Just a quickie...

All is well. The Levee Run times were posted on the DRC site. They put me at 50:30. Two seconds slower than I thought. Tragedy! ;-)

Interestingly, I would have finished higher ranked in some of the younger age groups. There seem to be disproportionately many fit men between 50 and 54 in the Dallas Running Club. Oh, well. I'll never be an age group winner. I was 6th out of 12, and the guy before my was almost two full minutes ahead. A big margin. If I were in the Male 35-39 age group, though, I'd have been 4th of 14. 30-34, 7th of 18. 20-24, 7th of 14. Interesting.

On another topic... Are y'all out there in blogland Ry Cooder fans? Just now listening to Tattler, on the Paradise and Lunch album. Cooder does such a great job with traditional music. And in "my" style. And I love Boomer's Story. Fantastic CD. But (having asked around) I'm forced to admit probably not for everyone. Why is that? How can you not love that music? I suppose not everyone can enjoy the same things. Their loss.

It is not my wish (changing topics again, as quick as a flash) to turn this blog into my personal political soapbox. Blogs like that mostly just sound pretentious, and generally don't strike me as particularly insightful. I hope you'll forgive my previous post with the Bush outburst. It can be tough to set aside all my political instincts. All the years (well, it was just 6, so perhaps "all the years" is excessive) I spent doing that stuff for a living seem to want to burst out of me sometimes. People know I'm a government instructor and worked for a Congressman, so I get asked 10 times a day who I'm going to vote for. Students pester me constantly. I always dodge. That's private, unless I want to go there. I do love criticizing, though! ;-) It's more fun to kvetch about what's wrong with all the candidates, isn't it? And there's plenty wrong with all of them. Unfortunately, it seems we have only humans from whom to choose. That makes it harder to achieve perfection.

Well, it's late again, and I need to go.

Has anyone out there seen Rashomon?