turning out to be the coldest and snowiest April in memory for folks here.
 
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