Today's Tour de France stage is an individual time trial. Although the time trial won't win Le Tour, riders have lost their bids for triumph by messing up on time trials in the past, so it's important, even if it isn't the most exciting stage to watch. We're into the final few days, though. Sunday is the ride through Paris and the final sprint around the Champ-Elysees, so there aren't a lot of days left to shuffle the order and win that coveted top podium in Paris.
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Individual time trial today, and the course isn't very up and down, although of course there is some topography. Time trials aren't usually the most exciting thing to watch, but races have been won and lost on them in the past. If a rider falls on the TT, any chance he had for the Podium has just been eliminated. |
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the fact that I still have an employee this week, and already missing her. I know that handling things while she's on vacation will be much harder for me, generally and specifically. Chickie and I have worked together since my Mall of America store. Not constantly - she left to go for her Masters Degree, and worked at a couple of other jobs, but she kept coming back and we work well together. This trip to Montana will be a bit of an adventure for her as she picks up the antique secretary desk and brings it back to Minnesota. I wonder how the old furniture will react to our humidity. There's quite a difference between the two climates of the states.
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From the photos that Chickie was sent, the desk is quite similar to this one. They range on Etsy and similar sites from under $100 to a few hundred dollars, but the current manufacturer is asking more than $6000 for a new one from mahogany. I can only assume that's because the wood is so hard to get these days, because that price seems quite excessive. |
DH has decided he needs a specific form for liquidating his inventory, so I get to spend some time with the laptop today, designing it. I'm hopeful I can find a template that I can take and run with. It's always easier to customize a template than to design from a blank page. It's an invoicing form, so if you have any suggestions of a template I can check out, please let me know in the comments. Nonetheless, I usually enjoy making things like this, and it will be a fun challenge.
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I'll be designing something similar to this, but there's a lot of disclaimer paragraphs that also have to go onto it, absolving us from any responsibility if the part fails in the future. It is aircraft parts, after all, and we have to cover all eventualities. |
One of the things I most enjoy, however is reading fiction. A favorite author of mine, C.S. Poe, released the newest book in her Memento Mori series a week or so ago and I immediately purchased it and read it. Then I decided to go back and re-read the first two books again, so I'm in the middle of Book 1 and enjoying it just as much the 2nd (or probably more than 2nd) time around. It's an excellent mystery, good characters, but it's also gay romance because that's my genre of choice. Still, I highly recommend it to all of you.
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I love C.S. Poe's books. She brings in the history of New York in detail, without it being weighed down in facts. She knows her city well, and it comes through in her writing. I don't know New York well, but it's quite evident that she does, and the City plays as a major character in all of her books. |
And I'm off to the pool for my Tuesday swim. I've got a million things on my mind, so it will be good to just listen to my latest audio book and lose myself in laps for a while. I really need that rhythm in my life, it's stability and motion. Very important. Have an excellent Tuesday and I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.
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