Hi Again

Sorry for the lag, but I was in Omaha visiting my bud Elfrink over the holiday. And though there was much talk of taking a group run or using Elfrink's Giant for a couple rides, I did almost nothing healthy. Well, unless you count ordering a steak salad instead of a steak as something healthy. It was a great trip and I saw lots of cool things: a German beer house that sold beer in giant glass boots, a really worn-out driving range named Schmidy's, another bar that had kegs of champaign on tap, fireworks, and I even got to go cover a plane crash with Elfrink on the first day of the trip.

So after all that fun I got back to find, holy cow! I'm 95 percent to my goal! And a few of you have told me your sending me checks, so soon I'll be over the goal! Sweet. That coupled with the start of the Tour de France has me flying high these days. I've been in total geek mode since Saturday. I was flying back and trying to learn time trial results on ESPN News in the airport during one of my layovers. I might have been the only person in the airport who cared. The feature they used to introduce the highlights sure made it seem that way. It was all about how no one in Europe even cares about the Tour any more. Then I get home and learn a million people lined the streets of London just to watch the time trial! That was not a part of their report. Oh, well.

I'm so happy to be at my goal already. Last year I hadn't even started fundraising at this point. I'm super excited and I owe you all big time. Thank you!