good work all around, early am ride without too much work and then a good solid block towards copper and home again. real strong effort the legs feel it now, plenty loaded to throw myself at the hills tonight. then a wonderful drive with my honey to edwards to see dusty! one of my oldest most cherished friends. sushi for dinner with the four of us (his sweetie georgia too) that rocked! sato's does it right. we got to hear about idaho and their recent road trip and how life goes when too many celebrities invade your town and make lines at the coffee shop intolerable b/c so-and-so needs something special that their rich, white entitled you-know-what thinks they deserve from the rest of us. too long between visits with him, sitting there at dinner finishing each others thoughts made shaubie remark how she had forgotten how similar the two of us were. when life throws you a good friend it's worth keeping up the effort to stay in touch with them. soon we will go to idaho and visit and in the meantime maybe they can make it here for the firecracker in july, i encourage everybody to make it out for that one! life is too short to not do the things you want and challenge yourself in whatever forum you need challenging in.