Random Thursday
Category: Random Thursday...
Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 at 12:03 PM [GMT-6]

Before giving me any grief, consider this: what's more random than Thursday showing up on Friday?

  • I feel like I've been an absentee landlord with respect to the Gazette. In my defense, I had social engagements on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The one last night was a four-hour affair in which I was required to wear a coat and tie. I did get a free meal out of it, but in my experience, there's almost nothing of a social nature that requires four hours to accomplish. Anyway, it's not just blogging that I've neglected; I haven't even hooked up my new scanner.

  • Bryan Murley's got a new blog -- creatively titled "Murley blog" -- which I've added to "The Business" blogroll. Bryan's another of those friends I've never met, and he writes with great insight about all things journalistic. He's also a Texan at heart, even though his profession has led him to Virginia by way of South Carolina.

  • The lineup has been released for this year's Rock The Desert music festival, and it includes some heavy hitters like BarlowGirl, Big Daddy Weave, Jeremy Camp, Audio Adrenaline, and Skillet. The big surprise is that they've landed the UK group Delirious?, one of my favorites. As usual, RTD falls on the same weekend as Blogathon, so I'll miss most of it, but I'm assessing the chances that I could catch a 10:00 p.m. appearance of Delirious? on Friday night without destroying my ability to survive Blogathon, which begins at 8:00 a.m. the next morning.

  • The Tour de France begins tomorrow, and I had hoped by now to have posted a "why you should care about the TDF" article. That's probably not going to happen, but I do plan on posting my usual insightful dissections of each day's stage, unless I get distracted. Oh, look...a baby squirrel...

  • Speaking of Blogathon, donor sign-up is scheduled to open tomorrow at blogathon.org although the site as yet has no indication that it will actually be ready on time. Watch this space for details. But also check back here for some announcements about Blogathon that may be of particular interest to those in the Midland area. Here's a teaser: could it be possible that a blogger and an MSMer could actually find some common ground for collaboration, if the stakes were right?

OK, I'm off to repair a sprinkler head which has decided its purpose in life is to create a facsimile of the Chunnel under our house.

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Comments

Oooh - are you going to have a super fast train going under your house too? That'd be cool. You know, the Chunnel is something I've always wanted to go through - one of these days I'm going to make the trip.

Maybe you can include "Why this is important to you" tidbits in your TDF updates. That would help me. :) But first, can you tell me who I'm rooting for? Obviously the Americans but any particular rider?

Posted by: beth at June 30, 2006 12:31 PM

A four-hour affair???? Does YLB suspect anything yet??

Posted by: Patti at June 30, 2006 04:03 PM

I wish that rock the desert could postpone until I get there :).

Posted by: Rachel at June 30, 2006 05:53 PM

Rachel, you'd love Rock the Desert... assuming the 100 degree temps don't materialize, or the thunderstorms don't roll in and try to destroy the stage. ;-)

Posted by: Eric at July 1, 2006 03:17 PM
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