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Tonight is the start of the 24 hours of Booty in downtown Charlotte! One day I’m going to get enough people together to actually participate in this event. Donna and I had grand plans of getting a group together and signing up. But then so many other things started to happen and we just couldn’t commit to it. I’m really hoping I can ride in it next year. If you need an extra guy on your team to do some riding, keep me in mind.

However, things aren’t looking too great for being able to make it out there to have a look and take some pictures. We had a major software update this week and there has been some fallout since. Things don’t always go according to plan and you have to run around patching software and making sure your patches don’t make things worse. Looks like it might be a late night.

The start is at 7 so maybe we can make it out there. The weather is looking pretty good out there, the heat wave has finally broken. Could be a great night to ride!

Is anyone out there participating? Going to take any photos?

It may not be Spring, or anywhere close to it, but the time for cleaning the basement is at hand – just ask Donna, she’ll tell you. My earlier efforts to clean the basement were pretty good, but now I’m gonna get stuck in and clean the whole thing! Donna and I spent the entire weekend packing boxes, throwing things away and wondering why we ever kept some of this stuff. Egad it was bad! Some of the boxes we came across haven’t been opened since we moved into the house 5 years ago. Pretty sure we don’t need anything in that one.

I did come across quite a few nifty things while we were down there. I discovered my old Lava Lamp collection which is always good. I found some wonderful books on VB6 (any developers out there?). I found some inflatable Corona bottles – those will look good in my office. And the big find? Two boxes of Tick toys from a shopping binge on eBay! Oh yeah, those are keepers!

Ok, this basement is out of hand! Who the hell stored all this stuff down here? I know for sure it wasn’t me!

Still no biking this week as we’re still working on the basement and other rooms in the house. Cleaning fever has struck us! Plus, the temperatures are just insane! We’re hitting 105F which actually makes it hard to breathe after a little while. It’s getting a little dangerous out there. I’m going to try and ride in the trainer, but there’s just so much to do and it’s killing me that we’re so close.