Sunday, July 15, 2007

Wow, what a crash!

The commentators, Phil and Paul were just commenting on how dangerous this downhill was when 2 riders, Michael Rogers (an Aussie) & Arroyo came together & into a barrier & one went over the edge.
They are ok fortunately. Arrogo larded in a tree. Rogers lost some time as his bike needed replacing.

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:57 PM |

Happiness is...

Big projector screen-surround sound, lazy boy chair, Tour de France.
oh, & a tablet PC and a wireless internet connection.
l am lazing in my chair, sipping my drink while watching the tour. Today is a massive climb. It's the étape 8 - Le Grand-Bornand Tignes 165 km stage. I am really enjoying the four this year. since we got the Tr aerial properly tuned in we can watch SBS, our premier channel for Soccer and the tour de France.

Having just bought a new tablet Pc, I am enjoying learning how to make it work well. I wrote this entire blog post using the handwriting technique on the screen of the laptop.

The other thing I had fun trying today was the voice recognition feature in Vista. I was able to train my PC to listen to my voice & do as I told it to do today.

At the moment I am watching the leaders on the first major Category I climb of the day. There is a frenetic pace being set.

The greet they about the internet today is being able to check real time the actual time differences between the groups on the Mountain using the Tour de France website.

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:27 PM |

Saturday, June 02, 2007

AFL Football

Today we were beaten 164 to 3.
Thats not good!

However we were playing one of the top teams who are all university students and they can RUN! We did play better and better as the game went on so that was one good thing.

We have a week off now and then we get back into it. The next 5 games look like at least 3 we can win, and the other 2 should be very close.

Can't wait!

My cracked rib is still sore but coping with game playing with pain killers.

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Posted by: Jethro | 3:53 PM |