I went to the Sidewalk Film Festival opening night at the Alabama Theatre to see The Ten. I love the Ala. Theatre, and it is a rare place where sitting on the balcony is better than ground level. The ceiling is amazing.

That had to be the dirtiest movie ever shown at the Alabama. I'm not particularly sensitive to raunch, but crassness does not equate to being funny.

The weather for riding has been wonderful lately. I am exploring some new routes in an effort to map out winter training rides for my team. Riding in traffic has been getting on my nerves lately, and what I've discovered is that 30 to 40 miles outside of Birmingham, there is still quite a bit of traffic. There is nowhere to hide any longer. There is no place where loads and loads of people are not driving around, at least in the state of Alabama. Guess I'll have to travel to Wyoming to avoid cars, or wait until gasoline is $7 a gallon before people stay home en masse.

Yesterday I came down with a fever and felt like I had the flu. Not sure what is going on, but I am giving a presentation to a class of 60 on Tuesday, including the former CEO of Energen. I'll be practicing this thing today and tomorrow until I can say this speech in my sleep. One thing I learned this time around when writing a speech is not to use the powerpoint slides for anything. I want to look at the slides only to change to the next one. NO LOOKING AT SLIDES ALLOWED.