2's adventure in NYC ended with The Trip Home From Hell. Those kind of experiences always make me gun-shy on the next trip. Spending the night in C-town and missing only a half day of work are not awful results. Just stressful and irritating. Glad you're back, Kiddo.
Here's a belated shout out to Tahoe Phil on his birthday yesterday. RevKev's got some good pics up on his blog. This one is more recent!
The experiment with the Lolo Jones pic was a failure. I have no conclusion other than that Ashley Miller has some determined followers on the web.
I've never been much of a Cinco de Mayo celebrant, but Geneva down in Muskie had a party on Saturday night that was fun. I'm not much of a mixed-drink guy, nor a Mexican buffet aficionado, but with the help of a cooperative staff, I survived. Jack London lives.
My real estate partners and I have been wearing the black hats this week as we have exercised landlord rights and evicted our tenant in the house in our office park for non-payment of rent. The tenant purchased the day-care business of the original operator, and we allowed her to assume the lease about three years ago. She's probably a person who should never have been in business for herself, and has had an on-going Tale of Woe that we just could no longer accept. No fun for anyone.
Actually, our experiences here illustrate a difficult commercial real estate market. We have had a rental space in our lower level open for lease for nearly a year with very few lookers. The newly vacant house will require significant clean-up expenditures and will not be an easy property to rent. In our area, which has not been especially hard hit in the down-turn, there's an over-abundance of commercial rental property. These openings in our office park directly impact LtPC's back pocket.
The peleton is in the opening week of the Giro de Italia. Today is a rest day as the race spent the first three days in Denmark. Tomorrow they race a time trial around the old Roman city of Verona where 2 and I spent four days in September 2009. Here is a shot of the Piazza 'Bra adjacent to the Verona Coliseum. And this is 2 from the interior of the Coliseum looking down on to the Piazza. Cool times.
3 asked for a comment on Phillie's pitcher Cole Hamels plunking the Nationals phenom Bryce Harper in his first plate appearance against Hamels. I actually have no problem with it, only that Hamels should have played dumb rather than openly admitting his intent. The Nat's pitcher returned the favor when Hamels came to bat later in the game, as expected, and the slate was evened. The benches didn't empty. I'd say it was a non-event. Welcome to The Show, Rookie!
In a similar vein in NASCAR, Danica Patrick turned Sam Hornish into the wall after the finish of the Nationwide race on Saturday, and the NASCAR officials yawned. On the final lap in a green-white-checkers finish, Hornish had made a sharp move in front of an on-coming Patrick that likely cost Danica a couple of positions in the finishing order (they were both out of the top ten). Hornish said he had a tire go down. Whatever. Their history goes back to Indy cars. These kind of post-race bumps happen. When NASCAR doesn't call the paying-back driver into the hauler, it usually means that there was a reason that the other guy was turned up into the wall.
Busy day here. Maybe a little more later. Thanks for reading.
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