If it's Tuesday...

...it must be South Bend. :-)

It's been a travel-intensive couple of days. Last Wed/Thursday, downstate for an arbitration. Yesterday/today, as the title suggests, South Bend for a deposition. All in all, over 10 hours of driving in the last 6 days! Yipes! I'm ready for a break - good thing there's a 4-day weekend coming up.

On the road again...

I'm off this morning to help with an arbitration down in Mattoon, IL. (It's almost an hour south of Champaign.) Should be interesting - the drive less so, but that's the price you pay!

Even better, I'll get to see what kind of fitness room my hotel has - I'm set for a run tomorrow morning. Wish me luck!

Blooms!

I love our Farmer's Market! In addition to a really great fruit stand (where the people know us now), there's also a tiny little florist who sells wonderful flowers. We bought some lilies from her a week ago, and she swore they were "two-week" blooms. And she was right! These pictures were taken yesterday, and the lilies are still going strong.

(Now if I can just keep the cats from nibbling on them....)

Results

And, sure enough, I didn't have the best possible race, running with a cold. No PR this time, but I finished, which was in doubt around mile 2.5. (Time: 36:41.) Bryan did much better, finishing with a new PR of 24:39. I have confidence that I'll see a MUCH better time at our next race, though! (July 2, Grant Park.)

Tomorrow

... we run another 5K! I'm still dealing with the dregs of this summer flu (or whatever the hell it is), but I managed a run today. So we picked up our race "goodie" bags and numbers, and I'll give it a try tomorrow. Not expecting a personal record, that's for sure!

Victory!

No, not with any of my cases (not at the moment, anyway).

My victory of the moment is this: I managed to get an African violet to bloom again! It was one of those $1.99 specials at Home Depot, with pretty flowers when I bought it. I kept it after the blooms died off, because the greenery was pretty. And now, it has bloomed again! Apparently, sporadic fertilization, irregular watering, and plenty of sun are the keys to getting these things to flower again. Here's a picture, although it now has THREE flowers (and yes, I know it's grown to one side of the pot - I'll replant it once it's done flowering):