here's a toast to the host / of those who love the vastness of the sky

happy centennial of flight day! 100 years ago, orville and wilbur were standing on the beach getting ready to make the first airplane flight. we just watched president bush's speech from kitty hawk, and he didn't say anything about going back to the moon. guess those rumors weren't quite accurate about today. but maybe he'll still make some sort of landmark speech in the next few months about the direction of the space program.

ugh, i am really sore today, the product of monday night rock climbing and last night's almost 6-miler (two laps of the trail, which is 5.8 total). my legs screamed at me the whole run, instead of the usual first two miles, and we finished the loops a full 3 minutes slower than we did two weeks ago. buzz said it was fine, but i always get frustrated by being slow. ah well. next week if it's not too cold in charlotte, i'll try to go for 2 hours. it will be interesting, since charlotte actually has those strange things called hills.

anyway. in a couple hours we're all taking a mega-long lunch break to go see return of the king. woohoo! then nick is driving me to the airport and i will fly home! double woohoo!